Why Are Mainstream Charities Funding The Anti-Trump 'Resistance'?
Why Are Mainstream Charities Funding The Anti-Trump 'Resistance'?
Uncharitable Rage: Among the more volatile, extreme and dangerous political movements to arise within a major American political party in recent U.S. history is the so-called "resistance" to President Donald Trump. What's especially disappointing is finding out who is behind it.
An investigation by the Washington Free Beacon looked into the progressive community organizing group called the Center for Community Change Action (CCCA), which has spearheaded the anti-Trump "resistance." What the Beacon found by looking at the group's unredacted tax returns was surprising: Far from being funded by like-minded activists and grass-roots contributions, the anti-Trump CCCA is secretly funded by major charities with respectably wholesome, centrist images. In some cases, the charities fund other extreme left-wing activist groups, too.
Among those giving money to the CCCA — which, the Beacon notes, "has been involved in direct action against President Donald Trump and Republicans before and after the November elections" — include the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation and billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundation, which have together funneled millions of dollars to the anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican activist group.
Kellogg alone gave $3 million, while the Ford Foundation ponied up $2.3 million. Soros delivered a cool $1.75 million to the anti-Trumpistas.
And there were others, among them the California Endowment (created by the 1996 acquisition of WellPoint Health Networks by Blue Cross of California), $524,500; the Marguerite Casey Foundation (started by UPS founder Jim Casey), $515,000; and the National Immigration Law Center, $316,000.
Yes, these bland-sounding charities and others help fund the far-left "resistance," arguably damaging our democracy in the process. Sadly, in most cases, if these charities' founders were alive today, they would be deeply ashamed and, perhaps, even enraged.
So how can charities that began as dispensers of aid and advice to the needy and to local community groups have morphed into funders of chaos and anti-democratic activism, against their original founders' wishes?
Well, as with all organizations in the U.S., over time even the most well-meaning and well-run charities eventually get taken over by the far-left and progressives. It's a tried-and-true tactic, one that has worked not just in charities but in local school districts, university administrations, local governments, the federal bureaucracy, even in the arts.
And it's not an accident.
Italian Marxist-strategist Antonio Gramsci, who died in 1937, called this the "long march through the institutions." The website Discover The Networks describes the Marxist theorist's ideas thusly: "Gramsci called for Marxists to actively spread their ideology in a gradual, incremental, stealth manner, by infiltrating all existing societal institutions and embedding it, largely without being noticed, in the popular mind."
Sure, Gramsci might be obscure to you, but he isn't to the left. He's a hugely influential hero. For that matter, so was Saul Alinsky, whose Marxist-inspired "Rules for Radicals" has become something of a primer for today's activists. The link here is that, in writing his famous little book, Alinsky was basically cribbing from Gramsci's ideas.
Alinsky, by the way, was the main political influence on Hillary Clinton (who wrote her senior thesis on him), along with an entire generation of left-wing activist-politicians who rose through the ranks with her in the post-Watergate Democratic Party and now dominate.
This well-funded tactic explains why the Democratic Party, rather than acting as the loyal opposition, has gone over the top and become an actively obstructionist opposition, unwilling to compromise or cooperate at all. And it explains why Democratic Party operatives, including Democratic National Committee Chairman Thomas Perez, not to mention failed Democratic presidential candidate Clinton, have chosen to openly ally with this movement, which seeks nothing less than to undermine and overturn a U.S. election.
America's charities are at the heart of what makes America special. So it's especially sad that some have become less-than-charitable funders of division and political rage, rather than unity and political compromise. Do you know who your favorite charity gives money to?
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Sheesh, not like they colluded with the Russians... Oh wait, that was trump, never mind. Weird how that is totally ok, but funding an anti-trump "campaign", by American's, is bad? Why?
And your proof that Trump colluded with the Russians is where?
Oh thats right! You don't have any.
BTW, collusion is not illegal either.
Muller is working on that as we speak. Also, who was it that said.. "Not me or anyone in my campaign had ANY meetings with any russians!!!!"? Trump...
Kushner
Sessions
Jr.
Manafort
Flynn
Gordon
Paige.... all had meetings with the russians. If there was nothing illegal, why did they all, (including trump), lie about them? Seems odd!
Yea, first there was no collusion, now it's, "collusion isn't illegal". What next? "Well, collusion is illegal, but only on the 2nd Tuesday in January"?
And what about Jr.'s meeting? He said it was about adopting kids which was obviously a lie.....again, why lie about it if there is nothing illegal or even shady about it?
Well, when you have nothing, resort to personal attacks. Nice.
Oh wait, we are still waiting on your proof.
I guess that since they can't put up, they are going to shut up 🤐.
They won't. They'll find something out of Clintons new book "50 shades of blame" to prattle on about.
And as I said, Muller is working on that right now. Patience...patience.
Then I suggest you stop making comments like your first one. You should not make statemwnts you cann ot prove.
Don't forget, he'd have more leverage after the election, but they would have to pay Bill Clinton half a million dollars or the deal was off.
Since Jan. 26th, trump approval has never been above 46%. He is at 39.1% now. People see trump for what he is; a lying buffoon that has no clue what he is doing. It's the not the media doing it, it's trumps mouth and his actions that are doing it.
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Fake news = Anything that doesn't make trump look good.
Four warning signs of a dictatorship:
1) Hide personal assets, like tax returns, investments, property, etc...
2) Keep family members close to the administration.
3) Discredit/control/silence the media.
4) Militarize the police force to thwart any coup attempt.
That is Trump to a "T".
How is donating to a cause "damaging our democracy"? Are you suggesting we should all just, "fall in line" and blindly support trump because YOU do? Sorry man, doesn't work that way. Democracy has ALWAYS been about supporting the party YOU support. Was it damaging democracy when trump accepted donations, (after he said he never would)? How much money did the GOP sink into anti-democrat organizations? Was that ok?
One can combat this in a positive but non charity way by investing in MAGA.
"This well-funded tactic explains why the Democratic Party, rather than acting as the loyal opposition, has gone over the top and become an actively obstructionist opposition, unwilling to compromise or cooperate at all. And it explains why Democratic Party operatives, including Democratic National Committee Chairman Thomas Perez, not to mention failed Democratic presidential candidate Clinton, have chosen to openly ally with this movement, which seeks nothing less than to undermine and overturn a U.S. election.
America's charities are at the heart of what makes America special. So it's especially sad that some have become less-than-charitable funders of division and political rage, rather than unity and political compromise."
We are talking institutional butt hurt at epic proportions.
Most of the mainstream media had Hillary winning by a landslide. They still haven't gotten over it. Likely never will.
Exactly. They will never be over it.
In Canada, if a charity involves itself in any way such as endorsing or funding political campaigns their tax-free status will be cancelled.