The “United Way” has become the secular version of tithing. The “charities” selected are politically very one sided.
All promoted by the State, and radio and TV stations have to carry the ads as a “public service”.
Very nasty. The whole FCC should be eliminated, except for keeping track of spectrum property rights, just like we keep track of real estate.
United Way has always been a fundraising entity for left-wing causes.
I was the UW campaign guy in our office for a few years in the early 1980's. Then I got to sit on the United Way allocations committee for our area. We were deciding which local charities should receive funds.
The allocations committee and process were incredibly skewed to liberal causes. I swore after seeing the allocations process I would never give to the United Way again. If fact, I became an ardent opponent of the United Way as their biases became ever worse.
I now regard the United Way as an evil arm of the Democrat Party.
I had a district manager who coerced every manager under him to donate 1% of gross earnings to United Way so he could brag about his wonderful leadership skills.