Demonizing Dems Enables GOP on Female Draft

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Distorted Demonization of Democrats Enables Republican Betrayal on Selective Service Expansion

Wednesday, November 17, '21 /  13 Kislev, 5782 / Vayishlach

by Binyomin Feinberg

This post appears on Breitbart today https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/16/democrats-may-force-women-register-draft/. It alerts the public to one aspect of the threat of expansion of Selective Service, namely its expansion to include women. Unfortunately, it focuses ire against the Democrats, as opposed to the MANY Republicans who also support this downright barbaric policy. Moreover, the readership of Breitbart would have far more influence in pressuring wayward and wavering Republicans than Democrats. So why the blatant omission?

This imbalanced portrait of the Selective Service danger as a Democratic one is all the more perilous inasmuch as those tainted optics threaten to enable the Republican leadership to get away with "fighting to lose," with the intention of exploiting the expansion of Selective Service to women as a wedge to campaign next year, to retake Congress. (Read carefully: https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/23/conservatives-riled-up-over-registering-women-for-draft/.) However, that trick is likely to fail, when voters catch on. And eventually, many will.

No, allowing the Republicans another campaign issue isn't worth the price, even for Republicans themselves. Besides the fact that such a nefarious stunt could backfire, once female SS registration is enacted into law, it will be much harder to repeal in the future. That's especially true given the very problem that is being overlooked here: GOP weakness on this issue, weakness apparently rooted far deeper than merely being a political ploy for next year's congressional races.

It would behoove Democratic leadership to take heed here. It doesn't serve their interests to grace the Republican leadership with another campaign issue, albeit a volatile, risky one. Is allowing passage of the NDAA in its current form really worth it for the Democratic Party? Wouldn't that endanger multiple Democratic seats already at risk?

In any case, this type of misportrayal of the crisis demands that concerned Republicans employ all the more vigilance in ensuring that the GOP doesn't betray their base (yet again). It's likely that Republicans will be allowed only ONE amendment on this issue, starting this week.  Therefore, concerned citizens need to ensure that GOP grandstanders do not get away with squandering the one opportunity to avoid Selective Service expansion - by knowingly choosing an amendment (e.g. a "Direct Strike") with less likelihood of success than the most promising prospect: Selective Service Repeal (as in S.1139 / H.R. 2509). 

GOP leadership must be told unequivocally: "If you're not in this to win - we are.  Ensure a vote on repealing Selective Service altogether. Don't play Russian Roulette with our daughters. If you cannot properly oppose the attempt to force young women into the most unequal dangers inherent in military units, and even combat, then nothing you do stand for justifies supporting you."