too many see it as and 'us' versus 'them.'
'Us' being the alleged taxpayer and 'Them' being the government, and by default, public jobs such as teaching. Until we can get past this false boogeyman in the minds of the voters, which FDR didn't have to fight as we do with media, we can't get the virtue of those jobs being paid for tax dollars through.
Democrats and those who lived under Keynesian economics in the past, know that this works and increases security and prosperity. It comes from the ideal that we are all in this together.
We are dying from the spiritual impoverishment of half the nation who believe public professions of faith replace the deeper spiritual values that transcend all division, is sufficient. That's why they call Democrats, secularists, public schools and the like godless, because we don't try to force the world to submit to their version of God. But if their God was Love, would He ignore the millions doing without, as the GOP has done?
The movie said,
'Houston, we have a problem.' And it is just as fatal as the one the astronauts faced. We have a meme to overcome in this country. It's an uphill battle, over what most of us grew up and took for granted as sane American public policy.
I haven't been able to cajole the brainswashed, and it's permeated society as a whole. Obama is doing this gradually to change public perception, but it's too slow and he has little support. But we can push it here and in Congress... the media, no.
Sorry if that seems to go too far afield, I support what you say in the OP a hundred percent.