Joseph Lieberman: School choice is a winning policy, so why don't Democrats support it?

Joseph Lieberman: School choice is a winning policy, so why don't Democrats support it?

School choice is overwhelmingly supported by the American public, including various Democratic constituencies, yet the party nonetheless opposes it. This isn't new news, school choice has long enjoyed widespread support and that support is clearly growing.

Perhaps more significantly, school choice is highly popular among independent voters, those swing voters who can most easily be moved towards (or away from) candidates and parties. If you want to beat Trump / Republicans / Conservatives / Libertarians / etc., one tactic worth considering might be to stop driving the undecideds into their arms.

Here's a rhetorical question: is this a case of the party taking a principled though unpopular stand or, as Lieberman suggests, the result of the party selling out it's constituency to the teacher's unions in exchange for the mountains of cash they contribute?

Here's a question that isn't rhetorical - do you believe spending your money to buy political support is:

• An effective long-term strategy to prevent increasing adoption of school choice?
• Is it proper to corrupt the political process by paying off politicians to oppose the public will?

Submitted July 23, 2019 at 04:12PM by Barking_at_the_Moon https://ift.tt/2MeAqa6