The issue is the control, not the subject matter.
A nation that can collect thousands of local school systems into a single Federal monolith to teach science and math can also teach other things that may not be so great. "Community funded" doesn't mean what it used to.
Do you have any idea how little the President, Supreme Court, and other things would matter to the average American if we had not evolved a centralized government with almost absolute power over everything we do?
The government used to be just one part of our lives, and it had a heirarchy of local, county, state, and federal. All limited in what they could do. At some point, it was decided that local power could no longer be trusted to run things, that economics was a tool, not a system, and that those who apparently gain infinite wisdom by virtue of being located in the District of Columbia would run things from the top.
So now, you've got emperors instead of citizen leaders, and no small wonder that people practically crap themselves every time a national election or a Supreme Court selection comes along.
The Democratic fantasy of an all-providing State was based on the idea that somehow, this vast power would always be in the hands of people just like them.
You want to fix things, start moving power the other way. If you can't stand the idea of some locality doing things differently than you would, then you're part of the problem.
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