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Brian Villanueva's avatar

I had no idea the paternity exemption even existed. It seems so obvious though. Of course we should be more reticent to potentially deprive a child of a father than we are to draft a single man. What sane society wouldn't consider that?

That we stopped exempting dads and started exempting college students at roughly the same time speaks volumes about our current liberal regime's priorities.

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Bob March's avatar

Just a minor quibble: the Vietnam War certainly became very unpopular indeed, but it didn't start out that way. Having been a teenager during the 1960's, and paying attention, I can say from my own observation that it was quite popular, or at least thought of as necessary, here in California from 1962 until about 1967. No one I knew actually wanted to be drafted to fight in it, of course, but most of us considered it part of our obligation to serve our country, if needed. But in 1967, despite the nation's sacrifices, the war seemed to reach a stalemate, and the costs (both human and financial) started becoming alarming. Finally came 1968 and its explosion of Left-wing ideology on campuses and other centers of influence, plus North Vietnam's Tet Offensive, and in the space of a few months, seemingly, public opinion veered toward that unpopularity you allude to.

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