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talkpoliticsTeri Adams, Head of Independence Hall Tea Party and School Voucher Activist:
Our ultimate goal is to shut down public schools and have private schools only, eventually returning responsibility for payment to parents and private charities. It’s going to happen piecemeal and not overnight. It took us years to get into this mess and it’s going to take years to get out of it.
In other words, Adams would like education to be, along with medical care, available only to those who can pony up the cash for it.
The article I’ve linked to includes a few quotes from people speculating about what drives the American right’s hostility towards public education. The ban on teacher-led prayer is invoked, along with the mercenary desire to funnel the money now paid into public schools into private hands.
I suspect it’s much more simple than that. Without universal education, the far right wouldn’t have to contend with so many pesky arguments about the facts of history, math, science, etc.
Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
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Finally someone gives us an answer.
Date: 18/7/11 21:39 (UTC)A scenario that rapidly grew beyond the tiny scale at which an ad-hoc society can function and started adapting with local and county governments, usually in response to "Swedgin" type gangster-barons.
Re: Finally someone gives us an answer.
Date: 18/7/11 21:54 (UTC)Re: Finally someone gives us an answer.
Date: 19/7/11 02:57 (UTC)For whatever it's worth.
Date: 19/7/11 14:55 (UTC)In fact, when pressed for a shorthand political self label, I use 'progressive libertarian'.
It just kills me that this is, more often than not, used as window dressing for market fundamentalism or otherwise taken to absurd extremes that externalize and ignore reality instead of as a guiding principle for actually operating in the world.
So if you've ever wondered why I'm so hard on lolbertarians, now you know. For whatever that's worth.
I love profit. I'm about to go make some right now
Date: 19/7/11 15:47 (UTC)Healthcare on a macro scale, for example. Emergency services. Prisons. Military.
It simply doesn't work and opens up a big can of ugly ravenous worms.