I tell them they don’t understand the battle we are in which encompasses more than a physical battlefield and that lawfare, activism, specifically choosing “right wing” content and other cultural activities is not only doing something but is more effective than running around with a rifle screaming 1776

It did, a preteen boy I came out of the movie thinking “Man that whole citizenship guarantees service makes sense”. Then I read the book...and my mind didn’t change.

It also reminds me of the early Roman republic. The Romans had a three per party and the body that was the comitia centuriata (which was the popular assembly but originally in Rome those in the assembly also served as citizen as soldiers) was one of the bodies that passed laws and the only body that could vote for higher magistrates like the Consul, Praetor and Censor and the only way to become a high ranking magistrate was to have had some sort of command in the legions prior.