Draft the rich.

The draft is akin to slavery.  It is indentured servitude.  Why would anyone advocate a draft to promote U.S. military interventionism abroad?

A progressive magazine in the U.S. with a sense of humor?
I love these polls.

The readership is decidedly of the crusty old cheese eating Volvo driving stereotype, however, as far as I can tell from the poll results.

Just for the record, I hate you guys much more than the Republicans.

dear daney,

    I too get a kick out of these polls and I could never afford a Volvo but would probably have liked one.

    Life is too short for me to expend my energy hating people. I don’t hate you, Republicans or anyone else.

    What I try to do is make sense of things. I am a mother. I do not want my children nor anyone else’s children to ever go to war. I have been watching Ken Burn’s new documentary, “The War”, on PBS. Somehow, member’s of my immediate family were born at times that let them miss the war and my one brother who might have gotten a tour in Vietnam had a #300 when his birthday was pulled.

    However, I had a wonderful father-in-law who spent his youth in the South Pacific but would never talk about it.  He would just say he was in the Philipines and not much happened there. He died 4 years ago, before we really knew what happened and what he spared us from by keeping his story to himself.  When he got older and had more time and money he started going to reunions. He appeared to come home a little more relaxed and less burdened. If he had told us, I would have shared it with him as much as I could, been even more proud of him and been even more convinced that although our country did not have a choice in WWII, we have since then and no one should ever be drafted again. There are alternatives to war.