- 17 Jan 2017 23:37
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I am watching the US Senate confirmation hearing of billionaire heiress Elizabeth DeVos. She has personally made over 5 million dollars in campaign contributions to the Republican party in the last 5 years alone, while her family has donated 200 million dollars to the Republicans since 1970. Her ideological and political objectives clearly involve privatizing the US education system and dramatically expanding the two tier system. She seems to believe that the students of low income families should abandon college education and go into trades schools, leaving the sons and daughters of the wealthy elite to attend their business and managerial schools. She has no intention whatsoever to reduce the cost of college tuition or to provide any kind of universal systems, instead favouring "faithbased" alternatives amongst other (presumably non socialist) private "options". It seems abundantly clear to me that the billionaire ponzi scheme Amway heiress, whose family business was found liable for defrauding the government of Canada tens of millions of dollars, intends to expand the plutocracy that favours her class of elite oligarchs.
I find her demagoguery to be totally hollow and bland. DeVos has no experience in public education and due to her vast wealth has never experienced managing a student loan, or any student loan related banking. She describes privatization of the school system for the purpose of destroying the public school teacher's authority as "different options" for "expressing opportunity". The US "charter school system" is merely a halfway house towards full privatization which will ensure that elite are not contaminated by exposure to low-income citizens. Mrs. DeVos flatly refused to guarantee that the public school system will not be privatized, repeatedly dodging direct questions from (US Democrats) senators regarding such a guarantee. Her intention is, rather, to "give options to students and parents" which is utterly meaningless demagoguery that means "privatization" at the expense of the education system. She repeatedly states that "faith based" solutions are the right way to go, and favours teaching intelligent design.
The establishment oligarchs loves to talk about "opportunity" but have nothing to say about outcome. Part of the neo-conservative capitalist ideological consensus is that your "opportunities" in the education system justify the possibility of failure. Therefore, failure must be your fault, loser, which we all know is now the ideological basis of the Trump administration.
I find her demagoguery to be totally hollow and bland. DeVos has no experience in public education and due to her vast wealth has never experienced managing a student loan, or any student loan related banking. She describes privatization of the school system for the purpose of destroying the public school teacher's authority as "different options" for "expressing opportunity". The US "charter school system" is merely a halfway house towards full privatization which will ensure that elite are not contaminated by exposure to low-income citizens. Mrs. DeVos flatly refused to guarantee that the public school system will not be privatized, repeatedly dodging direct questions from (US Democrats) senators regarding such a guarantee. Her intention is, rather, to "give options to students and parents" which is utterly meaningless demagoguery that means "privatization" at the expense of the education system. She repeatedly states that "faith based" solutions are the right way to go, and favours teaching intelligent design.
The establishment oligarchs loves to talk about "opportunity" but have nothing to say about outcome. Part of the neo-conservative capitalist ideological consensus is that your "opportunities" in the education system justify the possibility of failure. Therefore, failure must be your fault, loser, which we all know is now the ideological basis of the Trump administration.
The concepts "WAR" and "PROGRESS" are now obsolete.