After watching the supporters of Bernie Sanders in the current election cycle I have come to the conclusion that we should reinstate the “Draft” in this country. What, you say? Make everyone, male and female, serve in our military? No, I don’t want that. What I am proposing is that all our young people serve three years of some kind of service to our country prior to being able to enter continuing education after graduating from high school. If they are high school dropouts, their service would start on their eighteenth birthday.
Polls of our volunteer military service members show they universally oppose drafting people into their ranks. They want the person who they must depend upon to be defending their back to be someone who wants to be there, not forced to be. That doesn’t mean that all the rest of America’s youth shouldn’t have to do anything to serve our country. Right now, Sander’s supporters are demanding free healthcare, free college, free housing, etc.
Many of them support the concept of Socialism or even Communism, without understanding what that means. They want the college debt they acquired to obtain useless degrees excused. What were their parents doing when their children were getting that four year degree in Alternate Lifestyle Dynamics or Underwater Basketweaving in six years? Responsibility for your decisions is passé in many segments of our society. They screw up, and somebody else pays the bill. Not under my plan. Continue reading Reinstate the Draft?
The political events since the November 2016 election have proven several things beyond doubt. First and foremost, there is no longer any possibility of civil discourse between Democrats and Republicans as long as the former continue to let their party be highjacked by its radical leftists. Perhaps it is time to end the tradition of a two major party system with a few other “parties”, such as the Green, Communist and Libertarian hanging out in the weeds.