inept? Yes, but I think this speaks to something else. Goes back to Harris not honoring Memorial Day. The left has a basic contempt for America as founded and believes even now that most Americans are racist bigots of the worst kind--our soldiers being disproportionately so, judging by voting habits. To understand the leftist is to understand that basically he is NOT an American. Not intellectually or ideologically, anyway. At best the average leftist is a European (but not Polish lol) and at worst, quasi-soviet/sino. To them, honoring the service of American soldiers would be as weird as us honoring the service of, say, Italian soldiers. Why would we? In the abstract, we would, but if there was an Italian equivalent to a Memorial Day, you, me and most other Americans didn't even notice.

Likewise, I think, leftists don't see the American military as 'theirs.'

I don't think it was always this way and I think there are still some Democrats who haven't yet gone over this way fully, but the numbers sure do seem to be increasing.