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The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future
At a time when the national political debate is about inequality and fairness, bestselling author David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin have written an unsettling book about the distribution of power in America. Thoroughly researched and amply documented, The New Leviathan overturns the conventional wisdom about which end of the political spectrum represents the rich and powerful, and which represents the people.
The Democratic Party presents itself to the electorate as the party of working families and the poor. In the 2000 election campaign, Democrat Al Gore ran on the slogan “The People vs. the Powerful,” while President Obama describes himself as a “grassroots organizer” and a spokesman for “fairness” and “progressive change.” Such is the world of political myth. In reality, the Democrats and the Obama progressives represent the richest and most powerful political machine in American history. Backed by a near trillion-dollar treasury in America’s oldest and largest tax-exempt foundations, progressives outspend conservatives by a factor of seven to one.
In The New Leviathan , David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin examine this growing financial power of left-wing organizations and politicians. They show how left-wing foundations underwrote the political career of Barack Obama and how massive funding advantages for progressive proposals have disenfranchised American voters and shifted the national policy debate dramatically to the left. The New Leviathan draws connections between the Obama administration and progressive organizations from labor unions to media outlets to nonprofits to political groups, and shows how on key policy fronts—national security, immigration, citizenship, environment, and health care—the sheer force of left-wing financial resources has reconfigured the nation’s political agenda.
The Democratic Party presents itself to the electorate as the party of working families and the poor. In the 2000 election campaign, Democrat Al Gore ran on the slogan “The People vs. the Powerful,” while President Obama describes himself as a “grassroots organizer” and a spokesman for “fairness” and “progressive change.” Such is the world of political myth. In reality, the Democrats and the Obama progressives represent the richest and most powerful political machine in American history. Backed by a near trillion-dollar treasury in America’s oldest and largest tax-exempt foundations, progressives outspend conservatives by a factor of seven to one.
In The New Leviathan , David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin examine this growing financial power of left-wing organizations and politicians. They show how left-wing foundations underwrote the political career of Barack Obama and how massive funding advantages for progressive proposals have disenfranchised American voters and shifted the national policy debate dramatically to the left. The New Leviathan draws connections between the Obama administration and progressive organizations from labor unions to media outlets to nonprofits to political groups, and shows how on key policy fronts—national security, immigration, citizenship, environment, and health care—the sheer force of left-wing financial resources has reconfigured the nation’s political agenda.
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First published June 12, 2012
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David Horowitz
191 books332 followersDavid Joel Horowitz was an American conservative writer and activist. He was a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.
Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.
From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.
Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.
From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.
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December 20, 2012
wally has done a good job of detailing the content of this book. Its primary position is to highlight the overwhelming advantage that liberal groups have in funding their causes. It's disconcerting to realize that much of this funding is from foundations that were created by very successful and conservative capitalists. But over time, as these so-called elites passed away, their foundations were taken over by descendents whose political views were almost diametrically opposed to those of the founders. It's no small wonder that, given the financial advantages liberal causes and candidates enjoy through funding by the networks of organizations, conservatives can hold their own in so many elections. Has the tide turned permanently against them?
August 24, 2012
I had to read this book for class, but because of its allusion to Hobbes' classic, I had hopes that there was some meaningful interaction with political philosophy. It is not. It is simply an expose on the different liberal groups that promote liberal agendas and the sources of their funding. Because the word "radical" is littered throughout, the reader is apparently supposed to be frightened as a result. FoxNews in book form.
I did not find this to be a helpful contribution to the needed debate on the size and role of the state in American society.
I did not find this to be a helpful contribution to the needed debate on the size and role of the state in American society.
June 16, 2022
Deeply researched analysis exposing which side of the political spectrum is for power and which truly represents the people they are meant to serve.
July 21, 2012
the new leviathan: how the left-wing money machine shapes american politics and threatens america's future...pressure groups--united states--history...finance...(2012)
contents
1. the new leviathan
2. the making of a president
3. the progressive money machine
4. deconstructing the american identity
5. redefining national security
6. socialism by stealth
7. controlled environments
8. one nation under unions
9. a disturbing prospect
appendices
notes
acknowledgments
1. the new leviathan, begins:
this book is about a political force of unprecedented magnitude in american life. the "new leviathan" is a network of billion-dollar tax-exempt foundations and advocacy think tanks that work in concert with government unions and grassroots radical groups to make up the organizational core of the political left...
the authors claim the new leviathan's ever-growing power has already tipped the scales of the national political debate...transformed its very nature.
okay okay okay...i've heard/read things like this prior...i am not a fan of big money, big tax-exempt money masquerading as benevolent kindness, nor am i inclined to believe that ultimately, there is any difference among the powers-that-be at the top...the pyramid has multiple faces, and perhaps here is one face...one of many...
onward and upward.
update, 20 jul 12, friday evening, 8:34 p.m. e.s.t.
chapter 1 is full of figures, numbers, establishing the fact that the "progressive" left is funded like goliath...whereas david, the conservative, is getting by on peanuts...
there's some interesting statements here, 'bout soros, that feelthy-reech man who likes to use his money to make more money and influence nations...too, there is mention of a stein power-point demonstration, chock-full of deceit and misinformation, that helped soros & company line up more feelthy-reech people to throw in their lot w/the evil goliath team.
and too...another interesting statement--that in 2009, government union members outnumber the private sector.
i'd read U.S.A. Confidential recently, and in that tome, the authors speak about bureaucrat lobbyists...dass right, lobbyists for the bureaucrats...must be the dark side of the pyramid, hey? the side no one sees? i spose.
2. the making of a president
there's more big numbers here, a sort of chronological history of foundation bucks, obama's participation...big bucks...really big bucks...acorn...acorn fraud...obama's participation that eventually enabled voter fraud...stuff about voter i.d./registering at the driver's office...laws that made it difficult to check i.d.
how many politicians have been elected to their positions by fraud? said i read that other, U.S.A. Confidential, from the 50s, and the authors of that document numerous voter fraud cases. truman, lbj...courthouses going up in flames when a check is begun...
...i'd be curious to know just how these millions of dollars were actually spent...there's a bit about some program in chicago schools...big bucks...really big bucks...and no evidence of success....evidence, to the contrary, that the program, a program designed to instill hatred for all things american...that this program made things worse.
...ya think?
i am reminded again and again about Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his stories of pre-revolution russia, how he documented in his tellings an intense, animal-like hatred for all things russian...priming the pump, let's be clear...for the revolution...that is happening in this country as we move ever closer to cw2...best exemplified w/the rantings of obama's pastor, jeremiah wright...and i've said it before and i'll say it again, had some cracker stood in a robe, a burning cross in the background, hating this that the other, whatever candidate associated with that cracker would have had to withdraw from any race...
...instead, in obama's case, he is elected...how incredibly blind and deaf can people be?
here is documented the systematic denial of any socialistic roots...no no, not obama....a trail of lies and denial...a willing and passive media.
and anyone who questions the One is labelled w/hatred, racism...things are back-ass-wards, nessay pa?
a quote: the evidence is irrefutable and overwhelming that obama's path to the presidency was paved every step of the way by a network of radical organizations and political figures, and the network of multimillion-dollar foundations behind them whose plan was to work within the system and present a moderate face, in order to advance an agenda of radical change.
3. the progressive money machine
amazing...and ironic...that so many (if not all, the leviathan portion, anyway) of foundations were started with money made by capitalists, most of whom had ideology that was no where near what their foundations have evolved...
there's numbers here 100 to 1, left-thinking outfits...
another irony, this outfit started by the money from some rich right guy in colorado...it begins...its 'manager' seeks advice...from whom? the most successful foundation out there...a lefty...
too, in this chapter, there's telling that even some liberals were aghast at some of the money-giving of some foundations...so much so that--even though the foundation worried about the government looking at them--they found loopholes in the law, so they kept their tax-exempt status...
still...some of them funded anti-israel, terrorist groups...but they had to pull back, somewhat, because even the liberals were upset.
this is our world. incredible sums of money being handed out to fuel a social agenda...
4. deconstructing the american identity
....begins w/a look at obama's words..."less guarded comments he had made earlier in his career were notable for the lack of attention they received."...keynote to convention of the national council of la raza in july 2007..."12 million undocumented immigrants"...heh!...their inability to communicate is the fault of americans and "the language barriers we refuse to break down."
the answer? i'll discover...but, ummmm, is it obama-speak?
touches on ford (mostly) foundation money that pushed the latino/hispanic movement...various organizations that were started to further that agenda
touches on the arizona law that many had their panties in a twist over...the twist pushed by the groups begun w/foundation money...maldef (a group)...la raza, another...lulac, another...yet for all that, all the hullabaloo...(words like "nazi" bandied about):
"in fact, the text of sb 1070 was copied verbatim from the existing but unenforced federal law. that it could touch off a national controversy was a commentary on how far the immigration debate had shifted. that it would elicit opposition from the justice department, the chief law enforcement agency in the land, indicated how powerful the left's influence had become."
touches on sotomayer's deceit before congress....her professed ignorance of what was what...this, despite her involvement in a legal case brought by prldef against nyc police department in the 1980s."
more numbers...not only is there more left money in foundations, "the federal government in fact provides $325.3 million in funding to 501(c)3s that advance the progressive agenda and only $18,090 to one...supporting the conservative agenda."
touches on "multiculturalism"...provides some history about various programs designed to push that agenda.
5. redefining national security
begins: immigration was not the only issue where coordination among left-wing funders helped to mainstream agendas designed to undermiine the american system..." note the title of the chapter
ploughshares fund...
discusses "the left's basic approach to the cold war, which was to pressure disarmament measures on the united states but not is soviet adversary."
i'm reminded of "mccarthyism"...a time we're taught in school where a massive witch-hunt was in progress...and we're also taught there were no witches...this, despite the truth that there were, indeed, witches present.
but the same sort of 'modus operandi' was present then...it worked then, it works for the left now...appeal to fear, in that case nuclear annihilation...today, global 'climate change'.
witness, too, the venom directed at the bush administration...as if six million dead in the camps means nothing today...look at saddam's record, look at the venom directed at bush...why? the left foundations, think tanks...
touches on cirinione's rejection of the story about syria building a nuclear reactor w/help from n. korea...later intelligence video provided evidence of that cooperation...still, the man becomes an advisor to obama during the '08 run.
touches on 1999, ploughshares "became the model for the peace and security funders group...the pasfg "may avoid overtly anti-american rhetoric but its vision of a militarily disarmed and internationally diminished america is no less clear and no less destructive."
(i imagine they have a major voice in the treaty at the u.n. at the moment? the founders really blew it in that regard, providing the keys to the candy store to the senate, regarding treaties.)
touches on the "globalist agenda of tying the hands of the american gulliver in a web of international arrangements has become the official position of the obama white house."
touches on r2p..."responsibility to protect"...samantha power...touches on libya...soros...the stanley foundation...whose quarterly journal, courier, "describes the terrorists of the iranian-sponsored islamic army group hezbollah as 'freedom-fighters'."
and it certainly helps if the establishment media jumps at every chance to label every deranged nut as a member of the tea party, incredibly, i believe, the venom and vitriol directed at people who are taxed-enough-already...and the voice so often is some hollywood dimwit still high on drugs from the week before....or the establishment media...yet what do we hear from the elect? faux news! faux news! faux news! foggin assholes. sum-bitches can't think for themselves, true, all that time in front of the karaoke-machine...ah won and ah two...or wait, that was that asshole in the oval office...racism from the oval office...who'd a thunk it? and...he gets a free fucking pass...fucking obama!
touches on the contradiction of candidate/senator obama and what happened in libya...though he saw to it that there was a delay...etc
samantha power had to step back after calling for a massive military intervention on behalf of the palestinians...her solution? her target? israel. suddenly, she developed memory loss
touches on the aclu...founder, roger baldwin, "i am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion." more on immigration...how five of the hijackers overstayed their visas...lack of vigorous immigration controls...touches on the patriot act...for a number of pages...guantanamo...
touches on the asshole lawyers who photographed cia officers, who smuggled those photos to the assholes in cuba...why weren't they lined up and shot? treason. bastards. i suspect foundation money awarded them bonuses.
6. socialism by stealth
enter obama...the economy should have been the major issue...polls indicated the public wanted the economy addressed...health care ranked 8th...the one's focus? health care...
"the claim that health care is a right is a historically socialist claim and is a radical departure from america's founding principles."
and i don't believe the moneyed-elite seriously give a damn about health care for "uncle jim"--to borrow a phrase from that racist asshole in the white house, obama--rather, i think the authors of this piece have nailed it--the moneyed-elite, rather, seek to bury the u.s.a. under a burden of welfare...why? because they can, because they have the money and the leisure to do so.
touches on the failure of health care in canana, england...touches on hillary-care...other attempts...
touches on finances: "the medicare trustees reported that their program had an unfunded liability of nearly $38 trillion."
which proves the point...that the moneyed-elite do not seek health care for the sake of health care--if they honestly cared, they would have used those millions, those billions they spent pushing an agenda on...what else? health care for those without. they are the spawn of the father of lies, satan.
touches on the robert wood johnson foundation...the annie e casey foundation...the david and lucille packard foundation...
heh! this, from the 2000 campaign, from al gore , "i am not in favor of government doing it all." in 2004 kerry declined to make universal health care part of his platform...
touches on the shadow party...soros...families usa...
touches on drug importation, the politics and double-dealing there...pfizer, spent $150 million lobbying for a ban on drug importation...(and hasn't bain contributed millions to the obama campaign...the previous one? ....lane kirkland...
touches on the idea that the unions will win with what has transpired, as their dwindling ranks will grow....and only recently, was in this volume...i saw a stat that said gov-union members outnumber the private sector by 2009? well, americans have ceased to think for themselves, so what difference will those numbers mean?
touches on walmart...lobbying for universal health care...out of self-interest...corporations love regulation and gov't intrusion...and heh! the dimwits always...ALWAYS...demand that the gov't step in and regulate them some more! Ha ha ha ha ha! we're doomed.
touches on health care for america now...grassroots outfit located on k-street in d.c. that down-trodden part of the capital, i take it.
touches on rick scott, founder of columbia hospital association, demonized by the establishment media--this time cnn, left-wing anchor rick sanchez...as well as robert gibbs....obama-double-speak again.
still...23 million americans will be uninsured by 2019?...
or are those the ones that received the "opt-out" bonus from the obama-llama ding-dong?
7. controlled environments
begins...feb 2009 lisa jackson, director of epa identifies a new threat, carbon dioxide....a power grab
touches on carson's book, silent spring, "factually inaccurate and marked by alarmist rhetoric"...the environmental defense fund...although the perception that ddt is a culprit, "the evidence...supports the conclusion that there is a present need for essential uses of ddt."...findings echoed by science....but chicken-little will be heard and millions of deaths can be attributed to the fear-mongerers.
touches on alar, the alar scare...the nrdc's first major "scare" success....so why stop there?
philosophically, radical environmentalism, offshoot of marxism...herbert marcuse...anticapitalism..."it should come as no surprise, then, that a deep-rooted hostility to capitalism animates the country's leading environmental groups and activists."
...that doesn't stop them from going to bead with each other...
touches on saul alinsky...again...he receives numerous mentions.
touches on van jones...touches on the global cooling of the 70s...that failed to materialize...touches on history...scientists point to warming 1918-1940...then a cooling 1940-1965...
touches on ipcc...many of which scientists are not climate experts, at all... we visit w/gore...the beacon of restraint, what with his million dollars mansions and his jet-setting, globe-trotting lifestyle...
...i had a worker worked for me, right...young man...tried to burn down some apartments he'd worked on later...young man influenced by "environmentalism"...he was concerned about the polar bear. hello? we have a $16-trillion dollar debt. resources?
hello? anyone home?
touches on climategate...cap and trade...gets into numbers, $-amounts...the david/goliath scheme of things again.
all together now: save allie! (the lack of alligators at the north pole, a serious dilemma and if we all step up to the plate we can reverse the trend)
8. one nation under unions
wisconsin...scott walker..."one disgruntled teachers' union member sent death threats..." i wonder if the person is still working? i mean after all, it is for the children...i suspect that not only working, but can't be fired because of tenure...crazy fogging world.
again: "as late as 1960, there was not a single recognized union on the federal government."
so, like in that other, u.s.a. confidential, that spoke of lobbyists for gov-unions? state unions? i spose.
--fdr opposed unions for gov workers
samuel gompers "argued that there was no rationale for gov unions..."
george meany believed it was "impossible to bargain collectively w/the gov't." the gov is already a monopoly...
the burreau of labor statistics reports 2009, unions, public--7.9 million, private 7.4 million
"critics have long warned that collective bargaining by gov unions is inherently undemocratic, creating a system in which elected officials parcel out generous benefits and salaries to the same interests that help to elect them and keep them in power. taxpayers, otoh, are forced to subsidize agreements in whose drafting they do not participate..."
touches on the establishment media's witch-hunt of a koch bros. w/walker...who received $43,000...contrast that w/unions who donated $1.6 million to the opposition.
some history...back to fdr...
"experts point out that there is a strong coorelation between the rise of teachers' unions and the decline in college aptitude test scores. tellingly, scores fell 1st and most rapidly where t. unons took hold"
it was not a bailout of the auto-industry...it was a bailout of the union.
9. a disturbing prospect
most of this chapter is a recap of what they've presented. touches on colorado...soros activity there, a state that has gone from red to blue...the blue-print for success...
which takes us to...about the 70%-mark on the kindle...
the apendixes are a-plenty...lots of information there...pages and pages of information.
overall take on the matter
dry statistics, a bit over-whelming...but that was the point--to show that the democratic party is indeed the party of the rich, and unaccountable...provides enough to keep most curious, or to question long-held beliefs about what is what isn't...although my personal experience is that you can lead that horse to the water, splash it in its face, and still that horse will belief it's a giraffe. or something.
there's also an assortment of facts/figures/ideas i hadn't considered and for that, well-worth the read...i mean, we are provided with the agenda...there's millions...billions and billions...in carl sagan's voice...billions of dollars pushing an agenda...and that agenda is loud and over-whelming...and it seems the first to tell a lie is believed...witness the climate debacle.
the world is chock-full of irony...capitalist money made it possible for the leissure-time these elites now possess to wreck havoc...the very system that provided them a platform for preaching--they are tearing it down. the world can only end in chaos. history has shown that time and again. be prepared, be very prepared.
contents
1. the new leviathan
2. the making of a president
3. the progressive money machine
4. deconstructing the american identity
5. redefining national security
6. socialism by stealth
7. controlled environments
8. one nation under unions
9. a disturbing prospect
appendices
notes
acknowledgments
1. the new leviathan, begins:
this book is about a political force of unprecedented magnitude in american life. the "new leviathan" is a network of billion-dollar tax-exempt foundations and advocacy think tanks that work in concert with government unions and grassroots radical groups to make up the organizational core of the political left...
the authors claim the new leviathan's ever-growing power has already tipped the scales of the national political debate...transformed its very nature.
okay okay okay...i've heard/read things like this prior...i am not a fan of big money, big tax-exempt money masquerading as benevolent kindness, nor am i inclined to believe that ultimately, there is any difference among the powers-that-be at the top...the pyramid has multiple faces, and perhaps here is one face...one of many...
onward and upward.
update, 20 jul 12, friday evening, 8:34 p.m. e.s.t.
chapter 1 is full of figures, numbers, establishing the fact that the "progressive" left is funded like goliath...whereas david, the conservative, is getting by on peanuts...
there's some interesting statements here, 'bout soros, that feelthy-reech man who likes to use his money to make more money and influence nations...too, there is mention of a stein power-point demonstration, chock-full of deceit and misinformation, that helped soros & company line up more feelthy-reech people to throw in their lot w/the evil goliath team.
and too...another interesting statement--that in 2009, government union members outnumber the private sector.
i'd read U.S.A. Confidential recently, and in that tome, the authors speak about bureaucrat lobbyists...dass right, lobbyists for the bureaucrats...must be the dark side of the pyramid, hey? the side no one sees? i spose.
2. the making of a president
there's more big numbers here, a sort of chronological history of foundation bucks, obama's participation...big bucks...really big bucks...acorn...acorn fraud...obama's participation that eventually enabled voter fraud...stuff about voter i.d./registering at the driver's office...laws that made it difficult to check i.d.
how many politicians have been elected to their positions by fraud? said i read that other, U.S.A. Confidential, from the 50s, and the authors of that document numerous voter fraud cases. truman, lbj...courthouses going up in flames when a check is begun...
...i'd be curious to know just how these millions of dollars were actually spent...there's a bit about some program in chicago schools...big bucks...really big bucks...and no evidence of success....evidence, to the contrary, that the program, a program designed to instill hatred for all things american...that this program made things worse.
...ya think?
i am reminded again and again about Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his stories of pre-revolution russia, how he documented in his tellings an intense, animal-like hatred for all things russian...priming the pump, let's be clear...for the revolution...that is happening in this country as we move ever closer to cw2...best exemplified w/the rantings of obama's pastor, jeremiah wright...and i've said it before and i'll say it again, had some cracker stood in a robe, a burning cross in the background, hating this that the other, whatever candidate associated with that cracker would have had to withdraw from any race...
...instead, in obama's case, he is elected...how incredibly blind and deaf can people be?
here is documented the systematic denial of any socialistic roots...no no, not obama....a trail of lies and denial...a willing and passive media.
and anyone who questions the One is labelled w/hatred, racism...things are back-ass-wards, nessay pa?
a quote: the evidence is irrefutable and overwhelming that obama's path to the presidency was paved every step of the way by a network of radical organizations and political figures, and the network of multimillion-dollar foundations behind them whose plan was to work within the system and present a moderate face, in order to advance an agenda of radical change.
3. the progressive money machine
amazing...and ironic...that so many (if not all, the leviathan portion, anyway) of foundations were started with money made by capitalists, most of whom had ideology that was no where near what their foundations have evolved...
there's numbers here 100 to 1, left-thinking outfits...
another irony, this outfit started by the money from some rich right guy in colorado...it begins...its 'manager' seeks advice...from whom? the most successful foundation out there...a lefty...
too, in this chapter, there's telling that even some liberals were aghast at some of the money-giving of some foundations...so much so that--even though the foundation worried about the government looking at them--they found loopholes in the law, so they kept their tax-exempt status...
still...some of them funded anti-israel, terrorist groups...but they had to pull back, somewhat, because even the liberals were upset.
this is our world. incredible sums of money being handed out to fuel a social agenda...
4. deconstructing the american identity
....begins w/a look at obama's words..."less guarded comments he had made earlier in his career were notable for the lack of attention they received."...keynote to convention of the national council of la raza in july 2007..."12 million undocumented immigrants"...heh!...their inability to communicate is the fault of americans and "the language barriers we refuse to break down."
the answer? i'll discover...but, ummmm, is it obama-speak?
touches on ford (mostly) foundation money that pushed the latino/hispanic movement...various organizations that were started to further that agenda
touches on the arizona law that many had their panties in a twist over...the twist pushed by the groups begun w/foundation money...maldef (a group)...la raza, another...lulac, another...yet for all that, all the hullabaloo...(words like "nazi" bandied about):
"in fact, the text of sb 1070 was copied verbatim from the existing but unenforced federal law. that it could touch off a national controversy was a commentary on how far the immigration debate had shifted. that it would elicit opposition from the justice department, the chief law enforcement agency in the land, indicated how powerful the left's influence had become."
touches on sotomayer's deceit before congress....her professed ignorance of what was what...this, despite her involvement in a legal case brought by prldef against nyc police department in the 1980s."
more numbers...not only is there more left money in foundations, "the federal government in fact provides $325.3 million in funding to 501(c)3s that advance the progressive agenda and only $18,090 to one...supporting the conservative agenda."
touches on "multiculturalism"...provides some history about various programs designed to push that agenda.
5. redefining national security
begins: immigration was not the only issue where coordination among left-wing funders helped to mainstream agendas designed to undermiine the american system..." note the title of the chapter
ploughshares fund...
discusses "the left's basic approach to the cold war, which was to pressure disarmament measures on the united states but not is soviet adversary."
i'm reminded of "mccarthyism"...a time we're taught in school where a massive witch-hunt was in progress...and we're also taught there were no witches...this, despite the truth that there were, indeed, witches present.
but the same sort of 'modus operandi' was present then...it worked then, it works for the left now...appeal to fear, in that case nuclear annihilation...today, global 'climate change'.
witness, too, the venom directed at the bush administration...as if six million dead in the camps means nothing today...look at saddam's record, look at the venom directed at bush...why? the left foundations, think tanks...
touches on cirinione's rejection of the story about syria building a nuclear reactor w/help from n. korea...later intelligence video provided evidence of that cooperation...still, the man becomes an advisor to obama during the '08 run.
touches on 1999, ploughshares "became the model for the peace and security funders group...the pasfg "may avoid overtly anti-american rhetoric but its vision of a militarily disarmed and internationally diminished america is no less clear and no less destructive."
(i imagine they have a major voice in the treaty at the u.n. at the moment? the founders really blew it in that regard, providing the keys to the candy store to the senate, regarding treaties.)
touches on the "globalist agenda of tying the hands of the american gulliver in a web of international arrangements has become the official position of the obama white house."
touches on r2p..."responsibility to protect"...samantha power...touches on libya...soros...the stanley foundation...whose quarterly journal, courier, "describes the terrorists of the iranian-sponsored islamic army group hezbollah as 'freedom-fighters'."
and it certainly helps if the establishment media jumps at every chance to label every deranged nut as a member of the tea party, incredibly, i believe, the venom and vitriol directed at people who are taxed-enough-already...and the voice so often is some hollywood dimwit still high on drugs from the week before....or the establishment media...yet what do we hear from the elect? faux news! faux news! faux news! foggin assholes. sum-bitches can't think for themselves, true, all that time in front of the karaoke-machine...ah won and ah two...or wait, that was that asshole in the oval office...racism from the oval office...who'd a thunk it? and...he gets a free fucking pass...fucking obama!
touches on the contradiction of candidate/senator obama and what happened in libya...though he saw to it that there was a delay...etc
samantha power had to step back after calling for a massive military intervention on behalf of the palestinians...her solution? her target? israel. suddenly, she developed memory loss
touches on the aclu...founder, roger baldwin, "i am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion." more on immigration...how five of the hijackers overstayed their visas...lack of vigorous immigration controls...touches on the patriot act...for a number of pages...guantanamo...
touches on the asshole lawyers who photographed cia officers, who smuggled those photos to the assholes in cuba...why weren't they lined up and shot? treason. bastards. i suspect foundation money awarded them bonuses.
6. socialism by stealth
enter obama...the economy should have been the major issue...polls indicated the public wanted the economy addressed...health care ranked 8th...the one's focus? health care...
"the claim that health care is a right is a historically socialist claim and is a radical departure from america's founding principles."
and i don't believe the moneyed-elite seriously give a damn about health care for "uncle jim"--to borrow a phrase from that racist asshole in the white house, obama--rather, i think the authors of this piece have nailed it--the moneyed-elite, rather, seek to bury the u.s.a. under a burden of welfare...why? because they can, because they have the money and the leisure to do so.
touches on the failure of health care in canana, england...touches on hillary-care...other attempts...
touches on finances: "the medicare trustees reported that their program had an unfunded liability of nearly $38 trillion."
which proves the point...that the moneyed-elite do not seek health care for the sake of health care--if they honestly cared, they would have used those millions, those billions they spent pushing an agenda on...what else? health care for those without. they are the spawn of the father of lies, satan.
touches on the robert wood johnson foundation...the annie e casey foundation...the david and lucille packard foundation...
heh! this, from the 2000 campaign, from al gore , "i am not in favor of government doing it all." in 2004 kerry declined to make universal health care part of his platform...
touches on the shadow party...soros...families usa...
touches on drug importation, the politics and double-dealing there...pfizer, spent $150 million lobbying for a ban on drug importation...(and hasn't bain contributed millions to the obama campaign...the previous one? ....lane kirkland...
touches on the idea that the unions will win with what has transpired, as their dwindling ranks will grow....and only recently, was in this volume...i saw a stat that said gov-union members outnumber the private sector by 2009? well, americans have ceased to think for themselves, so what difference will those numbers mean?
touches on walmart...lobbying for universal health care...out of self-interest...corporations love regulation and gov't intrusion...and heh! the dimwits always...ALWAYS...demand that the gov't step in and regulate them some more! Ha ha ha ha ha! we're doomed.
touches on health care for america now...grassroots outfit located on k-street in d.c. that down-trodden part of the capital, i take it.
touches on rick scott, founder of columbia hospital association, demonized by the establishment media--this time cnn, left-wing anchor rick sanchez...as well as robert gibbs....obama-double-speak again.
still...23 million americans will be uninsured by 2019?...
or are those the ones that received the "opt-out" bonus from the obama-llama ding-dong?
7. controlled environments
begins...feb 2009 lisa jackson, director of epa identifies a new threat, carbon dioxide....a power grab
touches on carson's book, silent spring, "factually inaccurate and marked by alarmist rhetoric"...the environmental defense fund...although the perception that ddt is a culprit, "the evidence...supports the conclusion that there is a present need for essential uses of ddt."...findings echoed by science....but chicken-little will be heard and millions of deaths can be attributed to the fear-mongerers.
touches on alar, the alar scare...the nrdc's first major "scare" success....so why stop there?
philosophically, radical environmentalism, offshoot of marxism...herbert marcuse...anticapitalism..."it should come as no surprise, then, that a deep-rooted hostility to capitalism animates the country's leading environmental groups and activists."
...that doesn't stop them from going to bead with each other...
touches on saul alinsky...again...he receives numerous mentions.
touches on van jones...touches on the global cooling of the 70s...that failed to materialize...touches on history...scientists point to warming 1918-1940...then a cooling 1940-1965...
touches on ipcc...many of which scientists are not climate experts, at all... we visit w/gore...the beacon of restraint, what with his million dollars mansions and his jet-setting, globe-trotting lifestyle...
...i had a worker worked for me, right...young man...tried to burn down some apartments he'd worked on later...young man influenced by "environmentalism"...he was concerned about the polar bear. hello? we have a $16-trillion dollar debt. resources?
hello? anyone home?
touches on climategate...cap and trade...gets into numbers, $-amounts...the david/goliath scheme of things again.
all together now: save allie! (the lack of alligators at the north pole, a serious dilemma and if we all step up to the plate we can reverse the trend)
8. one nation under unions
wisconsin...scott walker..."one disgruntled teachers' union member sent death threats..." i wonder if the person is still working? i mean after all, it is for the children...i suspect that not only working, but can't be fired because of tenure...crazy fogging world.
again: "as late as 1960, there was not a single recognized union on the federal government."
so, like in that other, u.s.a. confidential, that spoke of lobbyists for gov-unions? state unions? i spose.
--fdr opposed unions for gov workers
samuel gompers "argued that there was no rationale for gov unions..."
george meany believed it was "impossible to bargain collectively w/the gov't." the gov is already a monopoly...
the burreau of labor statistics reports 2009, unions, public--7.9 million, private 7.4 million
"critics have long warned that collective bargaining by gov unions is inherently undemocratic, creating a system in which elected officials parcel out generous benefits and salaries to the same interests that help to elect them and keep them in power. taxpayers, otoh, are forced to subsidize agreements in whose drafting they do not participate..."
touches on the establishment media's witch-hunt of a koch bros. w/walker...who received $43,000...contrast that w/unions who donated $1.6 million to the opposition.
some history...back to fdr...
"experts point out that there is a strong coorelation between the rise of teachers' unions and the decline in college aptitude test scores. tellingly, scores fell 1st and most rapidly where t. unons took hold"
it was not a bailout of the auto-industry...it was a bailout of the union.
9. a disturbing prospect
most of this chapter is a recap of what they've presented. touches on colorado...soros activity there, a state that has gone from red to blue...the blue-print for success...
which takes us to...about the 70%-mark on the kindle...
the apendixes are a-plenty...lots of information there...pages and pages of information.
overall take on the matter
dry statistics, a bit over-whelming...but that was the point--to show that the democratic party is indeed the party of the rich, and unaccountable...provides enough to keep most curious, or to question long-held beliefs about what is what isn't...although my personal experience is that you can lead that horse to the water, splash it in its face, and still that horse will belief it's a giraffe. or something.
there's also an assortment of facts/figures/ideas i hadn't considered and for that, well-worth the read...i mean, we are provided with the agenda...there's millions...billions and billions...in carl sagan's voice...billions of dollars pushing an agenda...and that agenda is loud and over-whelming...and it seems the first to tell a lie is believed...witness the climate debacle.
the world is chock-full of irony...capitalist money made it possible for the leissure-time these elites now possess to wreck havoc...the very system that provided them a platform for preaching--they are tearing it down. the world can only end in chaos. history has shown that time and again. be prepared, be very prepared.
August 3, 2018
"In the conventional view, it is Republicans an the political right with their corporate sponsors and big-money donors who make up the 'party of the rich,' while progressives speak for the powerless and the poor. In this perspective, conservatives are agents of an economic 'ruling class,' organized to defend its social privileges. ...
"While casting conservatives as mouthpieces for the rich, the same perspective portrays Democrats as the party of 'working Americans and their families,' providing a voice for the voiceless and a shield for the disadvantaged. ... Al Gore summed up this outlook in a slogan: 'They're for the powerful; we're for the people!'" (p.2)
"As a Republican newspaper in Tennessee complained, 'The rank and file of the democratic party honestly believes...the democratic party is the poor man's party, that the republican party is the party of boodle and corruption..." (p.3)
"Far from being the party of the people, Democrats and their progressive core represent America's social and cultural elites and constitute the richest, the most organized, and most economically powerful political force in American history. As Cristopher Caldwell observed in a New York Times essay, 'the Democratic Party is the party to which elites belong. It is the party of Harvard (and most of the Ivy League), of Microsoft and Apple (and most of Silicon Valley), of Hollywood and Manhattan (and most of the media) and, ... of Goldman Sachs (and most of the investment banking profession).... The democrats have the support of more, and more active, billionaires [than the Republicans]. Of the twenty richest ZIP codes in America, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, 19 gave the bulk of their money to the Democrats in the last election.....'" (p.4-5)
These excerpts from the first chapter make the point of the book. The rest of its pages document the dollars and demonstrate the impact of Leftist foundation money on national identity and policy.
Chapter 1: The institutionalization and clout of Leftist war chests. Based on 2010 figures, foundation assets of 115 Leftist foundations = $104.56 Billion; assets of 82 Conservative foundations = $10.29 Billion.
Chapter 2: Leftist influences on the young Barack Obama, and Leftist agencies (like the Woods Fund, the Midwest Academy, the Joyce Foundation, ACORN) where Obama built his political experience and support.
Chapter 3: The stories of major Foundations which were founded by Conservative philanthopists and hijacked by heirs and/or administrators who now direct the foundation assets to funding Leftist causes. The Woods Fund, Pew Trusts, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ray Kroc Trust, the Howard Heinz Endowments, the Ford Foundation, the (Bill) Daniels Fund.
Chapter 4: Impact of Leftist funding on American identity vs multiculturalism, open borders, and immigrant advocacy. Ford Foundation featured.
Chapter 5: Impact of Leftist funding on foreign policy and national defense. Ploughshare Foundation featured.
Chapter 6: Impact of Leftist funding on health care programs and single payer policies. Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, Families USA, and unions AFL-CIO, SEIU featured.
Chapter 7: Environmentalism - Funding foundations, advocacy organizations, government regulators, university researchers, and green energy beneficiaries.
Chapter 8: Government employee unions - Income and asset streams to Leftist causes and nonprofits [these government grants and in kind assets are IN ADDITION TO the foundation donations disclosed in pubic records] , pension burdens to taxpayers, myth of underpaid 'public servants,' unaccountable bureaucrats. ("Buffalo, New York, had the same number of public workers in 2006 as it did in 1950--despite having lost half its population in the intervening decades..." p.166)
Chapter 9: "The Colorado Model:" Features the Democracy Alliance and shows how in 2006 it deployed $16.5 million dollars to seven fields of influence aimed at converting Colorado from a Red to a Blue state. "Although registered Democrats were only the state's third-largest voting bloc behind Independents and Republicans, by 2008 Democrats had overturned nearly a decade of Republican control to win the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, a US Senate seat, and two US House seats." (p.176)
Appendices: Nearly 100 pages of foundation net assets, grants awarded, and annual revenue for (in most cases) 2009. Presented by chapter categories and in the aggregate.
"While casting conservatives as mouthpieces for the rich, the same perspective portrays Democrats as the party of 'working Americans and their families,' providing a voice for the voiceless and a shield for the disadvantaged. ... Al Gore summed up this outlook in a slogan: 'They're for the powerful; we're for the people!'" (p.2)
"As a Republican newspaper in Tennessee complained, 'The rank and file of the democratic party honestly believes...the democratic party is the poor man's party, that the republican party is the party of boodle and corruption..." (p.3)
"Far from being the party of the people, Democrats and their progressive core represent America's social and cultural elites and constitute the richest, the most organized, and most economically powerful political force in American history. As Cristopher Caldwell observed in a New York Times essay, 'the Democratic Party is the party to which elites belong. It is the party of Harvard (and most of the Ivy League), of Microsoft and Apple (and most of Silicon Valley), of Hollywood and Manhattan (and most of the media) and, ... of Goldman Sachs (and most of the investment banking profession).... The democrats have the support of more, and more active, billionaires [than the Republicans]. Of the twenty richest ZIP codes in America, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, 19 gave the bulk of their money to the Democrats in the last election.....'" (p.4-5)
These excerpts from the first chapter make the point of the book. The rest of its pages document the dollars and demonstrate the impact of Leftist foundation money on national identity and policy.
Chapter 1: The institutionalization and clout of Leftist war chests. Based on 2010 figures, foundation assets of 115 Leftist foundations = $104.56 Billion; assets of 82 Conservative foundations = $10.29 Billion.
Chapter 2: Leftist influences on the young Barack Obama, and Leftist agencies (like the Woods Fund, the Midwest Academy, the Joyce Foundation, ACORN) where Obama built his political experience and support.
Chapter 3: The stories of major Foundations which were founded by Conservative philanthopists and hijacked by heirs and/or administrators who now direct the foundation assets to funding Leftist causes. The Woods Fund, Pew Trusts, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ray Kroc Trust, the Howard Heinz Endowments, the Ford Foundation, the (Bill) Daniels Fund.
Chapter 4: Impact of Leftist funding on American identity vs multiculturalism, open borders, and immigrant advocacy. Ford Foundation featured.
Chapter 5: Impact of Leftist funding on foreign policy and national defense. Ploughshare Foundation featured.
Chapter 6: Impact of Leftist funding on health care programs and single payer policies. Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, Families USA, and unions AFL-CIO, SEIU featured.
Chapter 7: Environmentalism - Funding foundations, advocacy organizations, government regulators, university researchers, and green energy beneficiaries.
Chapter 8: Government employee unions - Income and asset streams to Leftist causes and nonprofits [these government grants and in kind assets are IN ADDITION TO the foundation donations disclosed in pubic records] , pension burdens to taxpayers, myth of underpaid 'public servants,' unaccountable bureaucrats. ("Buffalo, New York, had the same number of public workers in 2006 as it did in 1950--despite having lost half its population in the intervening decades..." p.166)
Chapter 9: "The Colorado Model:" Features the Democracy Alliance and shows how in 2006 it deployed $16.5 million dollars to seven fields of influence aimed at converting Colorado from a Red to a Blue state. "Although registered Democrats were only the state's third-largest voting bloc behind Independents and Republicans, by 2008 Democrats had overturned nearly a decade of Republican control to win the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, a US Senate seat, and two US House seats." (p.176)
Appendices: Nearly 100 pages of foundation net assets, grants awarded, and annual revenue for (in most cases) 2009. Presented by chapter categories and in the aggregate.
April 27, 2019
I don't think I am the target audience for this book. This is garnered by the authors mentioning the "Black Panthers and other radical groups" at least twice, which is supposed to bring up shock and horror for the reader who remembers the Black Panthers...... (not the New Black Panthers; the ones from the 1960's, after Jim Crow laws were struck down, after police refused to intervene in neighborhoods with black people and where the group tried to make sure the community stayed a community with schools, daycare and food pantries.)
I don't think I am the target audience for this book. Citizens United was a Supreme Court case decided in 2010. This book was written in 2012. Nothing in the book mentions the case or the resulting increase in PACs, which increased money in politics. The closest this book got to mentioning it was on p. 178 of my library copy as "speaking truth to power". The book also is one-third appendices and notes/index (beginning on p. 182), so it's actually quite short.
Because this is a right-wing book, their perspectives are obviously "right wing" (Who knew?), but also gives "facts" that are completely wrong, like English being the "official language" (we don't have any official language, English is just the most common).
I got the idea that the authors were more frustrated with: Obama. That the foundations support Obama, the foundations support "left-wing" causes, the foundations that support progressive causes have more money than other foundations that support conservative causes, and generally "we're not the problem because we don't have that much to put into this"; or "It's not fair that the other side has more money than our side does". Do the authors support getting money out of politics? Probably only to the extent that it doesn't hurt their causes.
I would like to know what the difference is between Obamacare and Hillarycare. Hillarycare is described as "a 1,267-page legislative behemoth that if passed would have forced all Americans to purchase health insurance and would have socialized one-seventh of the American economy by forcing private businesses to provide health care to their workers through government-run plans." Other than the subsidies for people who make a particular amount, is there any difference?
I'm concerned that the authors brought up the unions, who lobbied for safer work conditions, and then indicated that the unions weren't needed because of the laws they had lobbied for. I'm concerned that the authors brought up the EPA and the regulations in the 1970's, which put the reason for polluted air and water on the industries - and then jumped to emissions declining throughout the 1990's..... but without the EPA and regulations, would the industries have declining emissions? It's concerning.
I don't think I am the target audience for this book. Citizens United was a Supreme Court case decided in 2010. This book was written in 2012. Nothing in the book mentions the case or the resulting increase in PACs, which increased money in politics. The closest this book got to mentioning it was on p. 178 of my library copy as "speaking truth to power". The book also is one-third appendices and notes/index (beginning on p. 182), so it's actually quite short.
Because this is a right-wing book, their perspectives are obviously "right wing" (Who knew?), but also gives "facts" that are completely wrong, like English being the "official language" (we don't have any official language, English is just the most common).
I got the idea that the authors were more frustrated with: Obama. That the foundations support Obama, the foundations support "left-wing" causes, the foundations that support progressive causes have more money than other foundations that support conservative causes, and generally "we're not the problem because we don't have that much to put into this"; or "It's not fair that the other side has more money than our side does". Do the authors support getting money out of politics? Probably only to the extent that it doesn't hurt their causes.
I would like to know what the difference is between Obamacare and Hillarycare. Hillarycare is described as "a 1,267-page legislative behemoth that if passed would have forced all Americans to purchase health insurance and would have socialized one-seventh of the American economy by forcing private businesses to provide health care to their workers through government-run plans." Other than the subsidies for people who make a particular amount, is there any difference?
I'm concerned that the authors brought up the unions, who lobbied for safer work conditions, and then indicated that the unions weren't needed because of the laws they had lobbied for. I'm concerned that the authors brought up the EPA and the regulations in the 1970's, which put the reason for polluted air and water on the industries - and then jumped to emissions declining throughout the 1990's..... but without the EPA and regulations, would the industries have declining emissions? It's concerning.
March 11, 2024
Much of the content is dated to the Obama era but worth reading for realizing the capital of the left are tax exempt foundations and public sector unions. Ironically these foundations were created by conservative businessmen to avoid estate taxes like the Ford family but were taken over by left wing activists or heirs who did not share the founders’ views because to get tax exemption they must be governed by a board and unlike a for-profit do not face consumer feedback or like a political action committee campaign finance laws. Something similar happened to James O’Keefe’s ouster from Project Veritas. These organizations dwarf the nonprofit right by a factor of at least ten of one in areas like environment, foreign policy, healthcare, and national identity discussed in the chapters.
Public sector unions were originally opposed by progressives like FDR and within the labor movement because the government unlike the private sector is a monopoly and ultimately is elected so public unions lobby to get favorable politicians and policies at public expense using Alinskyite tactics to implement the Cloward-Piven strategy to fiscally overwhelm the system to demand more radical change. The labor movement was centered in blue-collar trades and industry but has since become white collar, feminized and college educated so more culturally left-wing. This situation has changed since the Janus decision making representation dues voluntary, but obstacles remain as workers are still covered by collective bargaining contracts against their will. That would require legislative changes however.
The book does not propose policy solutions, but the trouble is when non profit groups abuse their status and get involved in politics, whether by lobbying or lawfare. Presumably tightening non-profit standards would be the answer if not ending this privileged status and applying tax and campaign finance laws. But more fundamentally the book should dispel illusions about nonpartisanship or neutrality in the nonprofit world.
Public sector unions were originally opposed by progressives like FDR and within the labor movement because the government unlike the private sector is a monopoly and ultimately is elected so public unions lobby to get favorable politicians and policies at public expense using Alinskyite tactics to implement the Cloward-Piven strategy to fiscally overwhelm the system to demand more radical change. The labor movement was centered in blue-collar trades and industry but has since become white collar, feminized and college educated so more culturally left-wing. This situation has changed since the Janus decision making representation dues voluntary, but obstacles remain as workers are still covered by collective bargaining contracts against their will. That would require legislative changes however.
The book does not propose policy solutions, but the trouble is when non profit groups abuse their status and get involved in politics, whether by lobbying or lawfare. Presumably tightening non-profit standards would be the answer if not ending this privileged status and applying tax and campaign finance laws. But more fundamentally the book should dispel illusions about nonpartisanship or neutrality in the nonprofit world.
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May 30, 2012At a time when the national political debate is about inequality and fairness, bestselling author David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin have written an unsettling book about the distribution of power in America. Thoroughly researched and amply documented, The New Leviathan overturns the conventional wisdom about which end of the political spectrum represents the rich and powerful, and which represents the people.
The Democratic Party presents itself to the electorate as the party of working families and the poor. In the 2000 election campaign, Democrat Al Gore ran on the slogan “The People vs. the Powerful,” while President Obama describes himself as a “grassroots organizer” and a spokesman for “fairness” and “progressive change.” Such is the world of political myth. In reality, the Democrats and the Obama progressives represent the richest and most powerful political machine in American history. Backed by a near trillion-dollar treasury in America’s oldest and largest tax-exempt foundations, progressives outspend conservatives by a factor of seven to one.
In The New Leviathan, David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin examine this growing financial power of left-wing organizations and politicians. They show how left-wing foundations underwrote the political career of Barack Obama and how massive funding advantages for progressive proposals have disenfranchised American voters and shifted the national policy debate dramatically to the left. The New Leviathan draws connections between the Obama administration and progressive organizations from labor unions to media outlets to nonprofits to political groups, and shows how on key policy fronts—national security, immigration, citizenship, environment, and health care—the sheer force of left-wing financial resources has reconfigured the nation’s political agenda.
The Democratic Party presents itself to the electorate as the party of working families and the poor. In the 2000 election campaign, Democrat Al Gore ran on the slogan “The People vs. the Powerful,” while President Obama describes himself as a “grassroots organizer” and a spokesman for “fairness” and “progressive change.” Such is the world of political myth. In reality, the Democrats and the Obama progressives represent the richest and most powerful political machine in American history. Backed by a near trillion-dollar treasury in America’s oldest and largest tax-exempt foundations, progressives outspend conservatives by a factor of seven to one.
In The New Leviathan, David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin examine this growing financial power of left-wing organizations and politicians. They show how left-wing foundations underwrote the political career of Barack Obama and how massive funding advantages for progressive proposals have disenfranchised American voters and shifted the national policy debate dramatically to the left. The New Leviathan draws connections between the Obama administration and progressive organizations from labor unions to media outlets to nonprofits to political groups, and shows how on key policy fronts—national security, immigration, citizenship, environment, and health care—the sheer force of left-wing financial resources has reconfigured the nation’s political agenda.
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