It has become apparent that Hillary Clinton’s legendary disparaging, her “basket of deplorables”, was only a first-rate prediction. The Deep State and its business partners have always kept the true deplorables afloat, and the Trump Administration is only now beginning to expose their dishonest behavior.
The nascent Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ), which has recently begun to look into how the Left has turned federal agencies and institutions into political favoritism, has started to emerge. Elon Musk and his team’s most prominent discovery so far, at least in the public imagination, is the odious behavior of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID), an agency that exists ostensibly to project” soft power” abroad but that, in actuality, spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year to sustain a large network of subversive, left-wing non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ).
This NGO Archipelago serves, among other things, to further the Left’s intellectual agenda in an extra-legislative manner and to provide its members with steady work and material security, which they are unlikely to do in a well-ordered society.
The NGO Archipelago is made up of other donors, including government organizations like USAID. However, it is possible that they are not yet its most prominent benefactors. We must turn our attention to both commercial and private philanthropy in order for it to function, which is both necessary.
Some agencies have now begun carrying out the work. Nearly$ 100 billion of the more than$ 300 billion corporations that have pledged to the Black Lives Matter movement are listed in the Claremont Institute’s BLM Funding Database. And, more recently, the Project to Expose Corporate Activism ( PECA ) published a database that describes with granularity the LGBT giving and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ( DEI ) initiatives of nearly 1, 600 companies, including all Fortune 500s and many federal contractors.
Significantly, PECA’s collection elucidates the gigantic size of the LGBT advocate system, which is just one component of the Archipelago. The system consists of more than 2, 500 personal reasons, and one PECA scientist claims that the combined resources and revenues of the fifty wealthiest Gay causes rival those of traditional causes on all fronts.
DOGE made headlines when it found troubling instances of grift, such as spending money on sex changes in Guatemala and DEI in Serbia. Corporate America diverts shareholder wealth to advance equally if not more radical causes, just as USAID uses taxpayer dollars to fund the domestic Left’s pet projects. ( Many of the causes in the LGBT database appear to be relatively benign at first glance, but closer examination reveals that, among other things, the majority of them support” transferring” minors and normalizing unhealthy behavior. )
It is difficult to reduce PECA’s database to a shortlist of worst offenders. However, the following examples provide a representative sampling of what’s contained within:
There are at least two LGBT employee resource groups ( ERGs ), including a” safe space for parents and partners of transgender people to learn, grow, support, and celebrate one another.” The aerospace company sponsors a variety of LGBT events and groups such as a Transgender &, Allies Summit and The Trevor Project, a “gender-affirming” youth organization.
The agricultural giant Cargill, which controls the majority of America’s food supply, runs an LGBT resource group and gives its employees “education and training about the trans community covering everything from names to sensitive questions.” The company opposes legislation banning child sex change procedures and funds several transgender and “gender-expansive” youth organizations like the Transformation Project, Transforming Families, Oneiowa, and RECLAIM, with a special focus on youth in the Midwest and Great Plains.
Gilead Sciences, which develops and produces antiviral drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C, has given more than$ 257M to LGBT causes, including youth organizations like The GenderCool Project, the Brave Space Alliance, and The Trevor Project. The business, which opposes legislation that would make it illegal for children to have sex, is a major supporter of the far-left Human Rights Campaign and the top financier of organizations that support” sex workers” and transgender communities.
Hasbro, among other things, has sponsored the Get REAL Trans 101 Workshop and sells a line of Pride apparel featuring its GI Joe, Power Rangers, My Little Pony, Transformers, D&, D, and Magic: The Gathering brands, with proceeds benefitting LGBT youth organizations like The Trevor Project and Youth Pride RI.
Pure Romance, a mother-and-son-owned sex toy company, has donated$ 2M to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to support its gender transition clinic. Additionally, the business has supported transgender youth organizations Living with Change and Cincinnati Pride, both of which were founded by the owners.
Similarly to how companies ‘ funding of BLM sowed division and destruction in 2020, the above actions destroy families, divide communities, and result in physical and spiritual harm. Action must be taken to put a symbiotic relationship between the radicals corporations support and corporate wrongdoing.
Therefore, to target only one of the pillars supporting the NGO Archipelago would be a mistake. In addition to DOGE’s important efforts, the Right must take significant action against corporations, including their DEI outfits and identity-based resource groups. Furthermore, the SEC should revoke all rules pertaining to the environmental, social, and governance ( ESG) movement. Social and environmental regulations currently advance radical left-wing interests over the common good, despite the fact that unfettered capitalism is not the cure-all for human flourishing.
Lastly, greater scrutiny should be paid when determining which NGOs are granted official recognition, including tax exemptions and other benefits. Much of what today’s definition of philanthropy resembles either charity as it was understood by the general public or philanthropy of the past. The time is right for reform, and those interested should make their case based on DOGE’s findings and PECA’s data.
Jack Weir is the pseudonym of a writer and researcher in Washington, D. C.
