You saw the headline, and it's true.
I first thought of this when hearing tributes to John McCain, saying that McCain was a real hero while Trump was a draft dodger. Is that true? Maybe, maybe not. But I don't care. Why?
I would have been a draft dodger too had I been around when the draft was around. And I wouldn't feel bad about it. The draft was unjust. Period. Forcing people to kill and die against their will, sometimes for completely pointless causes that they don't agree with, (Vietnam), is evil. I admire anyone who avoided a war they opposed and were forced to fight. The amount of American kids sent off to die in foreign lands without any say in the matter is a stain on America's conscience; I even consider it on the same level as America's most recognized sins, (slavery, trail of tears, Jim Crow, etc). And condemning someone for not blindly supporting the flag and the military is jingoism, which us libs are supposed to be against. You cannot support #takeaknee in the NFL and condemn draft dodgers at the same time.
So please, let us not get so caught up insulting Trump that we lose sight of our own traditional values. There are many reasonable insults to Trump better than "draft dodger." Let's use them.
-Jack
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