We have suffered the change again

If I could wish for people to understand just one thing about how people try to manipulate them, it might be this:

The fact that something needed to be done does not and did not mean that privatization was the sole or best answer to problems that were not well-defined. Folks in the US like “change” and tend to think “change” or “new” is better than “old” or certain statuses quo. When the narrative is that the Bad Old System has been slain and replaced with White Knights in Shiny Armor, it’s easy to believe, especially the less contact you have with public schools and the students and families and public education, that “change” has of course meant “better.”

"Change" can be terrific or it can be horrible.  But when they tell you any disagreement with a course of action can be reduced to a simple fear of "change" they are usually running a con.