Reply #16: That's how successful the corporate structure has been.

[Jakes Progress]

Here on DU, many of the usual progressives stay away from these threads because they secretly buy the claims of bill bennet and new gingrich. They can't bring themselves to align publicly with these scum (though the administration has no problem doing so), therefore they stay away. Sort of like the "liberals" who think the Arizona law is really a good thing and the "progressives" who secretly support scabs in labor disputes. They've allowed their brains to soften up for the corporations and their media machines to massage. As the OP points out, these corporate eduists have plenty of money to buy willing suspension of progressive ideals.