NEO-CONSERVATIVE SPAWNING POOL

I have bashed the evil creator of neo-liberal economics, Milton Friedman, here at Real Art on more than one occasion. His work at the University of Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s started an economic movement that eventually became so influential that his crackpot ideas are now considered by most economists and politicians to be fact. He even won a Nobel Prize for his lunacy.

Friedman is not the only Dark Lord with roots at the University of Chicago. Indeed, such evil names as John Ashcroft, Robert Bork, and Paul Wolfowitz are also associated with the school. It appears that, in addition to giving an air of intellectuality to the now fashionable steal-from-the-poor-give-to-the-rich point of view, the U of Chicago is also a spawning pool for anti-democratic Machiavellianism in general.

From a Counterpunch essay by U of C alumnus Francis Boyle:

Chicago routinely trained me and numerous other students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is precisely why so many neophyte Neo-con students gravitated towards the University of Chicago or towards Chicago Alumni at other universities. The University of Chicago became the "brains" behind the Bush Jr. Empire and his Ashcroft Police State. Attorney General John Ashcroft received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1967. Many of his "lawyers" at the Department of Injustice are members of the right-wing, racist, bigoted, reactionary, and totalitarian Federalist Society (aka "Feddies"), which originated in part at the University of Chicago.

The grand mess that this country is currently enduring is no accident; our predicament is by design, and it was first planned decades ago. For the entire essay, click here.

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