That last line was golden, but otherwise this was a dull op-ed. The references to the Dixie Chicks and Sean Penn as teen idols make you sound dated, and this topic is begging for a classic Starship Troopers allusion. Service guarantees citizenship, and the franchise!
I treasure my civil liberties, but I don’t see the universal allocation of the franchise as necessarily sacrosanct. It’s all very well and proper to talk about other means of sharing the duties of governance. We can talk about whether it’s best to have proportional representation, direct democracy, representatives, or more self-governance (more responsibilities falling in the sphere of the individual).
Off topic, Cherokee Jack stylistically writes like a woman, meaning Jack’s actually a Jill.
