A lot of people are concerned about having too many Generals in Trump's cabinet including myself. That is until I read a piece by Rosa Brooks in Foreign Policy publication. She points out the differences between our founding fathers' times and ours. They were distrustful of a military in a small emerging nation. We don't have those same problems and except for a few conspiracy crackpots and fear mongerers, we should really not be so concerned. We've got a lot more serious problems than that.
The resurgent White Nationalist movement ( I thought about not using caps for their name) which has been "emboldened by Trumps victory," the losses of voter rights across Red America, Climate Change, and many more are far more problematic than how many Generals we've got in Trumps 'American board of directors.' We need to be more concerned about how they feel about some of these really troubling problems.
We just can't ignore or allow any elected President to encourage any of these things to fester into something more dangerous than they already are. They'll feed off each other until they become irreversible. On the other hand, the likelihood of a half dozen Generals manipulating enough of our Military into agreement to force our nation into some military coup is highly unlikely. There are far too many civilian firearms to get away with anything like that.
So if you must worry about something, worry that I didn't get my book published yet, or that my car doesn't get the kind of mileage I had hoped for. Or maybe some personal problem that couldn't be as important as mine. Or you could consider an old adage, 'What, me worry?'
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