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It seems as though there is essentially no scenario where the American public would accept a mandatory draft. Times have changed.
by babyshake 3y ago
It seems as though there is essentially no scenario where the American public would accept a mandatory draft. Times have changed.
- fallingknife 3y agoSeemed that way in 1940 too
- hannasanarion 3y agoDid it? Every single person who was draft-eligible in 1940 was born before WW1 ended.
- lazyasciiart 3y agoI’ve done this arithmetic a few times now and I think you’re wrong: someone born the week after ww1 ended (November 1918) would have been 22 in November 1940, when the first draft registration was held for men who had reached 21. So there should be about 12 months of births in there.
- ysofunny 3y agoall I'm saying is how mandatorily drafting people to go fight a war in another continent is extremely hard whereas getting people to fight in a way that's happening near YOUR (meaning their particular case) state border is super easy, barely an inconvenience
- LoganDark 3y agoYeah, but no draftee is going to do a backflip, snap the bad guy's neck and save the day. Drafting people gets them killed.
- ryandrake 3y agoIt will happen, and the American people will accept it, for the same reasons they accept tons of things today that are done against their best interests: Ideological divisions and loyalty, propaganda saturation, fear of an outside enemy, (possibly) religion, and the general desire to use the political system to punish "others" rather than help themselves.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> will happen, and the American people will accept it America will automate warfare before that happens.
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