Conservatives' long-term strategy
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 19:39
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Not the GOP, mind you, or even "Republicans". But the conservatives who have realized the only way to achieve their goals is a long-term strategy, one of patience and cunning, and it's what they've been doing for decades.Quote:
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER IS ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT APPLYING THE DICTUM, "MONEY TALKS,"CONSERVATIVE FOUNDATIONS HAVE LONG BEEN BANKROLLING LIKE-MINDED THINK TANKS AND ADVOCACY GROUPS. TOGETHER, THEY HAVE EFFECTED RADICAL CHANGE
Proclaiming their movement a war of ideas, conservatives began to mobilize resources for battle in the 1960s. They built new institutional bastions; recruited, trained, and equipped their intellectual warriors; forged new weapons as cable television, the Internet, and other communications technologies evolved; and threw their resources into policy and political battles. By 1984, moderate Republican John Saloma warned of a "major new presence in American politics." If left unchecked, he accurately predicted, "the new conservative labyrinth" would pull the nation's political center sharply to the right. Today, that labyrinth is larger, more sophisticated, and increasingly able to influence what gets on and what stays off the public policy agenda. From the decision to abandon the federal guarantee of cash assistance to the poor, to changes in the federal tax structure, to interest in medical savings accounts and the privatization of Social Security, conservative policy ideas and rhetoric have come to dominate the nation's political conversation, reflecting what political scientist Walter Dean Burnham has called a "hegemony of market theology." Spearheading the assault has been a core group of 12 conservative foundations: the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Carthage Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch and Claude R. Lambe charitable foundations, the Phillip M. McKenna Foundation, the JM Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. In 1994,they controlled more than $1.1 billion in assets; from 1992-94, they awarded $300 million in grants, and targeted $210 million to support a wide array of projects and institutions. Over the last two decades, the 12 have mounted an impressively coherent and concerted effort to shape public policy by undermining and ultimately redirecting what they regard as the institutional strongholds of modern American liberalism: academia, Congress, the judiciary, executive branch agencies, major media, religious institutions, and philanthropy itself. They channeled some $80 million to right-wing policy institutions actively promoting an anti-government, unregulated markets agenda. Another $89 million supported conservative scholars and academic programs, with $27 million targeted to recruit and train the next generation of right-wing leaders in conservative legal principles, free-market economics, political journalism and policy analysis. And $41.5 million was invested to build a conservative media apparatus, support pro-market legal organizations, fund state-level think tanks and advocacy organizations, and mobilize new philanthropic resources for conservative policy change. The strong role that conservative foundations have played in shaping national and state policy debates reflects not only impressive cash reserves, but also a sophisticated funding strategy:
* Their grants are overtly and unabashedly political. They single out and support aggressive and entrepreneurial organizations committed to government rollback through the privatization of government services, deregulation of industry and the environment, devolution of authority from the federal to state and local governments, and deep cuts in federal anti-poverty spending.
*They work to build strong institutions by providing general operating support rather than project-specific funding. This unrestricted money allows gro
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The end game is essentially NeoFeudalism with a Mussolini Corpo-Fascist economic structure, side order of class warfare and the return of women and minorities to chattel status.
I *BEEN* sayin that, for a long time now, it's just that it's not so deniable now that folks (not meaning you, Niki) pooh-poohed it, denied it, enabled it or failed to stand up to it, until it has reached a point where the bastards don't feel the need to hide it no more.
And frankly I ain't in such a good temperment about it when folks who enabled it, cheered it on, helped it happen, come crying to me - the very person they sneered at and mocked, going "but but, what can we DOooo?"...
This being like, second-third time of this SAME dynamic, some of em, my response about is curt, vicious and dismissive.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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Yup, Frem, I pretty much agree. I saw the individual components, but never really put it together before, and this does it so well. It's all there, and when you PUT it all together, it becomes pretty clear. There's tons more in the paper, and it all fits.
And yup, Quote:
that's pretty much where it's gone...now what we have to see is how FAR the American people will let it go before they stand up to 'em. Hopefully!
don't feel the need to hide it no more
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Quote: "but but, what can we DOooo?"
DO - Doing - How to do it? I asked my friend MT who knows at least 100 times more than me.
He always enjoyed politics; I always ran from it. I have been part of the problem.
MT: "Chomsky knows more than anybody!
"Web sites: Raw Story, Crooks & Liars, Media Matters, and sometimes Snopes.
"Not really the NeoCons - they are the ones banging the war drums for Iran but the Rights takers are more the Theological Right.
(And some Democrats, for sure, but they are NOT the Liberals). There are a lot of mixed-up eggs in the Right's basket.
"Ignore all the talk about elections for now. Primarys don't mean anything; don't get sucked into a slug fest over which R is
worse - they're ALL horrible human beings and NONE has a snowball's chance of beating Obama. The action these days is going
on in State legislatures and the only one you can personally affect is [your state]. Concentrate your energies there."
Personal responsibility is the Truth.
Self determination triumphs over reaction.
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The fascists ( Govt control of private business ) are primarily found on the Left.
The auto industry, the student loan programs, healthcare ( although the end game by the govt is for private companies to be squeezed out, making it full blown socialized medicine instead )...
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Conspiracy Theory?
Why did Reddit ban and other websites ban and censor 'FatPeopleHate' ...people who hate fat and motivate themself to get fit and lean and healthy?
Marjorie Taylor Greene
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1378334331916156932
'...According to the CDC, the highest risk factor for covid hospitalization, ventilation, and death is OBESITY.'
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Because fat people are great for the medical industry.
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PSA: Don't click on any links in Second's posts. He's trying to fish your private information out of you.
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I don't think I saw this thread when it was fresh, new.
Reading the blathering drivel in the OP, I find their convoluted delusions to be crafted to brainwash the gullible.
To the basics, not much mention of National Defense as the primary purpose of the Federal Government, and a reduction in spending of all the other Libtard garbage they are salivating over, and machinations they are imagining. No mention of decreasing the Federal Debt or even Deficit.
No real look at the Economic Engine required to siphon off funds to pay for Government. Just a meager attempt at mentioning and intentionally misunderstanding "supply side" and "trickle down" - because the magic money confiscation is not their concern, only how they can waste (spend) it all - no matter how much they confiscate to be able to waste, it is never enough, to fund all their useless delusional Spendaholic fantasies.
When they propose a Balanced Budget, and a plan to pay down the Debt, we can start to conjure they might be dipping their toe into Reality.
It is the security provided by the National Defense, which is funded by the Free Market economic engine, which allow these Libtards to cuddle in their Libtard cribs and dream up all of these conspiracies - while rational, sensible folk are working hard to provide such security blanket and liesure time.
Not so much of that happening in Mogadishu, Burma, North Korea.
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N.Y.C. Mayor Warns Marjorie Taylor Greene to 'Be on Best Behavior' Ahead of Her Pro-Trump Rally
https://people.com/politics/nyc-mayor-warns-marjorie-taylor-greene-beh
avior-donald-trump-arraignment/
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