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11.14.2003
Parrot Food Washingtonpost.com: Scaife: Funding Father of the Right: "By compiling a computerized record of nearly all his contributions over the last four decades, The Washington Post found that Scaife and his family's charitable entities have given at least $340 million to conservative causes and institutions – about $620 million in current dollars, adjusted for inflation. The total of Scaife's giving – to conservatives as well as many other beneficiaries – exceeds $600 million, or $1.4 billion in current dollars, much more than any previous estimate. " Just a quick reminder when you hear the endless prattling about Soros and his gift of $10 million dollars to Moveon.org. This right wing movement is a sham. What movement has to have millions of dollars shoveled into it every year to survive? In my mind the Republican party is the marketing arm of a few wealthy corporatists that want to turn back the clock to the days when workers put in 16 hour days, kids worked in mines and women were second class citizens. Ahhhh... those were the days! Followers of this movement have been conned nito think its legitimate because of the distorted amount of press they receive. Even though that press loses money it still stays in business? I wonder why? Well, we don't expect propaganda to make money do you. We can count the rewards in political payoffs. I wonder if right wing newsdogs can put recent republican wins on their balance sheet. "You see we lost money but we won elections in Mississippi!" "Okay, have another $3 million" I agree with this assessment: Conservatism is an employers' ideology. Every "conservative" organization is funded by large corporations or corporate foundations: Olin, Scaife, Coors, Mellon, Bradley, are among the biggest. No "left-wing" organization is so funded. "Conservatives" do ideological propaganda for corporate interests, and get paid very well to do it. If you mentally substitute the words "propagandist for employers' interests" for "conservative," you'll understand American political discourse much better. I don't use the term conservative because many people that call themselves conservative don't support this corporate agenda and in my mind they should be honest and call themselves libertarians. I would substitute Republicanism for conservatism in the above quote. Once the Democrats start to reflect the same structure as the Republicans then in effect we have two corporate funded parties dueling it out on idealogical lines. Where is the democracy in that? Any party that represents the interests of the working class will fail in a war of corporate giving. We see already that the Democrats have had to soften their message to win corporate support. That is the reason why many people are looking at the Greens as an alternative. | |
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