DeVos family super-wealthy right-wingers working with the religious right to destroy public educati

[still_one]

"Since the 2010 elections, voucher bills have popped up in legislatures around the nation. From Pennsylvania to Indiana to Florida, state governments across the country have introduced bills that would take money from public schools and use it to send students to private and religious institutions.

Vouchers have always been a staple of the right-wing agenda. Like previous efforts, this most recent push for vouchers is led by a network of conservative think tanks, PACs, Religious Right groups and wealthy conservative donors. But “school choice,” as they euphemistically paint vouchers, is merely a means to an end. Their ultimate goal is the total elimination of our public education system.

The decades-long campaign to end public education is propelled by the super-wealthy, right-wing DeVos family. Betsy Prince DeVos is the sister of Erik Prince, founder of the notorious private military contractor Blackwater USA (now Xe), and wife of Dick DeVos, son of the co-founder of Amway, the multi-tiered home products business."

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/meet-the-devos-family-super-wealthy-right-wingers-working-with-the-religious-right-to-destroy-public-education/comments/#disqus

[Coyotl]

1. Selling Jesus to grade school children for profit Make America Great Again.

What we will be up against if Trump is installed is shaping up far worse than Bush/Cheney.

[longship]

2. Get this right. They ARE religious right.

Dutch Reformed Church, Calvanists, all of them. They are amongst the looniest of the loonies. Predestinationalists! No amount of good works will save your miserable soul from an eternity of Hellfire. You are condemned or saved at birth. It's a horrible religion.

[colsohlibgal]

3. No Doubt About The Goal Here

They want to privatize it all, including education. There is money to be made and who cares about kids in poorer areas. Or really anyone in the lower class or lower middle class. The rich are going to get richer at the expense of the rest of us and they truly believe that is the right and just order of things.

This is it, the perfect storm. Citizens United, Fox News propoganda, all moving otherwise good people to vote against their own interest....to join the true Nazis at the base. Many of them will soon realize they have been had.

The Reactionary Right has played the long game, setting it all up by railing for decades against "liberal bias" in the media. And now they have a malleable reality figure flake and will go in for the kill.

I am worried but would be more worried if I was black or Hispanic or gay or any combination within.

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Out of the classroom and into the coal mine.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028301824