@theprogressivepartyusa

Your daily reminder that after the Vietnam war the establishment realized that it’ll be virtually impossible to draft people to fight their illegal and immoral wars, so they decided to create a working poor class who will volunteer to do it. How did they do that you ask? How much time you got? Well they started by gutting public education of trade education which up until that point provided people with practical, marketable skills to find work right out of high school. Then they started a “war on drugs” in order to persecute non violent persons and put them in the for profit criminal justice system. This resulted in countless people being forced to choose between joining the military or doing jail/prison time, not to mention how having a criminal record a lot of the time limited people from getting employed, once again limiting their options. Next the neoliberal agenda assisted in stagnating wages, outsourcing entire industries, gutting labor, in an all blitz against the once thriving working class, resulting in even more people being forced to what began seeming like a really good choice. I mean, when you’re born into a no win economic reality, with no options, unaffordable post secondary education, no health insurance, joining the empire’s war machine doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. You get: health insurance that you never had before, a signing bonus that gives you money you never had, a steady salary that you never had, a GI bill that promises you that education you couldn’t afford, and all you have to do is give several years of your life imposing the foreign policy of your country on other peasants across the world. Doesn’t sound too bad eh? Admiral akbar was right #itsatrap. #neoliberalism #neoconservativism #Neocons #warmachine #AmericanEmpire #NoMoreWars #saturday #beallyoucanbe #yvanehtnioj #MilitaryLife #militaryfamily #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #wallstreet #WarCrimes #WarCriminals #armystrong #TheFewTheProudTheMarines