>There is more money from centrist, liberal and left foundations given out each
>year than from conservative and neo-conservative foundations. The "left"
>foundations, however, refuse generally to fund research, books, conferences,
>academic posts, and strategic planning, which the right funds in a coordinated
>manner, since they seem to have read Gramsci.
I sez:
Last time I checked (admittedly a few years ago), the lion's share of "money from centrist, liberal and left foundations" went to NGO (overseas) and CBO (domestic) social service provision -- family planning, job training, and the like. Stuff that the state used to finance and deliver before structural adjustment (overseas) and Thatcherism-Reaganism and its Third Way cousins (domestic). And of course much of that dough gets skimmed off by NGO and CBO bureaucrats. And notice that programmatically it's not too different from "compassionate conservatism" (minus the stipulation that the NGO's and CBO's have to be religious and not secular).
John Gulick provision