Democrats seem addicted to the dole. In the same article, Paglia takes on the government school system, despite her support of tax-funded education. This school system is not even 200 years old, yet most people treat it as if the burning bush floated it down from Mount Sinai. Try to name five elected Republicans willing to tell the truth about government schools the way Paglia has. Try to name even one.
Schools are prisons, to which children are sentenced by compulsory education and truancy laws.
The main function of the public school is not education but social control. School administrators, teachers, child psychiatrists, child psychologists, social workers, grief counselors, pharmaceutical companies and the many other businesses that profit from the education racket are not the friends of children as they proclaim. And strikingly similar to Paglia's message. Paula Martinac recently wrote an article for Lesbian Nation which explains why some gay people use guns for self-defense. Now, I was in the Boy Scouts for awhile, and I believe it's a valuable organization.