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Conservative Group Accidentally Reveals Its Secret Donors. Some of Them Are Liberal Orgs.

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Conservative Group Accidentally Reveals Its Secret Donors. Some of Them Are Liberal Orgs.

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Conservative Group Accidentally Reveals Its Secret Donors. Some of Them Are Liberal Orgs.

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Conservative Group Accidentally Reveals Its Secret Donors. Some of Them Are Liberal Orgs.

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A Walton Family Foundation spokesperson provided a statement explaining that its grant “supports work to highlight initiatives connecting young people to careers and jobs earlier in their K-12 schooling experience.”
Imagine that, the Waltons promoting child labor.
“Liberal”
- Surely no true Liberal would be so interested in maintaining the status quo for themselves and their wealthy friends.
  
  You're missing the point... Liberals and progressives aren't the same thing. Trump started calling them that and the media glommed on.
  Neolibs, which Donald Trump actually -is,- are the real threat to the rest of the world. They are the actual "Global Elite" that he goes on about.
  Calling the left "Liberals" is just another case of accusing your enemies of doing the things that you're doing.
  It's muddying the waters so it's harder for the average voter to know what's going on.
- I cried when they shot Medgar Evers...
Has anyone noticed that the term "liberal" is being thrown around a lot and "progressive" is actively ignored?
- Because they want to fan the confusion between economically liberal and socially liberal. It's probably done on purpose.
- Because they know that "progressive" has a nice ring to it that makes it pretty plain what the associated values are. Everyone understands what "progress" means, and it's generally got a positive connotation.
  But "liberal" sounds like someone who abuses their freedom overmuch. It has been turned into a dirty word.
the current slate of democrats are conservatives. this shouldnt surprise anyone
The Pied Piper strat at play once more... I know I've said before, in connection with Project 2025, that it wouldn't surprise me if liberals were Pied Piper-ing that nightmare playbook into place JUST to try and cudgel people away from proper socialist progression. And what links do we find...
The Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network are heavyweight philanthropic organizations that have long been considered bastions of liberalism.
...So why are they donating to a group tied to 2025?

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