“served your country”
as a government employee?
Why should those who work for government be the only ones voting? That’s backwards
no, not as a civilian employee
Read Starship Troopers. It’s a good read with some interesting ideas
In Heinlein’s Starship Trooper’s you could only vote after proving you were willing to risk your life for the greater good of society.
In it the government discouraged people from joining the military or other civil services as they only wanted those who really wanted to serve and had the moral capacity to do so. It is an entirely different system from reality today.