[link|http://salon.com/news/feature/2001/12/11/walker/index_np.html|It's not our fault, honest]

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If the conservatives are right, and the forces of relativism, liberalism and "subversive, winking, countercultural hipness" that dominate American society are to blame for Walker's apostasy, then the hills should be positively crawling with fellow travelers.

I say:

They are, and you know it. The rest confine themselves to ill-considered protest marches, however. The only difference is in the extremes to which an individual will let his warped emotions carry him.

I'm not absolving young John of all responsibility for his own stupidity. But the fact is he was brought up in a environment that discouraged critical reasoning. We've got way too many stupid youngsters in this country. I blame the school system first. But I also blame the parents. And I blame the stupid kids themselves. Anyone on this list could have prevented this, or at least tried. It's a long string of failures that lead to such an outcome.

Nonjudgementalism is a cop out. It's also hypocritical, as practised in Berkeley and environs. Ever see these people get all live-and-let-live and who-are-we-to-say about anything conservatives say or do? When they threw out critical reasoning, they completely threw out the reasoning, but selectively kept the criticalness.

`Nuff said.