Are we living in a malignant culture that made the assassination of Charlie Kirk inevitable?
Journalist Michael Shellenberger wrote that the share of college students who say “Using violence to stop a campus speech” is acceptable rose from under 20% to 34% between 2020-2025. Students “furthest to the left have been the most accepting of violence for as long as we’ve asked the question.” Time to de-radicalize schools, he wrote.
The anti-civilization narrative is programming our children. It’s like a cult.
It’s time to confront the reality that programming children with anti-human, anti-American, and anti-civilization ideologies is increasing the prevalence of traits characteristic of anti-social personality disorder, e.g., lack of empathy, aggression, and impulsivity. https://t.co/h1nH3rOu1j pic.twitter.com/xmyPzdsZNy
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 13, 2025
Is there a planned effort to encourage our most vulnerable? Something is happening and it’s very dangerous. What is behind the sudden rush to transition large numbers of minors, and programming them in elementary school, a clearly immoral action?
I agree with those who say that the Democrat Party is now a domestic terrorist/criminal organization. plainsenseandsanity.substack.com
SOLVE THE PROBLEM ! Tyler Robinson didn’t just “snap.” He was manufactured. Classrooms became factories. Professors became engineers. And out the other side comes another radical, programmed to hate. The question isn’t *why him*. The question is: how many more are they building right now? PROBLEM CREATORS: WHO radicalized the killer? WHO convinced him Charlie was a fascist? Education problem leftism/liberalism. Media problem = leftism/liberalism.… Read more »
It’s not in the water, it’s in the schools. Childless communist revolutionaries are now running education and that must change.
“It’s not in the water…” – I think the author meant that as a metaphor – meaning something near-universal is going on. It used to be a common phrase to explain strange times: “There must be something in the water.”
Yes, exactly! Thank you for mentioning. 🙂
Colleges and universities have become breeding grounds of America haters indoctrinated by Marxist professors. I do not want my tax money handed over to these extremists. Congress must eliminate ALL federal funding to ALL colleges and universities including research grants. Let them compete for students the way it was before the Dept of noEducation.
Other people have commented that our educational system was highjacked.
Here is the background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institutions
“There Is ‘Something in the Water,’ Transforming America’s Children” SERIOUSLY? It isn’t something in the water. It’s EVIL in the schools.
Metaphors are hard!
What do you think was happening when American kids went from 1st in Education, in the world, to scoring 34th in the world? That’s because they were still being taught, they were still in school the same amount of hours, they were just not taught the three r’s. They were still learning.
Absolutely….our Education system…Public Schools were highjacked about~40 years ago by the Left….Liberals/Progressives and they have destroyed the minds of at least two generations of our children….while the parents weren’t paying attention.
In addition…Big Tech, smart phones…the internet are a destructive force for kids and even adults.