Just so you know , in this context mandate comes from the popular vote . Not just winning seats . It refers to the will of the voting people , not the elected ratio . I understand you can try to conflate the two , but that is willful ignorance . <| sep |> At first I thought you were talking about Matt Simon , and I was thinking Maybe he said something once , but I don ' t really remember any of that being said . Then I realised it was Simon Hill . <| sep |> I ' m not sure but couldn ' t be more proud . <| sep |> This cracked me up too . I dislike her for several reasons dishonesty first among them , but if she thought of that line herself , my hat is off to her . <| sep |> Do you think that it ' s going to stop being a two tiered school system just because people can choose ? Some people are going to send their kids to the schools that charge the exact voucher rate . There will be few of them , they ' ll be about as good as the public schools if we ' re really lucky , and they ' ll make sure to reject anyone with learning disabilities or mild behavioral issues . They ' ll pop up and disappear with alarming regularity , often not finishing school years before shuttering . Meanwhile , people who previously paid fornprivate school will get a nice subsidy , and effectively no longer contribute to education funding for the poorer people who used public schools all along . We ' ve seen privatized schools in America . They pull all the shit I described . And the plan here is to make those schools essentially the only kind available . I dunno about how Sweden regulates their voucher achools , but I guarantee the US regulations will be far , far less stringent .