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Free school meals are such a small (from a financial and tax perspective) and feel-good issue that even libs support it. You have to be crazy to be against this, it is not like it costs a lot or there is some big demographic just clamoring for school meals to not be free.
It's like with Thatcher and the free school milk she abolished
It's not so much about the actual financials, it's more about crushing people's spirits, teaching them there's no magic meal tree or whatever
the conservative project is purposely breaking government so they can point at how it doesn't work
And the liberal project is to be so incompetent as to make everyone believe it.
I think being a liberal is more about cleaning up the messes of those to the right of you. They are just trying to preserve the system at all costs.
What we percieve as incompetance is their ideology preventing them from actually understanding their system.
So when they mess up they did the best they could, they did things the right way. So they take a deep breath, square their shoulders and continue marching on.
They view us as rabble rousers undermining their credibility. They dismiss us for doing things the wrong way. Like grownups shushing the kids table at thanksgiving
It's not necessarily about government. It is about indoctrination into the ideology of private property. Free lunches represent a contradiction in that ideology and therefore cannot be tolerated lest they allow people to question private property as an institution.
it's the belief that getting something for nothing breaks something in you and that pain is an instructor that makes you better.
To the mind of a conservative like Thatcher she was helping the children become more moral by making them poorer and their lives worse
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message