I tend to avoid talking politics with my parents (mostly because they watch CNN and MSNBC all of the time), but in rare instances where war comes up, I ask them, "what if they reinstate the draft?" Their immediate response is, "that will never happen" and that is the end of the conversation. I sometimes think they say that because they don't want to even entertain the idea of the possible outcomes of a draft for their children, though perhaps they genuinely believe that the draft would never be reinstated because of potentially how unpopular it would be. I have seen similar strong opinions on this board about the impossibility of a draft in the United States, and I have to wonder why you are all so certain about it?
Time and again we have seen decisions by the government being made that defy logic, especially politically, only for the average citizen to look on in complete apathy at best, and sheer joy at worst. Years of the Syrian Civil War being plastered everywhere with criticisms of US inaction have made the left more hungry for war. The Ukraine War has seen leftist individuals (even the trannies who you would expect to whine and moan about doing anything) actually travel to Ukraine and participate in fighting. The propaganda is powerful, and the apathy towards resisting is even stronger.
I think you would have to be foolish to not even entertain the idea of the Establishment reinstating the draft. It doesn't matter if the logistics would be impossible as that has rarely stopped the government before. As far as I see it, the Silent Generation and the Boomers are not satisfied with merely passing away quietly, they want to go out in a blaze of glory, consequences for their children, and the human race as a whole, be damned.
I don't really trust any accounts of the time period but it seemed that the vietnam war was to "fight communism" and it backfired because the communists were at home and used to to create a social revolution movement against the government.
Now the marxists are even more entrenched within government and wider society. So a similar outcome would benefit them even more.
Why wouldn't they institute the draft again? especially when they can force large amounts of White Men from rural areas into war zones. It's a draft, and if they literally have a hunger games style system they can pair it with a social credit score and doing "pro social" or "environmentally sustainable acts" or some shit can get you removed from this months drawing you'd have the draft as a wonderful social weapon. Imagine if you kept your carbon score under a certain level for the month got you an exemption. (Of course you'd have to sign up for a digital ID and not use cash etc to even attempt to qualify) How do you think something like that would float in todays political environment.