But possibly the most important problem is that the areas where
liberals and libertarians agree tend to be on issues that are mostly
decided locally in America, like school curricula, law enforcement
tactics, and marriage law.
Today’s best sentence
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I fondly remember the days when libertarians opposed public schooling. Now they favor and oppose particular curricula! How far we’ve come!
Indeed; libertarians may favor certain school curricula along with liberals, but they tend to join conservatives in favoring school choice. And of course zoning, “living wages,” and other local issues divide libertarians and liberals as well.
Getting Democrats to oppose public schooling is nigh-impossible, so long as so many of their influential delegates and primary voters are public school teachers.
How can this be the “best sentence of the day” when liberals are FOR public s
schools and libertarians are FOR people being more free to choose regarding
the education of their children? Or take law enforcement tactics: How can this be the “best sentence of the day” when liberals tend to see the role of judges as doing
justice rather than applying the law?
This may be one of the “most bizarre sentences of the day”, but best?
Zoning and planning issues do not tend to divide liberals from conservatives at the local level. Conservatives may be more willing to allow a Wal-Mart by the freeway, but try proposing building low-income apartments near a conservative’s house. (Or in the same school attendance area as a liberal’s.)
John Thacker,
Support for public schools isn’t based solely on the hegemony of the powerful teachers union. Suppose someone actually had the idea that public schooling was a right a civilized government should provide?
Democrats only like libertarianism when it happens to coincidentally advance leftist interests or thwart conservative interests.
Now that Republicans are pushing conservative educational ideas on a national level, Democrats have suddently discovered the virtue of local autonomy.
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