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The uninspired mashup between "think of the children" and "state's rights" is fooling people?
It's more like "property rights" than "state's rights". A lot of people just kind of quietly believe that they own their kids, as if "owning a human being" doesn't have a name that differs from "parenthood".
It works because it's essentially hitching it's wagon to a general milieu of reactionary media that a good portion of the country is already immersed in. It doesn't have to be inspired, it just has to reference the various issues these people are already being riled up about.
Lois Griffin on stage: "Think of the children."
(audience cheers)
It also works because parents see schools making mistakes with their kids. Every parent I know has a story about how at least one teacher has done a bad job at something.
With those experiences it's pretty easy to get parents to think they'd provide their kid with more help than the school.
People will believe anything if they want to believe it.