Peter Hamby on CNN says young voters keep bringing

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18. There's always someone out there floating this idea

and it naturally scares young people. IMO, it's slavery and should be permanently abolished and it's prohibition enshrined in the constitution. Here are the most recent examples of this dumbassery and shit like this gets around on social media:


"By using available federal databases, the [Selective Service] agency will be able to register all of the individuals required and thus help ensure that any future military draft is fair and equitable," Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D–Pa.) said on the House floor. "This will also allow us to rededicate resources—basically that means money—towards reading readiness and towards mobilization…rather than towards education and advertising campaigns driven to register people."

The draft is a hobby horse for Houlahan, an Air Force veteran. She also spearheaded a House bill in 2021 to require women to register with the Selective Service, effectively doubling the draft pool.

There is a growing centrist consensus among liberals and hawkish conservatives on expanding the Selective Service. The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, is fighting for the right of women to be conscripted and argues that the Selective Service is an example of overt sex discrimination.

But equality in the service of a broader deprivation of rights is no virtue, and conscription remains an immoral institution at its core.

https://reason.com/2024/06/15/house-passes-bill-to-automatically-register-young-men-for-the-draft/