Proposed Amendment to the Constitution

No act of war, military aggression or otherwise against another country, shall be made by the United States without approval by Congress and no act of war shall be made except for as a last resort defense of the right to self-determination, autonomy and independence of the United States. No form of conscription shall be employed by the United States.

Introduction

Dear reader,

I created a petition on Change.org with the goal of eliminating a recurring theme in United States politics: normalized violence, unprovoked and endless warfare and coercion of the American people to be a part of it. We the people have witnessed two acts of unprovoked military aggression by the Trump administration in two different countries within the first two months of the year 2026 alone for the purpose of regime change. First, it was Venezuela and now, it is Iran. These wars are not only in violation of international law of sovereignty and self-determination, but are also done without consultation with and approval by Congress as constitutionally required. In between these unprovoked military assaults on other sovereign nations, Trump has additionally threatened to capture Canada and Greenland either by force or by economic coercion. It is obscene that the United States starts new wars and destabilizes the world order with an atrocious indifference to human life abroad as well as to the very lives of American military service members in the process, all while causing living expenses to soar as well as supply shortages for ordinary Americans and for the rest of the world.

I invite the reader to consider what the United States could be doing instead of starting these new illegal wars against countries unprovokedly for profit and plunder. The United States could instead use hard-earned taxpayer money to catch up with other countries in the developed world in terms of providing a robust welfare state complete with generous social benefits and a safety net for its people like universal healthcare, paid parental leave, holiday leave, sick leave and unemployment insurance. The United States could also make better quality jobs by strengthening collective bargaining rights, thereby ending the decades long wage stagnation. We could further balance our jobs with family life by subsidizing childcare, making it affordable and accessible to all. With higher wages coupled with subsidizing higher education, everyone could easily access and afford the postsecondary education they need for the careers they have aptitudes for. A universalist welfare state with strengthened collective bargaining rights maximizes self-autonomy and independence for every member of society, no matter who they are, what they are or the socioeconomic background they come from. Everyone deserves the right to live life affordably and to attain life's most basic milestones like home ownership and having a family of own's own. Sadly, the United States in its current form, has an undeveloped welfare state and the government therein would rather start new wars for profit and plunder while the typical American family is underpaid, overworked and has inadequate or a lack of social benefits, resulting in extreme income inequality, a higher poverty rate, inequitable opportunity and lack of access to life's basic needs and achievements. The economic elites of America, a small cohort of people with connections to powerful corporations and special interest groups, are profiting from new wars while the ordinary American suffers.

If you would like to help end the cult of endless war and improve the lives of everyone, please sign this petition. This petition also has the goal of abolishing the draft (conscription) in the United States. Conscription and endless warfare waged by the state go in tandem as conscripts are the cannon fodder, a false and immoral sense of security for the state as it goes into unprovoked, illegal wars. To put a stop to the unjust wars, we must also abolish the draft. This petition furthermore can lay the framework for an amendment to the constitution to ensure wars are not started unprovokedly while respecting rights of self-determination and autonomy of other countries and to ensure conscription is never a part of war.

In my petition, I also go into detail of just how dangerous illegal and unprovoked war is when combined with conscription. Conscription feeds the state's warmongering while it is not uncommon for those commanding such wars to additionally have extremist motivations, making these wars started for even more nefarious reasons beyond corporate greed. A case in point example of such extremism can be found even in today’s United States military right now as of this writing under the Trump administration. One such extremist is the current Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. The Department of Defense has since been renamed to Department of "War" under the second Trump administration and Hegseth, now named Secretary of "War", is using the military as an instrument to impose his extremism on the world. Consider that Hegseth wrote a book called American Crusade in which he glorifies the crusades of the 11th century while stating his belief that we are in a time like that of the crusades. Hegseth also belongs to an extremist church which alarmingly believes that democracy should be replaced with theocracy, that slavery is permissible, and that women should not have the right to vote. In essence, if the draft was imposed during the Trump administration, it would be led by a religious extremist who would take Americans and their children as conscripts to death in his next "crusade" all while inflicting his religious extremism back at home and abroad that is completely incompatible with the values of individual liberty, religious freedom, equality and which runs against constitutional principles of a free and civil society.

By putting an end to the cult of endless war, this establishes an official acknowledgement that just as every individual person has the right to independence, autonomy and self-determination, individual countries are also entitled to these same rights. And by abolishing conscription, this corrects a longstanding despotism of control over people’s lives as they are reduced to pawns in the tyrant’s game of war. The element of voluntariness in military service, as opposed to coercion and being forced into service, impels the state to use civil discourse and diplomacy over barbaric violence.

To create public awareness and popular denouncement of the illegal and unprovoked wars, to abolish the draft and to prevent these two interconnected despotic forces from ever violating the autonomy and independence of individuals and other nations, and to prevent this despotism from ever being in the hands of extremists in the government, please sign this petition. Thank you.

Full Petition

The more rational of the American electorate did not vote for another president to start more wars and they certainly did not elect a president to send their children involuntarily to such wars. In fact, the president who they did ultimately elect even campaigned on this promise (Cortellessa, 2026). This is now understood to be a complete falsehood and utter betrayal of that promise. On February 28, 2026, the Trump administration started an unprovoked and unauthorized bombing campaign against Iran as Trump callously states that, “some people will die” (Cortellessa, 2026). Asked if there could be Iranian retaliation on United States soil, Trump responds, “I guess” (Cortellessa, 2026). And as the deaths of the first U.S. military casualties of Trump’s war occurred, Trump indifferently responds, “that’s the way it is” (Sommerlad, 2026). White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s remarks only days later, which made headlines for the implication of not ruling out the draft (Sommerlad, 2026) in regard to the latest war instigated by the United States under the Trump administration, should make any reasonable American alarmed with repugnance. This escalation of violent conflict and more war comes as Trump has now instigated violence and war in eight nations since taking office of the presidency in 2025 (Cortellessa, 2026), three of which had never before been targeted by the United States (Cortellessa, 2026). The American people were misled to believe that their president would end the follies of America’s unprovoked forever wars, but instead the president is starting new such wars and even in new places that historically have been relatively tranquil and free from direct conflict with the United States which were neither posing a significant threat nor provoking conflict directly with the United States. In the first month of the year 2026 alone, Trump has violated international law by kidnapping the president of Venezuela (Cecco, 2026) and has even threatened to seize Canada (Cecco, 2026) and Greenland (Talmazan, 2026) either by force or by economic coercion as, in Trump’s own villainous words, he threatens to take Greenland “one way or the other” (Talmazan, 2026). Additionally, the Trump administration is summarily executing passengers on vessels in the Pacific and Caribbean waters without any charge or trial (Cortellessa, 2026). And now, through the words of Leavitt, the president is essentially saying that for his wars by fiat, the draft will be assessed as an option “on the table” (Sommerlad, 2026). The American people were duped to believe that their president was above such abhorrent actions.

By instigating new wars which the American people were deceived to believe would be prevented with the hard work of fair and strategic diplomacy rather than immediately going into unprovoked acts of war and by now implying the prospect of the draft and thereby forcing American children against their will to participate in such wars, this would epitomize Trump’s callous indifference and betrayal to the American people and to humanity itself. Trump has effectively destroyed any credibility that was left of his MAGA movement, which has resulted in formerly strong supporting colleagues of Congress like Marjorie Taylor Greene and other former supporters appalled and dismayed as a majority of Americans say the president’s strikes against Iran should not have happened (Bowman & Kamisar, 2026) while midterm polls indicate more support of Democrats for Congress (Bowman & Kamisar, 2026). Even without the scandals of the Epstein files and a felony conviction, the Trump administration is creating its own resentment of itself as Americans grapple not only with a war that was abruptly thrusted upon them and which they never wanted, but also with higher costs of living at home (Bowman & Kamisar, 2026). Such resentment will be felt by the Republican Party, not only in the short term, but for generations to come at home and abroad at whatever country Trump decides to instigate his next war.

The Trump administration is clearly taking a much different appearance and foreign policy approach than what the American people have voted for and is instead contributing to a nightmarish war-torn environment in its own making while having lost any sense of morality that ever was there. The American people wanted to end the wars, not start them, and they will have no part in these unnecessary wars started by a frankly irresponsible and reckless president. The American people answer to morality and good conscience alone, and in such good conscience the American people emphatically tell Trump NO to any more reckless warmongering and NO to sending their children involuntarily to such wars.

A Background of Conscription   

Conscription is an authoritarian trait of regimes which has preyed upon people of lower income strata (especially members of the working class), young people (often with a sexist preference for males), and of historically marginalized populations including people of color, ethnic minorities and other members of historically disadvantaged groups. In effect, the draft’s ageist, sexist, racist, and ethnocentric history has been a form of gendercide, genocide and ethnic cleansing as specific groups and types of people are reduced to disposable pawns of war. In times of conscription and war, the upper income strata comprising of the wealthy, elites or otherwise those commanding a large amount of power in the regimes invoking conscription are often far and free from any of harm’s way associated with the wars that they start. This has certainly been the case in the United States and sadly such a scenario would again be the case if a draft was instituted because as the law currently stands, young people and young people only would be conscripted in the event of a draft while the older people starting the wars would be exempt. Such a draft is ripe for abuse. These young people, especially those from unprivileged backgrounds and historically marginalized groups who often may still be in school or just embarking on their careers and livelihoods, will be especially vulnerable to exploitation and abuse by the government in the event of a draft. Once again, individuals with their own hopes and dreams will be destroyed by having been forced to participate in a war which they never voted for, nor ever wanted or agreed to. Sadly, with a sitting president and a Secretary of Defense (which has since even changed the name to Secretary of “War”), which are proving to have a zealous disregard for whatever the MAGA movement originally stood for that included the campaign for ending and avoidance of wars while putting Americans first instead of starting and fomenting more war, is sadly not exactly ruling out the draft as can be inferred by the statements made by the White House Press Secretary. Again, the president’s unprovoked and illegal war with Iran is resulting in deaths of U.S. military service members in which Trump is conveying callous disregard to and this indifference comes as Trump’s ordered strikes against Iran have even recklessly bombed a school in Iran which has killed over 100 children (Parent & McClure, 2026). Even the most fervent supporters of Trump and the MAGA movement can no longer agree that the president is acting on what they believed they had voted and hoped for.

Indeed, even if the reported statements issued by the White House Press Secretary are being interpreted very broadly, such remarks at least elicit an important conversation of reining in the Trump administration and any future president’s unprovoked attacks on another nation. In light of these abuses by the executive, this brings much deserved attention to finally abolishing the draft in the United States, one of the few remaining developed countries that even still has the draft and its exploitative and prejudiced nature. Along with ceasing the escalation of violent conflict with other countries that neither pose a threat nor provoked an attack, abolishing the despotism of the draft will tame a tyrannical executive that all too easily goes into unprovoked war with the immoral and false sense of security of using conscripts as cannon fodder. 

There is no observance of morality when despots wage wars while they objectify human lives as pawns in their game of war. Like everything else in life, military service must only be consensual and voluntary. Forcing someone to do something against their will is unethical, no matter how much someone else thinks they are right. This is the fundamental law of individual liberty. When there is conscription, there is no more individual liberty. And when tyrants cannot enlist people voluntarily for their wars and instead force people into battle by employing conscription, then such wars must be unjust and never started in the first place. The element of voluntariness in military service, as opposed to being coerced or forced through conscription, is a healthy and necessary check against unjust war. Voluntariness, independence, and autonomy of the individual impels civil and polite diplomacy over barbaric violence. If the people are against the war, then the tyrant attempting to force people into the war is up to something no good. And in the end, people themselves must be their own determinants of their destinies and fates, not the tyrants.

The U.S. Military Is Now Led by a Religious Extremist Who Is Telling Service Members That His Wars Are Divinely Inspired

Pete Hegseth, the man appointed by President Trump as the newly named Secretary of “War,” reportedly has religious motives for deliberately starting new wars instead of avoiding them (Braun, 2026), making him especially hazardous to the security and readiness of the American people and their military service members. Hegseth has ties to a fundamentalist Christian sect that is known for espousing views of Christian nationalism (Druzin, 2024), which seeks to replace democracy with theocracy and make the U.S. government a “Christian” regime under the dictates of a church, a government that would not be unlike current theocracies of today, such as that of the Taliban for instance (Craven, 2024). Promoters of Christian nationalism even chillingly declare that they are the “Christian Taliban” (Usher, 2022) as they promote a system in which law is not determined by the people but rather by arbitrary decrees of whatever religious sect that may be in power. These extremists who refer to themselves as the Christian Taliban comprise of white nationalists and, also not unlike the Taliban, are known for rigid interpretation of religious texts, strict enforcement of doctrine, and patriarchal social systems (Ward, 2025). One such Christian nationalist, by the name of Vincent James Foxx, posted a webcast shortly after the overturning of Roe v Wade, in which he says that his tribe “will not stop until The Handmaid's Tale is a reality" (Usher, 2022).

Hegseth is a member of one such Christian nationalist church led by Doug Wilson (Craven, 2024). Referring to his church as Christian Reconstructionist, Wilson believes that church and state are inseparable (Druzin, 2024), that Biblical law should govern the world (Jipson, 2026), that slavery as was practiced in the United States is permissible as long as the master-slave relationship is “Christian” (Craven, 2024) and that abolitionists were in the wrong for wanting to outright ban slavery (Anne, 2015), that women should not have the franchise (Iyer & Britzky, 2026), that homosexuality should be criminalized (Iyer & Britzky, 2026), that non-Christians should not hold government office (Zitner, 2025), among other theocratic and extremist beliefs that are completely incompatible with the rights and freedoms enshrined by the founders of the United States in the U.S. constitution. This church of Wilson essentially operates as a theocratic regime and it believes Christ’s return is only possible after Christian dominion of the world has been realized (Ward, 2025). This church is in direct opposition to the constitutional values of individual freedom, religious liberty and equality. If Christian nationalists had their way, this would regress the United States back centuries to an era of American history in which freedom of speech and religion was severely curtailed by puritan regimes, or even further back to the theocracies of Middle Ages Europe that comprised of Christian nation-states which Wilson is so enamored with (Ward, 2025). To understand just how much a threat that Christian nationalism is to the American people and democracy, is to apprehend that its adherents, including the likes of Hegseth, are essentially religious extremists who will not stop their “crusades” until they have their “Christian dominion” attained for the “return of Christ”. Hegseth routinely posts to social media the beliefs promulgated by Wilson, with one sexist post showing pastors arguing for the disenfranchisement of women (Stanley & Smith, 2025). Hegseth even invited Wilson to religious services that he has since put on at the Pentagon after the Trump administration took office in 2025 (Iyer & Britzky, 2026). To further erode the separation of church and state, the Pentagon is now regularly posting Christian verses and imagery on social media since President Donald Trump took office in 2025 (Iyer & Britzky, 2026). The religious extremism of Hegseth is all the more evident as Hegseth has the words “Deus Vult” (meaning “God wills it,” a Latin phrase used in the Crusades) (Graves-Fitzsimmons, 2024) and “kafir” (meaning, “infidel,” an Arabic term to label non-believers of Islam) (Dunbar, 2025) tattooed onto his body. 

As U.S. military service members have come forth to say that Hegseth is claiming that the wars he initiates are divinely inspired (Braun, 2026), Hegseth is putting every member of the U.S. military and the American people in harm’s way. The fanatical Secretary of “War” rolls back religious freedom and diversity in the military (Graves-Fitzsimmons, 2024), alienating and barring those who are the best fit to serve in the military yet who do not fit Hegseth’s narrow requirements. Hegseth publicly declares his opposition to the American ideals of liberty and equality while dismissing it as “wokeness” (Druzin, 2024) and he is religiously motivated to start wars to conquer non-Christians. No reasonable American wants to be led into war by a theocratic extremist with beliefs that are so incompatible with the constitution itself. Any United States citizen who has a basic education of constitutional law and holds the decent American values of the right to religious freedom, the equality of the races and the sexes, the abolition of slavery, and the fact that the separation of church and state makes religious freedom possible at all should be no less than terrified that someone like Hegseth was even nominated to his position at all. How a religious extremist like Hegseth even acquired the role of Secretary of Defense speaks to the times we live in: a loss of the basic understanding of how the United States as a nation came to form, a nation which sought to forever extinguish the bloodshed and tyranny born out of sectarian conflict and religious extremism that has now encroached its own government. How long will it be until we are back in the Dark Ages fighting new crusades under theocrats who unabashedly proclaim to be so with their zealotry to conquer the world under a Christian dominion? This is all the more reason and urgency to abolish the draft, which leaves every American citizen’s future up to the whims of a religious extremist today or an even worse one tomorrow. An extremist in command of a military holding the future of every American and their children hostage to unnecessary wars as Americans increasingly turn to extreme ideologies in their wretched states of growing income inequality and wage stagnation that has resulted in the inability to attain life’s most basic milestones and an affordable and accessible higher education that would combat extremism. The people’s very lives are up to another tyrant that treats them and their children as merely disposable pawns of war. That kind of abuse of power is properly called despotism and is none other than a trait of authoritarianism. Such power wielded by the state to conscript the people and their children as expendable fodder must be abolished, lest we be led to our demise in another “holy war” against “non-believers.” 

Hegseth even wrote a book titled none other than American Crusade, further revealing his extremism. This book states Hegseth’s belief that the world is living in a time like that of the 11th century (Craven, 2024), which is totally negligent of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment that has given us the modern world we live in that has since abandoned sectarian violence in favor of secular separation of church and state. Hegseth believes that Christians must have dominion over the entirety of the world in the words of “all of Christ for all of life” (Makuch, 2025) and that Christians must take arms against the non-Christian enemy like the infamous Crusades of that century (Craven, 2024). Trump has even made an executive order that explicitly protects Christianity, with a task force focusing on prosecuting “anti-Christian bias” (Madhani & Smith, 2025) to the ignorance or lack of acknowledgement of other religious bias or persecution. And rather than protecting against anti-Christian bias, this task force could actually serve as an instrument of Christian nationalists to suppress reproductive freedom and LGBTQ rights (Mishell, 2025). To make the barrier between church and state even further dismantled by this administration, Trump has even instituted a White House Faith Office, which is headed by a charismatic pastor (Madhani & Smith, 2025) also tied to Christian nationalism (Rodriguez, 2025). The pastor of this new office, Paula White-Cain, is a millionaire televangelist and has made multiple “cash for blessings” schemes, including one that asks for $1,144 in exchange for resurrection seeds, an amount that White claims is a number specified by God (Gabbatt, 2025). White served as spiritual adviser for Trump during the first Trump administration and has labeled the Black Lives Matter movement as “anti-Christ” (Gabbatt, 2025). White has also made statements against hard won women’s rights and gender equality by repeating the sexist Christian fundamentalist trope that wives should “submit to their husbands” (Neammanee, 2025). This comes as Trump’s conservative majority in the Supreme Court, which comprises of members who have aligned themselves with Christian nationalism (Stewart, 2024), has reversed the decades old Roe v Wade decision. This reversal has ended nearly 50 years of women’s rights to reproductive freedom in the United States as states have reverted back to state laws dating from the 19th century that criminalize abortions. Christian nationalists have seized the highest court of law and they are now running the military. These are very dangerous times as the United States could see Christian nationalism inspiring more abuse of governmental power in the future as more of its religious extremism is inflicted upon the American people. These developments and rollback of rights should make any decent American who holds freedom dearly tremble in fear over a loss of religious liberty and other hard won rights. Not only this, but Trump and Hegseth are compromising the readiness and effectiveness of the U.S. military by eroding freedom of religion while catering to a toxic culture of religious extremism, rendering the U.S. military more attractive to extremists than people with actual talent and aptitude for the military (Makuch, 2025). 

Many otherwise talented members of the military who realize the liability and hazard that Hegseth is to the military are repulsed by his religious fanaticism and are increasingly worried about being dropped into the middle of another unprovoked war motivated by Christian nationalism (Braun, 2026). Military service members have complained to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that the new war in Iran initiated by the United States and Israel has been justified by their commanders with Christian fundamentalist rhetoric about “end times” (Braun, 2026). Making Hegseth even more of a hazard to the American people and their military, Hegseth has also been accused of sexual assault, is known for public drunkenness, and financial mismanagement (Craven, 2024). And Hegseth’s disdain for women does not end at rejecting women as equals in society as even Hegseth’s mother once told him, “You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth” (Smith, 2026). Hegseth’s extremist pastor, Doug Wilson, also objectifies women by labeling women who do not conform to gender stereotypes as “small breasted biddies,” “lumberjack dykes” and “cunts” (Ward, 2025). In the particular variant of religious extremism that Wilson espouses, Wilson says profanity is permitted for a follower of his sect of Christianity as long as the words are used in a “godly” way (Ward, 2025). Wilson is quoted as describing sex as only satisfying for men as he, in a rather Freudian way, labels men as “penetrating and conquering” and women as “surrendering and accepting” (Ward, 2025), which rejects consensual sex and completely neglects the female orgasm and mutual sexual pleasure experienced by the sexes. Statements like this by Wilson are believed by critics to justify sexual assault against women as a former member of Wilson’s church says she was a victim of sexual abuse while pastors told her that “a wife is not allowed to tell her husband no” (Ward, 2025). Such negligence and defense of sexual assault indeed makes Wilson’s sect not differing from those of Islamic extremism. Wilson and other extremists like him have minds more like that of a teenager who never grew up, fusing juvenile beliefs about the sexes among other things, into his own version of Christianity with a Freudian twist to describe women. Wilson unashamedly dehumanizes and degrades women to just a sum of their body parts and considers them only fit for making him a meal. Wilson, who is visibly obese and evidently has little other than food on his small mind in between his extremist thoughts, has said that “Godly women are designed to make the sandwiches” (Zitner, 2025). Like others under the influence of extremism, Wilson, Hegseth, and other Christian nationalists are essentially under a psychosis that refuses to accept reality and social progress. With encouragement and a welcome by fellow fanatics, Trump in the White House and Hegseth in the Pentagon, Wilson is carrying his crusade to Washington DC as he started a new church there since Trump’s second presidential term began (Stanley & Smith, 2025), bringing his extremism even closer to mainstream view at the doorstep of the capital. Hegseth, his fundamentalist pastor, and other Christian nationalists like them, who dream of simpler times back when slavery flourished and when women and minorities were treated as second-class citizens (Wilson even refers to himself as a “paleo-confederate” and wrote a book in which he calls the American South “the last nation of the first Christendom”) (Anne, 2012), are unfit for any position of leadership and are threats to a free and civil society. 

After Hegseth’s remarks about excluding female participation in everyday life as well as in the military, several Congresswomen with many of them military veterans themselves, have asked for an apology and resignation from Hegseth (Babb, 2026). A century of progress of advancing gender equality since the women’s right to suffrage and the ensuing women’s liberation movement as women have since been proving themselves as being capable of doing everything men can do just as well or even better is under more threat than ever in modern history by a president who is appealing to the most extreme segments of the American populace. Because of these worrying developments, talented military service members are now either being fired because of their gender, race or sexual orientation while other members may be actively looking to get out of the military’s increasingly toxic and uninclusive environment, except for the white male extremists who remain and who are not the brightest or best performers (Makuch, 2025). The extremism and prejudiced nature of this “new right” embraced by the Republican Party is indeed one of the greatest threats to American security in modern history as this Dark Ages mentality with an extremist zeal severely compromises military readiness and effectiveness by making for a military that is toxic, discriminatory and lacking in talent. 

American Christian Nationalists and Israeli Zionists are Starting Unprovoked War in Iran after Genocide in Gaza

As the Trump administration has now escalated more violent conflict and outright war in Iran in joint operations with Israel (Borger, 2026), the same country that has infamously massacred the Gaza Strip as of late, this administration is now encouraged by Christian nationalist extremism abetted by Israel’s Zionist fanatics that command power within the Israeli government. Where will this group of zealots take the United States to next in their “crusades”? Such barbaric fanaticism for unprovoked war, conflict and imperialism by the Trump administration attempting to invoke “end times” Christian fundamentalism is nothing any rational person can support, let alone entrust with forcing our children’s participation in. Consider that a complaint filed on behalf of 15 troops to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation states that a commander was telling troops regarding the war in Iran that, “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth” (Braun, 2026). The appropriate response to the Christian fundamentalist trope of invoking “end times,” now worryingly being associated with the war in Iran by Christian nationalists who are increasingly infiltrating the U.S. military, is that the only real “end times” is the abrupt end of one’s life as service members and perhaps even conscripts are sent to the slaughter in a war that Americans never voted for or wanted. The Trump administration also shows that it just takes one bad president to make an otherwise functioning government on a steady trajectory of progress to come all crashing down in only the little time that it takes to appoint extremists to its agencies and to drop the first bomb without regard for constitutional limits and approval by Congress.

Act Now and Sign this Petition to Make the People’s Voice Heard in Telling Congress and Trump NO To Illegal War and NO to the Draft 

I leave the reader with two actual posts made by president Donald Trump on his “Truth Social” platform. One post, made on April 5, 2026, was made out of Trump’s frustration with his war in Iran causing the Strait of Hormuz to close and oil prices to soar. In this post, Trump is threatening to destroy major infrastructure in Iran if the strait is not opened:

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP (Greenall, 2026)

And again, another vile, insane and genocidal post by Trump was made on April 7, 2026 as a deadline to open the strait approaches:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? (Svirnovskiy, 2026)

We can never trust someone like Trump with our lives. And we must never let someone like Trump force us into battle. End the unprovoked, imperialistic and profit and religiously motivated wars and abolish the draft now before it’s too late and someone like Trump or another similarly crass and psychopathic president ruins or destroys our very lives, or a “whole civilization”.

Tell Congress and the president NO to any more fomenting of unprovoked, illegal wars and NO to any form of the draft. The American people demand their promises be kept, a return to respect for national sovereignty and for the restoration of peaceful and diplomatic relations among nations. War must be avoided, not carelessly and recklessly started.

Please disseminate this message among friends and family for maximum reach and effect. I personally have never so much disapproved of such a contemptible presidency and I did not think such a horrific state of our world caused by such recklessness would occur in my lifetime. 

References 

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Anne, L. (2012, October 15). Was Slavery A Good Thing? Examining Doug Wilson. Patheos. Retrieved March 30, 2026, from https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/was-slavery-a-good-thing-examining-doug-wilson.html

Babb, C. (2025, August 13). Female vets in Congress slam Hegseth’s repost of Christian Nationalist. Military Times. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/08/13/female-vets-in-congress-slam-hegseths-repost-of-christian-nationalist/

Borger, J. (2026, February 28). Trump’s Unprovoked Attack on Iran Has No Mandate – Or Legal Basis. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/28/trump-unprovoked-attack-on-iran-has-no-mandate-and-no-clear-objective

Bowman, B., & Kamisar, B. (2026, March 8). Poll: Trump Struggles on Immigration, Prices and Iran as Democrats Hold a Midterm Edge. NBCNews.com. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/poll-trump-struggles-immigration-prices-iran-democrats-midterm-edge-rcna261861

Braun, S. (2026, March 3). US Troops Were Told War on Iran Was “All Part of God’s Divine Plan”, Watchdog Alleges. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric

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