1. Rich
2. Connected
Organizations like MoveOn and even the ACLU have only persisted at the level they have because of one or more wealthy benefactors who agree with their way of thinking. Somehow these orgs and their silent sponsors found each other and I think more of this needs to happen.
If this isn’t on the table as an important course of action, I feel it should be. While I don’t generally favor fighting fire with fire (and in this case, money with money and clout with clout), it can have the effect of leveling the playing field.
I’m wondering if anyone has ideas about who we could appeal to? Possibly disheartened members or former members of major corporations, banks, the federal reserve, or so on? Maybe on the side of influence there are people in the congress, lobbyists, newspeople or military officers.. I’m sure there are some of them who don’t like what’s going on, or at least some aspect of it.
Maybe.. maybe some of those contractors in Iraq that received portions of that “missing” $9 billion a couple years ago? I mean, if two guys with no experience or staff can get paid $100 million for “securing” an airfield that no aircraft used – I’d think either some of them might be feeling guilty and want to give back a little, or we could get even a fraction of that kind of money from someone else.. which would amount to far more money than could ever be raised by donations from us, the fantom that used to be called the middle class.
I mean $100 million.. one hundred million. Can anyone even visualize that kind of money? It doesn’t even sound like a real amount.. a zillion kadjillion.
But that’s what we’re up against.. people that have that kind of money and people that were willing to do just about ANYthing to get that kind of money.
So if any of those people in that strata might be willing to confront their peers with our help – either openly or discretely – that would be an opportunity that could change everything.
They might need us just as much as we need them.