Well of course nobody’s outright SAID the government should have prevented this; my point was that that is the underlying implication. Nobody has to actually SAY, “There ought’a ba a law” for some liberal nutjob in Congress to actually sit down and hack one up; the implied need for one, as manifest in the bitching and moaning of the many, is more than sufficient impetus.
And furthermore, had Abby’s mast NOT broken; had she actually completed the voyage sucessfully, you’ve got to admit that you’d be right here on this same forum authoring posts that gush with pride over how America can still turn out kids whose visions and dreams haven’t quashed by the dour prognostications and magic of thinking teeny-weeny that are the constant brain-food of the mind-numbed Left.
Oh, but let that young visionary fall just a wee bit short; let them be bested by the forces of Nature; and here you are, instead, sawing away about how stupid it was to let her try it in the first place, how she “was not up to the task” and her parents were irresponsible idiots to sign off on the idea.
By all accounts, she’s a better sailor than 99.9% of the posters to this forum are, or ever will be; probably WELL versed in the temerpament of the southern seas at this time of year, and had enough faith in her abilities at sea to forge ahead. And, but for an unforseeable equipment failure she’d be heralded as a fine young heroine; an example of America’s finest, and it is a measure of the commentator, not the adventurer, that a broken mast is all it has taken to, in many minds, transform the girl from a young heroine into a fool.