It sucks that this strategy seems to be working, and that libs seem to keep getting blindsided by it. Even though right-wingers explicitly, loudly talk about how their end goal is to eliminate public school entirely and have taxpayer-funded private christian schools as the primary educational institutes.
I remember in a Blowback episode George HW Bush was the Darth Vader of privatization (of the military).
Underfund thing -> it underperforms -> people get mad -> private option sounds good -> private option sells your organs
Two awful peas in an awful pod.
At least we still have
It sucks that this strategy seems to be working, and that libs seem to keep getting blindsided by it. Even though right-wingers explicitly, loudly talk about how their end goal is to eliminate public school entirely and have taxpayer-funded private christian schools as the primary educational institutes.
But Werther's
Buying a whole sea change of public opinion for 9 cents of candy is hilariously discouraging. We live on a clown world.