Big Government statists, Globalists, and collectivists, by every metric but one, are predominant to the limited-government conservatives.
They are superior in funds, organization, lobbbyists, and they control the dissemination of information by the main stream media, and the schools.
Of course, the one measure in which conservatives prevail is rectitude.
Truly a David vs. Goliath tale.
The progression is so common that there is a "law" that applies:
1. O'Sullivan's First Law (a.k.a. O'Sullivan's Law), paraphrased by George Will as stating that any institution that is not libertarian and classically liberal will, over time, become collectivist and statist.
a. O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. I cite as supporting evidence the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and the Episcopal Church.
The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don't like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels's Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over and the rest follows.
John O'Sullivan on O'Sullivan's First Law on National Review Online
The scenario unfolds, as follows.....
2. One hundred years ago there were only eighteen American tax-exempt private foundations. Today there are more than sixteen thousand.
3. The U.S. not-for-profit sector is the world's seventh-largest economy. The foundations sit on over five hundred billion untaxed and largely unregulated dollars. Some of the biggest foundations give away more in a year than some nations' GDP. The power of a few of these foundations rival that of our own federal government, as well as the power of countries like Russia, France, and Great Britain....and influence how, where and why money is being spent.
...more specifically toward a disturbing ideological agenda shared by many of them. We wanted to know how many of these large foundations, started by successful pro-business Americans, had turned so anti-business and in some cases downright anti-American.
4. Why were environmental organizations lobbying Washington on issues that had nothing to do with the environment? Why were labor organizations lobbying on issues that had nothing to do with workers? Why were foundations funding pro-socialist and pro-communist textbooks and lessons in schools?
5. ...beginning in the 1940s, radical elements inside the United States had recognized that there were these were the huge piles of money just sitting inside multiple large foundations and endowments all across the country. These big government collectivists, globalists, socialists, and communists realized that if they could get into positions of power, say on the boards of directors at the foundations or the endowments, they could steer the money any way they wanted. And that was exactly what they did.
6. It was like having a tray of financial syringes. Any cause that met their radical agenda received huge injections of cash. Any cause that ran counter to their agenda received huge injections of poison and found themselves beset by opposition groups with bottomless wells of support. They used their money to cozy up to politicians, influence public policy, and elect their own candidates.
7. If the people who had started many of these foundations were alive today, they'd be stunned to discover what was going on.
From the novel "Full Black," by Brad Thor
They are superior in funds, organization, lobbbyists, and they control the dissemination of information by the main stream media, and the schools.
Of course, the one measure in which conservatives prevail is rectitude.
Truly a David vs. Goliath tale.
The progression is so common that there is a "law" that applies:
1. O'Sullivan's First Law (a.k.a. O'Sullivan's Law), paraphrased by George Will as stating that any institution that is not libertarian and classically liberal will, over time, become collectivist and statist.
a. O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. I cite as supporting evidence the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and the Episcopal Church.
The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don't like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels's Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over and the rest follows.
John O'Sullivan on O'Sullivan's First Law on National Review Online
The scenario unfolds, as follows.....
2. One hundred years ago there were only eighteen American tax-exempt private foundations. Today there are more than sixteen thousand.
3. The U.S. not-for-profit sector is the world's seventh-largest economy. The foundations sit on over five hundred billion untaxed and largely unregulated dollars. Some of the biggest foundations give away more in a year than some nations' GDP. The power of a few of these foundations rival that of our own federal government, as well as the power of countries like Russia, France, and Great Britain....and influence how, where and why money is being spent.
...more specifically toward a disturbing ideological agenda shared by many of them. We wanted to know how many of these large foundations, started by successful pro-business Americans, had turned so anti-business and in some cases downright anti-American.
4. Why were environmental organizations lobbying Washington on issues that had nothing to do with the environment? Why were labor organizations lobbying on issues that had nothing to do with workers? Why were foundations funding pro-socialist and pro-communist textbooks and lessons in schools?
5. ...beginning in the 1940s, radical elements inside the United States had recognized that there were these were the huge piles of money just sitting inside multiple large foundations and endowments all across the country. These big government collectivists, globalists, socialists, and communists realized that if they could get into positions of power, say on the boards of directors at the foundations or the endowments, they could steer the money any way they wanted. And that was exactly what they did.
6. It was like having a tray of financial syringes. Any cause that met their radical agenda received huge injections of cash. Any cause that ran counter to their agenda received huge injections of poison and found themselves beset by opposition groups with bottomless wells of support. They used their money to cozy up to politicians, influence public policy, and elect their own candidates.
7. If the people who had started many of these foundations were alive today, they'd be stunned to discover what was going on.
From the novel "Full Black," by Brad Thor
