GOP Propaganda machine....Four Sisters Funded

[serryjw]

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Well, it's all well and good to raise that money to spend on advertising and yard signs and travel and rallies and campaign staff and e-mail and snail mail and website maintenance and all the trappings that go with politicking for election every two years or four years. But the conservatives are spending big money every day, all year round -- and have been for years -- to win the hearts and minds of the electorate every day, all year round -- and have been for years -- not just every two years or four years. That's why many on the political left and in the political middle think that the Democrats need to be getting on with finding the funds to begin a "vast left-wing conspiracy."
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The "Four Sisters"

In 1973, in response to the Powell memo, Joseph Coors and Christian-right leader Paul Weyrich founded the Heritage Foundation. Coors told Lee Edwards, historian of the Heritage Foundation, that the Powell memo persuaded him that American business was "ignoring a crisis." In response, Coors decided to help provide the seed funding for the creation of what was to become the Heritage Foundation, giving $250,000. <2> From David Greenberg's New York Times review of Edwards' book, The Power of Ideas:
http://www.eurolegal.org/greendogdem/gdd1204/20041213gdd.htm

[MissMarple]

1. I was explaining this to the girl child just yesterday.

Especially about the Heritage Foundation, the American Spectator and about the original leftist philosophy of the neocons.

[serryjw]

3. IMHO opinion

this is OUR problem. They are so organized, well funded they don't stop and we ignor everything until elections

[MissMarple]

4. Dems tend to spread the money out more. How Democratic.

More concentration and organization would help quite a bit, though. Air America Radio is a step in the right direction, as have been the creation of more progressive think tanks. But these things take time, although probably not as much time for us as the right wing effort did. They "plowed the road", so to speak.

[NMDemDist2]

2. kick n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

5. kick again...