"Achievetrons" -- The Harvard wunderkinds (a.k.a. "the best and the brightest") who followed President John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1961 hung around the map tables long enough to point the country in the direction of the Vietnam War. Henry Kissinger, another Harvard prodigy, imparted to American statecraft the modus operandi of a Mafia cartel. The Reagan Administration imported its book of revelation from the University of Chicago's School of Economics ("privatization" the watchword, "unfettered free market" the Christian name for Zeus) and by so doing set in motion what lately has come to be seen as a long-running Ponzi scheme. Take into account the Ivy League's contributions to the Bush administration.......imagine a doctoral thesis commissioned by the Kennedy School of Government and meant to determine which of the country's leading institutions of higher learning over the past fifty year has done the most damage to the health and happiness of the American people.
Maybe it's time for someone from Sacramento State, like me. I couldn't possibly do any worse.
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