"So do you think we're going to get drafted, Sweetie?" Masani says, boiling some pasta for dinner.
"It doesn't matter to me, Masani. I wouldn't go even if they did draft me," Francine says, setting the table, "If some rich people want to go fight some people overseas to control the oil or whatever, then they can go fight their war themselves. I'm not going to fight it for them, no matter what line of bullshit they tell me to justify it."
"But they'd probably throw us in jail if we didn't go."
"They'd probably have to jail half the country. I don't think they could do it. On the other hand, there are those large scale detention camps the government's been quietly building in case of a 'terrorist invasion' . . ."
"That's the problem anymore. You can't believe in anybody these days. Maybe those camps are for that, but we've been lied to by our so-called leaders so many times, nobody believes them anymore."
"The conspiratorial mindset has gone mainstream. That's why that 'Never Trust A . . .' video series is so popular."
"Yes, but all they do is stir up hate, by listing all the bad things a certain group has done."
"At least it's done humorously. I liked the 'Never Trust A Welder' episode particularly."
"Is that the one where the woman was mad her boyfriend broke up with her so she sealed all the doors to his house shut? I saw that. Girl, that is one psycho ex-girlfriend. And then she welded the lawnmower and wheelbarrow to the hood of his truck like they were having sex, and wrote 'She's too dumb to understand that you'll cheat on her someday too?' in a welded carving around the truck too."
"Pretty funny, though I suppose I wouldn't be chuckling if it happened to me. Of course, if I were in a relationship, I wouldn't cheat like that guy did in the first place."
"Well, I tell you I'm not going to be chuckling if a draft notice shows up for me, but I'd think of cheating on that. I mean I'm patriotic, but I just don't trust Dick and the current bunch of bozos in charge. Those wars don't need to be fought. Their rich friends are just war profiteering, like with those cost plus contracts where those companies would just buy an expensive vehicle to use overseas and then when it needed any maintenance that the company might have to pay for they'd just abandon it instead and charge the government for another new one. And then they got a profit on top of that!"
"It's all a scam, which is why I think they'll start with the eighteen-year-olds, and we won't have to worry about getting drafted for a long time. The kids are probably easier to control, and, given the educational system these days, might be ignorant enough to believe what they're told."
"Ignorant, yes, but a kid easy to control? You can tell that you've never had to babysit nieces and nephews before."
"Maybe, but I bet some of them go just to have a job though."
"You're probably right. That's sad though. Basically their job will be killing somebody they don't even know."
"Well, on the bright side, at least it's nothing personal, like those kids in the Cleaveland schools who kill people whose haircuts they don't like. Is the pasta done yet?"
"Yep, and at the rate things are going I think this country's going to be done soon too."
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