"...a denatured Jesus drained of the Social Gospel ,and supportive of the status quo and....

[KoKo]

prerogatives of wealth and power."

87.5% of "Family" & DLC Affiliated Senate Democrats Voted Yes on FISA

Bruce Wilson
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Posted July 15, 2008 | 01:37 PM (EST)

The DLC functions, in essence, as a secular adjunct to The Family - a public organizational body churning out White Papers and position papers, initiatives such as National Service and legislative proposals. It may never be possible to prove that the Democratic Leadership Council was created specifically in order to translate the Family's political agenda into legislation and to pull Democratic Party politics rightwards, but if that is not the case it might as well be. Both entities pull Democratic Party politicians rightward, towards similar ideological set points, by enticing Democratic Party politicians with, in the case of the DLC, big piles of corporate cash or, in the case of The Family, a huge, international covert influence peddling network which can establish or amplify political careers and grease the wheels towards business success.

In exchange for access to its corporate cash, the DLC demands Democrats adopt positions that might have placed them, two or three decades ago, about at, or close to, where moderate Republicans (a vanishing breed) are today but which, since the Democratic Party has slid rightwards since the 1970's, can still allow the to plausibly lay claim to being, doctrinally, democrats because democratic political positions have gradually been redefined - as a "lite" version of GOP positions. In marketing terms, this tends to place Democrats in an inherent disadvantage, as lesser or ersatz versions of the real thing or as wafflers without strong conviction.

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The story of The Family is the story of the perfection of a hitherto almost wholly unnoticed form of covert government--vectoring through American fundamentalism and especially through Abraham Vereide's "Prayer Breakfasts", that spread rapidly through top American business and political circles in the 1930's and 1940's until the tradition became institutionalized in the Congress and Senate in the early 1940's and culminating in 1953 under Eisenhower with the first National Prayer Breakfast. Since that time, The Family, working away in the shadows, has spun dense webs of influence with international reach.


Many on the newly energized Democratic left have recently become disturbed or dismayed that, even after the insurgent left-powered Democratic reconquest of both branches of Congress in the 2006 election, Congress seems unwilling to oppose George W. Bush on key fronts - on FISA legislation and on Bush Administration moves to provoke a US war with Iran: because The Family has been from its inception overtly antidemocratic in nature, a study of Family influence within contemporary American politics promises to may shed considerable light on the lack of responsiveness of elected representatives, especially within the Democratic Party, to the concerns of their constituents.
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Association with The Family brings access to The Family's influence, to Doug Coe's database of Family members and friends, in the US but also around the globe, willing to pray together and help each other out in quiet, informal ways that rarely get noticed of publicized. It's an old-boys' network, under a denatured Jesus drained of the Social Gospel and refilled with an ideology maximally friendly and supportive of the status quo and the prerogatives of wealth and power.

more at.........

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/875-of-family-dlc-affilia_b_112878.html?view=print

[patrice]

1. The Iraq War Resolution alone is crystal clear evidence that something is very fucked up.

And how, exactly HOW, did Pro-Life get divorced from Anti-War, Anti-Capital Punishment, and Pro-Economic Justice where it WAS conceived???

[KoKo]

4. For the "Christians for Truth" amongst us...it's a sad commentary

about how divisive factions have taken over a message for Peace & Understanding and turned it to their own evil distortions. And, this goes for all religions who advocate PEACE...not just Christians and Jesus and the Beatitudes or even the TEN COMMANDMENTS.

[pleah]

2. K&R

[timtom]

3. K & R

This is important. Not sure what can be done, but some measure of transparency is better than none.

[KoKo]

9. true...not sure what can be done...but we should demand "transparency" and Obama did promise us this

:shrug:

[Wednesdays]

5. K&R

:kick:

[redqueen]

6. So glad to see more stuff about this group getting out there. (nt)

[roguevalley]

7. I read some place last year that Hillary went on retreats sponsored

by these creatures.

[KoKo]

14. Yes...and I've never understood why she did that...unless it was a way to get ahead

after what happened with Bill.

And, if she felt she needed to do that...what does it say about Doug Coe's influence and "THE FAMILY."

If one needs to "get in good with them," to get ahead. :shrug:

[dflprincess]

17. The DLC is tight with The Family

that's why she went.

[roguevalley]

19. I don't know. I just hate it enormously.

[KakistocracyHater]

8. this is why I wanted a "Humanist Breakfast" to start to truly counter

these types, I also prefer the TRUE Left(not the DLC other right)take up residence in the Federal Society.

You gotta play as a team to counter theirs....

[KoKo]

16. This would be something Dennis Kucinich would be very good at...

Do you think? Like his proposal for a "Department of Peace." Why can't we have Positive rather than Negative Government Offices? Why shouldn't that be a goal of us out here and the Obama Administration?

:shrug: So much has been NEGATIVE: "Killers/Terrorists/the Bad Guys/Hate us for our Freedoms"...etc.

What about POSITIVE?

[KakistocracyHater]

20. no an informal get together, not another department

& no, I don't think it is human nature to aggressively pursue peace. Small steps first, you have a very grand dream & I am very jaded. I prefer an informal get together, where scientists, doctors, teachers could meet & see what needs to be done. I think it's good to acknowledge human nature's darker urges & to consciously redirect those into a more creative channel.

[David Zephyr]

10. Too late for an "R", but here's a K for a solid article.

I've been out of town, but if I still could recommend this, I would. Here' a kick so it gets more visibility.

[KoKo]

11. thanks...I was surprised it didn't get more interest from the Christian Perspective

...although "The Family" and Sharlett's article have been out there on the Liberal Media...no one seemed to use that quote that really pops out for us Christians who aren't Fundamentalists who are feeling like we have little voice out there, in these times.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours

but good stuff!

[KoKo]

13. another thanks for the kick...

[Canuckistanian]

15. What a great quote

It's an old-boys' network, under a denatured Jesus drained of the Social Gospel and refilled with an ideology maximally friendly and supportive of the status quo and the prerogatives of wealth and power.

These freaks would have had their tables overturned by the Prince of Peace himself.

[musette_sf]

18. ah yes, Supply Side Jesus

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/17_franken.html

by Senator Al Franken