I guess we will find out.

We'll likely find out soon. We're going to witness Democracy stand. Or possibly fall.

And there is such thing as anonymous whistle blowers for those who want to vent. The fact is, neither is evident, as it is supposed to be in the professional army which is meant to stay out of politics altogether.

No longer engaging.

I find expectations of agreement far less engaging than exchanging disagreements. But that’s just me.

you're right about the clapping, but the look of contempt on the majority of faces is not typical, during my military career, I saw that look many many times on the faces of officers and NCO's and that's the look I saw.

. . . if they choose the Constitution, then I'll be impressed. I'm not holding my breath, though.

I can only hope it's not working, that the rank and file will resist being used against us. I know when I was just getting out of the USAF, Reagan was taking over (I had about two weeks of him as "CiC", and it was a rough time. We knew what he'd done, the Iran hostages being immediately released (and later more stuff). No one I knew, and I knew lots of people through my job, enlisted and officer, would follow any unlawful order.

Let's pray, hope, whatever, that it's still so. Because if we have the military against us, we are done for.

Co-opting high ranking officers is far easier than purging them. But in the apparent absence of cooperation from them, purges are to be expected.