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Republicans have gotten a lot of grief over the years for being the party of "big business," for supposedly valuing greed over compassion, and for using money for their own nefarious ends rather than giving it to charity. But in fact many of the owners of big businesses are ardent liberals and funnel billions of dollars into organizations that attack capitalism and work for radical environmentalist causes and open borders. Phil Kent argues that these left-wing foundations constitute an "invisible government," Consider the leader of the pack, the Ford Foundation. What started out as a benign philanthropy became, by the mid-1960s, a funnel to radical left-wing causes. It contributed vast sums to the black separatists of the Congress of Racial Equality, the Castroite Mexican-American Youth Organization, which preached revolution and racial hatred, and La Raza, a Hispanic group pushing for open borders. Then there’s billionaire George Soros, who says that "the main obstacle to a stable and just world is the United States," and, Kent claims, "latch[es] onto trendy initiatives without ever evaluating the impact." The Rockefeller Foundation launched Alfred Kinsey’s misleading study of American sexual behavior, and, together with many other groups, has made large donations to pro-abortion and pro-homosexual organizations. Left-wing foundations, most importantly the National Association of Evangelicals, have even worked their way into some Christian groups with calls to make environmentalism the great moral issue of our time. The various Carnegie entities, although they funded excellent educational pursuits at first, now exclusively promote left-wing causes. For many years they controlled the American Council on Education and several encyclopedias. Kent notes that in these encyclopedias articles on both "left" and "right" subjects are always assigned to leftists. The Washington-based Capital Research Center has determined that leftist groups receive about 14.5 times as much money annually from corporate groups as do conservative groups. This disparity, Kent argues, indicates the foundation sector is ripe for reform. Foundations that don’t want their original charitable mission subverted by future trustees should aim to eventually shut down while accelerating spending on key goals. The IRS needs to remove the tax-exempt status of flagrantly partisan groups. Republicans and Democrats can work together to resist the "invisible government" by requiring greater oversight over the questionable activities of foundations in the political realm and passing narrowly tailored laws to curb abuses. (Zoe Publications, LLC, 2007, 176 pp, $24.95) |
much of which is devoted to changing traditional values and the American way of life. Foundations of Betrayal brings to light disturbing facts about many major foundations and suggests ways to curb their power in the future.
