Earlier this week in my blog for the Huffington Post, I called out the MoveOn.org and the Turn Off Fox News crowd for not going far enough to help turn off the money pipeline to Tea Party Extremists. It's time to boycott the folks that are funding the political extremism that has killed politics in this country for the last thirty years, and is only accelerating.
Earlier this week in my blog for the Huffington Post, I called out the MoveOn.org and the Turn Off Fox News crowd for not going far enough to help turn off the money pipeline to Tea Party Extremists.
There are several big donors to the Tea Party movement. Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. and its Fox "News" network are big donors and propaganda distributors, but the Koch Brothers who run a private empire and the Mellon/Scaife families of Pittsburgh, PA., WALMART, Exxon-Mobil, Thomas Monaghan and Mark A. Skoda all fuel the douche baggers either directly, or by funneling the money to Right-Wing think-tanks and PACs that can provide them logistical and public relations support.
MoveOn's boycott of Target after its political donations in Minnesota was effective enough to get change in a more moderate and publicly traded company. These guys are hard-core fascists and opportunists who run fiefdoms largely shareholder-free.
The Fox News boycott wasn't enough. We need to boycott all News Corp. properties. Turn them off. Don't go to a Fox distributed or produced movie. Don't buy a Fox box set of 24 and turn off Football for a day or two and the numbers guys will crap their pants. Mr. Murdoch is not an ideologue so much as he is a shameless opportunist. Give him enough political wind that powers down his empire and he will flow with that breeze, as he did in the 1970s.
The Koch Brothers own a privately held conglomerate which owns everything from Georgia Pacific lumber to Brawny paper towels. David Koch ran as the Libertarian candidate to the Right of Ronald Freakin' Reagan. For these guys, nothing but a hard-line boycott that impacts their bottom line is going to stop them from pouring the lion's share of the money into the Tea Party movement.
As much as I'm no Republican, and the destruction of the Republican Party by the douche baggers may seem like long-term good news for our side, it's not.
The Democratic party is busting at the seams with people who spectrally are moderate Republicans. A lot of the grid lock in D.C. is because the Democratic tent is so big it represents too much of the political spectrum. Restore sanity to their process, and you break the Reagan/Lee Atwater legacy of stoking the Right's grass roots organizing with whack-jobs, wingnuts, and weird warriors of alleged "virtue."
The list of who contributes and the products that they make that are worthy of consideration for boycott can be found in this article.
We may be helpless to stop funding terrorism through our gas tanks, but we sure as hell can quit buying Brawny and pass on "Wall Street" and the other upcoming Fox Films