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"Don't touch that stove, you'll get burnt". What did YOU do? Of course you did. I went out of my way along with my wife to teach our son the perils of sticking a fork in the toaster when he was young. Did he listen? Of course not. Growing up, you always heard the expression "Play with fire and you'll get burnt". After the stove incident, you kinda took this one pretty serious, but only YOU know "the incident" where you were a bit lackadaisical and learned about the smell of burn ointment. As we grow up, we learn certain things and know when to heed certain warnings. Let's face it, you don't NEED to SEE electricity to know it will kill you. You don't need to be a science teacher or physics professor to know that you shouldn't stick your mitt into a circuit breaker box without knowing what you're doing and the term "proximity potential". Same with certain chemical combinations, though many people die every year because they combined the wrong ones and created a deadly gas like phosgene. Along the way, some of us were fortunate enough or old enough to know better before trying things. Take drugs, for example. Either you chose not to bend to peer pressure, or you knew somebody who'd already destroyed themselves and all their friends and loved one's lives, or you became hopelessly addicted and still deal with the problem one day at a time. Some were prescribed opiates by a licensed physician, but learned the potential for escape from that first brush. Since then, their requirements increase for the same high, and one day, without Narcan, they'll die. We can tell everybody we meet/know about things, but we're basically powerless to change anybody. Just as they are powerless to change YOU unless you give them permission to. Have we all had some friends that the drug debacle has touched in one way or another? Of course. Unfortunately, the predictability continues as before. Yes, there's DARE officers in public schools, but the education about drugs at an early stage is woefully inadequate. Drag Queen Story Hours and "alternative relationships" seem to carry more weight than the societal impacts of drug abuse. Now, are you getting the point about the move towards socialism by our youth today? While they're still capable of making bad choices due to lack of education, their minds are being filled with propaganda and indoctrination techniques the Third Reich would be proud of. Why are parents allowing it? No choice. Taxes are such a burden now that both spouses need to work outside the home to make ends meet. With the meteoric rise of single parent homes, government "helps". State law mandates school standards, but home schooling is now generally being recognized. Some that remained home during the pandemic with their online children's education found out that the money saved made it economically feasible, especially if combined with a neighbor or two. Those children will most certainly make a difference in our future society if they're not drugged down because they "aren't agenda compliant". THEY will take OUR place in the future standing up for our Constitution. When WE teach them, it's reading, writing, and arithmetic COMBINED with history. The history WE were taught. None of the "State sponsored indoctrination" like they teach today, like CRT and the 1619 project. None of the aberrations of society. Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts PLEASE. Some of us get it, some don't. Which side is right? My vote's on the one that's survived over 240 years, instead of the new theory some hair-brained moron dreamed up on his last "trip".