The Democracy Initiative grew out of conversations in recent years among Radford, Brune, CWA president Larry Cohen, and NAACP president Ben Jealous. ("We all have a knitting class together," Brune jokes.) Brune says the four men bemoaned how the dysfunctional political process was making it impossible for their groups to achieve their goals. "We're not going to have a clean-energy economy," he says, "if the same companies that are polluting our rivers and oceans are also polluting our elections."
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."
that rag gets non-profit status as a non-partisan org.... how?
One of their main goals is to “get big money out of politics,” and to achieve that goal many attendees promised to donate “millions of dollars.” I can only conclude that they are trying to figure out ways to keep CONSERVATIVE money out of politics, while they continue to have free reign.
We should be able to beat the snot out of the left and all the Republicans can do is give us RINO's to vote for.
Why bother?
“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.”
Could have fooled me! I would say that exactly the opposite has happened. And as for their democracy initiative? seems to promise the socialist dream, not Democracy.
I hope they understand that their plans are leading to massive bloodshed and crushing poverty for everyone.
Who is John Galt?
What? The GOP wasn’t there adding their two cents? Extra ordinarily extraordinary.
The left will never sleep, will never let up, until the Constitution, traditional America, and Christianity are all destroyed, and we are slaves of the new world order - a one-world government, run by the left, for the left, with boots on the necks of everyone else, with all of mankind entering a new dark age.
The only thing standing in the way of the grand plan is 150 million bubbas with guns
This is just too easy...
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I dont add you to the list...
Wait, isn't it conservatives turn? I thought the libs had been doing that for a few decades now.
Ping for later, but just let me say this for now, THANKS Mother Jones for removing any and all doubt that the NEA is anything other than a hard left organization.
Leftist / Socialist plan bump for later.........
Since corporations run this country they will get nowhere on the first two. On the third, who cares? Since the politicians do the bidding of the corporations, who cares who elects them? Who cares if they are elected by liberals or conservatives? They will all eventually bow down before the almighty campaign dollar and do the bidding of their corporate owners.
Pretty much every major corporation is on-board with affirmative action, the gay agenda, multiculturalism, etc.
Any conservative who believes he is supporting the free market system by going to bat for corporations is just being a useful idiot for crony capitalists who will give him a job if he has a skill which can't be replaced by a robot or illegal alien, but meanwhile undermine his moral and cultural beliefs through amoral corporate directives.
"They all have a plan --- until they get hit." - Mike Tyson