Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Trailing Democrat Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson has demanded a year of military style conscription for all young people, to help combat the climate crisis.
Marianne Williamson wants a national mandatory service for people ages 18-26 to combat climate change
Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY
USA TODAY September 20, 2019At a presidential climate change forum on Thursday, author and Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson floated the idea of a national mandatory year of service for young adults to tackle climate change.
“I would like to ask your opinion, I think during the ‘season of repair,’ we should have a mandatory national service, one year, for people between 18 and 26 because we need you,” Williamson said. “We need to fix this climate. We need to fix this country.”
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She lists service projects including helping in small businesses, schools, hospitals, the military, the Peace Corps and work on sustainability and to “combat the climate crisis.”
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/09/19/marianne-williamson-proposes-mandatory-national-service-climate-forum/2376414001/
I suspect this policy idea will wreck whatever is left of Marianne’s chances.
When kids protest about climate change, their protests usually include a demand that someone else does the hard work. It seems unlikely climate believers will support a plan which involves them getting off their own butts.
Beneficent authoritarianism.
In 1865 the country ratified the 13th amendment which banned slavery and involuntary servitude. So what is the difference between mandatory service and involuntary servitude? ( hint; NOTHING)
The 2020 Democratic candidates remind me of gift boxes from California; assorted fruits and nuts.
“When kids protest about climate change, their protests usually include a demand that someone else does the hard work. It seems unlikely climate believers will support a plan which involves them getting off their own butts.”
Last night my wife had a few words to say about the school kids protesting “climate change” that I honestly had forgotten about from my own past. She recalled being recruited for anti-Vietnam war protests. As soon as kids were told that they’d have to skip school to do it, they all said “Yep, I’m in!” If the recruiter tried to sell past that close by giving reasons, he or she would be shushed immediately. The only thing the kids had to hear was “skip school.”
That’s all they hear today.
You don’t have to answer whether you or your wife participated, but THIS is what “anti-war protesters” were actually protesting against.
This image is hosted on a site operated by former South Vietnamese boat people. They are still grateful to America and thank us for our sacrifice on their behalf. Many of us spent our off time (when not dodging incoming rockets and mortars) accompanying the base Chaplains on visits to local villages and helping missionaries minister to the orphans and traumatized villagers.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Great link, TEWS_Pilot, thank you. No, my wife was an Air Force officer when I first met her, and I was working on development of the Peacekeeper ICBM. Neither of us protested the Vietnam War. I’ve had many military relatives and friends, and worked in support of them. I admire their courage and willingness to serve.
My proposal for anyone in the US who says we should eliminate the use of fossil fuels for the good of all mankind: strip naked, abandon ALL of your current worldly possessions (as they were gained through the benefit of using fossil fuels), walk out of whatever climate controlled building you are in, eat what you can find in nature (no garbage allowed because, you know, fossil fuels), wear what can you make from what you find in the fields and forests, and accept no help from anyone in modern society. When the police come to pick you up, just tell them you’ve chosen to lead a carbon neutral way of life.
Seems pretty simple to me.
I’m afraid my generation, and the one just after us, is not going to vote for a new Federal Draft….we had quite enough of that during the Viet Nam era, thank you very much.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a great idea when the U.S. had a million men out of work with no way to support their families. It was entirely voluntary and though many of the jobs were far from home, these men were able to retain their dignity and work to support their families.
Today, unemployment is so low that it is generally considered by labor experts that everyone who wants a job already has one — in my region, businesses are begging for employees — anyone with any skills at all. When a local bottling plant decided to layoff workers, their personnel department was flooded with calls from other businesses headhunting the employees in advance of the scheduled layoff!
Williamson’s idea is a typical politician’s nutty idea — there is not real plan, no real idea of what these young people might do other than “nice things” and certainly nothing proposed that would to anything that might affect the climate.
If the federal Government wants to pay young people to plant trees (which they already do, but it is backbreaking labor) more power to them — offer high enough wages to allow kids to pay their college tuition with a summers work…the feds might throw in matching funds towards tuition as well.
If the congress were controlled by Democrats and the Executive were someone like Bernie or Alexandria, the proposition of a Democrat Youth service corps would become a matter of Executive Decree and never see a ballot
So the Democrats want to take our meat, our cars, our guns, and draft us.
Best political platform ever! I wish them the best of luck with all that.
What a great idea…..to stop the youth movement. Get the a rickshaw and make them taxi people aroind to cut automobile CO2.
Here is an article I penned almost exactly ten years ago in response to the Obama administration’s push to implement this very idea of Mandatory National Service. It has been pushed over and over since then, this being just the latest attempt on the national front concealed in a new set of sheep’s clothing. What you may not know is that this very program has already been snuck in behind our backs in the form of compulsory community service which is being forced upon students in public schools under the name of “Service Learning.” Children in many schools are being required to render community service in order to be allowed to graduate or advance to the next grade. If you want to read more about that, see some of my articles listed on that topic at the second link.
Compulsory National Service: http://smallthoughts.com/blog/service.html
Service Learning and more: http://smallthoughts.com/blog/subj_Service.html
Going full retard!!