By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - - Tuesday, September 22, 2020
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
For years, progressive politicians and groups have tried to prove the more effective conservative groups are just fronts for monied interests and corporate America. They’ve alleged time and again, without proof that the National Rifle Association the nation’s largest mass membership civil rights group is merely a tool of the firearms industry. Or that certain research and advocacy groups that question climate change at any level are beholden to the oil companies and are doing their bidding in exchange for contributions.
As a strategy for winning the hearts and minds of the American people, it works. What’s puzzling is why the right has never tried to replicate these tactics. It may be the time and expense involved is discouraging. Nevertheless, it’s time for a change in tactics — for the right to use the channels available to it to communicate to its own people that some of the groups which they think are non-aligned are actually working against their interests.
A report recently compiled on the AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, provides a golden opportunity to go on offense. Thanks to its millions of members, the group is one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington. Almost nothing happens concerning health care or prescription drugs that they have not blessed which has made the abolition of Obamacare difficult if not impossible.
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