Abby Vesoulis
June 6, 2025
"On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has moved to slash and burn the federal workforce—and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is no exception. Already, the sprawling agency serving America’s 16 million military veterans has fired 2,400 probationary workers and proposed eliminating an additional 15 percent of its workforce—about 80,000 people.">
If you don’t mind, I’d like to ask a question
I’ve never been in the military, but I’m horrified by how Trump treats veterans.
My question is, why do so many veterans support Trump?
Historicaly pay goes up under Republicans for military members and stays stagnant under Democrats. There are a lot of other impactful things today to consider like lack of care for trans dependants now taking effect. But really pre-trump Republican was the way to vote for immediate situational improvement as a military member.
Facebook and manosphere, my boy. If you go to a lot of vet groups you will see what I mean. It was like this back in 2013 when I delete by fb.
Former Army here…
Recruiters prey on small towns with no opportunities and people have been raised with the rural conservative values. It’s hard to beat that out of people, even when they’re exposed to more worldly things. When they return to the shit hole conservative towns they were raised in post enlistment, they are again surrounded by people who believe that way.
The military usually votes to support the Republican Party. Mostly because they do a better job of protecting gun rights and usually have a better reremovedtion when it comes to supporting the military industrial complex and spending tax money on wars
But in 2016 when I was stationed out at Fort Riley, I knew way more people who hated Trump that I knew people who were willing to vote for him