The Rich are Buying America's Silence

[icehorse]

Robert Reich - important perspective:

Robert Reich: The rich have bought America’s silence - Salon.com

Scary stuff, yet another notch in the Oligarchy’s belt…

 

[Revoltingest]

People who want higher taxes are silent?
Oh, if only that were true....

 

[icehorse]

People who want higher taxes are silent?
Oh, if only that were true....

For those of you who don't want to read the article: The "Rich" are paying to keep various institutions silent on topics that those rich people don't want the institutions to address. For example, universities are adjusting their curriculum-s to match the politics of their big donors. So apparently, if you've got a lot of money and you don't believe in evolution, you can pay to keep a given university from teaching evolution.

 

[Revoltingest]

For those of you who don't want to read the article: The "Rich" are paying to keep various institutions silent on topics that those rich people don't want the institutions to address. For example, universities are adjusting their curriculum-s to match the politics of their big donors. So apparently, if you've got a lot of money and you don't believe in evolution, you can pay to keep a given university from teaching evolution.

This counter-balances left leaning sources of money pushing their agenda.
Why do the left & right always think only the other side does nefarious things?

 

[Iti oj]

This counter-balances left leaning sources of money pushing their agenda.
Why do the left & right always think only the other side does nefarious things?

Off topic, irrelevant and a distraction from the actual issue being discussed here.

 

[Revoltingest]

Off topic, irrelevant and a distraction from the actual issue being discussed here.

You think?
This is under <General Debates>, which should allow question begging.
I've been addressing the fact that people have not been silent about wanting higher taxes.
Sure, sure, a case can be made that some people will become reluctant to advocate for it, lest they bite the hand that feeds.
Salon & Reich are trying to make an incomplete picture writ large.

 

[BSM1]

For those of you who don't want to read the article: The "Rich" are paying to keep various institutions silent on topics that those rich people don't want the institutions to address. For example, universities are adjusting their curriculum-s to match the politics of their big donors. So apparently, if you've got a lot of money and you don't believe in evolution, you can pay to keep a given university from teaching evolution.

Can you give us a verifiable example?

 

[Skwim]

To one extent or the other the rich have always bought their way in the USA. Nothing new.

 

[Laika]

Can you give us a verifiable example?

Inside the Koch brothers' campus crusade | Center for Public Integrity

This gives indications of both left and right influences of donations to Universities (and by "left" I mean what passes for the 'left' in the US).

 

[Revoltingest]

Inside the Koch brothers' campus crusade | Center for Public Integrity
This gives indications of both left and right influences of donations to Universities (and by "left" I mean what passes for the 'left' in the US).

Heart warming link you have there!

 

[BSM1]

Inside the Koch brothers' campus crusade | Center for Public Integrity

This gives indications of both left and right influences of donations to Universities (and by "left" I mean what passes for the 'left' in the US).

Someone openly donating money to schools with the idea that the schools teach course that reflect their ideologies, both left and right, is a far cry from "..the rich paying colleges to keep quiet..." about anything.

 

[Monk Of Reason]

Someone openly donating money to schools with the idea that the schools teach course that reflect their ideologies, both left and right, is a far cry from "..the rich paying colleges to keep quiet..." about anything.

It is buying the college to teach and instill young minds with their own ideology which is geared towards giving them an unfair advantage compared to the rest of the US population. That I think is worse than simply telling them to keep silent. I wish I had trillions of dollars to just give away so that I could instill anti-bigotry and the need for green energy but I don't have that.

 

[BSM1]

It is buying the college to teach and instill young minds with their own ideology which is geared towards giving them an unfair advantage compared to the rest of the US population. That I think is worse than simply telling them to keep silent. I wish I had trillions of dollars to just give away so that I could instill anti-bigotry and the need for green energy but I don't have that.

But this is not what the posters stated. The OP evidently was given to hyperbole and not reality. Isn't this just another example of class envy?

 

[Monk Of Reason]

But this is not what the posters stated. The OP evidently was given to hyperbole and not reality. Isn't this just another example of class envy?

It is not class envy to want equality between the classes. It is class envy if he is simply mad that they have plenty of money. I actually support higher taxes not just as a form of sustainable funding of the government but as a way to make sure that no individual or corporation becomes too large. I don't think there is any reason for any single individual to have as much money as, lets say the Koch brothers or Bill Gates. It causes a great disruption in the fabric of our economy. I didn't even know quite how much of a hold there was until I studied economics for my master's degree. If I had fifty million dollars I could fix a local economy to work for me for the foreseeable future and it would never end unless another corporation came along or a government stepped in. Much in the same way a handful of corporations pretty much own the US economy.

 

[Revoltingest]

I actually support higher taxes.......

Obviously, you're saying this just so the wealthy will buy your silence!
(Pssst.....let me know how much you get.)

 

[Monk Of Reason]

Obviously, you're saying this just so the wealthy will buy your silence!
(Pssst.....let me know how much you get.)

Darn. You got me. I get quite a lot actually. But I get paid in trident layers fruit flavored gum.

 

[Revoltingest]

Right leaning social engineers do have some competition...which Reich seems unaware of.
Special Report: George Soros: Godfather of the Left | Media Research Center
How is it that having bought the silence of the left, Soros, Salon, NPR, & so many others are still so vocal?

 

[Laika]

Someone openly donating money to schools with the idea that the schools teach course that reflect their ideologies, both left and right, is a far cry from "..the rich paying colleges to keep quiet..." about anything.

Who needs free thought when the minds of the next generation are for sale?

 

[Revoltingest]

Who needs free thought when the minds of the next generation are for sale?

Fear not....there will always be opposing forces (the loyal opposition).

 

[icehorse]

Right leaning social engineers do have some competition...which Reich seems unaware of.
Special Report: George Soros: Godfather of the Left | Media Research Center
How is it that having bought the silence of the left, Soros, Salon, NPR, & so many others are still so vocal?

The "not wealthy" 99% are woefully disorganized compared to the 1%. So yes, there are the NPRs of the world, but they (we) are not cohesive, and our messaging is muddled.