Greg Krehbiel
You MUST give to leftist causes
by Greg Krehbiel on 3 February 2012
That is apparently the lesson from the Komen story.
If you choose to give to a leftist cause, you have to keep doing it forever. If you ever stop giving to a leftist cause, the intolerant left will demagogue and cry and moan and say things about your questionable parentage until you repent in dust and ashes and do as your masters bid.
2012-02-03 » Greg Krehbiel
3 February 2012 @ 6:29 pm
All of my friends will never again be able to get cancer screening because of your evil pandering to the hate-abortion-don’t-care-if-women-die-crowd, which resulted in cutting funding which has nothing to do with the purpose of your organization!
***cough, gasp, choke***
Oh, excuse me, I was channeling one of the posts I keep seeing on Facebook lately…
4 February 2012 @ 8:31 am
But if people are giving to an organization, shouldn’t they be informed as top the real views and goals of that organization?
4 February 2012 @ 10:06 am
“But if people are giving to an organization, shouldn’t they be informed as top the real views and goals of that organization?”
Yes, but not in the bullying, over the top, exaggerated, even LYING manner that Deb captured so well.
“Informing people” is not quite the same thing as throwing a fit that implies that evil has been done if a private group decides to defund a group that wasn’t actually doing much to forward the goals of the other group.
4 February 2012 @ 1:07 pm
“But if people are giving to an organization, shouldn’t they be informed as top the real views and goals of that organization?”
Yes. And this applies to the NEA, and the AFLCIO, and all sorts of organizations, left and right oriented.
4 February 2012 @ 2:10 pm
In fact, not only should people be informed as to the real views of an organization, they should have the right not to give to that organization if they don’t approve.
Paging unions, paging labour unions..
5 February 2012 @ 5:00 pm
Actually, I agree that unions should only be allowed to engage in political acts to the degree that those political acts are relevant to promoting the well being of the members of the union.
If you disagree with a particular view of the union, vote against those who promote those views. I most certainly don’t agree with the vast majority of what the government does, but I can’t just refuse to pay taxes.
5 February 2012 @ 11:52 pm
“The well being of the members of the union” isn’t a useful line, though. Well being is interpreted to include particular views of health care (and therefore to support Democrats), education (and therefore to support Democrats), etc. CUPE, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, tried to unionize the grad students when I was there, and they supported all sorts of crazy things. And time and again, they said it was because it was in the best interests of the membership. Presumably you would believe that most of your political positions advance the well-being of people you care about — otherwise why would you hold them?
I don’t think I should have to vote against those who promote views I dislike in a union any more than I should have to vote against those who promote views I disagree with in the local 4-H club. I don’t want to be a member of the latter, so I didn’t join, and they have no power to make me. Neither should unions.
This connects with the thread because the protection money unions extort is one of the few cases in which I actually *must* give money to leftist causes I reject.