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The education machine constructed by right wing politics and discourses has been of great concern for some time, especially during the Bush administration. However, actions by the Obama administration have further accelerated that reeducation machine by maintaining legislation like NCLB and support for educational corporations. This paper describes how this hypercapitalist conservative machine continues to use forms of signification and resource redistribution as mechanisms of power, masks cultural and intellectual diversity, co-opts identities, and corporatizes all aspects of education (including the ways we construct and understand learning) to interpret them as competition, privatization, and profiteering. Politicians from both (or all) political parties may be so attached to the tentacles of hypercaptialism that radical thought and actions are necessary to save and construct education that is socially just, equitable, and democratic.

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