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What the rich fear most: free education

"The primary function of the government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor". James Madison

Reagan, as governor of California, defeated a push to provide free college education. A Reagan advisor said:

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite. We have to be selective on who we allow to go through".

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America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.

Rev Left Radio: From Reagan to Trump: Neoliberalism, Class War, and American Decadence

In this episode, public school history teacher Gianni Paul joins Breht to trace the historical roots of our current crisis — stagnant wages, mass homelessness, collapsing infrastructure, rising fascism, Gilded Age inequality, and a beaten down workin…
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