Reply #5: Well, every "true Democrat" realizes it's far, far better ... [View All]

[TahitiNut]

... to focus the burdens of military service on "volunteers" - you know, those people who see such service as the only way to obtain citizenship, an education, health care, job training, or just room and board? Yeah, them. "Volunteers." Need more of them? Well, we can just make sure the economy continues to pillage the working poor. We can make sure that the 45,000,000 people without health care coverage just keeps increasing in numbers. After all, them "volunteers" sure need encouragement, right? For the rest, we can just keep peddling the Norman Rockwell Kool-Aid - back-slapping those who, through a sense of "patriotism" (something to sneer at, right?) or sharing a burden step up to fill the gap. After all, it's really convenient to rest on our dissenting buttocks and say "not my war" while some other poor fucker dies - heaven forbid we sink or swim together like a 'real' democracy would.

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