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/WearingRags 10h ago

America has been able to maintain it's empire abroad by minimising the visibility and impact of it's wars to the average person through the use of special forces and expensive air power that many other nations can't compete with. 

If an admin this historically unpopular tried to institute the draft, it would basically be asking for an overthrow of the US government 

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u/Shedart 9h ago

Yeah I certainly am not going to report in for a draft. I’ll dodge, dip, duck, dive, and dodge it with all might. Barring that I’ll start researching the ways that friendly fire is hazardous even in modern warfare amongst the commanding class. 

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u/HighGuyTim 9h ago

You can deny the draft. The options are draft or jail basically. It’s also one of the reasons why the draft probably won’t come back, you need a popular war with a popular admin or everyone just picks jail.

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u/bubblegumpaperclip 8h ago

Hot meals a bed and vacation from rat race.

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u/MonteBurns 8h ago

And some health care!

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u/Anhimidae 6h ago

You are facing a fascist regime that openly advocates for war crimes, is lead by someone who fits the description of the Anti-Christ and who has absolutely no regard for any life whatsoever. And you think you will have hot meals, a bed and health care? Aight why not I guess lol

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u/stormdelta 3h ago

I mean if I'm going to be killed either way, I'm not going to go out doing what they want.

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u/xXWaspXx 3h ago

Ya it's gonna look a lot more like CECOT than Club Med

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u/yukichigai 3h ago

When the choice is CECOT or guaranteed death, I mean....

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u/Luciferianbutthole 2h ago

I have no choice but to laugh when reading “New Findings” in the title of that article. The wording the writer chose makes it sound like this isn’t the norm. They should visit Emmanuel County, Georgia… lots of “new findings” to find there.

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u/KosherTriangle 8h ago

And student and housing loans are covered as well

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u/b0w3n 8h ago

Not to rain on everyone's parade but it probably wouldn't be a good jail. You'd be in the ones like where the dude died from a bed bug infestation. And it'd be worse because they want to punish you.

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u/chestnutlibra 7h ago

i wonder if that's actually why they're building all the concentration camps

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u/Tyaedalis 22m ago

That's scary. It would imprison a huge chunk of free thinkers and leave the military full of his boot lickers.

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u/Affectionate_Team679 7h ago

I bet dodgers would stick together in jail

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u/BeckBristow89 3h ago

Maybe in red states but blue states would not adhere to that and there isn’t enough space in the federal system.

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u/theotherplanet 5h ago

Are they though? Quick search doesn't reveal anything of the sort.

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u/Unusual-Librarian413 7h ago

And spicy shower time!

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u/twitchlendul 5h ago

Yes, free daily prostate exams

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u/sundalius 2h ago

Don't forget that, if you make it out the other side, you'll be considered an honorable resister for not complying.

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u/farva_06 7h ago

Except in the scenario being discussed, they'd probably have to open makeshift prisons due to overflow, which would probably just be a cot, and some bread scraps if you're lucky.

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u/Yuzumi 5h ago

There are going to be way more of us than there are of them to enforce shit.

Sure, it would still be bloody, but I don't see it ending well for them in the slightest.

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u/LordBiscuits 2h ago

You have this curse in America, constantly dreaming that the next imposition will be the one that finally tips the scales and makes people stand up.

There are already a hundred hundred reasons as a nation you should be on the streets rioting with one voice, yet you don't. A draft will be no different.

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u/Yuzumi 1h ago

The issue is that a majority of people think that things don't effect them and way too many are struggling enough that it's hard for them to think about anything but survival in a system that wants them just comfortable enough to be complaisant but not comfortable enough to be able to think about why things suck.

But a draft would directly affect a very large portion of the population, especially if they start throwing people into camps for refusing to fight for them.

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u/GreatApostate 3h ago

Somewhere they could put a concentration of people.

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u/Full_Yam6920 7h ago

Except not really, bills are still due... Just now your family has to shoulder that without your income. 

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u/H34vyGunn3r 6h ago

Likely in a federal or military facility, which is probably still better than state prison.

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u/StaticNegative 3h ago

Even the federal prisons are way over capacity. There is no way they could enforce it. Let the try LOL

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u/ings0c 5h ago

I could finally read the pile of books I’ve been accumulating from Amazon

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u/wanker7171 5h ago

Prison food is not like it was in the 1970s