Source: Brownstone Institute
by Thomas Harrington
“Ihad my first illicit sips of beer at age 14, and continued to sip from time to time …. I’m quite sure my parents knew …. they never confronted me about it, demonstrating an implied trust in me that I responded to by making sure I never engaged in the gross excesses or the stupid and destructive acts that can accompany underage drinking. … I was thus shocked when I went off to an ‘exclusive’ Jesuit college … and found that many of my fellow students had lived their high school years under strict family and/or school prohibitions against drinking and were thus engaging freely with alcohol for the first time. The results weren’t pretty. … This all came back to me recently as I reflected upon how Western governments (and their compliant media accomplices) have come to view the citizens of the democracies they are elected to administer.” (07/09/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/ideological-firewalls-work-quite-well-until-they-dont/