# Why do many conservatives paint the entire public school system with a broad brush?

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The bigger picture is that, when one gets down to it, politics is fundamentally about two groups of people trying to impose an outcome that they know is unacceptable to the opposing side.

‘Politics being peaceful warfare and warfare being violent politics,’ and all that.

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