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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
The military tends to vote Republican. They're already involved in service, do they vote on media contrived issues, rather than "real" ones? Or was this in reference simply to those who don't vote?
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I would venture to guess that many of them have, in recent years, voted based on "media contrived" issues. I think with all of the activity that our armed services have had abroad lately that many of our soldiers have quite the unique perspective on how Americans are seen globally and why.
I'm apparently going to have to remind you that I'm not just talking military service, either. If America were to conscript every 18 year old who wasn't in school for even just a single year of service we would have more man-power than we'd know what to do with. We'd have the numbers it would take to control a hotbed like Iraq with our eyes closed, and without a back-door draft. We'd have the numbers to send real aid to places like Rwanda. The Army Corps of Engineers would be massive, not some dinky 35,000-member troupe. And when those who were in school finished -- like Helm said -- we'd have a volume of educated individuals getting real-life experience working for the government before entering the workforce.
This is without mentioning those who are already part of our all-volunteer army, career military or not, and the amount of people exposed to this sort of thing who would opt to continue their service.
I honestly don't see much of a downside to this, except someone might claim that it's the government trying to control its citizens. Our title as "land of the free" might be in slight jeopardy if we all actually have to
do something for our nation to live here.
And before you mention it: no, paying taxes doesn't count for shit compared to the life that many of our citizens have chosen.
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