One study explains why it’s tough to pass liberal laws

[freshwest]

40. There is pushback - mainly by Democrats to keep the funding in place.

Because in the long term, it's better to have a healthy society.

As far as not teaching children to share, I understand what you're saying - but education in private facilities create more problems through social division and isolation. They don't have the sharing public schools have taught. They are focused on only their class, their group, their religion. Others are not really people to them.

This was the great success of FAPE, the combination of economic, racial and social groups, all learning how to interact with each other and promote social mobility and expansion of ways to make it in the world. It prepares people for a global society, which many are already working in now.

In my area, they have taught a great deal of not just sharing, but problem solving from that age on, to prevent conflicts. Also how to use emotional intelligence to be able to react to change and problems with integrity. We also have courses on media literacy to help comprehend the psychological means of advertising and propaganda.

What I'd like to see is more economic teaching, about how the different classes or groups in society work together. What one needs to do if they don't fit the college mold and how to make use of their talents to succeed in life. An honest appraisal of how this country is organized. There are public schools teaching Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' to their students as part of their course material.

It won't happen in conservatively controlled districts. People who want to change this country will have to get involved and not cede ground to the conservatives who have taken over school systems in red states, and every other office, including the ones that people don't know very well. I find that they have done great ground work, use their energy to make those meetings every week to build coaltions.

Yet I find more people willing to blame what is going in D.C with Democrats or Obama for what he can't change at the local level. People seem to have less interest in these tedious positions not in the national news. We need to get down to the ground on this and keep at it. The conservatives have been at it for over 40 years, we must do it or just accept fascism.

Don't give up, although I can understand if you are older and can't get involved.