Charles P. Pierce blogs regularly for Esquire, and he is one of the few mainstream writers who understands the creeping (now galloping) privatization of public education and knows that it is a very bad thing for our society.
You will enjoy reading this post, unless you are Betsy DeVos.
With the proposed budget cuts to the federal budget for education, he writes, DeVos isfinding ways to fulfill her life’s dream of destroying public education and monetizing all those bright shiny faces.
He writes:
Betsy DeVos does not know anything about public education except that she doesn’t believe in it as a concept. Free public education is one of the unquestioned triumphs of the American experiment, but it’s a disposable commodity to a know-nothing fanatic who married into a vast fortune and dedicated a lot of it to wrecking public education. One of the worst things about electing an unqualified dolt to be president is that the dolt’s administration is a paradise for free-range maniacs and their personal crusades. This is a case in point.
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I truly believe the point is to “INSTITUTIONALIZE” BIGOTRY, HATE & STUPIDITY.
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Someone needs to advise Mr. Pierce that Barack Obama took office in 2009, so his administration could hardly take credit for a program initiated in 2007. Either the program was created by the Bush administration or he has the year wrong. Either way, and despite his good intentions, he and all other bloggers need to start paying more attention to their copyediting, given how the “illteracy” of the Tea-Party types is still a standing joke.
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That’s your take-away from this article?
And oh, by the way, it’s not “illteracy,” it’s “illiteracy.”
Maybe you should pay attention to your own copy editing, as well.
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Ah, Zorba. One typo? Seriously?
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Ah, Elizabeth. Seriously? Don’t critique the copy editing of others when you cannot do your own.
Look in the mirror, Elizabeth.
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I do. And I see someone who long ago understood people who prefer nitpicking to deflect a discussion to intelligent discourse and can’t resist belittling someone they disagree with. Enjoy your glass house.
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For sadists and those with a compulsion to dominate, cruelty is its own reward. The money, in the words of Eric Bogosian, is icing on the gravy.
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Well said, and sadly truthful. It’s almost as if they are on a crusade against normality and ethical conduct.
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Trump and DeVos do not consider themselves cruel. The budget reflects their values, and the main theme is “hooray for me,” and too bad for all the “losers.” All the little people are a major inconvenience for them.
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But they need the peeons to do what they are too good to do.
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Reblogged this on BLOGGYWOCKY and commented:
Good for Charlie Pierce.
He’s not only one of the few mainstream writers who understands the negative results of school privatization (for families, for children, for neighborhoods, and for society and our country), he also is one of the few writers who understands, and writes about, all the idiocies that go on politically.
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