It is strongly within the national interest to help parents act on their preferences, because research shows secular schooling is the No. 1 factor causing Americans to lose their faith. People who love America cannot be neutral about that, because widespread Christianity is essential to keep what’s left of our constitutional way of life. The American Founders believed this fervently, and it is true.
The truth is, the secular indoctrination factories that judges forced all public schools to become are the prime engine of America’s decline. For one thing, the loss of faith is the entire cause of our fertility crisis, a key component of our entitlement spending crisis. Keep more Americans Christian, and entitlement programs become much better funded.
For another thing, identity politics is an anti-reason, anti-thought, anti-human, anti-God philosophy, and it controls public education today from top to bottom. So secular schooling is not just a top driver of America’s intellectual corruption — although it is that! — but also of our moral corruption.
That is the underlying cause of all of our nation’s many co-morbid existential crises, including the fact that Congress can’t cut insanely corrupt and existentially threatening spending. So it’s more important to address the underlying cause than its symptoms. Funding school choice does exactly that. //
A Free Society Requires Christian Education
In order for government not to micromanage people and thereby eventually become dictatorial and totalitarian, citizens must responsibly manage their lives. If people do not restrain and order their private lives, eventually government must do it for them. Everyone from James Madison to Alexis de Tocqueville knew and preached this. //
The top two places people learn the virtues, or the art of self-governance, are in church and at home. These two institutions do in a nuanced and non-coercive way what government does bluntly and coercively: instruct and encourage people in the art of making morally responsible choices each week, day, and hour.
That’s why there is no such thing as a free society without widespread Christianity, as even professional atheists now acknowledge after spending their lives working to destroy it. And that’s why even people who aren’t Christians should support school choice if they want to live in a free society. Obviously, Christians should also support Christian education as a moral imperative, which is why historically churches have always operated schools. //
Everyone who isn’t insane wants to live in a society where children and adults learn not to steal, kill, cheat, and self-destruct. Christianity teaches this without needing any expenditure of taxpayer funds. There are lots of other reasons, too, for a purely rational vote for school choice, including that private schooling costs taxpayers far less while returning far better results than public schooling.
An America without Christianity is not America at all. That is why cultural Marxists treat Christianity as their No. 1 enemy — because it is. And as everyone in the age of woke should be aware, controlling schooling is one of their chief national destruction strategies.
So fighting the left’s destruction of education is a radically good and necessary action. School choice is the prime means of making America competent, solvent, and faithful again, and that’s why it may be the most important budget provision Congress can pass.
