Do you believe that if someone raised Catholic converts to hipster Christianity that is somehow more "wrong" or in some harmful to society than someone raised Protestant does? Or if there's a difference in this if it's someone Italian/Irish/whatever and some rather whitebread and actually WASPy person who just happened to be brought up Catholic?
Not really. It's more harmful to my own form of Christianity (not least since one fewer normal, sane Millennial or Gen Z Catholic is proportionally one more Lefebvre-adjacent one), so in that sense it bothers me a little more, but the Catholic Church doesn't have some sort of socially-enforceable right to the loyalty of its membership that Protestant denominations don't have.
Would the US be better if it were governed like Vermont?
Yes, but that's not saying much.
What is one piece of advice that you can give for college admissions
Unless you have a very specific personal focus that thrives in really rarefied academic environments (which, idk, you might; I don't know your circumstances very well), Tier 1 schools aren't worth the elitism and Tier 2 schools aren't worth the insularity or the money.
Aren't a lot of large public universities Tier 1 or 2? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by these terms?
