Thread by @GrayConnolly

Reading @DeclanLeary on the appalling state of American public schools .... makes me grateful that Australia had such large esp Catholic systemic & Christian/Independent schools for parents to escape to & also to force public schools to keep selective HS

theamericanconservative.com/articles/we-lo…

While there may be some grievances with the British imperial settlement .... but one good thing the Anglicans did (which Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists etal got to do as well) was set up church school systems that the Crown patronised, which then helped educate generations

Not sure if it is the US' rather Jacobin 'separation of church and state' doctrines that denies parents the choice of an inexpensive local Catholic or Anglican (or other) school - 'only Gosplan public, comrade' - but education alone, shows the Tories were, well, right .... again.

Here @DeclanLeary is right: "Now the new generation of limousine liberals are taking the fight from the cities to the suburbs, and anywhere else they have to. The further we retreat, the further they’ll advance. Eventually we’ll find ourselves with nowhere left to run."

Problem with 'culture war' is the aggression is from the Left .... and, as Trotsky - a man who loved culture wars until he got an ice pick in the head because he lost - would say, 'you may not be interested in culture war but culture war is interested in you ... and your family'.