IF YOU DON’T LIKE MY PRINCIPLES, DON’T WORRY, I HAVE OTHER ONES: Look, I don’t care what side of “climate change” action you are on. My confusion is about the inconsistency of the Democrats position on “dark money.” They want to require groups to disclose their membership, but use the same tactics.

The Washington Free Beacon points out that:

“Rewiring America, one of many environmental groups that has endorsed the BUILD GREEN Act, is part of a massive dark money network run by the D.C.-based Arabella Advisors. The nation’s wealthiest liberal donors use Arabella’s $731 million activist network to secretly fund a host of liberal causes.”

I suppose one could say they are just “fighting fire with fire” but what tips the balance towards absurdity is that the genuine left won a great decision in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson. In that case, the Attorney General of Alabama (remember, this is 1958) demanded that the NAACP disclose membership lists. The Supreme Court noted that:

“It is hardly a novel perception that compelled disclosure of affiliation with groups engaged in advocacy may constitute as effective a restraint on freedom of association as the forms of governmental action in the cases above were thought likely to produce upon the particular constitutional rights there involved. This Court has recognized the vital relationship between freedom to associate and privacy in one’s associations.”

Even NPR has noted the absurdity of this “having it both ways” behavior. Don’t Democrats realize what’s at stake?