Can you be left-winger and still send your kid(s) to private school?

I totally agree.

I think you and I are on the same page.

Still, I'd like to solicit views from people who don't agree with me, and for them to explain their position.

I am a registered Democrat. I will overlook EVERYTHING in order to vote Democrat.

There's nothing we were doing in the 1940s that we aren't doing even more of today, and that includes fighting Nazis.

So, make other's lives a bit better, but certainly not as good as yours?

I said 'left-wing', not liberal. But I feel we've all lost sight of what left-wing means these days. Some people think it means identity politics.

It strikes me as hypocrisy.

Then again, the right is hypocritical when it comes to 'moral' issues, like sex.

And the left is hypocritical when it comes to social justice issues, like fairness.

Yep, wealthy liberals want to ease their consciences, but ultimately they, and their children, are the ones who most benefit from a two, or indeed multi, tier system that favours private schools at the expense of poorer families and children. How can anyone who believes in such a system seriously describe themselves as 'left-wing'.

Most people who send their children to faith schools are only 'nominal' in their faith.

I'm an agnostic. I'm open to the concept of a God. I have been the first to defend the rights of the religious not to be sneered at and demeaned by New Atheists, but I would not send my own children to a faith school on principle. It would be hypocritical of me, as an agnostic, to do so, since, on balance, I am a rationalist who doesn't believe in God.

But I know many people who are, or at least were before having children, much more sceptical and even opposed to religion than I ever was, who do now send their children to faith schools.

The hypocrisy is astounding.

Of course, I guess they're the ones winning out because they choose to sacrifice their values for the sake of self-interest. But, and maybe it's because I'm a hopeless idealist, I refuse to be defined by hypocrisy. I'm against faith schools (I feel they divide children) and private schools (likewise, plus they're classist) and I will not send my own children to one.

Maybe they can't afford to send their kids to private schools.

I know a lot of blue-collar conservatives who despise the State, but haven't the means to access private education and health coverage.

Whilst I find such blue-collar cons frustrating (I see them as akin to turkeys voting for Thanksgiving), I don't find their hypocrisy quite as egregious or as harmful as that of some libs. In fact, as a progressive lib its's my political responsibility to feel sympathy for blue-collar cons, and black/Latinx cons, over spoiled, over-privileged, rich white libs.

That's what some of my fellow libs don't get. They think that when I favour and support poor and/or black cons over rich and white libs, it makes me less of a progressive liberal. I'd however argue that it in fact makes me more of a progressive liberal.