The cynic in me suggests this is true of both major parties in US politics. The sets of things they want to you learn and don't want you to learn -- usually bec

The cynic in me suggests this is true of both major parties in US politics. The sets of things they want to you learn and don't want you to learn -- usually because it's just too hard to have a public conversation due to ideological conflict -- those sets of things just happen to be different in either case.