Chapter 7 - Toxic Sludge

Chapter seven seems to touch on the idea that people in power or people with wealth tend to allow people who are not as wealthy to think they have power when in actuality they do hold the strongest hand as there are strength in numbers and most people in the world are not the powerful and wealthy. The texts talks about politicians trying to gain a position in a government office. The politician looks to people to support him financially through his campaign. These people that support the politician often are wealthy and hold some type of power. However, when it comes down to it, what matters is not the campaigning but the fact that the politician needs to gain votes so the politician needs to be on the same level mentally as those who are not as wealthy and powerful.
The Christian Coalition is an example of one of these types of groups described above. The Christian Coalition is an organization that supports right-wing politics by using a high tech version fo the new direct action organizing tactics pioneered in the 1960s by New Left. The creator, Ralph Reed has become the single most important activist for businesses for Conservative Right-wing political supporters. What Reed calls a "civic lead," his following of 3,300 chapters pushes for Right-wing and conservative values in reference to creating a government that holds these values close to home.