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Front Groups Advance Partisan Goals

Several organizations, ostensibly formed for racial, gender, religious or other purposes have created a sense of crisis within the United States since the election of 2016. Many of the concerns expressed are less about ideological dissent or specific issues than they are about merely partisan posturing.

An explanation lies in an examination of the reasons some of these organizations were formed.

In an effort to attract special interest groups, capitalize on those with grievances, and reach out to individuals alienated from party politics, numerous “front” organizations have been developed by the leftist supporters of the Democrat Party. The purpose of this strategy is to criticize centrists, conservatives and Republicans in a manner that seems nonpartisan.

The concept is not new.  The idea dates back to two 1960’s-era radicals, Richard Andrew Cloward and his spouse, Frances Fox Piven.  The investigatory group Discover the Networks describes their work as an attempt to produce “cadres of aggressive organizers” to use “demonstrations to create a climate of militancy…These groups produce ‘Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists.”

Republicans, too, have benefited from independent organizations, but those GOP-favored groups tend to be more focused on the actual issues for which they formed. In contrast, many Democrat-friendly front organizations tend to ignore their proclaimed purpose and concentrate on partisan goals.

This masking of bare-knuckled politics with a veneer of special interest organizations explains the dichotomies apparent in positions and actions that appear contradictory to their stated reasons for existing. Many, on both sides of the ideological divide, have noticed this. The leftist group Counterpunch notes that “The self-labeled Progressive Movement that has arisen over the past decade is primarily one big propaganda campaign serving the political interests of the Democratic Party’s richest one-percent who created it.”
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The Women’s March on Washington organization, which produced a large protest event following President Trump’s inauguration, was co-chaired by Linda Sarsour, a staunch advocate for Sharia Law and an apologist for the offensive treatment of females by Muslim extremists.  It has become readily apparent that some organizations allegedly representing women’s interest are simply using gender issues as little more than a smokescreen for their partisan agenda in matters wholly unrelated to women’s rights. There can be little doubt that the most pressing danger facing females today is the abuse, slavery, and murder received at the hands of Islamic extremists.  Reports of the horrors women face are clear, well documented, and abundant. However, as “Hannah,” a courageous Tunisian young woman, a Fulbright scholar and an earnest advocate for equal rights in her homeland stated on the Vernuccio/Novak Report radio program, “No one seems to care for these women.  The so-called ‘sex jihad’ which justifies the treatment of women—especially young girls, as property and the ‘spoils of war’ is virtually ignored by some western organizations that claim to represent women.” (Due to continuing threats on her life by the Moslem Brotherhood, her real name cannot be disclosed.)

The National Catholic Register  provides another example. “…critics have assailed Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) and Catholics United as front groups for secular progressives by highlighting their connections to each other, the Democratic Party and liberal funding sources…Hacked emails from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank connected to those groups, and released by WikiLeaks in October, confirmed for many their longtime suspicions that the groups are little more than “astroturf” Catholic organizations planted to sow confusion…John Podesta has created these groups with the intention to elect Democrats,’ said Anne Hendershott, director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life…referring to the former director of the Center for American Progress who… [served as] …Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager…Part of that strategy, as purportedly unveiled in the WikiLeaks emails, was to create groups with ‘Catholic’ in their title that would advocate for political issues that align with the Democratic Party platform while advocating for an active government to achieve those ends.

“Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who has written about CACG and Catholics United for several years, said the 2004 election results moved leaders in the Democratic Party to make inroads with religious voters. In addition to controversial funding sources, the groups are deeply intertwined with each other…“They saw an opportunity to cash in on religious voters on the left,” Donohue told the Register. “My problem is these groups were born in deceit. They are not true membership organizations. If you take away the Soros Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the other big philanthropists on the left, they collapse, because they have no real members of their own.”

The Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markay writes that “Left-wing front groups make anti-Trump money untraceable. ‘Fiscal sponsors’ add layer of opacity to liberal dark money groups fighting Trump nominations. Dark money advocacy groups are required to disclose little about their donors, but two left-wing organizations fighting President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations are using a tax law loophole to make their finances even more opaque.”

This assists Democrats’ attempt to recover from their loss in the 2016 election.