Eventually every advocacy group becomes corrupted. The Sierra Club started out with noble aims as did MADD. Now they are just power hungry money grubbers. The same thing has happened to the NRA. The executives of any “non-profit” entity will eventually find that being a player in big government is far more lucrative than asking people for money.
You got that exactly right!
The supposed “cause” is only important in the beginning. After that, it’s power politics as usual.
“The Sierra Club started out with noble aims....”
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That’s pure BS!
The Sierra Club was always intended to destroy individual rights, and especially property rights.
The NRA never once stood up for individual gun rights. They brokered the 1968 atrocity, and most of what has followed.
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