1/10/14

Plan to annihilate GOP on track

A month after President Barack Obama won reelection, top brass from three dozen of the most powerful groups in liberal politics met at the headquarters of the National Education Association (NEA), a few blocks north of the White House. Brought together by the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Communication Workers of America (CWA), and the NAACP, the meeting was invite-only and off-the-record. Despite all the Democratic wins in November, a sense of outrage filled the room as labor officials, environmentalists, civil rights activists, immigration reformers, and a panoply of other progressive leaders discussed the challenges facing the left and what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement. "It was so exciting," says Michael Brune, the Sierra Club's executive director. "We weren't just wringing our hands about the Koch brothers. We were saying, 'I'll put in this amount of dollars and this many organizers.'"


The liberal activists have dubbed this effort the Democracy Initiative. Greenpeace's Phil Radford notes that for decades conservatives have aimed to shrink local, state, and federal governments by reforming the rules so they could install like-minded politicians, bureaucrats, and judges. Radford calls it "a 40-plus-year strategy by the Scaifes, Exxons, Coors, and Kochs of the world…to take over the country." [Andy Kroll, Revealed: The Massive New Liberal Plan to Remake American Politics, Mother Jones]















5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope you're right, LK. I pray to the Creator you are!

LK

Anonymous said...

C(LIE)MATE



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larry kurtz said...

LK: if you want to compose a guest post just let me know.

Climate denier: your link is as bogus as your opinion.

Anonymous said...

Why thank you. I appreciate that. And maybe I will here in the future.

LK

Anonymous said...

Not a denier but think cooling will be more of a concern. climate has been changing since beginning. We must pay more attention to our surface pollution(water,soil) as this is beginning of life(ALL).