This is from Best of the Web today (scroll down, it’s the last item):
‘My Public Spirit Stops at My Daughter’
In a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, one April Falcon Doss explains why she chose to send her daughter to a private school:For a card-carrying liberal, I was surprisingly unapologetic about our decision. Why should I sacrifice our daughter’s future to an abstract principle? I wasn’t up to battling the school system about class size, curriculum and extracurricular activities. And by the time any changes could be made, our daughter would have already missed out on a vibrant education
Here in a nutshell is the definition of an American liberal: one who is willing to sacrifice the future of other people’s children to an abstract principle.
Amen.