LIBERATE FAMILIES: the School Choice Imperative

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Parents Take Back America’s Schools

Across America, the insiders who captured our institutions finally face what they fear most: reformers at the gates. From Washington’s swamp to Chicago’s machine, in classrooms across the country, the pattern is the same. Corruption created decay. Now disruption breaks through.

A System in Decay

For decades, America’s education system has been run not for children or parents, but for a cartel of union bosses, bureaucrats, and political patrons. They have turned what should be a mission of service into a racket of self-enrichment.

The numbers tell the story. Federal and state spending on education has exploded over the last 40 years. But student achievement has gone backward. National test scores are at generational lows. Reading and math proficiency are collapsing. Classroom discipline is breaking down. Millions of young people leave school unprepared for work, for citizenship, or for family life.

Meanwhile, the insiders thrive. Teachers union leaders rake in exorbitant salaries. Administrators multiply at every level. Politicians collect donations and endorsements. It is a closed loop — a cartel — where everyone wins except the children and the taxpayers who fund the entire operation.

The Hypocrisy of the Ruling Class

Consider Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and California Governor Gavin Newsom. Billionaires. Oligarchs. Both send their own children to elite private schools. Yet both defend a public system they would never dream of subjecting their families to — a system that devours tax dollars, delivers plummeting results, and now promotes graphic sexual content in classrooms.

And here’s the question no defender of this system can answer: what kind of sickness drives adults to push sexually charged indoctrination on other people’s children? Parents entrust schools with their kids — the most precious responsibility they have. Taxpayers fund the system with hard-earned dollars. What possible justification is there for sexualizing those children?

There is none. It is twisted. It is wrong. It must stop.

The Antennae Go Up

So, why are elites so desperate to normalize perversions? Why do Dems defend a system that’s broken, out of control, unaccountable, and in decay? Why do leftist shock troops hiss at parents for daring to ask for answers and better schools?

The truth: this is a cartel — and the teachers unions are its Jabba the Hutt. Bloated. Self-serving. Corrupt. They don’t even serve their members before serving themselves. They exist to protect the system, not the students.

And the hubris is staggering. We pay a lot. We don’t get a lot.

Disruption Already Underway

Here’s the principle: we pay the tab, we call the shots.

The corruption disruption is here. Parents rise up at school board meetings. Taxpayers demand accountability. Communities insist on school choice, transparency, and discipline.

The cartel lashes back, with emotional shrieks from the charlatans who thrived in the old order. They squeal because their cheese is being moved. But this reset is happening -- whether they like it or not!

In state after state, parents vote with their feet, their voices, and their ballots. Charter schools expand and homeschooling surges. The cartel can’t stop the tide.

Beyond Schools

Education is just the frontline. From failing schools to broken government agencies, every captured institution in America will face the same reckoning.

Captured: The newsroom. The boardroom. The classroom. The medical establishment. The government. All broken. All exposed. And now, ALL being disrupted…to reorient the power dynamic between the entitled institutions and the demanding, newly awakened American people.

For years, these institutions seemed beyond repair. But patriotic populism ripped off their masks. From the FBI to the Fed, from the CDC to universities, all the captured institutions are being unveiled like Scooby-Doo villains. The reveal is always the same: behind the mask of “public service” stand the same corrupt insiders, serving themselves at the people’s expense.

And just like in the cartoon, once the mask is ripped off, there’s no going back.

A Populist Reckoning

This movement in education is part of something bigger — a populist reckoning reshaping America.

Last November, the American people prevailed in the must-win ballgame and returned Donald Trump to the White House. That victory was not luck — it was providence. God granted this nation another chance (the last?) to save our republic.

The education cartel is just one battlefield. But it’s the most personal, because it’s about our children, our babies. If we win there, we win everywhere.

So let the message be clear: Our kids. Our call. Our country.

The critics will squeal. The jackals will howl. The cartel will convulse. But the disruption rolls on, gaining momentum. And by God’s grace, the people will finish the job.

Steve Cortes is president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group, and senior political advisor to Catholic Vote.

He is a former senior advisor to President Trump and JD Vance, plus a former commentator for Fox News and CNN.

SEE MY LATEST DOC, ON THIS THEME: https://www.cortesinvestigates.com/p/liberate-families-the-school-choice