Ok lemme try and take a stab at this, first and foremost i am in my early 20s however like it or not large drafts would help do several things it would allow you to get alot of people into the army(like it or not that would prolly help a lot of people in their 20s get a bit of much needed discipline in their life so they might stop mooching off their parents which not suprisingly more and more people are doing.
With thousands upon thousands being drafted into the military jobs are created and opened up for those who are unaffected by a draft, also allows you to have several options, 1 being train alot of those who were drafted for taking positions in places like iraq for active duty soldiers who have gone there 2 3 or 4 times. And possibly let those soldiers go home or at the very least stick them in essentially non combat zones where forces are kept for no real reason. If you chose not to do such a thing, you could pull fully trained soldiers from locations mentions in the last sentence, and stick them into a place like iraq, shit they are already trained why not ?
Really i dont think a draft would do much but i just think it would be nice to have one. If nothing else it could help lift some of the weight of the soldiers already in the military.
Onto the americans disliking socialism and its ideas generally.
Most americans view socialism almost like communism they will have the general mind set that everybody gets treated the same for some shit and that certain things are forced on everyone. And that these certain rights are given to those who most people feel should not have them.
For instance i jim bob have worked long and hard to be earning 60000 dollars a year, i went to college i got my job and worked for 8 years straight to get my raises and my benefits and im if nothing else content at were i am.
Socialism isnt appealing to this man because he is content already, so what he sees when you want to take more of his money and distribute it,he sees you taking his money and give it to poor people who he thinks shouldnt get the same kind of health care he gets at least not for free. He thinks if they want good health care work your ass off and get it..
He while working at his job for 8 years has had enough extra money to buy himself a car a motorcycle a boat and jet ski. He can travel all he likes, why the fuck should his money go to pay for another X amount of buses so that assholes who dont have cars can get around easier.
And there is the overshadowing thing you forget most of all nate. That being that socialism requires EVERYONE to take more of the money they make and give it away, so now while he nets a 60k dollar a year salary, hes now only got 15k to spend on his living expenses home food ect, Insteadof the 35-40k he has now.Because some fucking poor people didnt work hard enough.
This is the kind of mindset your average american who might have a general hint of knowledge will think about it. Another part basically views socialism as communism which is silly and i mean paper communism not like russia and cuba and china..
Furthermore the reason i personally am against it, is that i believe it would be more beneficial for the government to regulate things and allow them to function in a way that would achieve results similar to socialism but without any charity.
instead of health care for everyone, Enforcing pricing limits for each aspect of medical treatment, and severly changing how medical lawsuits are handled and the sums of money that are awarded through them. This kind of things drive down insurance cost for doctors and as a result drive your prices down as well for the uninsured and make insurance for more affordable so that the uninsured can afford health care or health insurance even while making significantly less then jim bob, However its not a hand out.
Limiting CEOs salaries so that michael dell cant pay himself like 2.5 billion dollars a year and layoff people because the company has a billion dollars in debt because the other ceos are making hundreds of millions as well and doing essentially nothing.
Forcing companies to take responsibility for their actions so that bullshit like enron cant happen again. Enforcing standards and requirements for things like loans. so that the bullshit that happened with all these banks being broke doesnt happen again.
And with this regulation allow the less fortunate to have more opportunities and more chances to get their lives together or to earn a living .
And because of my belief in capitalism and democracy i personally am against many aspects of socialism.
