Poor Mojo's Two Minute Hate

The president of Students for Democracy told the Independent Weekly...“While there is currently no draft going on like there was in Vietnam, there is a race and poverty draft in this country.” Surprisingly (or not), this was said by a wealthy, white liberal. The Independent predictably portrayed veterans who were counter-protesting and calling Students for Democracy “anti-American” as right-wing political hacks. The left would be hysterical if they weren’t so predictable.

Dennis Rogers, a columnist for the News & Observer... stated that the U.S. military was responsible for his college diploma. Rogers reinforced what a retired colonel once told me, “The military is the best social welfare program ever created.” The military provides low-income blacks and whites a ticket to higher education and the upper-middle class.

What these protestors fail to realize is that the disproportionate ratio of low-income enlistees stem from the failure of liberal social policy. The public schools and welfare programs have failed to provide for those in poverty and those with limited access to social mobility. The military always has and always will provide young men and women who would otherwise make no progress on the social ladder a chance to do so.

Meanwhile, we have white, liberal trust-fund babies screaming at military recruiters while still claiming support for the troops. I defy anyone to find a protestor who does not believe every word John Kerry said when testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971. “We think they’re a bunch of racist, mutilating rapists, but we support the troops.” Bull.