Richmond Teen Pens Political Book on America’s Decline

This is so cool. He is 16. He wrote from a conservative, free-market perspective, but I'd think it was cool even if he wrote on the collective side. (Hey, I started out over there, long, long ago... and look where it brought me) That's because it is the thinking, the active engagement and interest that excites me. Young people thinking politically is a good thing. Learning how to see things for what they are, how not to be sound-bite victims. I have always discussed things like economic and political theory, philosophy, social psychology, history, science... just all kinds of things with my kids, for as long as they've been able to have a conversation. And, not just my point of view. We read Adam Smith AND Karl Marx, etc. Education, not indoctrination. I've been noticing a growing number of parents that are doing the same thing, teaching their children the mechanics of political and economic systems, practical skills, ways of seeing and thinking. A lot of parents, of course, don't do that sort of thing with their kids, leaving them to whatever brain-rot crap popular culture feeds them. That is why we are where we are today politically, why the Bill of Rights is gone, and we imprison more of our own citizens than any other nation while – in pure Orwellian style – saying and believing such phrases as “land of the free, home of the brave.” But, things are changing.