Ideocracy
Just when I thought that the New Hampshire State Legislature couldn’t get more detached from reality, I’ve been fooled again. Our New Hampshire House, in its infinite wisdom, just passed the cynically named “Protecting College Students Act.”
What could possibly go wrong? We know from experience that when adolescents newly liberated from parental supervision are assembled, they usually make the best decisions of their lives. There probably is no need to have a minimum drinking age, either.
I can only imagine the thousands of New Hampshire residents and taxpayers, along with law enforcement and safety officials, who have lobbied long and hard to get this bill passed.
Perhaps after cutting state funding to the NH university system, our legislators imagined a scenario where armed students could organize campus patrols in lieu of paid campus police?
I suppose now that this important bill has been passed, the legislature can turn its attention to the more mundane tasks of governing. There have to be more costs that have not yet been shifted to middle-class property owners.
New Hampshire has been waiting since the 1997 Claremont decision for an equitable school funding formula. Perhaps the legislature should start a New Hampshire public schools GoFundMe page? Maybe there’s a bill like that already in the pipeline?
I’m out of ideas. Let’s just ask Grok AI and see what it thinks. After all, what could go wrong?