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Authors: Newt Gingrich
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the future. There’s a reason for that:
while secular socialism is the intellectual mindset of the left-wing party bosses and politicians, it is not the worldview of the vast majority of Americans. It would be impossible to build a governing majority around such an alien ideology.
But secular socialists know the bigger and more powerful government gets, the more politicians can use its power to benefit their supporters. In other words, secular socialism doesn’t win power because it’s a compelling vision for the future; it’s just a convenient way to pay off members of their coalition and bribe new ones into joining. And the more power secular-socialist politicians have, both in elected positions and in the bureaucracies, the better these coalition members can be fed from the public trough.
The secular-socialist machine is diverse. Trial lawyers are among the biggest donors to left-wing Democrats, who return the favor by preventing tort reform. This allows the lawyers to continue suing doctors and businessmen and women for huge sums of money that the lawyers then donate to left-wing Democrats.
Union bosses are another key machine component. They donate money to secular socialists from compulsory member dues and “encourage” their members to man phone banks and conduct get-out-the-vote operations. They expect their candidates, once in power, to change laws to give union organizers even more leverage against the businesses they are bankrupting, as well as to prevent reform of our union-dominated public bureaucracies, like education.
“Social justice” groups like the corrupt ACORN organization have received public dollars to perform voter registration drives that are really just operations to turn out voters for far-left Democrats, who gratefully steer more money toward groups like ACORN. Although ACORN’s long history of fraud has finally put it out of business, the group’s branches are now reorganizing to continue the same scam under new names.
And finally, big business hedges its bets by funding big-government supporters in both parties, hoping they will craft legislation that gives big business an advantage over its competitors.
There is one name for this kind of cynical cronyism and crass political manipulation: machine politics.
The way the Left govern in Sacramento, Albany, in many local governments, and especially in Washington is clearly indicative of a machine. When a $787 billion stimulus package can pass in days with no elected official having read the bill, it is evidence of a machine. When a 300-page amendment can be attached at 3:00 am to a bill passed at 4:00 that afternoon with no hearings and no amendments (the maneuver that bought enough votes to pass the Waxman-Markey energy tax), it is evidence of a machine. When 4,500 pages of healthcare bills affecting one-sixth of the economy are negotiated in secret, bypassing the normal open bill resolution process, it is evidence of a machine. When New York City mayor Bloomberg reports, as he did on Meet the Press , that no senators or congressmen he had talked with knew what was in the health bill they had voted for, it is clearly evidence of a machine.
Today, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Left are indisputably secular, they are socialist, and they operate as a machine. Therefore, “secularsocialist machine” is the most accurate way—in fact, the only accurate way—of describing the movement that now controls our government.
WHY SECULAR SOCIALISM NEEDS A MACHINE
Once the Left’s values and goals are clear, their secular-socialist agenda will be crushed in free and fair elections. To avoid this repudiation, they have to build a political machine that is too powerful
to be defeated by popular anger. That is the Chicago model of “unrepresentative government.”
Union funding for politicians who will eliminate the right to a secret ballot when voting to form a union is a classic example of machine politics. This effort stems from the difficulty
while secular socialism is the intellectual mindset of the left-wing party bosses and politicians, it is not the worldview of the vast majority of Americans. It would be impossible to build a governing majority around such an alien ideology.
But secular socialists know the bigger and more powerful government gets, the more politicians can use its power to benefit their supporters. In other words, secular socialism doesn’t win power because it’s a compelling vision for the future; it’s just a convenient way to pay off members of their coalition and bribe new ones into joining. And the more power secular-socialist politicians have, both in elected positions and in the bureaucracies, the better these coalition members can be fed from the public trough.
The secular-socialist machine is diverse. Trial lawyers are among the biggest donors to left-wing Democrats, who return the favor by preventing tort reform. This allows the lawyers to continue suing doctors and businessmen and women for huge sums of money that the lawyers then donate to left-wing Democrats.
Union bosses are another key machine component. They donate money to secular socialists from compulsory member dues and “encourage” their members to man phone banks and conduct get-out-the-vote operations. They expect their candidates, once in power, to change laws to give union organizers even more leverage against the businesses they are bankrupting, as well as to prevent reform of our union-dominated public bureaucracies, like education.
“Social justice” groups like the corrupt ACORN organization have received public dollars to perform voter registration drives that are really just operations to turn out voters for far-left Democrats, who gratefully steer more money toward groups like ACORN. Although ACORN’s long history of fraud has finally put it out of business, the group’s branches are now reorganizing to continue the same scam under new names.
And finally, big business hedges its bets by funding big-government supporters in both parties, hoping they will craft legislation that gives big business an advantage over its competitors.
There is one name for this kind of cynical cronyism and crass political manipulation: machine politics.
The way the Left govern in Sacramento, Albany, in many local governments, and especially in Washington is clearly indicative of a machine. When a $787 billion stimulus package can pass in days with no elected official having read the bill, it is evidence of a machine. When a 300-page amendment can be attached at 3:00 am to a bill passed at 4:00 that afternoon with no hearings and no amendments (the maneuver that bought enough votes to pass the Waxman-Markey energy tax), it is evidence of a machine. When 4,500 pages of healthcare bills affecting one-sixth of the economy are negotiated in secret, bypassing the normal open bill resolution process, it is evidence of a machine. When New York City mayor Bloomberg reports, as he did on Meet the Press , that no senators or congressmen he had talked with knew what was in the health bill they had voted for, it is clearly evidence of a machine.
Today, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Left are indisputably secular, they are socialist, and they operate as a machine. Therefore, “secularsocialist machine” is the most accurate way—in fact, the only accurate way—of describing the movement that now controls our government.
WHY SECULAR SOCIALISM NEEDS A MACHINE
Once the Left’s values and goals are clear, their secular-socialist agenda will be crushed in free and fair elections. To avoid this repudiation, they have to build a political machine that is too powerful
to be defeated by popular anger. That is the Chicago model of “unrepresentative government.”
Union funding for politicians who will eliminate the right to a secret ballot when voting to form a union is a classic example of machine politics. This effort stems from the difficulty
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