Creating educational options is the long-term answer to the cultural renewal required to revive classic American self-government. Consider that this year’s midterm efforts just spent approximately $17 billion. Assuming a rough split in midterm expenditures, conservatives light something like $8 billion on fire supporting wishful campaigns and failed candidates in election after election. That’s the price of starting 8,000 schools, considering that it costs about a million bucks to get a charter school going from scratch.