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Plucketeer

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8. As to the 16-year old they interviewed

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Apr 18, 2017, 04:32 PM

Apr 2017

Young Reynolds opined: "“Night and day. It’s hard to believe that these people are grown adults and those people, the people at my high school are children. You’d think it was the opposite,” said Reynolds.

Having been married to a high school Civics teacher, this offered perspective is laughable. How are kids supposed to have a grasp of the complexity of the issues? And wouldn't they have been chastised for being unruly in front of a congressman? Kids are still expected to respect their elders. The news production staff had to show this shit to try and get a groan out of their audience. Stupid (or "SAD&quot .

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