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While researching a story about a city council race for a local newspaper, I came across one of the most disturbing and disgusting phenomena I've yet seen come onto the scene in American politics.

We all know about the parade of far-Left freaks that includes MoveOn.org, George Soros, Peter Lewis, David Geffen and their ilk, who are using their vast resources to propagandize the American public into voting us incrementally toward being a morally bankrupt, internationally castrated nation. We've heard the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) referred to as "the most dangerous organization in America" due to its support for nearly everything evil.

Well, I think I may have discovered the second most dangerous organization in America.

I'm referring to the Washington-based organization Progressive Majority, a lobbying group dedicated to:

"...identifying and recruiting the best progressive leaders to run for office; coaching and supporting their candidacies by providing strategic message, campaign, and technical support; prioritizing the recruitment and election of candidates of color; and bringing new people into the political process at all levels.

"We elect progressive champions by:

* Identifying every electoral opportunity
* Recruiting the best progressive leaders to run
* Training candidates and staff to win
* Providing state of the art political support
* Helping them become effective leaders once elected.

"...We build locally to win nationally."

Their agenda -- the Progressive agenda -- includes well-spun catch phrases that translate into socialist policies, unfettered abortion, open borders, affirmative action on methamphetamine, economy-stultifying environmentalist zealotry, and more pliant, radical Cynthia McKinney and Charlie Rangel types in Congress.

Their president, Gloria Totten, "has worked for progressive causes and political campaigns for over 17 years and is considered one of the top political organizers in the country" She was once Political Director for NARAL (The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League), has worked on or managed "more than 75 federal campaigns", is heavily involved in Wellstone Action, serves on the Board of Directors for TrueMajority, and is also President of the Board of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center -- all far-Left political advocacy outfits.

When you cut through Progressive Majority's Coke commercial website and the altruistic claptrap, what you have is an organization dedicated to the stealth placement of "acceptable" candidates throughout a sleeping citizenry -- at every level of government.

The most concerning (and convicting) of Progressive Majority's promises is that of helping candidates "become effective leaders once elected", essentially confirming said candidates as their agents. These candidates of course generally disavow any significant entanglement or identification with the organization, citing the "plausible deniability" of 527-like tax-exempt advocacy groups and PACs.

Americans need to recognize what a dangerous precedent this is, and what politics has become in America. Turning over local government to operatives for national lobbyists -- of any political stripe -- poses the spectre of a government in which the individual's vote is effectively nullified. According to Progressive Majority's stated mission, Americans from local to national levels will be governed by agenda-driven lobbyists in Washington, D.C. rather than locally concerned members of their communities.

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