How can MoveOn.org _absorb_ $5 million? this seems a recipe for organizational
gigantism and even old-fashioned corruption!
(the latter refers to politicians who take bribes (broadly defined), feathering their
own nests rather than representing the movements they claim to speak for. This comment
is for those academics who quibble about the meaning of words all the time. This is
not a claim that the word has an absolute meaning, since no such meaning is possible.)
Jim
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Subject: [PEN-L] The Rise of the Neo-Centrics
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***** Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:48:47 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: The Rise of the Neo-Centrics
2003 has seen the rise of a new current in U.S. politics, best
described as NeoCentrics, or simply NeoCens, for ease of comparison
with a better known defection of Socialists to the Conservative
Right. Although allied with longtime social democrats (who were once
distinguished by whether they accepted secret funding in bags from
John A. McCone's office or Armand Hammer's office), the NeoCens are
former radical critics of "lesser-evilism" who have decided a year
before the 2004 election that the whiff of fascism is in the air.
Funding for a few of the Neo-Cens comes from George Soros, who
subsidizes some of the Neo-Cen luminaries and publications. He told
the Washington Post on Tuesday, Nov. 18, that a day before he gave
five million dollars to MoveOn.org to benefit Howard Dean. He has
donated more modest sums to other Democratic candidates and had
already given 10 million dollars in August to "America Coming
Together," or ACT.
