And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops.
1/x all our issues are intertwined.
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
For many, yes, but I find that for most the motivation is religious education.
Charter schools are for people who were going to send their kids to private school anyway, but they want the rest of us to pay for it.
My parents were like that. Religious education is the *public* justification.
In private? "We're spending all this money so you don't have to go to a public school that's been dumbed down for the..." (you can probably guess the next word).
