(An answer to someone else's comment, not a compliment to my own.

Let's get together somehow and start an open movement to abolish public education per se in this country, if not by Constitutional Amendment, then at least on a state-by-state basis (gradually). It was never right to put the government (and I don't mean only federal, I mean state too, government PER SE) in charge of the minds of the citizens' children.

Ain't THAT the truth!!

That was the opening song for "An American Werewolf Of London" that I saw during the Seventies.
It's the only flick me dino saw or at least recall in which transforming into a werewolf was an extremely painful process.

As young as I was at the time this brings up the image on the black and white TV of Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table at the UN.

Paton does not seem to be streaming free.
I was exercising my 82 year old body listening to Credence Clearwater Revival. While the conditions are different from the 60s and 70s, might be bad future looming with the words without meaning tearing society apart, here is the song that got more walking distance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6iRN...

or maybe I just entering "...The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

That reminds me dino of Patton's speech at the beginning of that George C. Scott movie.
Can't recall the exact words so I'll give it a go without quotation marks.
To wit~~
Better not to die for your country but to make that other son of a bitch die for his country.

I remember it as "better red than dead" to which Rand replied " better the reds dead". It was a time during the red scare when the Soviets were claiming they would bury us.

Yeah, someone unwilling to stand up and say why.

No, which is why I posted the quote above as she stated it best. we are currently being led by the "aristocracy of pull" not value

Equality vs equity. Opportunity vs Outcome. Value vs non-value. Ayn Rand vs AOC. Good God, we are swirling in a wormhole that leads to nothingness. I always thought that Existentialists like Nietsche overstated their Absurdity hypothesis, but I see the philosophy becoming reality. Equity, Outcome, non-value and AOC leave me nauseous.

Can a culture that focuses on destroying its own young survive?

When the Medal of Freedom is bestowed upon Megan Rapino I knew that THAT was the end of any meaning of the word "freedom".

It's not just the "dumbing down" that is catastrophic but the inversion of values that is destroying this nation.

+1. Someone nicked you

Hunters nickname for Quid pro Joe is Pedo Pete. Pedo Pete’s a Groomer ,Pedo Pete’s a groomer. Pedo Petes a Pedo.

I'll be keeping that in mind.

"Howinhell did THAT happen?" I don't know, Johnny, but I'm willing to bet good money it was contrived by a lefty and then propagated by the media that is entirely in the tank with the Neo Communist (Democrat) party!

Spelling GROOMERS in all caps is what I'd call doubling down.
Hey, GROOMERS, do you know what you are? GROOMERS!
GROOMERS, GROOMERS, GROOMERS!
That's for messing with the minds of innocent little kids, GROOMERS.
Sorry ass, GROOMERS. Sick-assed GROOMERS.
Mentally child molesting GROOMERS.
GROOMERS who make me dino want to puke.
Hear ye, hear ye! Know ye, all who art despicable GROOMERS that me dino raises me tail over the heads of all GROOMERS.

Of all the crap going on in schools today, that disgusts me the most.

They absolutely hate it when you call them Groomers. So I call them GROOMERS!

Why Demonrats are now trying to sexualize little kids.
Screw up those little minds early!

"...large scale catastrophic consequences are sure to follow." Yes, such as when airplanes start falling out of the sky because the mechanics can't read the manual and other tidbits of tragedy.

Very well expressed, Doc!

Yep, I recall the phrase quite clearly where red designated the commies. Somehow the color designations got flipped where now red is given to what's left of Free America and blue is given to the Neo Communists (Democrats). I suppose it's all part of the Orwellian Newspeak play book we're being subjected to. The young are clueless, which is the point.