Getting Louder

Above: Nordland Transit Center

A State Of The Union Not Recently Seen On TV

Questions For Or About MAGA

The Jimmy Dore Show

US Armed Forces Stop Loss?

Valhalla VFT

The Oak Bay Starfish take:

Bad timing for a draft because The Joint Chiefs of Staff spent past years squandering credibility and prestige with undeclared/unwon wars and military operations for your freedoms.

They tried a draft during the Vietnam War. They ended up finding out they had to stop.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

Last time there was a draft, children were raised by the WWII generation, in families where Mom and Dad were married to each other.

What makes elected officials believe we have some sort of 1950s crop of citizens now who would comply with a draft?

Has the US ever won an undeclared war using a draft?

From 2004

“Today, however, the Congress has relinquished its delegated powers, giving the President license to do whatever he and his office determine that they can get away with. Consequentially, the presidential and legislative oaths to the Constitution have just turned into a great photo op on inauguration day.”

“It is a sad and hard realization for a grunt who loves the Marine Corps to admit that the organization is not used in the preservation of liberty, and has not been used toward that end for a very long time.”

Source:

Why I Didn’t Reenlist

By Casey Khan

February 14, 2004

Armed Forces Recruiting – 1980s

Part of what made it work:

In past decades, people could do time in uniform, then return to the US with a feeling that they were living in the best country on the planet.

They believed it and their parents and grandparents believed it.

Those who did may have wished to hand down a better version of the modern American society to their kids and grandkids.

Today-

Standards have deteriorated. The troops return to an ongoing breakdown of society.

Both major parties have taken turns in power over the past 40 years or so. For sure, there is a chunk of public policy that has become worse, not better.

Emergency/crisis/chaos mode is what we get now.

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