>>2468653I wonder this from an American perspective.
How will you work if you’ve been drafted? Couldn’t your boss be informed of your status, or be liable for a crime? They already do this with regards to garnished wages and tax issues. Your parents certainly could be informed by the government if you live at home, and most peoples dumb fuck boomer parents would absolutely turn in their own children. If you rent they could very easily inform your landlord, and threaten him with some kind of legal action. It’s not the 1960’s, where people drafted into Vietnam willingly go because of heavy propaganda. Times are very different; you can’t just burn your draft card, hitchhike to California, and work at a lumber mill getting paid under the table (a neighborhood friend of my fathers did just that during Vietnam).
I think the government of today would go to great lengths to track down draftees and make their lives basically unlivable by using legal threats levied against their landlords and their employers. In the 1960’s, even if the cops pulled you over in a traffic stop they didn’t know your draft status. Now everything is stored in an electronic database. There are cameras on the cops dashboard that can read license plates and alert them of criminal status even if the cops aren’t looking for someone. In the modern world, there won’t be an easy way to dodge.
This is one of the cases where the /out/ meme answer of “lol just hide in the woods and live off grid” is probably the right one. I say find a few places now, just in case. Someplace where you can stay undisturbed for several months, but is close enough to a Walmart to risk a resupply every so often. A long abandoned forest road would be fine. Learn how to dig and maintain a latrine. Be prepared for cold. Know how to mitigate wild animal incursion (mice and other pests).
