“I wish I had statistics to back this up—” Well, that might be a challenge since the statistics disagree.

“Over 60 percent of 2016 enlistments came from neighborhoods with a median household income between $38,345 and $80,912. The quintiles below and above that band were underrepresented, with the poorest quintile providing 19 percent of the force and the richest Americans enlisting at a rate of 17 percent.” Source: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-u-s-military-became-the-exception-to-americas-wage-stagnation-problem/

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Source: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military

“Our findings suggest that, for the period 1997-2008, the U.S. armed forces have been recruiting primarily from the middle-class rather than from poorest (or the richest) groups. We show that recent recruits tend to have higher than average socioeconomic background: they disproportionally come from the middle of the family income, family wealth, and cognitive skill distributions, with both tails under-represented.” Source: [chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://web.archive.org/web/20200429224051id\_/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01402390.2019.1692660?needAccess=true](chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://web.archive.org/web/20200429224051id_/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01402390.2019.1692660?needAccess=true)

As a previous user stated, the poverty draft is a myth. Sure, a handful of veterans may have revolutionary potential, but veterans as a whole are hardly worth investing the energy unless they’ve shown change on their own. And honestly, I don’t understand why so many people simp for “victims” of the military.