Since the core tenet of the progressive faith is that all people are equal, resources like "education" are canonized as the only reason for inequality.
But if people privately spent the exact same quantity of resources on direct education, it would be recast as "privilege"
But if people privately spent the exact same quantity of resources on direct education, it would be recast as "privilege"
Belief in perfect equality means that creating it is a moral imperative. Infinite resources must be spent to achieve it
Since equality is curiously slow in arriving, more and more resources are spent creating the elitely educated administrative class capable of building utopia
Since equality is curiously slow in arriving, more and more resources are spent creating the elitely educated administrative class capable of building utopia
Since this class is at the core of the progressive faith, it is intrinsically high-status. That means that huge numbers of people will fight to become part of it.
As it populates more and more of the elites and the bureaucratic middle class...
As it populates more and more of the elites and the bureaucratic middle class...
It achieves both an influence and a size that makes it capable of strangling any efforts to meaningfully reform it, no matter how clear the "science" becomes that it has failed.
This is the beauty of the trap that the post-WW2 progressive bureaucracy has built for us
This is the beauty of the trap that the post-WW2 progressive bureaucracy has built for us
