From Don's link:

"So the conservatives decided not to get angry, but to get power.

"Led by Joseph Coors and a handful of other ultra-rich funders, they decided the only way to seize control of the American political agenda was to infiltrate and take over one of the two national political parties, using their own think tanks like the Coors-funded Heritage Foundation to mold public opinion along the way. Now they regularly get their spokespeople on radio and television talk shows and newscasts, and write a steady stream of daily op-ed pieces for national newspapers. They launched an aggressive takeover of Dwight Eisenhower's "moderate" Republican Party, opening up the "big tent" to invite in groups that had previously been considered on the fringe. Archconservative neo-Christians who argue the Bible should replace the Constitution even funded the startup of a corporation to manufacture computer-controlled voting machines, which are now installed across the nation. And Reverend Moon took over The Washington Times newspaper and UPI.

"Their efforts, as we see today, have borne fruit, as Kevin Phillips predicted they would in his prescient 1969 book "The Emerging Republican Majority," and as David Brock so well documents in his book "Blinded By The Right."


I've read your link several times and to me the problem, Don, is that that ain't us. A coalition of like minds and the wherewithal to act upon it is not easy to set up or maintain.

Perhaps in large cities it would be possible but I don't see it happening in towns or in rural areas until we see protests already out on the streets. At that point we might join. It's just not likely that a small group will be heard. I haven't heard of your group, for instance.