On Wednesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the nationwide “Workers Over Billionaires” protest on Labor Day. Oddly enough, the protest was funded by billionaires. How does that make sense>
The article reports:
Billionaire backers were behind the nationwide “Workers Over Billionaires” protest on Labor Day, which took aim at the Trump administration’s policies and called for an end to what organizers described as a “billionaire takeover.”
More than 1,000 protests across the country on Monday drew over half a million people, according to May Day Strong, the coalition that organized the events. Despite the protests being promoted as grassroots movements of working-class Americans, one of the coalition’s central organizers — the Working Families Organization Inc. — is itself heavily funded by billionaires, including the Soros family.
We need to remember (particularly as the mid-term elections approach) that today’s protesters are paid. They hold signs that often are professionally printed. I am a child of the 1960’s–no one paid us and we had to make our own signs. We protested because we cared about something. The protesters of today may care about what they are protesting, but somehow it seems a little less genuine if they are being paid to protest.
The article notes:
Yet, the Open Society Foundations, founded by billionaire megadonor George Soros, has doled out $23,700,000 to the Working Families Organization since 2016, according to the foundation’s website.
The organization has also received $950,000 since 2021 from Democracy Fund Voice, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit funded by billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, tax filings show. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s Open Philanthropy also gave $1.44 million to the Working Families Organization in 2019, and another $1.5 million in 2021.
The Working Families Organization has also received millions from Democrat-aligned “dark money” groups, which funnel hard-to-track dollars into liberal political organizations and advocacy groups. For example, the Tides Foundation has directed over $65 million to the group since 2018, while the Sixteen Thirty Fund has also contributed hundreds of thousands to the group, according to financial disclosures.
It is going to be hard to convince me that your protest is sincere if I know that you are being paid to protest.