re: #4 steve_davis

the boy scouts have always been a kind of american paramilitary organization. societally, we’ve never really wanted to train 14 year-olds to engage in small unit tactics with actual weapons, but much of what scouts do trains them to do that kind of stuff. so the fact that they get together at a rally and cheer the fuhrer isn’t really all that surprising.

They’re kids—they get to be idiots. Until 14 I liked Eisenhower.