@amoriss127289 I would recommend you start with your strategic concept - mandatory federal service - and work through the implications on a national scale for your speech. A lot of what is being discussed is working from the ground up - exactly how the system would work and the details - instead of making a case for your concept first. If you can't get past the first stage - there should be mandatory federal service or there shouldn't - the details won't matter.
I assume you don't have unlimited time for this speech, plus there are a myriad ways of executing the concept. I recommend you decide the core of what you believe - it sounds like it's that mandatory federal service strengthens civic capacity, fosters a sense of civic duty, and mobilizes the populace towards national policy - but that just might be my take on what you've said. Whatever your core beliefs on the benefits of some sort of system I'd start with why those are a good thing and put those into your argument. Then, look at what people might object to about each of those things - impingements on individual liberty/conscience, expense, expanding of federal power, etc. Work those arguments/counterarguments into your speech.
Also, I'd recommend you take some time and reflect on why you didn't like having your feelings/opinions laughed at and dismissed. Then see if any of those things you didn't appreciate people doing to you - dismissing you, making snap judgments about your intelligence, assuming they knew what you were thinking - are things you might want to be watchful for in your own behavior. If you decide anyone who doesn't react the way you'd like them to is a liberal cunt and dismiss them out of hand you'll feel much better about yourself and your ideas, but you won't form very strong arguments. You'll require an echo chamber to tell you only what you want to hear. It's a recipe for a great future in talk radio, but not in academia or any profession you can't dismiss others out of hand.
