I have never entirely understood the Democrats’ fondness for the draft. If they honestly think it will turn a group of youths forcibly displaced from their customary diet of video games into bright-eyed liberal footsoldiers they don’t know young people very well. Mostly it will irritate them.
Why, then, they think a draft for peaceful social purposes will be any better - forcing the unwilling to do icky soup-kitchen trash-pickup infrastructure-building so-others-can-enjoy-the-fruits-of-your-compulsory-labors kind of work - is beyond me.