“Think about the people you know who are over there,” Salcido is
heard saying. “Your freakin' stupid Uncle Louie or whatever. They're dumb s - -
- s. They're not high-level bankers. They're not academic people. They're not
intellectual people."
“They’re the freakin’ lowest of our low.”
The irony is that the military is a legitimate
function of government, especially as it is an all-volunteer military.
Government schools, on the other hand, are not a legitimate function of
government. They are an infringement on the inalienable individual liberty
rights of Americans. America’s public schools are locked in place by compulsory
attendance and compulsory taxation, and some level of coercive government
control extends to private schooling as well.
A further irony is the relative performance of
the military versus the schools. The military has done a stellar job of
performing its primary function of defending America’s borders from foreign
enemies (even while hamstrung by politically imposed combat restrictions). On
the other hand, American schools are largely failing at educating American
kids. It’s interesting that Salcido is a history teacher. One of our
schools’ greatest weaknesses is the failure to educate American kids on
America’s Founding freedom principles—individual rights, constitutionally
limited government, political equality, free markets, intellectual freedom,
etc. More broadly, American kids are failing to learn to think critically and
independently.
Given this disparity in performance, is it the
military or the teaching profession that can logically be accused of being
infected by “the lowest of the low”?
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