I'm not an extremist on this.

A lot of people who get their mitts on the control levers are extremists. Remember Trump's first Sec Education, Betsy DeVos? More Michigan "talent" in the education privatization extremist swamp. Perry Johnson (candidate for Gov) doesn't say it out loud, but, I bet, when he repeals that property tax, cutting school funding by 15%, he also has the state subsidize private schools, from that reduced education funding pool, so there is even less for the public schools. Destroying public education has been foundational ideology for the GOP, here in Michigan, for years.

Someone recently posted that Sweden is moving to unwind it's "social safety net". Wonder how they sold that? Probably the same way the US does "let us defund the program your neighbor benefits from, and maybe you'll get a tax cut"? So, while you are voting to defund a program that helps your neighbor, your neighbor is voting for the same candidate, to defund a program you benefit from. Meanwhile, most of the tax cut goes to the guy behind the curtain, who is pulling the control levers.

Steve