43% of Republicans could imagine supporting a military coup in the United States

[packman]

12. Military coup = Republican rule

The majority of the officers in the military are Republican and , IMHO, are religiously oriented. It does not surprise me that Republicans would support a Republican take-over of the government.

“The officers by and large are more conservative,” says an Army sergeant just back from Afghanistan. “But the enlisted tend to be more liberal.” Of course, with fewer than one in five of those in uniform an officer, there’s a lot more enlisted voters.

But the U.S. military plainly tilts toward the GOP. That’s largely because today’s military is an all-volunteer force increasingly drawn from the Sunbelt, where the Pentagon has focused its recruiting efforts since the draft ended 40 years ago. And traits the military prizes — like aggressiveness and respect for authority — tend to be more pronounced in conservatives."


http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/05/does-the-military-vote-really-lean-republican/