Just to be clear: Hillary announced a bold new plan that actually means mandatory civil conscription for all. But Trump's the Nazi.
But if it's a long-term ongoing program, it runs up against arithmetic. If the avg. term is 1 year, need 5m new recruits/year.
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If 2 years, need 2.5m new recruits/year. In the long run, you're only going to get 5-6m "new" adults per year, ie ppl turning 18.
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Recruiting 5m out of ~100m 18-45 year olds in the US, once, is one thing. 5m (or 2.5m or even 1m) *every* year is something else.
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As far as time commitment goes, that's a big question mark. Military reservists still have 5 months of training up front.
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If it's just a weekend of training + email address, some kind of Hillary's Young Adventurers' Club, not sinister, but pointless.
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Website language seems pretty clear about min time commitment (50,100hrs). I'll concede you're mostly correct about the age thing...
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But the fact that it's 1-2hrs/wk volunteer work means plenty of people cld do for multiple years. Also, the numbers proposed in...
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...a campaign prop. don't really reflect reality, or what she actly intends (vs. advertises). Either way, this isn't Nazi policy.
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There's a Washington faction that's agitated to bring back some kind of "service" conscription since the end of the draft.
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