Few failures have been more spectacular. Illiterate students knifing one another between acts of sodomy in the stairwell is just one of the many eggs that had to be broken to make the left's omelette of transferring power from states to the federal government.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Coulter blames federal overreach and left-wing policies for educational and social failures.
- In plain terms
- She says moving power to the federal government caused bad schools and violence.
- What can you take from it?
- Critics often link federal policy to local social problems.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does federal power cause local failure?
- How do we measure policy success?
Another view
The quote attributes complex social issues to a single policy cause.
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