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At least under the feudal system of old, the Lord protected his peasants from other Lords, in return for which they worked for him. Here the pool of peasaants wil be treated as take and put by the Lords with their survival being irrelevent as there are lots more where they came from. Whether this can be turned around is questionable as the "moderate" (read Corporate) Democrats will make sure nothing happens to seriously affect the trend to privatizing education from K to College. From what I read the corporate dems are winning the primaries and the progessives are losing them, likely thanks to the DNC.

We are seeing the same thing happen in Canada in Conservative governed provinces. Money is being funneled to private "Christian" schools and public schools are suffering.

In Saskatchewan taxes for schools collected at the local level are pooled and distributed by the province. School boards have no real powers over curriculum. This is both good and bad, depending on how it is administered.

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Indeed it's not been the Republicans but Democrats who have allowed public schools to become defunded and swept aside in favor of unaccountable Charter schools. It is a relief to hear there are some remaining out there who have the proper diagnosis. There are two parties and in my view both are failing us terribly, particularly when it comes to health care and education.

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The notion that two more Democratic senators will allow great things to happen is dreaming in technicolour. The Corporate Dems in the senate where happy to let Manchin and Sinema take the heat but they will stop any forward movement on the same issues.

At least in Ukraine we know who the enemy is and can shoot them. The SBU is busy routing out traitors and collaborators. The partisans also look after them in their own way. Voting is better but not guaranteed especially when one side stacks the deck

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