Marketwatch is reporting tonite, via Wall St Journal, that Jerry Falwell Jr, head of fundamentalist Liberty University, has been tapped to lead a “task force” on how to reform the US Department of Education. O-M-G….
“The main thing that he is seeking to do for the task force is to eliminate what he sees as excessive regulation of educational institutions,” Len Stevens, the Liberty spokesman, said Tuesday.
Wait! There’s more...
As head of the task force, Falwell would have a chance to reshape the government’s relationship with colleges and universities. “I’ve seen firsthand what the Department of Education is doing to college and universities, using the leverage of financial aid to micromanage college and schools with regulations that are overly burdensome,” he said during an interview with the Journal late last year. “Those are my particular areas of interest.”
Maybe this is what all the shock and awe has been about this week — to wear out our resistors for the destruction of public education in America.
This whole election looks to be a “deal” between Trump and the religious right. In exchange for letting Trump and the Oligarchs pillage our public assets (selling off land, privatizing SS, healthcare, etc), you get whatever you want — Supreme Court, control of healthcare, education — the whole “Seven Mountains” goal of the Dominionists.
God, please save us from your followers.