Chicken-in-every-pot populism is dishonest. It is promising what you have neither the means nor the intention of delivering.
It is also, sadly, necessary for the challenger. The only way, really, to overcome the advantages of incumbency is to find failings and shortcomings in the current mob...
Soldiers are good at making excuses. Or just saying "Don't know, sir" over and over. What are you going to do, jail or discharge all of them? Then what?
Some officers' heads will roll, then it's back to the meat grinder.
The latter. It assumes I have a voice.
The former sounds like the North Korean government's description of Kim Jong Un.
Kneel to a psychopath if you choose, Motar. I'll stand on my own feet, weak and foolish as I may be.