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The concept is one that is begging to be hijacked by opportunists. One size fits all isn’t the wisest thing in the world. No child left behind ends up leaving more children behind than laissez-faire did. The answer would be better given in the form of spot tutoring in trouble areas, rather than wasting money on mismanaged schools.

A more robust faith needs to return to America if we want to see more robust blessings.

Socialism has every good intention in the world, except that it’s trying to BE God. If it were mistakenly trying to SERVE God, many of its evils would end up being ameliorated in practice. But when it gets into explicit loggerheads with God, its evils are starkly prominent.

Socialism has every good intention in the world, except that it’s trying to BE God.

I don't agree. Socialism, even so-called Christian Socialism, is pure evil.

As Pope Leo XIII said,

15. And in addition to injustice, it is only too evident what an upset and disturbance there would be in all classes, and to how intolerable and hateful a slavery citizens would be subjected. The door would be thrown open to envy, to mutual invective, and to discord; the sources of wealth themselves would run dry, for no one would have any interest in exerting his talents or his industry; and that ideal equality about which they entertain pleasant dreams would be in reality the leveling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation.
Hence, it is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property. This being established, we proceed to show where the remedy sought for must be found.
—Encyclical Rerum Novarum, 1891

Socialism has to pretend to have every good intention in the world. How else are they going to buy all that hippie manpower for a bottle cap and a paperclip? It’s all recruiting propaganda. In the end, the only real purpose of socialism is to create a new brand of aristocracy.

...”Socialism has every good intention in the world, except that it’s trying to BE God. If it were mistakenly trying to SERVE God, many of its evils would end up being ameliorated in practice. But when it gets into explicit loggerheads with God, its evils are starkly prominent”...

I agree with your description of socialism except for the “every good intention,” part. I do not believe that socialists have good intentions. I see them as lusting to take away the freedom of the masses and to steal everything for themselves. They believe everyone else should exist to serve them and those who are inconvenient or not cooperative will ultimately be killed. This happens when the attractive socialism turns to communism which it always does. The real God will take action at some point but usually not until unbelievable human suffering has taken place. I personally believe that Hell does exist for the Godless socialists among us. Justice will come in the hereafter.