Looking back at how digital organizing altered the shape and stances of America's antiwar activism. Plus, details on a new effort to clamp down on the scammers and spammers of online fundraising.
Great piece. Personally I believe "anti war" organizing was dead the minute our military became professional and the draft was eliminated. During Vietnam and the lottery system almost every family could be impacted by the war. This ensured that rich and poor and black and white families could unite once it was clear Vietnam was folly (yes rich could get out of it.. See Bush and Clinton)
The political class realized their mistake (joined by the military industrial complex) and they abolished the draft and therefore became immune to the pain war brings to a nation.. Just outsource it to men and women that volunteered to serve rather than who were conscripted.
Great piece. Personally I believe "anti war" organizing was dead the minute our military became professional and the draft was eliminated. During Vietnam and the lottery system almost every family could be impacted by the war. This ensured that rich and poor and black and white families could unite once it was clear Vietnam was folly (yes rich could get out of it.. See Bush and Clinton)
The political class realized their mistake (joined by the military industrial complex) and they abolished the draft and therefore became immune to the pain war brings to a nation.. Just outsource it to men and women that volunteered to serve rather than who were conscripted.
Once that was done... Endless war was easy.
88% or 90% supported the Afghan invasion iirc, at the very beginning. It's when I realized I was in a fringe minority.