Leftist regimes always like the idea of coercion of ordinary citizens as a matter of policy.
Hmmm
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Dunno. Seems to me that 40 years ago ‘national service’ was an idea favored by liberals who were to a degree dissenters – Charles Peters, for example. The residue for that was the ‘Corporation for National and Community Service’, one of those unnecessary federal agencies which never seem to see their end.
Starmer’s regime in Britain seems an example of the leftoid call-out culture on steroids.
Is there an occidental country wherein the educational apparat – the ministries, the accreditation agencies, the textbook publishers, the teachers’ colleges, the administrators, the teachers – isn’t shot through with sectaries and perverts?
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/09/02/school-textbook-brands-traditional-irish-families-as-bigoted-while-glorifying-diverse-families-and-forcing-kids-to-choose-sides/#disqus_thread
School textbook.
The battle has been going on for sometime now.
So-called same-sex marriage, LGBTQ blah blah blah blah…
The good news? The war will end.
It will not end well for those who promote non-traditional family structures.
I recall;
All the more reason to praise a homeschooling parent or support a worthwhile private school. If you can find a worthwhile private school…
The pace of attacks on traditional families has picked up since 2008 around the world. Will be interesting to see whose “family stands with the Lord.”
Apologies if I have posted this previously
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Christ’s New and Everlasting Covenant, on which the Church was founded, was linked to the Eucharist by Christ in the Institution at the Last Supper. The Eucharist is the living embodiment of this covenant. Marriage is based on a covenant between the husband and the wife. The battle over marriage and worthy reception of the Eucharist is one over covenant and covenantal fidelity. Whether the Church and her members are capable of keeping their covenants, promises, and vows. If Satan can turn us into a church full of covenant breakers and/or people incapable of even making covenants to begin with this strikes a blow against Christ’s New and Everlasting Covenant and His salvific act on the Cross, which the Eucharist embodies. Satan is playing for all the marbles, and is using our sexual weaknesses against us to further his agenda.
I’m surprised by the comments. I have no problem with a draft.
In my view Pinky a draft is only licit when a nation’s survival is at stake.
Don:
Or when a nation faces a standing threat from an historically-aggressive neighbor, as France faced from Germany or Finland, the Baltics and Poland face from Russia. We have no such threat.
I’m surprised by the comments. I have no problem with a draft.
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Military conscription was in effect from 1940 to 1973, bar one year. That’s this country’s only experience with the practice for any extended period of time. NB, from 1948 to 1973 > 60% of those entering the service did so via enlistment. If you’re looking at the cohorts born from 1928 to 1953, I believe the share of young men who were actually conscripted was below 20%.
What about the system proposed in (I think it was) Starship Troopers — military service was voluntary but you only got the right to vote or hold public office if you had served? That way, you don’t actually conscript anyone but you link leadership and authority roles to having performed some kind of national service.
Some (of course not all) conservatives on certain forums wax nostalgic for only allowing property owners to vote, or only allowing people who “pay net taxes” to vote (thereby excluding public benefit recipients and government employees whose salary comes from tax funds), the idea being that everyone else is an actual or potential freeloader voting themselves benefits they don’t have to pay for or make any sacrifice for, or making decisions for a community they have no permanent stake in. I do even see some arguing that women should never have been given the right to vote because they “always” vote in favor of a nanny state or an Uncle Sugar who will take care of them. Well, I’m not one of those but the stereotype had to come from somewhere and isn’t entirely wrong.
What about the system proposed in (I think it was) Starship Troopers — military service was voluntary but you only got the right to vote or hold public office if you had served?
That makes citizenship a privilege rather than a right. Such a restricted franchise would likely become very unpopular over time and would inevitably politicize the military. Of course Starship Troopers was a juvenile, at least originally, and Heinlein was ever fond of crankish ideas.
Pinkie, Elaine, I am not government property.
My issue is the problem is the reason for the need of a draft. No good soldier would want to enlist in the modern, woke military.
The first conscription law in the United States was passed during the Lincoln administration. I do not know when it ended. The Confederate States had passed a conscription act prior to this enactment by the Lincoln Administration.
“Such a restricted franchise would likely become very unpopular over time and would inevitably politicize the military.”
“… I do even see some arguing that women should never have been given the right to vote because they “always” vote in favor of a nanny state.”
I think the military is already politicized, even if not officially. Several decades worth of “outreach” to “underprivileged” communities have seen to that.
I…have known quite a number of women who definitely felt government ought care for them. They wouldn’t state it quite that way, of course. Yet most women I knew in college definitely felt government should provide health care, child care, food, housing, and clothing, …and career opportunities. ..Many were ROTC cadets. They didn’t seem to be looking for this only in the military.
The first conscription law in the United States was passed during the Lincoln administration.
True, although there was conscription of a sort into state Continental Army regiments during the Revolution in some of the states. In all of the state militias, when called up, no was not usually accepted as an answer.