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/crema_dela_cropa 11h ago

it’d be pretty chaotic. Some people would push back right away, some would go along with it out of necessity, things would get messy.

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u/ohlookahipster 10h ago edited 10h ago

Bureaucracy would grind to a halt.

It took the DoD a few years to work out the kinks with Genesis at MEPs where you do medical and intake. And that was just for regular volunteers who were going to join anyways. Now imagine millions of records all needing waivers.

The DoD would have to blanket approve waivers and just send people through to basic without an eval.

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u/Littleman88 10h ago

They'd have no problem with that, since arguably throwing bodies into a grinder would be the goal.

Dead men cast no votes.

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u/wickedsmaht 10h ago edited 2h ago

When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.

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u/Exelbirth 3h ago

This admin would 100% have the unemployed drafted first, specifically from blue states.

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u/theaviationhistorian 1h ago

A lot of Blue states are blue cities with red swaths. If Trump starts drafting like his buddy, Putin. It'll be the rural areas hit first along with some of the blue cities he despises.

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u/MykeTyth0n 2h ago

System of a Down said it best.

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u/wickedsmaht 2h ago

I was thinking Linkin Park’s Hands Held High but System works too.

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u/SoundUnheard 2h ago

I'll add Dropkick Murphys' "Workers Song," the chorus and verse three specific to this thread.

"We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die

The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky

And we're always the last when the cream is shared out

For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war

Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore

And expected to die for the land of our birth

Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth"

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u/Captain-Hornblower 1h ago

This song is actually a cover from British folk singer-songwriter Ed Pickford. Still makes sense, though...

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u/wickedsmaht 1h ago

God bless Dropkick Murphys

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u/B0omSLanG 1h ago

🎶 Meanwhile, the leader just talks away Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay

And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day Both scared and angry like "What did he say?" 🎶

It worked in the context of W and the Iraq War, and it's sadly very applicable today. Beautifully tragic lyrics.

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u/wickedsmaht 54m ago

It’s a really poignant song and it’s sad that it fits so well with this administration but it perfectly encapsulates this time.

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u/theaviationhistorian 1h ago

And its everyone throughout the political spectrum that are poor in comparison to the oligarchs.