stop.

why do we have public education?

why do we spend all of this money and expend all of these resources on this?

surely, it's primarily because we understand the importance of an informed populace for the maintenance of democracy, right?

or, at least, we used to, anyways.

nowadays, we seem to be content with the premise that people are too stupid for democracy to work, and they need to be brainwashed in order to be told what to do. and, if we hold to this mentality, if we continue to refuse to educate our kids, we will have a self-fulfilling prophecy, because it is at least true that a society that can't work out what is true and what isn't cannot be a democratic one.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this