Cheating everywhere!
The College Board just hired Louis Freeh, former FBI director, to improve security in its testing operation. Cheating scandals are epidemic: Atlanta, Washington, Seattle, Maine, Florida. The incentives are all there for a rampant culture of dishonesty: a high test score is a magic ticket, and it dictates whether someone will have job or not, continue in school or be pushed out. In testing, one wins or dies. The obsessive focus on testing and not
The fig leaf is removed: Corporations are people!
The watchword of an anemic and failed democracy: Corporations are people!
We’ve long suffered the best leaders money can buy with government fully prostituted to the rich, an obvious obscenity in any authentic democracy,
Now the mask is completely removed: Corporations can buy everyone and everything, unrestrained, all the time.
Here we go!!!!
Here’s the predictable pattern: first they ignore the Movement; then they ridicule it (they dress funny; they are inarticulate); next they patronize and try to re-frame and co-opt the “leaders” and the energy; finally they take off the gloves and reach for the heavy stuff: see Oakland! In Chicago it’s clear that Rahmbo is in full dress rehearsal