'You are no longer my mother': How the election is dividing American families

Re:'You are no longer my mother': How the election is dividi... by throwaway0a5e on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:24AM (#24968374)

State committees, bureaucracies and advisory boards (it varies by state) that set school curriculum are ultimately accountable to politicians. They will never include strong education against indoctrination or how to balance a budget because that would be biting the hand that feeds them.

Look at the incentives and the outcome is obvious. Nobody wants to do things that might draw the ire of their boss's boss's boss.

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Re:'You are no longer my mother': How the election is dividi... by nine_k on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:19PM (#24973494)

While bureaucracies are formally under politicians' control, politicians are elected, and bureaucrats are not. They easily outlast politicians, and definitely set their own conditions for politicians to follow if they don't want their orders obstructed and sabotaged.

I would hazard to say that it's in the bureaucrats' best interest to have politicians unpleasant and unqualified, of the "both worse" kind. Interestingly, quite often election candidates tend to resemble this description, at least if their opposition is to be believed.

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Re:'You are no longer my mother': How the election is dividi... by spamizbad on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:34AM (#24968500)

They won’t do that because governments do not, in fact, need balanced budgets.

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