Empowering us was what Donald Trump's presidency was all about, yet a significant portion of voters apparently opted for a pathetic joke of an administration attached to a mentally failing geriatric progressive president whose radical plans and associates know no bounds when it comes down to taking away our freedom, power and wealth. Congratulations Democrats, you got what you voted for, we're well on the way to becoming a Third World country, and even this month's elections in some states indicate your continuing love for oppressive leftist candidates. Gloating as many of you are with the indictment of Donald J. Trump before a Manhattan clown court, there's something else you won't really like:
Your kids, their kids and almost everybody's kids of a proper age being drafted into the military. Soon.
Just days ago we commented about the possibility of a military draft, but were actually surprised this week to see some members of Congress, in conjunction with military brass, suddenly realizing that recruitment efforts have fallen far short. Far be it from leftists who currently lord over military standards and practices to have a clue that diversity, equity, inclusion, sensitivity training, loosened disciplinary options, transgender displays and other social engineering actions are as effective as a plague in keeping potential personnel from joining up.
Nevertheless, I believe a draft is closer than people outside the military realize. When your primary recruitment choice is to solicit young people with morbid obesity, hard drug or alcohol addiction, and brains fried in other ways, you're screwed.
So what's left? "A few good men" and women will enlist, of course, but what does a nation do when its future, generally unwilling conscripts are "snowflakes" in possession of no courage beyond their computer screen activities? How do you quickly convert a barracks full of life and history-illiterate crybabies devoid of common sense into fighters or support personnel of any sort?
Long before Iraq and Afghanistan there was Vietnam and years of the military draft. I know this all too well because the draft came for me and thousands of other young men. I was definitely not a "fortunate son." How well I remember the pre-induction physical, the questions, the indignities of a journey to loss of self-identity -- and two lucky high school friends rejected on the spot for physical reasons. I was 19 when I enlisted in the Air Force and beat my final draft "invitation" by one week. As it turned out, there was no trip to Southeast Asia for me during the next four years. For that I was grateful, but the ultimate sacrifice of more than 50,000 dead military personnel -- many of whom, no doubt, wished they could have avoided the war's horrors -- remain on my mind.
Back then, yes, women served in the military also, and of course there were female nurses who performed exemplary actions.
Quite a few young men, if not successful as conscientious objectors who avoided combat on religion grounds, skipped off to Canada, often with parental support, to avoid the burning deadly hell that was the Vietnam war (some insist upon using the word, conflict, but I won't).
It's important to know that in the years following the war, the USA and Canada plugged that escape option, and future "draft dodgers" would no longer be accepted lovingly into Canada, which has now become an authoritarian paradise under blackface-lovin' leader Trudeau and his strong-arm associates.
As we hover on the verge of forced military service (if you expect patriotism from the current crop of potential inductees who have long been taught to hate America, good luck), some might ask in a panic: Is there any escape?
Why yes, as a matter of fact there is a way out. Unfortunately, this option is probably not for you.
Back during those Vietnam years Credence Clearwater Revival tapped into public sentiment with their song, "Fortunate Son," addressing the very real subject of the rich and powerful among us exercising the ability to have their sons excused from serving, whether through "essential" college attendance, an extended trip out of the country to Europe -- or, yes, a hop across the border to Canada. The focus here was very much upon the political class and the generous options available to keep their kids safe.
Will the era of the fortunate son -- and now daughter -- return before a new military draft gobbles up the best and the brightest, right along with the fat, the drug-infested and brain-fried? I'm betting the exodus has already begun among various families of means. No, I'm not judging the merits or downside, and I'm not pushing for a draft. But that's out of my control -- and likely yours. I would not want to have military-eligible children at this increasingly chaotic moment in time.
A draft should not be a surprise, for Democrats are in charge and they love war. So does the military-industrial complex President Eisenhower warned about. I do believe the country and world would have been way better off under Trump, had he remained for another term. Instead, irrational and dangerous people now populate the White House and a nation of faceless, non-elected bureaucrats are chewing your country and what founders called God-given rights to pieces.
So what does a country short on military population do when China and its growing affiliations threaten peace and stability? We wish the answer could be run for the hills, but that never works. A draft is coming. The draft is coming. We hope to be wrong because we remember being young and suddenly snared by a chilling government invitation arriving in the mail. We also remember a hot and humid June day when there was barely enough time to pet the dog and say goodbye to the family, before flying from New York to Texas for basic training and then a pathway to the unknown. Some of us got lucky, but so many others did not.
Hey, Congressman This and Senator That: I have an idea, as long as something already seems to be in the works.. Why not quickly come up with a law making it a felony to protect YOUR OWN kids from a military draft? Let's call it The No Fortunate Son or Daughter Act of 2023. I think we can promise widespread, if not overwhelming support from your constituents.
