and, naturally, reflects their top down agenda as well as their determination to cripple the Democratic Party. These people are moles.
Julia Conley at Common Dreams highlights the Revolving Door Project’s exposure of who’s funding the Abundance-waterlogged “Welcome” Party, and its latest shindig, the Welcome Fest. Wouldn’t you know it is the usual suspects?
Among the contributions to Welcome’s PAC:
–2.5 million from James, the slightly more moderate and connected-to-reality Murdoch, and his wife.
–$150, 000 from Walton heiress Carrie Walton Penner , whose particular anti-democracy obsession is undermining public education.
And on and on. With this cast of characters, Democrats who want to win have been warned.
No, Ezra Klein and Jim Thompson, despite what your Jabberwocky “Abundance” manual claims, it’s not regulations that are preventing private corporations from working for working and middle-class America. That is sheer oligarchal cant. Regulations protect the public interest and prevent the oligarchs from running roughshod over everything.