Honestly, I think there’s more than a little narcissism in theories like this one. Or at least an inflated sense of importance.

Do you understand why I might thing that, given the features of the theory?

The difference here is that there was a ramp up to what happened both in the Depression and at Kent State. In both cases, there were protests underway and the government was reacting to a situation that was already extreme and was unprecedented. The over-arcing reality, indeed, was that the people charged with handling the situation had no idea how to proceed and they screwed up badly in both cases.

A point I’ve made repeatedly here is that the citizens of Texas aren’t doing anything (let alone something public and unprecedented) that would give the government any reason to tell the military “go handle this situation.”

To be perfectly clear: there is no situation to be handled. There is nothing to react or respond to.

Things don’t ever happen in a vacuum. They happen precisely because one set of circumstances leads to another through a series of events, choices, actions and reactions.

My intent in mentioning that is to reassure you and anyone else that’s listening that I understand what the Air Force looks like from the inside. And respect our military personnel. One of my personal concerns is seeing that they are paid enough for their service to live above the poverty level. However, I’m also aware that military is not always noble or perfect. When my dad died, we got a check for ten grand and 30 days to pack up our belongings and get off the base. On the flip side, the VA put me through college and paid for my mother’s cancer treatment.

My world view is not ones and zeroes, good or evil, and I want that understood by whomever I’m communicating with.

And therein lies the point of the comment you responded to: conspiracists DO think in ones and zeroes. Something that is bad is all bad. The Government is bad and all its activities are filtered through that perception. Any good it does is discounted or seen as having an ulterior motive. There is no way to reason with that self-fulfilling mindset because a zero is always a zero. Even if the government gives Texas emergency funds to help recover from the floods, it is evil and there is an ulterior motive—perhaps trying to placate or coerce or convince Texans that it is not evil.