I'm a veteran as well, eight years' active duty, two overseas. You know nothing about my understanding of history, politics, policies and the country, so how are you to compare? We can disagree. We do. Big deal. It doesn't make me stupid and you smart, or me smart and you stupid. I never claimed to be better than you but all I see of you is name calling and childish insults. Hardly the dignity of someone who claims to be a soldier. But I'll take your word for that much.
And yes, I would transform the country, but why do you think simply because we disagree about Trump that I am on the far left? My politics are closer to the center, and consider myself a conservative on many issues. I don't agree with Antifa any more than you do. Don't make that assumption simply because I think Trump and many in his administration are criminals. You really think Trump is so great? Really? He's a hot mess and has been since the 80s. Everything he touches turns to shit, he's slept around on all his wives, he's screwing you and me and everyone else. And you know that, it's plain as day. So why stick up for a criminal? The GOP needs to find a spine and someone else to lead the party.
I just want a country more like the one I recognize from my youth, not one of the "socialist shit holes" you name, but more like the US of the 60s and 70s, where federal and state money (our tax dollars) went into public infrastructure, public health care, public education and the like. If we're both of the same generation we both know that we benefitted from a healthy public sphere, not a government bought and sold by corporations. I got a good education in public schools and my first few years of university cost me about a hundred bucks a semester. Is that socialism? Is the interstate highway system, public hospitals, federal research institutes? Is national health care, something EVERY other civilized country already has, socialism?
And I do practice what I preach, which is *exactly* why I'm here.