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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you should (re)read Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

If our society could function with everyone only caring about themselves and their own kids, that would be great.  The system does, in fact, work best when it uses this individualistic tendency to try to promote the common good.  Perhaps the problem isn't the parents who refuse to send their kids to the underperforming schools, perhaps it's the system that has allowed individualism to run rampant in such a way that the underprivileged have been left without their help and resources.  Maybe this is just what happens when we run schools like businesses and not pieces of the community - just another example of the 99% and 1% forming.

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Oy.  Pretty sure de Tocqueville would have laughed his cul off at the 99% v. 1% OWS crowd.   :roll:

The very idea of one person dictating how "the system does in fact work best" is anathema to personal liberty.  You're a hell of a lot closer to Napoleon and Snowball than de Tocqueville.[/quote]

Funny how conservatives love to quote de Tocqueville when he's saying something superficial about American exceptionalism, but don't seem to have ever read the man.  Socioeconomic mobility was pretty much the core characteristic he admired.  And he found the highest expression of that ideal in the estate tax.  Or, as brain-dead conservatives like to call it "the Death Tax".

If de Tocqueville came back today to write an updated edition of Democracy in America, and saw what you've done to this country, he'd never stop throwing up.  Fatuous references to Orwell (who'd be equally revolted) won't change that.[/quote]

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