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>>929436
To put this in a less confrontational manner: militarism as I refer to it is our military-industrial complex, where the government and corporate interests feed off each other and build our army and look for reasons to use it.

Our nation was founded on the idea of a conscript army. People would be trained via militia, and then conscripted into the army in times of need. this is how a healthy Republic functions.

Our rulers discovered in the 1960s that conscription means that the population won't put up with bullshit colonial wars, so they set up our current system.

But yes, bothering to learn the meaning of "militarism" would certainly help.