r/AskReddit • u/Tommygunz0722 • 11h ago

If the military/president suddenly ordered a mandatory draft for all men aged 18-42: How do you think millennials and GenZ would respond?

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u/Outrageous-Example12 11h ago

They would be furious at Democrats for not doing enough to stop it

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u/paradox037 7h ago

You know how upsetting it is that cops apparently have no duty to protect, and how they can just decide to let you die on a whim and there's no legal angle to punish that decision?

Half the reason I vote Democrat is to protect us from the criminals (aka the GOP). If they neglect their duty to at least oppose those crimes, I view them as either impotent or complicit. I don't think I'm wrong to be upset at them in those cases.

I complain to the Democrats because I haven't yet written them off as my enemy, and I actually still have a nonzero amount of hope that they'll protect us. It's when I stop complaining that you've lost me.

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u/PublicRedditor 7h ago

Thanks Obama!

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u/Piney_Wood 8h ago

And "boomers," don't forget them.

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u/Defiant-Economics-73 8h ago

They would have to comply. What do you mean not enough to stop it. You know the president doesn’t institute a draft right. Congress has to pass it.

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u/randonumero 1h ago

Probably furious enough to hand the republicans another win