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In reply to the discussion: Women may soon be required to register for Selective Service. How do you feel? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)of people to just say no when it's their own comfort and economic wellbeing on the line, JustinL. I'm pretty sure that, short of the equivalent of another bombing of Pearl Harbor and threats invasion across both oceans, using a draft that could hit anyone any time during a quarter century of their adulthood would be bad for a party at reelection.
I imagine the citizenry might even have a whole new viewpoint about the desirability of protecting Middle East or Asian oil pipelines in 115 degree temperatures versus putting sustainable energy programs in high gear right here at home. Just for one for-instance.
I must say I'm a little disappointed at all this resistance to even an unrealistic air-dream of sharing responsibility and sacrifice. '"Give" me the Equal Rights Amendment and then maybe I'll consider whether I'm interested in shouldering the equal responsibilities that should come with it.' 'Our kids can go to war and all we'll do is grumble that war is evil or wave flags, but don't even think we'd go instead.'
Just maybe if it were older women voters who were being raped we'd scream bloody murder legally, make lousier victims than our daughters? What would our husbands have to say about it? Would people who've grown relatively educated and prosperous in maturity see institutionalized victimization as appropriate for them?