This idiotic garbage is the same excuse antebellum slaveholders used to justify their "peculiar institution", with bogus assertions that free factory workers were as badly treated as slaves.
There's nothing wrong with having a stake in this nation.
Every citizen already has that. Part of the price is defending the nation against the government.
Virtually every country on earth has something similar.
This is the United States of America, not some two-bit fleabag country like France.
Suppose an all-out world war breaks out
In the event of "all-out world war", it takes two guys per silo to turn the keys. We have more than enough people for that.
We have a stake in it because we stepped up to ensure that others will still have the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
Yep, and when the government gets out of line again, it needs to be slapped down again.
You talk a good story, but you can't and never have walked the walk. What you know about slavery and the antebellum South would fit comfortably on the head of a pin a leave plenty of room for the Lord's Prayer and the Gettysburg Address.
How many folks like you does it take to proclaim "Let George do it", before there are too many of you and not enough of us? Carter successfully undermined the draft by pardoning all the Vietnam darft dodgers. The question is, what if everyone decides to run away to canada the next time there's a major war or some conflict that you disagree with? Who will defend America? By pardoning the draft dodgers, Carter might as well as painted "sucker" on the forehead of every veteran, living and dead, who went to 'Nam.
It is through the grace of God and the blessings of selfless individuals who are more concerned about the well-being of others and not themselves, that we have as fine a military as we do. There are givers and takers in this world - those who give of themselves for the benefit of others are the givers. Those who are more concerned about themselves are the takers.
You, sir, are a taker.