The Vermont Select Board Un-Candidate #7

     I wrote a short letter to the editor of the Brattleboro Reformer about commenting against the abolition of Columbus Day. Let's see if this one is accepted. This week the Reformer even printed a letter complaining about the Reformer calling a female a "girl" instead of a "woman." I'd be happy to be mistaken for a boy, but then I'm a recovering snowflake.
     Talking about snowflakes, in my reading I've picked up some disquieting news to support my worry that the colleges are making the students schizophrenic by being so divorced from reality. One item was that millennials are having unique problems at work because they have been so coddled and kept away from any friction. The other was that millennials are convinced that they have been sexually assaulted on campus when there is objective proof that they haven't been. The latter, if true, is delusional thinking, a hallmark of schizophrenia. The other thread in both of these examples is paranoid thinking.
     If you look at the campus drama, you see students in the grip of a delusional existential threat. They think anything Western and white male is going to hurt them. In trying to resist fascism, they become violent fascists themselves. They appear to have no insight - another indication of schizophrenia. Are they becoming Paranoid Schizophrenics? College was the time that I began having several phobias. I've always tried to console myself that at least I didn't become a Paranoid Schizophrenic - that my paranoia was confined to meetings, public speaking, bridges, etc. and I knew my fear was not rooted in reality. These kids appear to be either psychotic or gaming the system in order to get away with violence.
     If they are so upset, how are they staying in college? Aren't there grades and standards any longer? Will colleges flunk them out or do they need their tuition and fees too much to do that? Do the parents of these bad actors just sit around and indulge them? If the students major in Paranoid Schizophrenia, are the parents not going to ask themselves what they did wrong? Are they ready to support, nurture, and try to control a Paranoid Schizophrenic the rest of their lives? No retirement for them! Who will take care of them if the parents won't or when the parents die? Will we see lawsuits by these parents against their children's colleges for being schizophrenogenic? Parents, you'd better start gathering the evidence for that charge immediately. The colleges and universities are already destroying the paper evidence of their vile, psychotic Kangaroo Trials for "Sexual Assault" that preclude due process for the charged teenage boys and young men and that brand them a sexual predator for life. You need to collect material about these hearings to buttress your case that the university made your child a Paranoid Schizophrenic. I say that it's happening.
Peter Nickerson peternickerson12@yahoo.com  352-359-0850