Back in the 1980s, some conservatives began distinguishing between old-school, New Deal welfare statists like a Ted Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey or a Lyndon Johnson and the ‘Lunatic Left,’ the hardcore Marxist Left that had emerged from the universities in the 1960s. The former group ‘only’ wanted to tax and regulate capitalism; the latter group wanted to destroy it and replace it with as much totalitarian government control and domination that they could get away with in American society. They wanted the Sovietization of America, in other words. Indeed, many of them traveled to the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other socialist hellholes and returned to write books and articles about what a great utopia they had witnessed, as documented in the book Political Pilgrims by Paul Hollander. Unlike the old New Deal Cold Warriors, they were anything but anti-communist.
James Bennett and I wrote a 560-page book, published in 1985, entitled Destroying Democracy: How Government Funds Partisan Politics that discusses many of these characters, including one Robert Creamer, who has been all over the news recently for being videotaped bragging about how he orchestrates election fraud for the Democratic Party (See ‘Project Veritas’). The book was about the illegal use of tax dollars to subsidize mostly (but not exclusively) left-wing political pressure groups. The government gives them tax dollars under some noble-sounding guise like fighting poverty, helping the elderly, etc.; they use the tax dollars to lobby and agitate for bigger government, more regulation, and higher taxes instead; when they succeed the government then shares the loot with them and the cycle repeats itself. And it is all illegal.
This post was published at Lew Rockwell on October 22, 2016.
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