1. Most of the military leadership in the United States is conservative, not socialist. Marxism never caught on here.
2. A major component of the armed forces of the United States is guaranteed by the 2nd amendment, and they tend to be Republicans
3. Almost half the surface forces of the organized military are under state, not federal, control.
4. American have a tradition of free elections going back to the middle ages, whereas the Spanish countries only had their first free elections in the 19th century, and have no democratic (small “d”) tradition
5. Americans have a tradition of the military not seizing power (which originated with George Washington), Spanish countries don’t
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