When it comes to people we don’t have direct ties with.

It is true that elected officials represent people, they were chosen to do so. Losing your representation is actually kind of a big deal, and it should be a big deal.

A soldiers job is to avoid death while it’s on their heels. It’s heroic, it’s hard, it’s a complicated profession with a lot of moral dilemmas. You’re only on the good side if you win.

We’re constantly bombarded by the propaganda that we’re on the good side. And weeping over its defenders in the military is a great public way of communicating that you also believe this is the good side.