Bruce Dixon calls out privatizer dressed up as public
education champion
Editing, brief comment by Carolyn Bennett
Another fraud
Sounds like a shill in Sheep’s Clothing. “…Why does Donna Brazile’s
‘Democrats for Public Education’ (DFPE) exist?” Black Agenda Report managing
editor Bruce Dixon asks, and answers, “Apart from possible interference in next
year’s Chicago mayoral contest, [DFPE’s] only conceivable purpose is an utterly
cynical one.” It “will house surrogates
for Hillary Clinton’s … campaign who will give the gullible an excuse to
believe that [the stepping-stone senator-become-foreign-affairs disaster] -- unlike
[candidate and president Obama] -- is not
on the side of the privatizers and charter school sugar daddies, the same
way that [candidate] Obama had unofficial spokespeople everywhere assuring those
who wanted to believe that he was for
net neutrality, against the USA Patriot Act and the Iraq war and torture; and wanted
to renegotiate NAFTA and whatever else some people wanted to hear.”
Alas, “Democrats for Public Education” is no more than “the
cynical sound bite that some self-deceiving Democrats need to hear.”
The shill’s president gave away – correction, sold – to the
highest private bidder an American cultural tradition intended to ensure every
child a fair chance and a hope of contributing to American society: public education.
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ruce Dixon calls out Brazile and he calls out Brazile's president and
his co-conspirators in disestablishing nonsectarian U.S. education. The
president’s education secretary and member of the president’s cabinet was former
Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan who “ravaged, savaged and privatized”
that city’s schools. Duncan “fired thousands of mostly-black teachers with
little or no due process, and handed big chunks of public resources over to the
operators of private charter schools.” As FOP (friend of the president), Duncan
was handed a seat at the president’s table as head of the U.S. Department of
Education. And in six years in the position, Dixon recounts, the president, his
education secretary, and the department set out on a mission of destruction.
[They] have let representatives of private charter schools, testing companies and consultants from the Walton
Family, Eli Broad, Bill & Melinda Gates and other foundations ideologically committed to running schools
like businesses and education like a market write the federal guidelines
school districts must follow to receive federal funds – something they call ‘Race
To The Top’. 
The same consultants have been allowed
to embed themselves deeply into the supposedly impartial private institutions
officially recognized by the Department of Education that evaluate schools, school districts [sounds like weighting the
market, ensuring profits for themselves; foxing the hen house].
Keeping up the bait-and-switch--what prompts Dixon’s
commentary –is Democrats-toward-the-White House-shill Donna Brazile announcing the
founding of something called “Democrats for Public Education” when the destroyer in chief she
serves is in reality, Dixon says, “the chief pusher of school privatization.” The breakdown of U.S. education.
It is interesting how this regime's domestic ethos parallels its foreign relations ethos in the singular characteristic of destructiveness.
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he lie is in a shill (of
course shill is itself the personification of liar) claiming advocacy for a
cause that directly opposes her cronies who are footing the bill of her ascendancy.
They own her. And as they own her, she knows full well that she will not oppose
them. No matter what they do, she is theirs, their shill.
Entrenching ascendancy
Louisiana-born American political insider, pundit, and
television personality Donna Brazile is vice chair of the Democratic National
Committee and has worked in several Democratic Party presidential and other campaigns
and offices.
These include contenders Jimmy Carter–Walter Mondale (1976, 1980),
Jesse Jackson (1984), Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro (1984), Richard Gephardt
(1988 primary). She was deputy field director of the Michael Dukakis general
election campaign (1988) and in the 1990s, Chief of Staff and Press Secretary
to District of Columbia Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, advisor
for the Bill Clinton initial and reelection presidential campaigns (1992, 1996).
In 2000, she was campaign manager for the Al Gore presidential campaign.
Sources and notes
“Is ‘Democrats For Public Education’ Just a Toothless,
Cynical Sound [Bite]?”
Bruce A. Dixon, August 13, 2014, http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/democrats-public-education-just-toothless-cynical-sound-byte
Donna Brazile bio note, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Brazile
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