Wait til he hears about the Peace Corps!
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In a steady state, assuming 1 year terms, it would have to recruit essentially every adult at one point or another.
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That implies conscription. If it used 2 year terms, half of adults...which probably still means conscription.
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Happy to show you the demographic data if you like.
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Possibility #1: HRC proposes an overly-ambitious ambitious volunteer program, can't find enough people to staff it.
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Possibility #2: Fascism.
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a lot of countries which aren't fascist still have mandatory civil/military service (Austria, Finland)
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I think it's more likely she will make most federal student financial aid conditional on doing civilian service
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I think that would be pretty great. YMMV. What I don't think is that anyone's going to build an army out of it.
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Godwin warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsarbeitsdienst … These things can turn quickly once the machinery is set up.
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the USA already requires every man who wants financial aid to sign up for the draft
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Yes, which is already offensive. But there's no machinery to back it up right now: a new draft would take years.
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