The DeVos Family-The Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With Religious Right to Kill Public Schools

AlterNet / By Rachel Tabachnick 29 COMMENTS
The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education

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The conservative policy institutes founded beginning in the 1970s get hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy families and foundations to develop and promote free market fundamentalism. More specifically, their goals include privatizing social security, reducing government regulations, thwarting environmental policy, dismantling unions -- and eliminating public schools.

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The DeVoses are top contributors to the Republican Party and have provided the funding for major Religious Right organizations. And they spent millions of their own fortune promoting the failed voucher initiative in Michigan in 2000, dramatically outspending their opposition. Sixty-eight percent of Michigan voters rejected the voucher scheme. Following this defeat, the DeVoses altered their strategy.

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Many of the free-market think tanks are secular, but there is a trend toward merging free-market fundamentalism with right-wing religious ideology. The Acton Institute is described by religious historian Randall Balmer as an example of the merging of corporate interests with advocates of “dominion theology.” Dominionism is the belief that Christians must take control over societal and government institutions. The Acton Institute funds events featuring dominionist leaders including Gary North, who claims that the bible mandates free market capitalism or “Biblical Capitalism.”

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......“So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.”



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......“So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.”


Just a different denomination.

Isn't that obvious?

-Hoot

:kick:

:(

Just like the Kochroaches.

De Vos.

after all they think it their deity's will that they are billionaires

It really is that simple.

And if you can get someone to do something claiming divine authority, or thinking they are divine, it can break empathy with the 'other' people.

Although many have good qualities, there is no defense for someone with that much wealth.


Most people find delusions to rationalize actions. And actually many have postulated that the rational mind only explains to a person what the subconscious decided after the fact anyways. And the rational mind tries to make sense of what a person decides to do based on many other factors.

From that knowing yourself becomes really important.

Also why some can not learn or change positions, they don't actually know why they think some way, and there thoughts are really trying to explain why they think them. If you make them face a contradiction, sometimes they will reach there subconscious thoughts on the issues. And I think that is a big part of clarity.

Although some people don't care.



Side note, I thought of that over a decade ago, and probably posted it years ago, although I have heard it is also in some book somewhere.