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What is your single most right-wing view?

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Compulsory military service is extremely important for actual democracy.
- Depends, if its compulsory military service but its for a neo-liberal country id rather just shoot my commanding officer at that point lmao
  
  I call it voting by bullet box.
- This isn’t right wing, it just doesn’t make sense in many contexts. Time in the military is time that could be spent in education or other socially beneficial activities
  
  The professional army is a cancer and the power to inflict organized violence should be spread out as evenly as possible. Also the military should allocate some of its time for infrastructure work and maybe other community services like DPRK does.
  
  That still doesn’t make sense. A professional military is specifically trained for the purposes they are needed for and time spent in the military is time (for most people) that would otherwise be spent in training to become other needed jobs like doctors, engineers, teachers etc etc
  
  The hierarchical structure of professional military encourages right-wing ideology and caste thinking. You can only somewhat counteract it with political education, so you need to limit the number of full-time military professionals to limit the spread of right-wing ideology. And you can't get rid of military without full worldwide victory for the socialism first.
  
  That still takes away time that would be spent in training for socially useful and productive purposes. Maybe for those not going to college, mandatory military time could work but otherwise it would harm those other professions.
  
  Making sure your military is not full of wannabe caudillos is a socially useful purpose. And those who are going to college should serve too in positions requiring technical knowledge or as officers.
  
  That’s nonsensical. The top in the military are still going to be career soldiers either way. The officers aren’t going to be those forced to serve a single term. Your idea would just lead to a huge deficit of education and would only serve to empower reactionaries
  
  Historically professional army was always a reactionary force, while conscription tended to instill class consiousness into soldiers. And the top in the military will rise out of bottom, and we need to ensure that the bottom in the military wouldn't be alienated from the majority of society.
- That is, if the military isn't a shit show for anything but arms training and physical conditioning

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