Firstthey manufacture a global crisis over the falling birthrate.  Admittedly, this does pose economic difficulties, but the world clearly is overpopulated with Homo Sap meat packages, and reducing population voluntarily by having fewer babies is clearly a better option than raising the death rate, which few people will volunteer for.

Now however, the global paranoia propaganda machine is busy not just in the FSoA but in Europe and Asia also that everybody is running short of soldiers.  Why do we need more if all our "enemies" don't have enough to stage an invasion either?

It's not just soldiers they're short of either, Police forces also are having trouble finding enough thugs to employ to protect the property of the rich.  Without their enforcers, the rich can't maintain the huge chasm in wealth distribution.

Surly used to love to quote Jay Gould, a 19th century Robber Baron who said



This is the real worry.  They can't hire enough muscle.  The suicidal, drug addicted obese Xbox players living in mom's basement aren't interested in working at all, much less beating on people with billy clubs for a crappy paycheck.  They can have a lot more fun killing virtual people in a 1st person shooter game and not break a sweat.

They're getting desperate, and the draft is a last ditch effort to maintain control.  I suspect if/when it is reinstituted, Draft Dodging will become even more common than back in the Vietnam era.


https://theconversation.com/us-kicks-off-debate-on-conscription-as-other-nato-members-introduce-drafts-232458

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