I Know What’s Wrong with America

My wife texted me this screenshot yesterday:

I sent it to my lawyer friends with this quip:

One of them replied:

It’s real. At this point you may think you know where I’m going with this. It’s another one of those “boo-hoo look at what a shitshow the country has become and I, the legal academic, am here to tell you it’s all because of the Second Amendment or Trumpism or whatever” kind of posts. But no, that’s not it.

Regular readers might know that I am pretty bummed about the death of American satire. Maybe that’s what this is about. After all, I did unwittingly forecast the headline above in an article I published in my regular LEO Weekly column two and a half years ago:

2024: Faced with an unprecedented teacher shortage, Indiana’s General Assembly declares the whole experiment of public education to be a failure and votes to abolish public schools altogether. A loose network of charter schools, 90% of which are operated by churches, appears to fill…