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Left also should not accept current or previous military members unless they are openly anti US military and imperialism pretty much every single sentence they speak publicly.
Not at all, whatsoever with absolutely no exceptions other than listed. Those guys and gals get up to some bad shit, and they’re usually one (or less) person removed from (fascist) government officials
for sure. the indoctrination goes hard in the military, police forces and similar institutions.
people i know who went through these never go back to having sound critical thought and they stay a bit aggressive forever.
Total institutionalization. Total institutes break down the ego to rebuild it into whatever the institute wants it to be. It's extremely difficult to regain a sense of self completely free of the institute, past a certain amount of conditioning. This is anything from the current El Salvadoran CECOT, to rehabilitation facilities to skilled nursing facilities to reeducation facilities to monastsries and boarding schools.