On the Hypocrisy of the Camp: How Easy the Change Is
There has never been such a distance between the sincerity of people who voted for an issue like "equality of burden" and the degrading cynicism of politicians who stopped counting them after receiving their votes.
Assessment
The gap between voters who cast ballots for a cause like equality in military service and the politicians who exploited that support is the real story here. Once the votes were counted, the politicians stopped caring about those voters entirely. This piece argues that the political camp in question has built its entire credibility on a lie, and the public is only now waking up to how thoroughly it was used.