Papantonio: Conservatives Turn Colleges Into Ayn Rand Universities

[GoLeft TV]

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A few weeks ago, the story broke about how the Koch Brothers had bought themselves a position of influence at Florida State University. But the story goes far beyond both FSU and the Koch Brothers. It turns out that right wing billionaires and think tanks have been actively buying positions at universities across America for years, just so they can help push their Ayn Rand, laissez-faire capitalism ideas about corporations being righteous, and government being evil. Mike Papantonio talks about how this happened, and how the GOP is trying to indoctrinate college students with investigative journalist Daniel Denvir.

[AnnaLee]

1. MBAs over the past 10-15 years

It probably began before 10-15 years ago but that is when I started noticing it. MBAs became a must have for anyone wanting to advance in management no matter what their profession. So I saw persons morph to human resources and human capital. I saw labor treated the same as cogs in decisions on efficiency and other things.

Industry has long been driving science and engineering science research by providing the funds for research in selected areas. I have seen this used as the argument for NOT worrying about the Koch situation.

[harun]

2. The last 20 years were nothing compared to what they can do now that

they have Citizen's United to clear the way.

Which I think is why so much of this is out in the open now. They simply don't care if people know what levers of power they are working because they know no one can do anything about it.

[Chimichurri]

3. We are so f*cked. I don't like using that kind of language but that truly how serious

stuff like this is.