Certainly sounds like this person lives in a very insulated bubble, and looks for a combat medal for living the real world for a while.
I didn't read the entire article; when I got to the part of the $110 textbooks, the rest didn't make any difference. What a waste of money for those books.
He has to be one of the dumbest demmodummies ever to think he could go into such an atmosphere and not get “mugged”. Is he now ready to drop his official demodummie membership card?