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This is the Tom Hartman program.

What is the real right-wing agenda in America?

I'm arguing that right-wing billionaires in the GOP want a nation of uneducated,

compliant serfs. Russell Kirk wrote about this in 1952 in his book, The Conservative Mind,

in which he said that, you know, from a conservative viewpoint that society needs orders and

classes. It's another way of saying basically a caste system in society. This is, you know,

this is kind of a takeoff on the old Calvinist or neo-Calvinist argument.

Well, actually, it wasn't John Calvin who said this. It was his followers, but now it's part of

Calvinist doctrine. Calvinist doctrine is that, first of all, they believe in predestination. So,

in other words, the moment you're born, your entire future has already been mapped out,

according to Calvinist theology. The Calvinist Church is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Probably it's most famous members are the divorce family, for example. Mr. Prince,

Eric Prince, Rand Blackwater, and Betsy DeVos, you know, our education secretary.

And they believe that God determines your fate and future even before you're born,

and that our job is to try to figure out who are the good people among us versus who are the

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