Reply #49: Last I checked, Maret was quite open and "protected" from the hoi polloi by property values

[Leopolds Ghost]

Not by any intense security measures.

There is NO QUESTION that the closet racists in America and white-skin privilege set
who believe we are entering a "post racial, classless society" would call Maret dangerous
if it were located in the middle of St. Elizabeths campus, with its high security fencing
surrounded by (horrors) black neighborhoods where those boogeyman white racist kidnappers
(projection much?) would not be caught dead in!!!

I got to tour the Maret campus when I was in high school. Perhaps it's changed thanks
to the increasing wealth of the multinational elite (Citigroup execs... the people
Chelsea's and Bush twins' parents enriched.)

Note the retreat from the idea that money in politics is a bad thing, too.
Never mind the fact that fundraising is still being done primarily by DLC allied
bundlers, the people who support closing public schools in urban areas and gentrifying
out any families with children. it's simply masked by all our private donations.
Why do I bring this up? Because the people investing money in politics are the
same ones who expect a return on their investment -- the urban super-elite who
send their kids to certain very specific schools.

The answer? Professional class -- what Mark Penn calls the "new middle class, $120,000 and up"
is the new base, not inner city blacks and liberals. The notion of families with children who
ARE liberal is beyond them -- those people must be some kind of ethnic minority, else why would
they vote for the Democrats and not have moved to the suburbs? And campaign finance reform is
dead and unlamented, and so is any kind of school reform that does not involve dismantling schools
that underperform just as they are dismantling underperforming campaign finance programs.