@Grandpapy just posted a link to a Pew Research article about how the Democratic actually get more money from rich donors than Republicans. That was a real eye opener, considering how bad they have to suck to lose all those races while having more money.
You just lap up anything the reaffirms your confirmation bias, don't you?
Did that pew research article, you supposedly read, really open your eyes? Because he didn't post a pew research article, he posted a Capital Research Center article. Since you don't like to actually read, let me help you unpack that.
He posted this.
https://capitalresearch.org/article/party-one-percent/
Which Party Is the Party of the 1 Percent?
The pew research article you think you're talking about, is here.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/02/04/most-americans-say-government-doesnt-do-enough-to-help-middle-class/
Most Americans Say Government Doesn’t Do Enough to Help Middle Class
Odd how different the titles sound, right? Let's look at what Capital Research is and does, and see if we can figure out why. First. lets stop by wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Research_Center
Capital Research Center (
CRC) is an
American conservative non-profit organization located in
Washington, D.C. and founded in 1984 by
Willa Johnson "to study
non-profit organizations, with a special focus on reviving the American traditions of
charity,
philanthropy, and
voluntarism.
I'm sure you are saying to yourself, they sound like wonderful people, but let's dig a little deeper. Who do you suppose this Willa Johnson is? The great thing about computers is, we don't have to wonder.
CRC was founded in 1984 by
Willa Johnson, former Senior Vice President of the
Heritage Foundation, Deputy Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel in the first
Reagan administration
I don't know about you, but I wonder where they get there money from.
Politico reports that the CRC has received millions of dollars of funding from conservative philanthropies over the years. The philanthropies include foundations run by the
Koch family, the
Scaifes(these guys sure don't like Islam), and the
Bradleys
As of 2005 CRC had received $115,000 from
ExxonMobil
Wiki even has a section that shows if they've been involved in any controversies. Let's check that shit out.
The Capital Research Center came under fire in the 1990s for publishing studies highly critical of charities which engaged in anti-tobacco lobbying efforts. These charities include the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society. It was later revealed that tobacco giant Philip Morris provided $50,000 in funding to the Capital Research Center.
I don't know about you, but that does seem kinda fucked up to me. I know you like to get your information from youtube and hostile foreign governments, and might be saying to yourself, what's wikipedia, and can I trust it.
Well friend, I'm here to tell you, you don't have to. Let's look around some more.
The
Capital Research Center (CRC) is a right-wing "think tank" whose stated mission is to do "opposition research" exposing the funding sources behind consumer, health and environmental groups. CRC is an associate member of the
State Policy Network, a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 49 states, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and the United Kingdom.
"Defund the Left" Campaign
As part of the conservative campaign to '
Defund the left' the Capital Research Center produces a range of publications targeting foundations, unions and activist groups that it views as supporting '
liberal' causes.
Dangerous Documentaries
CRC creates what the organizations calls
"Dangerous Documentaries". A separate
"dangerousdocumentaries.com" website says that Dangerous Documentaries "serves as the media arm of the Washington, D.C. based Capital Research Center," "with the mission of spreading the ideas of liberty, including free speech, free markets, individual rights, and open and fair-minded political discourse.
CRC Hosts State Labor Reform Conference The list of participants is a “who’s who” of anti-union activists and organizations funded by Bradley
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_Research_Center
Need More?
The Capital Research Center’s
GreenWatch.org website collects information on non-profit environmental advocates, and is heavily biased against climate science. In reaction to peer-reviewed study that found a 97% consensus among scientists that climate change is a real phenomenon and primarily caused by human activity, the CRC called the authors “
alarmist.”
As of 2017, the CRC continues to
oppose international treaties that countries have entered in order to mitigate the impact of climate change.
In 2016, the CRC
criticized the U.S. Military for incorporating climate change into its strategic planning, blaming President Obama.
In 2015, the CRC
described global climate treaty negotiations as “the culmination of decades of work by the anti-democracy Left, by power-hungry politicians and bureaucrats, and by greedy business people.”
In 2014, CRC posted an
article called, “Global Warming: How to persuade those idiots who don’t agree with you.” The article is a retort to reporters covering the challenge of communicating climate science to a public that disproportionately distrusts the consensus among scientists.
CRC
cited a
rebuttal to the 2014 National Climate Assessment, signed almost exclusively by scientists with a history of payments by the fossil fuel industry or groups financed by fossil fuel interests, many of whom lack [advanced] degrees in science, or have not published any [recent] scientific research.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/front-groups/capital-research-center-crc/
More still?
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/capital-research-center/
I don't think that article meant what you thought it did.
