Wiki Leaks Reveals How Billionaire 'Progressives' Run The Democratic Party
WikiLeaks: Among the curiosities spewed from John Podesta's email by WikiLeaks is an intriguing memo to a group of billionaires that outlines the real goals of the Democratic Party's progressive wing. Turns out they don't want to rig an election, they want to rig the whole system — demographics, politics, the media, everything.
The idea that the Democratic Party is the party of the "little man," as the old term would have it, is one of the great fallacies of our time, as this memo clearly shows.
The Democratic Party has been captured by the interests of a handful of left-leaning billionaires and cash-rich labor unions who see the party as a way to impose their progressive vision on all of us, without us even knowing it.
This, no doubt, explains why Clinton's Campaign Chairman Podesta has become so indispensable to Clinton's run for the presidency. He is the ultimate insider link between Clinton and the billionaire moneymen who fund her and much of the progressive movement.
The 2007 Podesta memo, "Strategic Outlook For The 2008 Elections," was sent to progressive billionaire heavy-hitters George and Jonathan Soros, Peter and Jonathan Lewis, Herb and Marion Sandler, Steve Bing, John Sperling and Soros fund executive and political go-between Michael Vachon.
But it's about much more than just 2008. As the Daily Caller's Peter Hasson notes, the memo "lays out the longterm progressive strategy to dominate American politics by creating an 'echo chamber' to control public discourse and changing American demographics to make them more 'advantageous.' "
This is not your father's — or your mother's — Democratic Party, which once hewed sensibly to the middle of the political spectrum. No, the "progressive" Democratic Party has turned into a giant grievance-machine premised on welfare for all, higher taxes on the most-productive Americans based on class warfare, and an ongoing attempt to separate Americans by race, gender, class, income, religion and geography.
Read the memo. Theirs is a vision of a balkanized America of competing interests, which can only be managed by an all-controlling central government that distributes the benefits of citizenship.
Some of the tactics described strike one as more than slightly Orwellian in nature. In a section titled "Controlling the Dialogue, Messaging and Media," Podesta laments that the "structure of using outside forces to control the messaging and the debate in the campaign is almost nonexistent."
He continues: "Ever since the 1996 Clinton campaign discovered the soft money loophole in the campaign finance law to run 'issue ads' that pummeled Bob Dole before he even got the nomination, national and local television campaigns have been waged using non-federal dollars."
By the way, Podesta's "outreach," if it can be called that, to billionaires wasn't limited to just this one memo. It goes far beyond that.
For instance, Podesta, a former top advisor to Barack Obama, in 2008 recommended billionaire hedge-fund manager and climate-change extremist Tom Steyer to be Obama's first energy secretary, according to the hacked emails. Why is that important? As the Huffington Post wrote earlier this month, "Podesta is expected to stick with Clinton if she is elected, and it wouldn't be surprising if he throws Steyer's name in the mix for a cabinet spot again." Of course not.
Steyer's aide, Chris Lehane, sent Podesta an email in 2014 on a climate change policy that could be used as a political bludgeon against Republican candidates.
"We hope this is helpful and stand ready to support whatever you need," Lehane wrote in an email to Podesta.
So powerful is Steyer — who has donated at least $34 million to Democrat-linked leftist and green causes since the 2014 political season — that the Democratic National Committee's extreme official position on climate change, which would virtually shut down American industry, was dictated virtually word-for-word by a Steyer funded "fact sheet."
Other memos from the Podesta-WikiLeaks trove show the Democrats' extreme deference to the ultrarich, despite their hypocritical expressions of concern about the working class.
At one point in 2014, Clinton's current campaign manager, Robbie Mook, complains in one email about having to send Hillary to fundraisers for "political reasons (i.e., to make Soros happy)." Soros turns out to be the elephant in every Democratic room.
Meanwhile, Soros functionary Michael Vachon continued to have extraordinary access, thanks to his billionaire boss's generosity to Democrats. He "frequently emailed Mr. Podesta to schedule phone calls and meetings and relay his boss's policy positions," noted Fox News. "Many of the messages were brief or mysterious."
By the way, Soros has spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars on various open-border and immigrant projects. Is it any wonder that Hillary Clinton, behind the scenes, tells her millionaire Wall Street audiences that she's a proponent of "open borders"?
This is the real world of progressive politics: Billionaires, big shots, insiders, Washington elites, big unions, all colluding to fracture our democracy into pieces and set one group of Americans against another, for maximum political benefit and power. To this end, they give hundreds of millions of dollars to the Democratic Party, ignore or insult the Constitution, and treat the U.S. political system as a personal toy with which to radically change the very fabric of our nation. http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/wikileaks-reveals-the-billionaire-progressives-that-run-the-democratic-party/
The idea that the Democratic Party is the party of the "little man," as the old term would have it, is one of the great fallacies of our time, as this memo clearly shows.
The Democratic Party has been captured by the interests of a handful of left-leaning billionaires and cash-rich labor unions who see the party as a way to impose their progressive vision on all of us, without us even knowing it.
This, no doubt, explains why Clinton's Campaign Chairman Podesta has become so indispensable to Clinton's run for the presidency. He is the ultimate insider link between Clinton and the billionaire moneymen who fund her and much of the progressive movement.
The 2007 Podesta memo, "Strategic Outlook For The 2008 Elections," was sent to progressive billionaire heavy-hitters George and Jonathan Soros, Peter and Jonathan Lewis, Herb and Marion Sandler, Steve Bing, John Sperling and Soros fund executive and political go-between Michael Vachon.
But it's about much more than just 2008. As the Daily Caller's Peter Hasson notes, the memo "lays out the longterm progressive strategy to dominate American politics by creating an 'echo chamber' to control public discourse and changing American demographics to make them more 'advantageous.' "
This is not your father's — or your mother's — Democratic Party, which once hewed sensibly to the middle of the political spectrum. No, the "progressive" Democratic Party has turned into a giant grievance-machine premised on welfare for all, higher taxes on the most-productive Americans based on class warfare, and an ongoing attempt to separate Americans by race, gender, class, income, religion and geography.
Read the memo. Theirs is a vision of a balkanized America of competing interests, which can only be managed by an all-controlling central government that distributes the benefits of citizenship.
Some of the tactics described strike one as more than slightly Orwellian in nature. In a section titled "Controlling the Dialogue, Messaging and Media," Podesta laments that the "structure of using outside forces to control the messaging and the debate in the campaign is almost nonexistent."
He continues: "Ever since the 1996 Clinton campaign discovered the soft money loophole in the campaign finance law to run 'issue ads' that pummeled Bob Dole before he even got the nomination, national and local television campaigns have been waged using non-federal dollars."
By the way, Podesta's "outreach," if it can be called that, to billionaires wasn't limited to just this one memo. It goes far beyond that.
For instance, Podesta, a former top advisor to Barack Obama, in 2008 recommended billionaire hedge-fund manager and climate-change extremist Tom Steyer to be Obama's first energy secretary, according to the hacked emails. Why is that important? As the Huffington Post wrote earlier this month, "Podesta is expected to stick with Clinton if she is elected, and it wouldn't be surprising if he throws Steyer's name in the mix for a cabinet spot again." Of course not.
Steyer's aide, Chris Lehane, sent Podesta an email in 2014 on a climate change policy that could be used as a political bludgeon against Republican candidates.
"We hope this is helpful and stand ready to support whatever you need," Lehane wrote in an email to Podesta.
So powerful is Steyer — who has donated at least $34 million to Democrat-linked leftist and green causes since the 2014 political season — that the Democratic National Committee's extreme official position on climate change, which would virtually shut down American industry, was dictated virtually word-for-word by a Steyer funded "fact sheet."
Other memos from the Podesta-WikiLeaks trove show the Democrats' extreme deference to the ultrarich, despite their hypocritical expressions of concern about the working class.
At one point in 2014, Clinton's current campaign manager, Robbie Mook, complains in one email about having to send Hillary to fundraisers for "political reasons (i.e., to make Soros happy)." Soros turns out to be the elephant in every Democratic room.
Meanwhile, Soros functionary Michael Vachon continued to have extraordinary access, thanks to his billionaire boss's generosity to Democrats. He "frequently emailed Mr. Podesta to schedule phone calls and meetings and relay his boss's policy positions," noted Fox News. "Many of the messages were brief or mysterious."
By the way, Soros has spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars on various open-border and immigrant projects. Is it any wonder that Hillary Clinton, behind the scenes, tells her millionaire Wall Street audiences that she's a proponent of "open borders"?
This is the real world of progressive politics: Billionaires, big shots, insiders, Washington elites, big unions, all colluding to fracture our democracy into pieces and set one group of Americans against another, for maximum political benefit and power. To this end, they give hundreds of millions of dollars to the Democratic Party, ignore or insult the Constitution, and treat the U.S. political system as a personal toy with which to radically change the very fabric of our nation. http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/wikileaks-reveals-the-billionaire-progressives-that-run-the-democratic-party/
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The democrat party has become an alliance of the very rich and very educated and the poor and poorly educated against the middle and working class with a high school diploma through a 4 yr college degree. A top down and bottom up approach to smashing the middle class.