They probably got goodies for their corporate buddies in return for rolling over. Remember how both sides said, “the corporate faction and the Democrats were, “ working together to get things done”?
It has been going on for some time.
- Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
- Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
- Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
- Gain control of all student newspapers.
- Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
- Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, and policymaking positions. …
— W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist (1958), Chapter 12, “Current Communist Goals”
- Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
- Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
- Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures. …