The Trans Movement Just Hit Home.......

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(05-12-2023, 08:53 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: There's a reason that our military budget is astronomical, and that reason is because the US is "expected" to be the protectors of the free world.  We are now in a period where the armed forces are struggling and in some instances failing to meet recruiting numbers.  We live in a country so comfortable that our young are not willing to sign up to defend, that is a warning signal.  That in itself isn't the barometer of failure that I'm leaning toward as much as our youth are more caught up in social issues that they no longer care about being a part of keeping those rights to do so sovereign.

There is a lot to unpack here.  So we are in free-fall into destruction but young people are too comfortable and young people are too wrapped up social issues to care about protecting the freedom of the world?  Anyways, the issues leading to the falling recruitment numbers have many causes, not the least of which is our inability to provide the army with a population of qualified young people.

We raised a crop of kids who are too uneducated and too out of shape to meet our prior standards for military service.  We're the adults here, so this is on us, not them.  Unfortunately, I see our country continuing to defund education and continuing to subsidize food industries that are making us all fat and unhealthy to the point where anyone with a pulse will be admitted to the army.  Lower the bar, we're not preparing our youth to uphold prior standards.  If someone who is 18 isn't fit to join the army it seems a bit unfair to say "Hey, you've been an adult for 15 seconds, this is on you, not us!"

(05-12-2023, 08:53 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Your failure to recognize that the US is currently in a parallel situation as Rome under the rule of Caligula, is just baffling to me.

Interesting.  I figured if I compared the USA to the fall of Rome most people would say that I was overreacting to Trump's first term and the impending shadow of us crawling back to him.