The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0307716457
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
At a time when the national political debate is about inequality and fairness, bestselling author David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin have written an unsettling book about the distribution of power in America. Thoroughly researched and amply documented, The New Leviathan overturns the conventional wisdom about which end of the political spectrum represents the rich and powerful, and which represents the people.
The Democratic Party presents itself to the electorate as the party of working families and the poor. In the 2000 election campaign, Democrat Al Gore ran on the slogan “The People vs. the Powerful,” while President Obama describes himself as a “grassroots organizer” and a spokesman for “fairness” and “progressive change.” Such is the world of political myth. In reality, the Democrats and the Obama progressives represent the richest and most powerful political machine in American history. Backed by a near trillion-dollar treasury in America’s oldest and largest tax-exempt foundations, progressives outspend conservatives by a factor of seven to one.
In The New Leviathan, David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin examine this growing financial power of left-wing organizations and politicians. They show how left-wing foundations underwrote the political career of Barack Obama and how massive funding advantages for progressive proposals have disenfranchised American voters and shifted the national policy debate dramatically to the left. The New Leviathan draws connections between the Obama administration and progressive organizations from labor unions to media outlets to nonprofits to political groups, and shows how on key policy fronts—national security, immigration, citizenship, environment, and health care—the sheer force of left-wing financial resources has reconfigured the nation’s political agenda.
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Should damn. It is no mere coincidence that some of the leading Afrocentrist ideologues in Chicago were invited to address both Annenberg Challenge–funded teacher training sessions and Wright’s congregation at Trinity United Church.41 As well as overseeing the funding of such radical programs, Obama used his position to repay Ayers’s political favor in appointing him to chair the Annenberg Challenge board. During Obama’s chairmanship, the fund gave $264,000 to an Ayers-run initiative called the.
Foundation was to dodge the IRS’s steep estate tax. In 1935, the federal government raised the tax on estates over $50 million to 70 percent, but the law retained a provision for a tax exemption for bequests to charitable, religious, and educational organizations. The Fords responded by creating a foundation in January of 1936. The arrangement placed 95 percent of company stock under the charge of the foundation. Although Edsel Ford initially envisioned small-scale philanthropic goals, the.
Obama campaign.12 It is a reflection on human vanity that the Left actually believes it is the people’s David to the Right’s Goliath. A recent display of this misplaced self-esteem was the now-famous PowerPoint presentation that former White House official Rob Stein screened for George Soros, Clinton political operatives, and Democratic funders as the 2004 election approached. The PowerPoint was called “The Conservative Message Machine’s Money Matrix,” and Stein’s goal was to persuade Democratic.
Leading environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Wildlife Federation52 and ten of the country’s largest government unions, among them the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Communications Workers of America, the American Federation of Teachers, the United Auto Workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association. Merging the agenda of environmentalists and government unions, the Blue Green.
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