The U.S. Army is slashing the size of its force by about 24,000, or almost 5 per cent, and restructuring to be better able to fight the next major war, as the service struggles with recruiting shortfalls that made it impossible to bring in enough soldiers to fill all the jobs.
it will be political suicide for whichever party decides to do it, and will create a new spring of radicalization on top of giving potential radicals military training. if they decide to do it in a bipartisan way it will be even worse for radicalization. I think people forget that the ruling class didn’t end the draft because they wanted to, they had to, the rate of fragging in vietnam became ridiculous
The Democrats will do it.
And if that drives off the libs, the Republicans will make boogeyman noises or proffer the idea of Trump being able to get a 3rd term. And the liberals will rally round their blue-no-matter-who chant even as their children get carted off to whatever fucky warmongering the US is getting involved in next.
That’s absolutely how it will go if the US decides it needs the draft.
Some straw man will be created as the new “threat to democracy”. Could be Trump, could be whoever else.
If people are already willing to vote for actual genocide just to keep out trump, the draft wouldn’t be such a stretch. Just implement a system where you can make a “freedom donation” to exempt your family and rich white liberal families would have no objections.
if one party will commit political suicide like that it really would be the dems lol
What else are people gonna choose? Third party? Hell, they’re already dismantling what limited, farcical “democracy” exists in many people’s eyes by conducting lawfare against and trying to prevent their primary political opponent (Trump) from running.
Not disagreeing with anything you said, but I expect beatings will continue until morale improves (or something explodes). There is no political will amongst the establishment for anything but a continued march to destruction- unrestrained imperialist hegemonic behavior abroad, neoliberal societal destruction at home.
if 1 party does it unilaterally, the other party will win the next x elections very very easily. if they both do it together, I think that would be unironically very dangerous for the empire. the american left, as much as I despise ourselves, is the strongest it’s been since the 60s/70s, instituting the draft would be enough of a major boon for us, that even with our dubious theoretical and organizational capacity, could begin to be a major nuisance to the ruling class (just expanding on what i mean)