• Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Bringing back the draft would be suicidal. I see prisoners being conscripted en masse (or even more en masser than now) instead.

      • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        They have recognized it once before. But yeah, who knows, maybe Vietnam is distant enough now that the state is willing to try again with it.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          They have recognized it once before.

          In the fucking 70s, when Boomers were all showing up on the voting rolls.

          Now they're retired and the majority of young people are unseasonably tan. Now is the ideal moment to re-institute Press Gangs and start shoving high school drop-outs into the military corps.

          • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            zero chance of a draft coming back because it actually makes people pay attention a little too much for their interests

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              3 years ago

              This war machine isn't going to run itself.

              Politicians from Mitt Romney to Beto O'Rourke have already expressed support for Mandatory Service requirements on high schoolers. I could very easily see someone like Dan Crenshaw or Mikie Sherrill slide out a turd of a provision that makes Service a requirement for state college admission or access to UI benefits or even Social Security / Medicare.

              I don't know if we'll ever see "The Draft" as we knew it in the 70s. But what about a law forcing unemployed people with outstanding student loans to work off the debt in the National Guard? I suspect that could be made politically palatable easily enough.