Comment by nullocator
9 hours ago
> they should launch a campaign to repeal it and see how it goes over
You are conflating lack of true representation (what we have), with lack of support. It's very possible that the broad majority of the electorate would in fact get rid of conscription in the U.S. if they actually had a say in the matter? [1]
> I suspect that the non-prosecution more reflects the public’s leniency in the absence of major threats since the fall of the soviet union than a change in the underlying normative view.
Or more people are wising up to the reality that the real risk to their safety and security is from within not from without, its from people like you who would happily subjugate and violate your countrymen while telling them it's all for their own protection.
[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/28642/vast-majority-americans-o...
That poll asks whether the U.S. should have a draft “at this time,” which was four years after the Iraq war. That’s completely different than asking whether they agree with the principle that the government can conscript people into war.
But go ahead and run on repealing Selective Service. Ideally in time for midterms.