Unstoppable (31 page)

Businessweek,
xi

Buzzwords,
5
.
See also
Labels, political

C-SPAN,
34
,
67
,
122
,
153
,
158–159

CACI,
51

Cahn, Edgar,
136

Cahn, Jean,
136

California,
63
,
108

    
ballot initiatives in,
83–84
,
85

    
Proposition
103
,
85

Cameron, David,
32

Campaign contributions,
121–122
,
132–133
,
179

Campaign finance,
44
,
53

    
reform,
31

Canada,
4
,
16

Cantor, Eric,
179

Capitalism, individual versus corporate,
142–143

Carbon pollution tax,
77–78

Cardin, Ben,
52

Carlin, George,
28

Carmen, Gerald,
53–55

Carnegie, Andrew,
56

Carter, Jimmy,
2
,
38

Cato Institute,
47
,
48
,
122
,
124
,
127
,
129
,
133
,
134
,
178

Cauley, Troy J.,
150–151

    
Agrarianism: A Program for Farmers,
150–151

Center for Competitive Enterprise,
62
,
124

Center for Democracy and Technology,
89–90

Center for Study of Responsive Law,
74

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
116–117

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
89

Changing Minds
(Gardner),
39
,
186

Charitable contributions,
65
,
79–81

Charters, prohibition on,
147

Chase Manhattan Bank,
122

Cheney, Dick,
12
,
34
,
40
,
89
,
122–123
,
178

Chiang Kai-shek,
165

Chicago School of Economics,
162
,
163

Childhood, commercialization of,
11
,
66
,
95–96

Children

    
civic skills of,
66
,
90–91

    
and commercialization of childhood,
11
,
66
,
95–96

    
and the Internet,
160

China,
4
,
94
,
146
,
165
,
175

Chronicle of Philanthropy,
80

Chrysler,
54

CIA.
See
Central Intelligence Agency

Cicero,
xii
,
17

Citigroup,
79
,
103
,
156–157

Citizens for Tax Justice,
48

Citizens in Charge,
88

Citizens United,
31
,
96
,
97
,
98
,
137

Civic skills, of students,
66
,
90–91

Civil liberties,
66
,
88–90

Classical liberalism,
167

Clean Government Alliance,
183

Clements, Jeffrey D.,
97
,
98

    
Corporations Are Not People,
97

Climate change,
110–111
,
115
,
190

Clinch River Breeder Reactor project,
1–3
,
133
,
182

Clinton, Bill,
165
,
169

    
and World Trade Organization,
18–19

Clinton administration,
91

Coburn, Tom,
75

Coercion,
29

Collins, Seward,
159–160

Collins, Susan,
52

Colson, Chuck,
108

ComeHomeAmerica.us
(ed. O'Neill, Buhle, Kauffman, and Zeese),
56

Commercial Alert,
96

Commercialization of childhood,
11
,
66
,
95–96

Common Cause,
48
,
50
,
134

Common ground, and conservative icons,
161–165

Commons, John R.,
167

Communism,
168

Community,
29

    
and community-rooted enterprises,
85–86

    
and community self-reliance,
66
,
85–86

Community Reinvestment Act,
127

Community-rooted enterprises,
85–86

Community self-reliance,
66
,
85–86

Competitive Enterprise Institute,
90

Complacency,
xi–xii

Compromise,
133

Congress

    
and bipartisanship, corporate blockage of,
50–53

    
and corporate campaign contributions,
179
(
see also
Campaign contributions
)

    
and Democrats and Republicans, and corporate influence,
18–21

    
and legislation,
43–44

    
and legislation, obstacles to,
44–46

    
and legislation, passage of,
53–55

    
Republican, inflexibility of,
178–179

    
See also specific members

Conservatism

    
distortion of meaning of,
169

    
See also
Conservatives

Conservatism Revisited
(Viereck),
29
,
111

“The Conservative Case for a Wealth Tax” (McKinnon),
32

Conservative label,
5–6
,
8

    
voters' definitions of,
35–36
,
37

    
See also
Labels, political

The Conservative Mind
(Kirk),
29

Conservatives

    
and authorities, contemporary versus past,
28–30
(see also specific conservative authorities)

    
and common ground,
161–165

    
contemporary, division among,
30–35

    
contemporary, versus decentralists and agrarians,
143–149

    
and convergence, obstacles to,
121–131

    
versus corporate globalization,
174–177

    
corporate versus old-line,
6

    
and corporatism,
172

    
and corporatists,
14
,
15

    
division among,
170–171

    
versus neoconservatives,
174–177

    
and nomenclature,
30–31
,
32

    
and philosophers, mischaracterization of,
23–24
(see also specific authorities, philosophers, etc.)

    
political beliefs of,
13–14

    
principled,
173–174

    
principled, versus corporatists, separation of,
178–180

    
weaknesses of,
172–173

    
See also
Conservatism
;
Neoconservatives
;
Populist conservatives

Control, versus property ownership/rights,
144–145
,
154

Convergence,
x–xi

    
and common ground,
161–165

    
example of derailment of,
58–60

    
example of unsuccessful,
55–57

    
example of unsuccessful, solutions to,
57–58

    
experience with, and stimulation of depth of humanity and sense of justice,
69

    
how to think about,
66–69

    
and identification of point at which takeoff occurs,
68

    
obstacles to,
5

    
obstacles to, and conservatives,
121–131

    
obstacles to, and liberals,
132–133

    
obstacles to, overcoming,
133–134

    
of populist conservatives, liberals, and progressives,
177–178

    
and procedural agreements, examples of,
60–63

    
procedural and substantive,
66–67

    
and proposed redirections and reforms through action,
65–69

Convergent institutions,
66
,
119

Convergers, fate of,
131–132

Cooperative-style ownership,
143
,
147
,
158

Cooperatives,
142

Corporate agenda,
9

Corporate bailouts,
5
,
73–74
.
See also
Wall Street: bailout

Corporate Crime Reporter,
101

Corporate crime/criminals,
66
,
100–102
,
155
,
157–159

Corporate globalization,
86
,
174–177

Corporate immunity,
154–155
,
158

Corporate impunity, and financial crisis, 2008–2009,
155–157

Corporate lobbies,
179–180

    
and conservative label,
6

Corporate managed trade,
7
.
See also
Free trade

Corporate patriotism,
175

Corporate personhood,
31
,
66
,
96–98
,
144
,
145
,
146

Corporate privilege,
154–155

Corporate socialism,
49

Corporate state,
7
,
15
,
25
,
34
,
49
,
140
,
148

Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission Act,
52

Corporate supremacy doctrine,
6

Corporate welfare,
13
,
46–50
,
52
,
65
,
73–74
,
124
,
127–128
,
134
,
169

Corporate/statism,
6–7

Corporations

    
and congressional bipartisanship, blockage of,
50–53

    
and Democrats and Republicans, and corporate influence,
18–21

    
versus government,
127–129

    
Left-Right flexibility of,
8–9

    
and liberal programs, exploitation of,
8–9

    
and opportunism,
8–9