How could you get the draft reinstated with a POD after 9/11?
With an even stupider legislature, you could force it over the objections of literally the entire DoD, and a majority of the US population (well, except the baby boomers, it isn't happening to them this time, so why should they give a fuck?) Hell, you could probably even get them to mutiny in protest, given how much the military as a whole was against the idea when someone proposed it IOTL.
You'd see earlier open resentment of society by the tail end of Generation X and the Millennials who are affected, and yeah, that's going to cause some serious unrest.
Usually with the logical train of:
1)Boomers don't like getting drafted, protest it and win and end to the draft.
2)Boomers don't like paying taxes, cut taxes.
3)Tax cuts require cutting social programs and education, Boomers aren't affected, pass debt burden onward.
4)We deal with deficiencies in social programs and education, get told how easy we have it.
5)Boomers refuse to retire. Shut down fucking escalator of advancement. No good Jobs for us.
6)Boomers pass debt on to us.
7)Suddenly Terrorism!
8)Scared Boomers reinstate Draft, it affects us. Boomers mention something about it being our civic duty, and "when we were your age."
9)?????
10)Riot.
That seems to be about the size of it.
Even now the most self centered generation in AMerican history is dead set on having everything their own way, no matter how badly it hurts the U.S>
That wasn't them, that was their parents and friends of their parents for the most part.At least they gave us good music and a generally less bland culture...
At least they gave us good music and a generally less bland culture...
True, not so much there parents as older brothers and sisters though. Although punk rock was also largely the boomers but that wasn't really mainstream when it was new.
I wonder, did the Baby boomers ever do ANYTHING but go along fat dumb and happy as if the world owed them a living?It was also imported from the UK.
I wonder, did the Baby boomers ever do ANYTHING but go along fat dumb and happy as if the world owed them a living?
Ok, lets make Flight 93 the first one to hit and the target be the Capitol WITH CONGRESS IN SESSION.
That probably requires a very different date, but the effect should be massive.
Ah, but soon there will be plenty of new idiots in town
And they will be baying for blood and ready to support any wild idea...
Hm, the senate can be replaced in days, wonder how fast they can replace the house if needed ?
Hope that helped.With an even stupider legislature, you could force it over the objections of literally the entire DoD, and a majority of the US population (well, except the baby boomers, it isn't happening to them this time, so why should they give a fuck?) Hell, you could probably even get them to mutiny in protest, given how much the military as a whole was against the idea when someone proposed it IOTL.
You'd see earlier open resentment of society by the tail end of Generation X and the Millennials who are affected, and yeah, that's going to cause some serious unrest.
Usually with the logical train of:
1)Boomers don't like getting drafted, protest it and win and end to the draft.
2)Boomers don't like paying taxes, cut taxes.
3)Tax cuts require cutting social programs and education, Boomers aren't affected, pass debt burden onward.
4)We deal with deficiencies in social programs and education, get told how easy we have it.
5)Boomers refuse to retire. Shut down fucking escalator of advancement. No good Jobs for us.
6)Boomers pass debt on to us.
7)Suddenly Terrorism!
8)Scared Boomers reinstate Draft, it affects us. Boomers mention something about it being our civic duty, and "when we were your age."
9)We realize all of 1-8, refuse to be drafted, and tell the Baby Boomers to shut up or we take away Medicare.
10)Riot.