We have a much more frightening problem than unidentified drones on the east coast.

Ignoring politics and the MAGA take-over of the government reins, two news items have captured the attention of the so-called news media and the public. The more recent story of numerous unexplained drones making nightly flights around New Jersey, is creating a lot of fear among the public, because frightening people seems to be the primary purpose of the so-called news media. (They’re also adept at mis-informing the public, but that’s a topic for another time.) 

The public should realize that the government knows exactly what these drones are up to. The air traffic in that area of the east coast is carefully monitored and controlled. Everything is tracked, a bunch of rogue drones would not be tolerated. Especially if they are as large as these are said to be. They are being flown with the knowledge and approval of the government. Of course, that does not mean that there is nothing to fear; the government is not always your friend, but the silly scenarios being proposed by the so-called news media should not be cause for concern. What should concern every citizen is an unmentioned aspect of the second item.

On Monday Dec. 4, 2024, United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on the street outside the Hilton Hotel in New York City. Five days later, on Dec. 9, the suspected assassin, 26 year old Luigi Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona PA. Although Mangione’s background wouldn’t lead one to expect that he might commit an assassination, his recent writings reveal a hatred for the health care bureaucracy and insurance companies. So far this is pretty disturbing, but in our society it is not really very scary, such violence is all too common. 

But what has happened since Mangione’s arrest should frighten every American, and no one has noticed. Practically everywhere that young people communicate on social media you will find large numbers of them venerating Mangione. To them he has become a hero. They agree that American health care is terrible, and insurance company CEOs should be shot down in the street. And why do so many young people believe such things? Because that’s what our public school system teaches them. The same thing occurred after the Oct. 7 2023 Hamas attack on Israeli citizens. Why did so many young people rush to support Hamas? Because the American public school system has taught them to hate Jews. 

Conservatives have mostly abandoned the teaching profession to the liberals, probably because the liberals turned it into a snake pit that was extremely hostile to conservatives, but in doing so we have allowed the left to indoctrinate our children with hatred for traditional morals and values. Our children and grandchildren will probably destroy our way of life, and that is truly frightening.