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America needs to brace itself for coordinated conservative assault in 2014.

Courtesy of the Guardian:

Conservative groups across the US are planning a co-ordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, income tax, workers' compensation and the environment, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.

The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as "free-market thinktanks", includes proposals from six different states for cuts in public sector pensions, campaigns to reduce the wages of government workers and eliminate income taxes, school voucher schemes to counter public education, opposition to Medicaid, and a campaign against regional efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

The policy goals are contained in a set of funding proposals obtained by the Guardian. The proposals were co-ordinated by the State Policy Network, an alliance of groups that act as incubators of conservative strategy at state level.

The documents contain 40 funding proposals from 34 states, providing a blueprint for the conservative agenda in 2014. In partnership with the Texas Observer and the Portland Press Herald in Maine, the Guardian is publishing SPN's summary of all the proposals to give readers and news outlets full and fair access to state-by-state conservative plans that could have significant impact throughout the US, and to allow the public to reach its own conclusions about whether these activities comply with the spirit of non-profit tax-exempt charities.

The most dangerous animal in the forest is the one who has been mortally wounded and is fighting for their lives with their very last breath.

In many ways this describes the conservative movement was we have known it for the last fifty or sixty years.

They are older, whiter, and less progressive than the fastest growing part of the American population.

Eventually they will have to evolve to survive, but for right now they are simply going to use their vast financial resources to alter the political reality to fit their limitations.

If successful they can continue to have a negative impact on our progress for decades to come, which is why it falls to us to report on their behind the scenes manipulations and attempts to circumvent the legal obstacles standing in their way.

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