In DEFUNDING Conservatism Part 1 I explored the grand idea connecting attacks from the political right on progressive institutions. While many on the left correctly call attacks on public sector unions and legal decisions like "Citizens United" and the "Walmart class action case" class warfare, and correctly call the Herman Cain talk radio lead cries to protect against "sharia law" signs of religious bigotry, they are also missing the larger point. What these attacks have in common is they help to build a narrative aimed at defunding the major sources of financing for progressive causes.
In the 1990's Karl Rove researched who "funds" Liberals and Democrats. He realized that the majority of funding (80%) for progressive cause came from 3 source. Unions, trial lawyers, and "Jews" (this is his finding). So he helped author plans to kick out 3 of these legs by breaking public sector unions, limiting class action suits, and to breaking the "special relationship" between Jews and the Democratic Party.
I then began to outline a strategy that is aimed not so much at preventing attacks on progressive institutions, but launching a counter attack on the political rightwing's sources of funding. In part one I explored using state ballot initiatives to break the power of corporate money at the state level, and to a lesser extent at the federal level. But in many ways cutting back on corporate money is the "easy" part as a sizable number of blue collar conservatives support these actions. But breaking the next leg of conservative money is much harder because it's a mirror image of this problem.