It's Time to Consider Mandatory National Service To Help Heal Our Broken Country

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It's Time to Consider Mandatory National Service To Help Heal Our Broken Country
Neil Patel

Posted: Jun 04, 2021 12:01 AM

Our country is broken -- it's coming apart at the seams -- and it is not going to fix itself. Repairing it will take effort from all of us. It may require consideration of some big national changes. Too many of us are just sitting back and watching America's decline. It's time to consider any idea that holds some promise for national renewal, any idea that could universally bring us all together and teach us a shared cause.

Perhaps even mandatory national service.

Mandatory service would require every 18-year-old to serve for a year or more. It is not a radical or new idea. Seventy-five countries have some form of national service requirement, and we've already required service at times in American history. It can also be broader than just military service. Other options include the Peace Corps, community service, cleaning up public lands and rebuilding aging infrastructure.

As a society, we are growing increasingly self-interested. Citizenship brings responsibility beyond self-interest. The concept of civic responsibility -- as enunciated so eloquently by President John Kennedy -- is eroding. A national service requirement can help reinvigorate a shared sense of citizenship in everyday Americans.

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[GtHawk]

But of course, I'm sure the socialists will love the idea of having all those young minds to enforce the indoctrination started in our schools.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

No. It will not work. The fractures started back when such a thing existed.

[jmyrlefuller]

No. It will not work. The fractures started back when such a thing existed.

I was going to say the same thing. This whole thing started largely because of compulsory national service in times of peace (think Elvis getting drafted before the Vietnam War had even begun) and made exponentially worse because of Vietnam and how it was bungled.

[Cyber Liberty]

Y'all are taking about the Draft.  That's not what this is.

FTA:

Mandatory service would require every 18-year-old to serve for a year or more.

That is not what we recall as the Draft.  This is like what Israel has, and we've never had that before.

[libertybele]

Many countries have mandatory service.  I think one year should suffice AND they should be trained with a variety of weapons and all weapons issued during that service and training then belongs to those that serve.

[Cyber Liberty]

Many countries have mandatory service.  I think one year should suffice AND the should be trained with a variety of weapons and all weapons issued during that service and training then belongs to those that serve.

You put your finger on why it'll never happen.  The Communists don't want people to get trained with, and issued, weapons of any kind, especially the ones that go "Boom!"

[240B]

Nope, can't happen.
The Democrats do not want religious Christians, Republicans, Patriots, or Constitutionalists, in the military.
Democrats want to be able to pick and choose their soldiers based on politics. You cannot do that with a draft.

[libertybele]

You put your finger on why it'll never happen.  The Communists don't want people to get trained with, and issued, weapons of any kind, especially the ones that go "Boom!"

Thank you, I now understand truly why the draft was discontinued.

[240B]

You put your finger on why it'll never happen.  The Communists don't want people to get trained with, and issued, weapons of any kind, especially the ones that go "Boom!"

True
Unless they are Antifa or BLM. They can kill as many people as they want with impunity.
That is who the Democrats WANT in the military to be trained in weapon.
These guys are their Brownshirts. Military training would be helpful to that.

[Cyber Liberty]

Thank you, I now understand truly why the draft was discontinued.

And now I understand that, now that you mentioned it.  I hadn't thought of it that way.

[Cyber Liberty]

True
Unless they are Antifa or BLM. They can kill as many people as they want with impunity.
That is who the Democrats WANT in the military to be trained in weapon.
These guys are their Brownshirts. Military training would be helpful to that.

Good point.  They'll want "mandatory service" if they can only include Antifa and Only Black Lives Matter (But Not Overmuch) thugs.

[Bigun]

Nope, can't happen.
The Democrats do not want religious Christians, Republicans, Patriots, or Constitutionalists, in the military.
Democrats want to be able to pick and choose their soldiers based on politics. You cannot do that with a draft.

I do not think the author of this has military service in mind even remotely.  Think more along the lines of brown shirts and Hitler youth.

[Cyber Liberty]

I do not think the author of this has military service in mind even remotely.  Think more along the lines of brown shirts and Hitler youth.

The kind of people who would be happy to paint "Only Black Lives Matter" on every street in the Nation by day, and beat up Asian journalists by night.

[Sled Dog]

Article XIII (13th Amendment – Slavery and Involuntary Servitude)
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

So, no.

Mandatory national servitude is not allowed.

Just like the state of Colorado could not Constitutionally force a baker to make a fairy wedding cake, regardless of whatever religion he may have had.



Oh.

I forgot.   Puppeteer Obama told his meat puppet mouthpiece, the Usurper Biden, to declare that the human rights in the Constitution are "not absolute".


But this is clearly the routine attempt by the Rodents do capture as many minds as they can who do not willingly enter the Re-Education and Party Camps called "college" these days.   They are bleep-fying the military right now, and there's only one class of people they haven't gotten their hands on after high school.   So now the Re-Education Brigades to amplify the lies that were drilled in through high school.

Can guarantee t'won't be da negroes that are out weeding the roads.

[libertybele]

I do not think the author of this has military service in mind even remotely.  Think more along the lines of brown shirts and Hitler youth.

Sigh.  You're likely correct.

[Sled Dog]

I do not think the author of this has military service in mind even remotely.  Think more along the lines of brown shirts and Hitler youth.

Yup.

The LAST THING the Rodents would want to do is teach more serfs how to fire a rifle and hit the targets. 

[AARguy]

I joined a conscript (draft) Army in 1970. Lots of draftees did not want to be there and were very unhappy. Drug use was rampant. Race relations were horrible. An unpopular war made everyone a little unhappy. When VOLAR (Volunteer Army) hit in 1973, things got better almost overnight. The professional, VOLUNTEER FORCE today is head and shoulders better.

The military is not a social program. It is not there to fill in the gap left by negligent parents. The purpose of the military is to close with and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver. It is not a babysitting outfit. Society should not burden the military with extraneous social garbage that will only detract from it being able to complete its primary mission.

[Sled Dog]

The military is not a social program. It is not there to fill in the gap left by negligent parents. The purpose of the military is to close with and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver. It is not a babysitting outfit. Society should not burden the military with extraneous social garbage that will only detract from it being able to complete its primary mission.

You mean the military WASN'T a social program.

It's been a social experiment since that Rapist the Rodents elected in 1992 let the queers into uniform.   

And under the Turd Obama regime, with his senile meat puppet, the destruction is going to accelerate.

Today's Army ain't what your Army was.   My Navy isn't the same, either.

Lost in all the touchy-feelz and emoting is the raw fact that the military is supposed to defend the United States to the very best of the nation's ability.   The gay brigades simply won't be up to the task of killing real enemies.

[240B]

Cannot figure out who the hell would join the military in America?
Homeless people? High School dropouts? Insane people?
Who would be crazy enough to fight for a country who hates them?
Who hates themselves?

[Sled Dog]

Cannot figure out who the hell would join the military in America?
Homeless people? High School dropouts? Insane people?
Who would be crazy enough to fight for a country who hates them?
Who hates themselves?

There are still patriots out there.   My daughter joined the Navy to get the best trades-education she could...Navy nuke...and once she was in, she really liked it.   

In fact, we need as many fine young patriots as possible, meaning those who are boys know it, etc, and who believe in America as America not as the USSA, to ensure that when the SHTF that our military isn't actively fighting us.

[jmyrlefuller]

Cannot figure out who the hell would join the military in America?
Homeless people? High School dropouts? Insane people?
Who would be crazy enough to fight for a country who hates them?
Who hates themselves?

The brats. The families for whom the armed forces are a way of life.

[libertybele]

There are still patriots out there.   My daughter joined the Navy to get the best trades-education she could...Navy nuke...and once she was in, she really liked it.   

In fact, we need as many fine young patriots as possible, meaning those who are boys know it, etc, and who believe in America as America not as the USSA, to ensure that when the SHTF that our military isn't actively fighting us.

Yes, there are still patriots out there.  Right before 9-11 our nephew joined the Army. He definitely found his niche and is now a Sergeant Major (maybe Command Sergeant Major, I'm not sure), his daughter joined the Army when she became of age. We also have a grandson who just joined the Marines and a great niece who is in the Navy.  All were motivated to serve their country -- my husband's side of the family has a long line of those who have served and also on his side of the family is a  patriot who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.