From the mouths of babes

You have to smile when you read this (straight out of the Philadelphia Inquirer):

As the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, John R. Staggs has been shut out of political debates, shunned in media coverage, and seen as a mere interruption in the battle between Mayor Street and Sam Katz.

. . . some of Staggs’ ideas, such as providing more jobs by shortening the workweek to 30 hours without pay cuts, also are outside the mainstream.

John Bataille, also 17, was not as impressed and shook his head in apparent amusement at times. He said he thought Staggs’ idea to trim the workweek so that businesses would be forced to hire more workers was not sound. “That wouldn’t work. The companies would run out of business,” he said.

OK, so if 17 year olds being educated in our generally substandard public schools can plainly see the bankruptcy of socialist ideals – what the hell’s wrong with: the media, the Democratic Party, the people who vote in blue states, et al?