Representative proposes mandatory military service (see this article). "I'm going to introduce legislation to have universal military service to let everyone have an opportunity to defend the free world against the threats coming to us." Sounds great. I was getting way tired of that whole modernity thing. Life, liberty, and the pursute of happiness are a total waste of the government's potential for militaristic despotism.

The best part: Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, said such legislation could make members of Congress more reluctant to authorize military action... "When you talk about a war, you're talking about ground troops, you're talking about enlisted people, and they don't come from the kids and members of Congress," he said. "I think, if we went home and found out that there were families concerned about their kids going off to war, there would be more cautiousness and a more willingness to work with the international community than to say, 'Our way or the highway.' "

This sounds like just the thing to fix the image of the Democratic party with workaday Americans. Make all the kids join the army. This man is clearly not insane.