The Constitution does not provide ANY provision for federal control of education. The Department of Education should be abolished, and every employee fired - and NEVER re-hired by the Federal government.
Education should be a personal matter, or at worst a LOCAL matter. Not even the states can do anything correctly when it comes to schools.
Homeschooling is preferable, for any parent with a 3-digit IQ.
100 years ago, elementary schools taught Latin and Greek as required subjects, so that EDUCATED Americans could read the same source documents that the Founders used. Today, high school graduates cannot read in ANY language, or do basic arithmetic.
The hold — such as it is — the Feds have with education [and many other areas] is financial. "Do this or we won't give you money."
Local/State governments don't have the guts to say "Fsck off, we'll put taxes where they should be to support LOCAL schools et c." The sheeple are, honestly, too stupid to realise that one way or the other, they're going to foot the bill.
I disagree, to an extent, about State [Commonwealth, whatever] support. Here in Virginia we have counties with more dollars per capita than others --- where the coalfields, et c. are played out. I believe it's the responsibility of the Commonwealth to support education for the whole. If that means Occupied Virginia doesn't get an extra lane on [pick a road] but instead, Dickenson, Wise, Lee, and other counties get money for books and teachers, so be it. Overall, the Commonwealth benefits. I don't mind paying taxes to support it. I mind the thieves and criminals in Richmond and D.C. pxssing it away.
The problem here in Washington state (and I suspect in every state) is not Federal involvement. Washington state education sucks all by itself and all the DoEd does is provide some money. Most recently, when the DoEd changed the various rules WA Sup of Pub Ed basically said "go to hell, feds" and kept destroying public education. The only negative part of the fed involvement is that they didn't then cut of funding.
As a parent who homeschooled my kids when it was only done by wild eyed crazy radicals, I have no regrets. If you want something done right, you better do it yourself.
I dont know what the solution is. Probably for 3/4 of familys school isnt just education but baby sitting so the can work and pay for a roof and food.
Home schooling is interesring. We are doing it for the first time with our 14 year old due to massive issues with the catholic school administration where we had her. Trying to keep her on task is hard and a fight i dont want to fight which makes it harder.
We have typically spent 25 to 50 percent of our gross income on keeping our 2 girls in private school over the years. Only by being out of debt and living like mice have we been able to due so. There are weird social knock on effects for them beeing "poor" while most of the kids familys are decidedly not. We drice 3000 dollar used cars and they drive 60 to 120 thousand dollar excursions, bmw's etc.. they have social activitys where we mostly dont. The get taken out of school a couple times a year to go to Disney or europe where we have trouble even visiting family out of town once every other year.
Most cant due this. With scholarships, Parrish help and grants the 7 to 12 a grand a year we are responcible for is beyond the majority of those that earn even double what we do. We have no mortage and are pretty good at not wastfully living. We dont have 1000 doller a month rents or mortage. Or taxes are low with our rural location and 1100 sq ft house. We only have an internet bill,phone bill and electric bill as utilitys. Average for all three is around 300 combined. Food and sundries is a horror show at close to 1000 a month. For what cost 300 six years ago.
If we had the standard rent or mortage today we couldnt pay our bills much less send to school.
We have found that even the best of private schools are becoming pale reflections of the public school system. The teachers have to have the same degrees taught at the same universitys, the kids have to pass the same standardized tests for the state. And the schools outsourse their curriculums to the same captured organization's that push inclusive equity driven bullshit. Typic progressive stuff. They take tests on the computer's and no one at the school ever sees the content or results other than a grade. We hear from our kids and question them about content and accuracy of content but without them or us having access to the specific content there is no recourse.
Grrr. 1/10000000 of what i want to rant.
We deal with it mostly. My wife actually teaches at one of the schools the girls are/ were at and she is like a bulldog addressing stuff when it gets out of control. But its always a fight.
Positive side is that academically they are minimum of a year beyond public school kids if not more. Sadly its more about how bad the public schools are rather than how good the private catholic school is.
"Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
There's a LOT of situations in this world where being stupid is a death sentence. Licking the pretty frogs in Brasil. Petting the fluffy cows in Yellowstone. Hiking Death Valley without taking water along. Ripping off Griselda Blanco back in the 80's.
Sometimes, Nature and circumstances will only just cripple one for life, or will even capriciously spare the idiot.
Being stupid in the right or wrong circumstances depending on your perspective can absolutely be a death sentence. See our recent exhibit a. Playing with a deadly weapon against law enforcements orders and then hitting said law enforcement with said deadly weapon whether intentional or unintentional is a very large incitement for suicide by cop. She was shot in the commission of a felony attack on a officer after being told to stop and get out of the vehicle. That she thought she was playing a game at the time (my opinion) doesnt change the objective actions of refusing to comply with lawfully given orders and then from the officers point of view initiating a vehicular attack on the officer. The ultimate play stupid games win stupid prizes behavior. Welcome to the darwin awards.
My favorite is "stupidity shouldn't be a death sentence". We have so many jaywalkers killed every year in my town. Stupidity is so often a death sentence there is an award for it. I'm just going to stare at that little quote for a while in awe.
The world is full of ways that even a slight bit of understandable carelessness can be fatal- just ask any sailor, pilot, motorcyclist, or scuba diver.
Cynical answer? Because the government can't unalive them if they've already unalived themselves.
Real answer? The song has been around for years, since 2012. While the Aussie government wasn't exactly "freedom-friendly" then, they weren't quite so openly hostile toward their own citizens, either.
It's interesting that Britan (**THE** UK) doesn't have any concept of jaywalking, while Canada (UK.... kinda sorta) is uber-kranky about jaywalking. Consistency, what's that?
Vegas is an open air statistical proving ground illustrating that when you cross the street at random points between intersections especially in ill lit areas especially in dark clothing. You become road pizza. So make laws or don't make laws, Darwin will sort them out.
In re policy: I had a Chief of Police whose policy had a plethora of "should" and a paucity of "will" (basically guidelines, I guess) He was aware that in some (rare) circumstances, "policy" would not yield the optimal outcome for a particular situation. If you followed "the book" and things went crossways, you were covered. If you varied from policy and things went South, you'd better hope that you could articulate a rational reason for it.
From the video I saw online (with much useless comment from reporters) it appeared she was trying to run over an ICE agent. I'm not going to even enter the debate as to whether the agent was authorised to stop her. She used a motor vehicle as a weapon. From my perspective it was self defence. YMMV.
I will offer the opinion that people who try to, or do, kill cops aren't very bright. Such an act brings one to the negative attention of every police force in the world. The VERY negative attention.
As to the mullahs in Iran: "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." Not that anyone at our wonderful State Department would endorse that, even if they managed to translate it from Latin.
Regarding education in these United States: Beaucoup decades ago our PMS in JROTC told us "If the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught." Consider that, and that Col. Weeks (our PMS) had fought his way up Italy with the black battalions against forces commanded by Field Marshall Albert Kesselring. In the late 1960s he spent his summers teaching at Command and General Staff School.
IANAL, but here's the sum of analysis I've seen from multiple sources.
She was blocking a roadway with her vehicle. That's legally questionable enough to provide Reasonable Articulable Suspicion for law enforcement (and ICE agents ARE sworn federal law enforcement, no matter what the Leftists say) to initiate a "Terry stop" -- detain her, ID her, and determine her intentions.
SCOTUS precedent says that when officer safety is in question, it's generally lawful for LEOs to order a detained driver out of the vehicle, and ICE gave her that order. She did not comply.
Instead, she moved the vehicle forward and made contact with an ICE agent that she could see (or should have seen) in front of her car. That very quickly becomes some combination of "assault with a deadly weapon", "evading law enforcement", and "fleeing the scene with a deadly weapon" (or whatever the local statutory titles are). #1 and #3 justify deadly force to stop her (Tennessee v. Garner).
I'm willing to entertain that she UNintentionally moved the vehicle forward, but whether it was intentional or not -- and I'll emphasize this for the cognitively dense -- it Does. Not. Matter. Humans placed in harm's way by another human have every right to take appropriate action to protect themselves, and "assault with a deadly weapon" justifies a deadly force response. [#]sorrynotsorry
The only questionable action by the ICE agent was placing himself in front of her vehicle. Recent SCOTUS precedent (Barnes v. Felix, May 2025) says that LEOs cannot place themselves in harm's way and then use that as justification for lethal force. OTOH, she was detained, ordered to stop, and ordered out of the vehicle. At that point he SHOULD NOT have been in harm's way even if he were squarely in front of the vehicle. Her willful noncompliance will likely be just as much a factor as his physical location relative to the vehicle.
And the question of self-defense is predicated entirely on whether HE perceived her as coming at him or not and whether or not the jury thinks that is a rational view. Her intent is not relevant, unless it was somehow communicated in a way a rational person would clearly know it.
Yep. As attorney Andrew Branca (Law of Self-Defense and Legal Insurrection) would say, he doesn't have to be RIGHT, he has to be REASONABLE.
Would a reasonable person in his position believe the vehicle was coming AT him and could run him over, potentially causing serious injury or ending his life?
Based on all the angles I've seen -- especially his own body cam and those of the agents nearby -- and the fact that THE VEHICLE MADE CONTACT WITH HIS PERSON, I'd say yes.
Massad Ayoob tells a story in which he was an expert witness in the trial of a cop, charged with homicide from shooting a criminal suspect who had a concealed handgun. The question hinged on whether the officer should have waited to see the gun before shooting. Mr. Ayoob told the court, "If you wait to see the gun, you're going to see what comes out of the gun." The jury took the evidence gun and the suspect's jacket into deliberations and tried the "draw-shoot" motion themselves, and agreed, there was no way the officer could have reacted fast enough to avoid being shot if he waited to see the gun. They found him Not Guilty on justifiable self-defense grounds.
The Minnesota ICE case is similar. If the agent waited to see where the vehicle was going, he'd have been under the front bumper before he could respond. Ergo, Ms. Good's intentions Do Not Matter. The right decision for her at that point was to put the car in Park and comply with the agents' orders, but she didn't.
I do recall the joke/story about the tourist in Madrid, who saw bull testicles being served and asked to have them. He was told they'd be available the following day.
When his meal arrived, the testicles served were much smaller than those he saw the previous day so he asked the waiter about it.
Blind Archer, good point. I was not very clear. But I have teachers in my family yes even in NYC public schools there are those who would actually like to teach. Parents are scary, if the kids don't show up can they learn? If the parents (or kids ) show up to the school stinking of weed enough said. Fifth grade drug dealers. literally. Some of the teachers shouldn't be there, you can't get rid of them. Kids some of these kids for whatever reason should not be in class with normal kids. Try to get rid of them. the admin. from the Top down is just useless.
Problem the first with our educational system isn't the schools or teachers- it's the parents. Even public schools can work if the parents are paying attention to what's being taught, what's being learned, and just what is happening to the kids in general.
But that's hard, and it's easier to hand them off to someone else- from daycares and public schools, to some variety of electronic babysitter- from TV to game console to PC to tablet to smartphone. And since we've been doing that for generations, it's no wonder people are a mess.
People talk and talk about things they know nothing about. I don't remember who said this - Robert Conquest- but he said everybody is a conservative on a subject he knows.
It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and it's a form of cognitive bias. Ignoramuses overestimate their knowledge and expertise on a subject, while real experts on that subject underestimate theirs.
The result is that the people who know speak softly while the people who THINK they know (but really don't) are the loudest voices in the room.
Minnesotan here: Yes, she was shot while/for BEING STUPID. Even MINIMAL application of brainpower would have kept her alive. Evolution in sad action. Lesson: Don't Be Stupid.
The Wendigoon youtube channel has a really good video about Waco, Ruby Ridge, the 86 FBI Miami shootout, and some other good stuff. His 5 hour breakdown of Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" is excellent.
And he's a pretty cool guy- 'one of us' as it were.
Abolish it all. Go back to one-room schoolhouses for those who can't and homeschooling for those who can.
The Constitution does not provide ANY provision for federal control of education. The Department of Education should be abolished, and every employee fired - and NEVER re-hired by the Federal government.
Education should be a personal matter, or at worst a LOCAL matter. Not even the states can do anything correctly when it comes to schools.
Homeschooling is preferable, for any parent with a 3-digit IQ.
100 years ago, elementary schools taught Latin and Greek as required subjects, so that EDUCATED Americans could read the same source documents that the Founders used. Today, high school graduates cannot read in ANY language, or do basic arithmetic.
The hold — such as it is — the Feds have with education [and many other areas] is financial. "Do this or we won't give you money."
Local/State governments don't have the guts to say "Fsck off, we'll put taxes where they should be to support LOCAL schools et c." The sheeple are, honestly, too stupid to realise that one way or the other, they're going to foot the bill.
I disagree, to an extent, about State [Commonwealth, whatever] support. Here in Virginia we have counties with more dollars per capita than others --- where the coalfields, et c. are played out. I believe it's the responsibility of the Commonwealth to support education for the whole. If that means Occupied Virginia doesn't get an extra lane on [pick a road] but instead, Dickenson, Wise, Lee, and other counties get money for books and teachers, so be it. Overall, the Commonwealth benefits. I don't mind paying taxes to support it. I mind the thieves and criminals in Richmond and D.C. pxssing it away.
The problem here in Washington state (and I suspect in every state) is not Federal involvement. Washington state education sucks all by itself and all the DoEd does is provide some money. Most recently, when the DoEd changed the various rules WA Sup of Pub Ed basically said "go to hell, feds" and kept destroying public education. The only negative part of the fed involvement is that they didn't then cut of funding.
As a parent who homeschooled my kids when it was only done by wild eyed crazy radicals, I have no regrets. If you want something done right, you better do it yourself.
I was homeschooled in an era where my parent had to be the crazy-eyed radicals to do it. Thank you.
I dont know what the solution is. Probably for 3/4 of familys school isnt just education but baby sitting so the can work and pay for a roof and food.
Home schooling is interesring. We are doing it for the first time with our 14 year old due to massive issues with the catholic school administration where we had her. Trying to keep her on task is hard and a fight i dont want to fight which makes it harder.
We have typically spent 25 to 50 percent of our gross income on keeping our 2 girls in private school over the years. Only by being out of debt and living like mice have we been able to due so. There are weird social knock on effects for them beeing "poor" while most of the kids familys are decidedly not. We drice 3000 dollar used cars and they drive 60 to 120 thousand dollar excursions, bmw's etc.. they have social activitys where we mostly dont. The get taken out of school a couple times a year to go to Disney or europe where we have trouble even visiting family out of town once every other year.
Most cant due this. With scholarships, Parrish help and grants the 7 to 12 a grand a year we are responcible for is beyond the majority of those that earn even double what we do. We have no mortage and are pretty good at not wastfully living. We dont have 1000 doller a month rents or mortage. Or taxes are low with our rural location and 1100 sq ft house. We only have an internet bill,phone bill and electric bill as utilitys. Average for all three is around 300 combined. Food and sundries is a horror show at close to 1000 a month. For what cost 300 six years ago.
If we had the standard rent or mortage today we couldnt pay our bills much less send to school.
We have found that even the best of private schools are becoming pale reflections of the public school system. The teachers have to have the same degrees taught at the same universitys, the kids have to pass the same standardized tests for the state. And the schools outsourse their curriculums to the same captured organization's that push inclusive equity driven bullshit. Typic progressive stuff. They take tests on the computer's and no one at the school ever sees the content or results other than a grade. We hear from our kids and question them about content and accuracy of content but without them or us having access to the specific content there is no recourse.
Grrr. 1/10000000 of what i want to rant.
We deal with it mostly. My wife actually teaches at one of the schools the girls are/ were at and she is like a bulldog addressing stuff when it gets out of control. But its always a fight.
Positive side is that academically they are minimum of a year beyond public school kids if not more. Sadly its more about how bad the public schools are rather than how good the private catholic school is.
You didn’t even read what was written
“Ian! Being stupid shouldn’t be a death sentence!”
Written by someone who has never seen the Darwin Awards.
Robert Heinlein said it best.
"Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
My thoughts exactly. We've been circumventing the penalty for a while now and it's made it worse.
Robert A. Heinlein
There's a LOT of situations in this world where being stupid is a death sentence. Licking the pretty frogs in Brasil. Petting the fluffy cows in Yellowstone. Hiking Death Valley without taking water along. Ripping off Griselda Blanco back in the 80's.
Sometimes, Nature and circumstances will only just cripple one for life, or will even capriciously spare the idiot.
I came to say something similar!!!!
Being stupid in the right or wrong circumstances depending on your perspective can absolutely be a death sentence. See our recent exhibit a. Playing with a deadly weapon against law enforcements orders and then hitting said law enforcement with said deadly weapon whether intentional or unintentional is a very large incitement for suicide by cop. She was shot in the commission of a felony attack on a officer after being told to stop and get out of the vehicle. That she thought she was playing a game at the time (my opinion) doesnt change the objective actions of refusing to comply with lawfully given orders and then from the officers point of view initiating a vehicular attack on the officer. The ultimate play stupid games win stupid prizes behavior. Welcome to the darwin awards.
I just googled LARPing, and I believe it fits. Especially the Urban Dictionary definition.
My favorite is "stupidity shouldn't be a death sentence". We have so many jaywalkers killed every year in my town. Stupidity is so often a death sentence there is an award for it. I'm just going to stare at that little quote for a while in awe.
The world is full of ways that even a slight bit of understandable carelessness can be fatal- just ask any sailor, pilot, motorcyclist, or scuba diver.
Stupidity just increases the odds.
This would be a good place to insert the "Dumb Ways To Die" song from the old British Rail authority.
"So many dumb ways to die...".
Australian, not British.
Great song, though. :D
I don't get it, why do the Aussies need a song, their own country is trying to kill them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdihHnaOQsk
Cynical answer? Because the government can't unalive them if they've already unalived themselves.
Real answer? The song has been around for years, since 2012. While the Aussie government wasn't exactly "freedom-friendly" then, they weren't quite so openly hostile toward their own citizens, either.
https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw?si=AgPSh_VCjqdXb3zo
It's interesting that Britan (**THE** UK) doesn't have any concept of jaywalking, while Canada (UK.... kinda sorta) is uber-kranky about jaywalking. Consistency, what's that?
Vegas is an open air statistical proving ground illustrating that when you cross the street at random points between intersections especially in ill lit areas especially in dark clothing. You become road pizza. So make laws or don't make laws, Darwin will sort them out.
I'm NOT commenting! I HATE echo chambers! 😁
I'm NOT commenting! I HATE echo chambers!
Nice! I almost did it again. 🤣
Nice! I almost did it again.
Good L0rd, I'm so happy I used my Google-fu for good and found you again.
A-men!
In re policy: I had a Chief of Police whose policy had a plethora of "should" and a paucity of "will" (basically guidelines, I guess) He was aware that in some (rare) circumstances, "policy" would not yield the optimal outcome for a particular situation. If you followed "the book" and things went crossways, you were covered. If you varied from policy and things went South, you'd better hope that you could articulate a rational reason for it.
From the video I saw online (with much useless comment from reporters) it appeared she was trying to run over an ICE agent. I'm not going to even enter the debate as to whether the agent was authorised to stop her. She used a motor vehicle as a weapon. From my perspective it was self defence. YMMV.
I will offer the opinion that people who try to, or do, kill cops aren't very bright. Such an act brings one to the negative attention of every police force in the world. The VERY negative attention.
As to the mullahs in Iran: "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." Not that anyone at our wonderful State Department would endorse that, even if they managed to translate it from Latin.
Regarding education in these United States: Beaucoup decades ago our PMS in JROTC told us "If the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught." Consider that, and that Col. Weeks (our PMS) had fought his way up Italy with the black battalions against forces commanded by Field Marshall Albert Kesselring. In the late 1960s he spent his summers teaching at Command and General Staff School.
RE: whether the agent was authorized to stop her:
IANAL, but here's the sum of analysis I've seen from multiple sources.
She was blocking a roadway with her vehicle. That's legally questionable enough to provide Reasonable Articulable Suspicion for law enforcement (and ICE agents ARE sworn federal law enforcement, no matter what the Leftists say) to initiate a "Terry stop" -- detain her, ID her, and determine her intentions.
SCOTUS precedent says that when officer safety is in question, it's generally lawful for LEOs to order a detained driver out of the vehicle, and ICE gave her that order. She did not comply.
Instead, she moved the vehicle forward and made contact with an ICE agent that she could see (or should have seen) in front of her car. That very quickly becomes some combination of "assault with a deadly weapon", "evading law enforcement", and "fleeing the scene with a deadly weapon" (or whatever the local statutory titles are). #1 and #3 justify deadly force to stop her (Tennessee v. Garner).
I'm willing to entertain that she UNintentionally moved the vehicle forward, but whether it was intentional or not -- and I'll emphasize this for the cognitively dense -- it Does. Not. Matter. Humans placed in harm's way by another human have every right to take appropriate action to protect themselves, and "assault with a deadly weapon" justifies a deadly force response. [#]sorrynotsorry
The only questionable action by the ICE agent was placing himself in front of her vehicle. Recent SCOTUS precedent (Barnes v. Felix, May 2025) says that LEOs cannot place themselves in harm's way and then use that as justification for lethal force. OTOH, she was detained, ordered to stop, and ordered out of the vehicle. At that point he SHOULD NOT have been in harm's way even if he were squarely in front of the vehicle. Her willful noncompliance will likely be just as much a factor as his physical location relative to the vehicle.
Just my $0.02.
"it Does. Not. Matter."
And the question of self-defense is predicated entirely on whether HE perceived her as coming at him or not and whether or not the jury thinks that is a rational view. Her intent is not relevant, unless it was somehow communicated in a way a rational person would clearly know it.
Yep. As attorney Andrew Branca (Law of Self-Defense and Legal Insurrection) would say, he doesn't have to be RIGHT, he has to be REASONABLE.
Would a reasonable person in his position believe the vehicle was coming AT him and could run him over, potentially causing serious injury or ending his life?
Based on all the angles I've seen -- especially his own body cam and those of the agents nearby -- and the fact that THE VEHICLE MADE CONTACT WITH HIS PERSON, I'd say yes.
Massad Ayoob tells a story in which he was an expert witness in the trial of a cop, charged with homicide from shooting a criminal suspect who had a concealed handgun. The question hinged on whether the officer should have waited to see the gun before shooting. Mr. Ayoob told the court, "If you wait to see the gun, you're going to see what comes out of the gun." The jury took the evidence gun and the suspect's jacket into deliberations and tried the "draw-shoot" motion themselves, and agreed, there was no way the officer could have reacted fast enough to avoid being shot if he waited to see the gun. They found him Not Guilty on justifiable self-defense grounds.
The Minnesota ICE case is similar. If the agent waited to see where the vehicle was going, he'd have been under the front bumper before he could respond. Ergo, Ms. Good's intentions Do Not Matter. The right decision for her at that point was to put the car in Park and comply with the agents' orders, but she didn't.
"Ian! Being stupid shouldn’t be a death sentence" Mother nature smile, and says: "think so? Watch this..."
Remember the Yeet Cows, and resist the urge to pet their fluffy softness.
Oh, pet them, please, the gene pool desperately needs the chlorine....
I've no idea what a 'Yeet Cow' may be.
I do recall the joke/story about the tourist in Madrid, who saw bull testicles being served and asked to have them. He was told they'd be available the following day.
When his meal arrived, the testicles served were much smaller than those he saw the previous day so he asked the waiter about it.
"Señor sometimes, the bull, he does not lose."
It's what the fluffy cows in Yellowstone often become when tourist pet them.
The tourist tries to pet, the fluffy cow yeets them
Ah. Thank you. Yes, Darwin and physics in action. Also, Clorox in the shallow end of the gene pool.
Blind Archer, good point. I was not very clear. But I have teachers in my family yes even in NYC public schools there are those who would actually like to teach. Parents are scary, if the kids don't show up can they learn? If the parents (or kids ) show up to the school stinking of weed enough said. Fifth grade drug dealers. literally. Some of the teachers shouldn't be there, you can't get rid of them. Kids some of these kids for whatever reason should not be in class with normal kids. Try to get rid of them. the admin. from the Top down is just useless.
Problem the first with our educational system isn't the schools or teachers- it's the parents. Even public schools can work if the parents are paying attention to what's being taught, what's being learned, and just what is happening to the kids in general.
But that's hard, and it's easier to hand them off to someone else- from daycares and public schools, to some variety of electronic babysitter- from TV to game console to PC to tablet to smartphone. And since we've been doing that for generations, it's no wonder people are a mess.
It's easier to let "the experts" "educate" the children.
People talk and talk about things they know nothing about. I don't remember who said this - Robert Conquest- but he said everybody is a conservative on a subject he knows.
It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and it's a form of cognitive bias. Ignoramuses overestimate their knowledge and expertise on a subject, while real experts on that subject underestimate theirs.
The result is that the people who know speak softly while the people who THINK they know (but really don't) are the loudest voices in the room.
Right 100%
Minnesotan here: Yes, she was shot while/for BEING STUPID. Even MINIMAL application of brainpower would have kept her alive. Evolution in sad action. Lesson: Don't Be Stupid.
The Wendigoon youtube channel has a really good video about Waco, Ruby Ridge, the 86 FBI Miami shootout, and some other good stuff. His 5 hour breakdown of Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" is excellent.
And he's a pretty cool guy- 'one of us' as it were.