Ominous Politics John s Saloma III was the first president of the Ripon Society.Travel Malidves For A Perfect Vacation
Ominous Politics John s Saloma III was the first president of the Ripon Society, the organization of liberal Republicans that has faded from the political spectacle as the Reaganites took bridle of the GOP. In this short main division published only in paperback, Saloma left an important legacy for everyone who is mattered about returning to a society of fairness, opportunity and progress Saloma, who died in 1983 pieced together the interlocking relationships of rich, radical-right-wing Americans and the various organizations they have assembled to carry gone out their agenda to destroy all the best liberal reforms established in the last half-century. Simply at consulting the index, a reader can trace the connections of of the like kind angels of the right as Richard Mellon Scaife, Joseph Coors and Roger Milliken; their hired fire-arms like Reed Larson, Richard Viguerie and Jesse Helms, and as it is instruments of their insidious power, the National Right to Work Committee, Heritage Foundation and National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). A major impression created by dint of this carefully documented book is of the unlimited cash a few individuals have to invest in promoting their reactionary program for America. Just single example will suggest the profundity and complexity of these connections: Richard Mellon Scaife, whose fortune approachs largely from the Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh and united of its many coporate shoots Gulf Oil Corp. Fre from the necessity to work for a living, Scaife has helped finance the Heritage Foundation, the reactionary center that has provided near of President Reagan's most notorious appointees; the Foundation for American Communications, created to improve business connections to the media and to further conservative economic policies; Accuracy in Media, the right wing's agent for intimidating pres and television, and at least 20 more organizations that further reactionary causes. The total impact of the Saloma inquiry is to indicate that the far right is intolerant of delivered intellectual inquiry, a free pres a delivered and strong trade union motion diverse religious practices and any federal direction action to protect these First Amendment rights. If the make subordinates of "Ominous Politics" gain any more political and economic power, all of us who cherish freedom and believe we must continue to build a faithfully liberal, fair society are in serious danger. COPYRIGHT 1986 AFL-CIO |
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