[TheOracleAtLilac]

think of the orgs that have been co-opted to full blown socialist agenda since the '50's - from conservative apathy

Sierra Club, League of Women Voters, ACLU, NAACP, etc, etc

I think the tide has turned (since the '94 revolution)

[darkangel82]

Add the Democratic Party to that list.

[km6xu]

think of the orgs that have been co-opted to full blown socialist agenda since the '50's - from conservative apathy... Sierra Club, League of Women Voters, ACLU, NAACP, etc...

Well said. And in this context, the GOP has really lost its way. Ask any liberal historian who was the best environmentalist ever, and most will tell you that it was Teddy Roosevelt. Ask any liberal historian who did the most for racial equality in this country, and they will tell you that it was Abraham Lincoln. Both men were real conservatives like Barry Goldwater, not posers like the neo-con-men of today. It is a shame that the GOP has abandoned such issues and given them to the Democrats.

Another writer wrote that he was embarrassed to have once been a member of the ACLU, and there were followups about how it was founded by commies. There is a huge omission here about how the ACLU changed, purging commies, then changed again. The writer should feel no shame; the ACLU was once a great organization, that, like the others listed above, lost its way big-time.