Reagan Made Honor Promise of Abolishing of the Selective Service. But after he was elected, he kept the Selective Service intact. It would be good to remind this fact now, when the Republicans shown much effort to preserve anti-male politics.

Vista_Seagrape · 2021-12-08T13:55:16+00:00

I generally cut presidents some slack when it comes to election promises, a lot of times they really mean them but then realize, once in office, it isn't so easy.

But there is definitely a weird schism in the GOP right now, and I think we are seeing a real-time evolution. I think by 2030, the dominant face of the GOP will be Republicans like me- former high school Democrat, mostly "liberal"- whatever that even means anymore- at heart, but just completely turned off by how the Democratic party has become so intertwined with the toxic, hateful "progressive" SJW sphere.

It's a good thing for the GOP that the Democrats are so incompetent, because right now it would be so easy for the Dems to take mass favor with the American populace. If they just chilled on hating men/white men, the obsession with identity politics, and the constant demonizing of anyone perceived to be on the "other side", they'd be winning 60% of the popular vote every time, if not more.

The MRM is in an interesting position here! Which party will realize how not only viable but valuable it is to start addressing male issues?

PigTenis · 2021-12-08T12:57:52+00:00

In US your options are technically anti-male or pro-women at this point.

tenchineuro · 2021-12-08T15:49:43+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/08/us/reagan-in-a-shift-plans-to-continue-sign-up-for-draft.html
REAGAN, IN A SHIFT, PLANS TO CONTINUE SIGN-UP FOR DRAFT
President Reagan announced today that he had decided to continue registration of young men for a possible military draft.
In a marked reversal of the position he took in the election campaign, Mr. Reagan said: ''We live in a dangerous world. In the event of a future threat to national safety, registration could save the United States as much as six weeks in mobilizing emergency manpower.''
But the President also said: ''Make no mistake: The continuation of peacetime registration does not foreshadow a return to the draft.'' He said he remained firm in the conviction that the draft should be resumed only in the most severe national emergency. 'No Emergency Now Exists'
''No such emergency now exists, and registration is in no way a proxy for conscription,'' the President said in a statement read to reporters by his counselor, Edwin Meese.
Mr. Meese, in response to questions, repeatedly told reporters that the crisis in Poland and a desire to avoid sending misleading signals to the Soviet Union had not figured in the President's decision. The major consideration, he asserted, was the finding of a Presidential manpower commission that registration could speed mobilization by six weeks.
In the Presidential campaign, Mr. Reagan criticized President Carter for ordering the resumption of registration in 1980 after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, asserting that it was a meaningless gesture. Mr. Meese seemed to take pains today to avoid drawing parallels in the Reagan Administration's policy toward Poland.

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