| This is part of what really frustrates me about advocates for smaller government. I agree wholeheartedly with the goal of getting government out of the business of influencing young minds, but I also recognize the fact that 99% of all voters think people like us are nuts.
You're preaching to the choir when you effectively say that everything politicians touch turns to shit. What I'm asking you to do is to realistically compare the following three alternatives:
1. We accept that they're going to ignore us and that the system is doomed. We wait for the collapse and stand ready to rebuild it from the ashes.
2. We somehow manage to get our ideas through their thick skulls. They admit that everything they've believed in for 140 years is fundamentally flawed and agree to join us in privatizing the schools.
3. We examine vouchers with a critical eye instead of dismissing them out of hand. We find a way to stall off the state-approval time bomb for long enough to show people that private school is more affordable than they think. We privatize schools completely before the 'bomb' goes off.
The key here is realizing that we're not trying to design a state-approval mechanism that will last forever without getting corrupted. NOTHING lasts forever. If we put explicit limits on its authority that are designed to prevent meddlesome regulation, and if we guard these limits like hawks, do you really think statists will be able to subvert the system entirely and be fully regulating private schools within 15 years? As a follow up on that question, do you really think that after 15 years with a voucher system like this there would be even 10% of voters left (much less 51%) rooting for public schools? I'd appreciate your constructive criticism. |