{"id":788,"date":"2002-07-07T03:53:52","date_gmt":"2002-07-07T10:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/vouchers-faith-and-the-failure-of-secular-liberalism\/"},"modified":"2002-07-07T03:53:52","modified_gmt":"2002-07-07T10:53:52","slug":"vouchers-faith-and-the-failure-of-secular-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/07\/vouchers-faith-and-the-failure-of-secular-liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Vouchers, faith, and the failure of secular liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— David Broder reflects on voucher implications in Lines Dividing Vouchers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…I had to concede that the evident failure of many urban bureaucracies — the old welfare system being one notable example and the school system another — might well require traditional liberals to open their minds to the possibility of redrawing the lines between church and state. As I said to him, it was not just Republicans but smart Democrats like Bill Bradley and Joe Lieberman who saw that urban churches with their own day care, anti-drug programs, job training and housing assistance were often achieving greater success than the public agencies that were supposed to serve the same neighborhoods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Voucher programs are opposed by suburban voters, most Republican, because they stand to erase the distinction between better-performing suburban public schools and worse-performing urban ones. That some public schools are better than others – radically – is the issue that neither these voters nor the teachers’ unions want to talk about. The Bush support for vouchers is politically dangerous, then, because they appeal only to a constituency that the Reps have by default, religious people, and to one they’ll never have, urban Blacks. The voters in play are in the suburbs, where vouchers are, and will remain, poison. So the Bush support for vouchers is either a matter of stupidity or of principle, and given the evident intelligence of Karl Rove, it must be the latter.

Link courtesy of PatioPundit<\/a> on the RoboPundit feed.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— David Broder reflects on voucher implications in Lines Dividing Vouchers: …I had to concede that the evident failure of many urban bureaucracies — the old welfare system being one notable example and the school system another — might well require traditional liberals to open their minds to the possibility of redrawing the lines between … Continue reading “Vouchers, faith, and the failure of secular liberalism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-cI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}