Bloomberg News reports that Google will or has quit ALEC. Probably this means Google will not renew its membership in this radical extremist organization, which writes model laws to bust unions, privatize public education, restrict voting rights, oppose gun control, deny climate change, and eliminate regulations on corporations.
Google was alarmed about climate change denial. Apparently the rest of ALEC’s extremist, anti-democratic agenda was OK with Google.
Isn’t its motto “do no evil?” ALEC is no do-good organization, unless you seek to maximize corporate power.
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I’m glad you quit calling the John Birch Society 2.0 “conservative”. It tends to give conservatives a bad name.
It’s significant to note that Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s statement about withdrawing from ALEC was in response to a listener’s on air question at the very end of yesterday’s Diane Rehm Show. Sadly, with no time left for a follow up question to ask if Google also now views ALEC’s policies on education reform as similarly untruthful. Query whether Google would have made this statement yesterday if an individual listener hadn’t asked . . .
It sounds like the US, at least based on the ALEC agenda, is fast becoming or already has become a “Corporatocracy”.
I like the paradox of “Isn’t its motto “do no evil?” ALEC is no do-good organization, unless you seek to maximize corporate power.” to describe what it is that they are actually trying to accomplish. It is a creative way to describe the disconnect between the good that they claim to be doing vs the motives and actions undertaken to complete that “good”. Once again, the illusion hides and distorts the reality.
“We’re Crazy ALEC, and Our Educational Policies are Insane!”
Andy Goldstein speaks to the School Board of Palm Beach County, FL on the excesses of standardized testing and the profits from this testing being made by members of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council.