First thing is I need to congratulate your grandparents or celebrate their blessed memory because they must have done an extraordinary job raising your parents. This kind of wisdom ain't found in the bargain section.

I didn't have such parents but I did have the experience of grappling with the (news of the) Nazis marching in Skokie being defended by the ACLU and having to think really hard about that situation.

And imagine, here we are with the current iteration of the ACLU demanding we say men are women or else be burned at the stake. Things degrade quickly fer shure. And everyone's captured. I started watching Fox News last year or so after being driven by idiocy from MSNBC and CNN, and everyone--everyone, including even Tucker Carlson, refer to Caitlyn Jenner and Lia Thomas as "she" and "her" in discussing the encroachment of men in women's sports. (First typed "biological" and then realized what even I was doing here. See how bad it it?)

I mean, would Fox fire them or reprimand them if they don't conform to this now? What is compelling this conformity even in what we'd call a hostile-to-the-concept environment?

Anyway, a wonderful post and ought to be distributed to every fifth grade classroom so they can save their little siblings.

But the training on willful blindness started so many centuries ago and in some of the most intellectual quarters. I won't go further 'cause I don't want to start a firefight.