Charles Rangel, one of the now-majority Democrats poised to take over Congress, has announced he will seek to reinstate the military draft once he assumes control of the House Ways and Means Committee. Of course, this honorable donkey never met a war he thought shouldn’t be fought, either on the ground or on principles, but he reasons that drafting middle-class kids will cause major white parent trembling.
The last thing middle-class youth want to do, for the most part, is fight for their country and certainly to die for it. Witness the draft riots during the Civil War and the antiwar counter-culture during the Vietnamese War. These were all white folk phenomena. “Hell, no, we won’t go” seems to have been the majority rallying cry since the French and Indian War. (World War II was a well-planned exception.)
Of course, I use “white” not as a racist or pejorative term, but as nomenclature for what this culture produces along with its residue of middle-class wealth and entitlement–a privileged class that wants to reap but not sow.
Draft, yea or nay? How comment and vote ye?
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