AKA, “spending 90% of your time and effort retraining new short-time recruits and never actually getting anything done.”

The Venn diagram of the cultural revolution and MAGA is the same as a picture of a total eclipse…

Just like far right Christian fundamentalists, far right Islamist fundemtalists, and far right Jewish fundementalists all want basically the same laws, they just want to be the ones in power.

They squabble over details, but in general their end goals are identical

It’s not a communist idea because Hitler did that too. And if Hitler did it, it must be OK, right?

Authoritarian nationalists all end up sounding the same…

I’m fine with this. I’m also fine with a mandatory year of military service. FORCE people to live how the other half lives. Be a lot less whining and crying, from both sides, if we all had common, and difficult, experiences.

Do it like Starship Troopers (the book). There’s a place for everyone to serve, no matter their abilities. Won’t serve your country for a lousy year? Fuck you, no franchise.

Nothing like shared hardship to get people singing from the same sheet. It’s how every military since forever has done it.

EDIT: So, no one read Starship Troopers? Want to vote? Serve. How to serve? Any way you are capable. You don’t have to be a soldier, or even serve in the military.