Dick DeVos is satan
So the Republicans in the state of Michigan have rounded up the most evil looking man I have ever seen run for public office. You can't see it in his photographs, but when you actually see him talk in his campaign ads you can see the evil in his face. He was the CEO of Amway, that venerable institution that makes it's money by getting normal Americans to harass their friends, neighbors and coworkers into paying service fees to order discount mail order products as part of a pyramid scam. Amway doesn't make it's money selling the goods in it's catalog, most of the profit comes from the service charges. Amway has also globalized, introducing it's scam to dozens of other countries. I heard a news report several years ago about how Amway had become so pervasive in one African country that the national economy had collapsed because no one was actually doing any jobs anymore, they were just selling foreign goods to one another through Amway. And while Amway used to sell goods that were mostly produced in the United States, they have sent a lot of their jobs and production offshore in recent years. DeVos defends the offshoring of Amway jobs as a way to save the jobs of the handful of Americans that his company still employs. Okay, I'll buy it I guess, but he is selling himself as the savior of the Michigan economy and blaming the current governor for not attracting more jobs to the state. That's a tough claim to make, that the governor is personally responsible for the economic conditions that lead to Michigan companies moving their jobs overseas, especially coming from a man that actually is directly responsible for sending several thousand Michigan jobs abroad.
Okay, so here's the kicker. Yesterday this devil, I refer to DeVos as the devil, came out in favor of teaching intelligent design in Michigan science classes. Here's a quote from a Detroit Free Press article:
"I would like to see the ideas of intelligent design -- that many scientists are now suggesting is a very viable alternative theory -- that that theory and others that would be considered credible would expose our students to more ideas, not less."
By using the term "many scientists", I can only assume that the devil meant "a few whack jobs on the fringe of scientific circles". And I can only assume that he takes the term "viable alternative theory" to mean "unsupported pseudoscience that has been largely discredited". If he were to use any other definitions for these terms one would have to assume that he just isn't informed enough about these issues, and that politicians shouldn't be making the curriculum decisions that school boards have been created to make.
As evil as DeVos is, I don't think he is a stupid man, nor does he strike me as someone who let's religion determine his world view. I have to think that his support of intelligent design is a ploy to appeal to the ignorance of Michiganders, and I fear that he can only succeed using such a strategy.
Well folks, if you live in the state of Michigan now would be a good time to draw up some kind of escape plan. Paddling across Lake Huron toward Ontario would appear to be the most viable option at present, as Ohio is little better than Michigan, and we all know what Indiana is like.
Okay, so here's the kicker. Yesterday this devil, I refer to DeVos as the devil, came out in favor of teaching intelligent design in Michigan science classes. Here's a quote from a Detroit Free Press article:
"I would like to see the ideas of intelligent design -- that many scientists are now suggesting is a very viable alternative theory -- that that theory and others that would be considered credible would expose our students to more ideas, not less."
By using the term "many scientists", I can only assume that the devil meant "a few whack jobs on the fringe of scientific circles". And I can only assume that he takes the term "viable alternative theory" to mean "unsupported pseudoscience that has been largely discredited". If he were to use any other definitions for these terms one would have to assume that he just isn't informed enough about these issues, and that politicians shouldn't be making the curriculum decisions that school boards have been created to make.
As evil as DeVos is, I don't think he is a stupid man, nor does he strike me as someone who let's religion determine his world view. I have to think that his support of intelligent design is a ploy to appeal to the ignorance of Michiganders, and I fear that he can only succeed using such a strategy.
Well folks, if you live in the state of Michigan now would be a good time to draw up some kind of escape plan. Paddling across Lake Huron toward Ontario would appear to be the most viable option at present, as Ohio is little better than Michigan, and we all know what Indiana is like.