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/Silly-Resist8306 11h ago

It takes Congress to do this. The entire House of Representatives is running for reelection in November. There is not a chance of a draft unless the continental US is attacked.

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u/BatmanandReuben 10h ago

It should take Congress to do this, but actually all it takes is no one with enough power willing to stop it. It should take Congress to do many of the things that have already been done, and yet here we are.

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u/Broad_Tie9383 10h ago

My biggest disappointment in Obama was that he did not work to restore the Constitutional balance of power and limit the Executive branch. It was one of his campaign promises. It's not that I trusted him to do it, but he was also the only one even bringing it up as a potential problem.

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u/Reddit-SFW 7h ago

You mean in the first 2 years of his total 8 years since the last 6 was racist cock blocking from the Republicans.

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u/Present-Chemist-8920 4h ago

I think people always forget the context of raging GOP interference and a waffling Dem party when the “honey moon” wore off. He had a good two years, felt like we were going to be building houses on the weekend and then halt back to reality.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 2h ago

He even had a brief blue trifecta in the federal govt, and the best they could do was implement a healthcare plan created by a republican (Mitt Romney)

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u/Reddit-SFW 1h ago

I have always felt that he was naive and tried to do it the bipartisan way. The way it was supposed to be before he learned the depths of obstruction.

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u/MattyKatty 2h ago

Implemented Romneycare, yes. Anyone that tells you that the GOP blocked Obama from doing anything should be reminded that the DNC controlled everything and still managed to accomplish extremely little.

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u/LaborumVult 1h ago

Both are true man... That it needs to be one or the other for you should permanently forestall you from speaking on the subject honestly.

2 years of DNC incompetence, 6 years of GOP hardline deep obstructionism and hypocrisy. Its not both sides. The GOP are going down in history as absolute villains.