This section of DiscoverTheNetworks explores a number of significant issues, trends, and policies related to various political groups in the United States and abroad. The RESOURCES column on the right side of this page contains a link to the section where profiles of political groups can be found. It also contains links to articles, essays, books, and videos about:

• the Democratic Party, which in recent decades has moved ever-farther to the left ideologically and politically;
• the so-called Shadow Democratic Party, a network of non-profit activist groups and labor unions organized by George Soros and others to mobilize resources -- money, get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising, and policy initiatives -- to elect Democratic candidates and guide the Democratic Party towards the left;
• the rise and influence of “Section 527 Committees,” which are used by special-interest groups to raise unlimited amounts of “soft money” for the Democratic Party;
• the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a coalition of far-left and socialist Democrat legislators with close ties to the Democratic Socialists of America; and
• hoe the Left dominates the election-law industry.

This section of DiscoverTheNetworks explores a number of significant issues, trends, and policies related to various political figures in the United States and abroad. The RESOURCES column on the right side of this page contains a link to the section where profiles of political individuals can be found. It also contains links to articles, essays, books, and videos about:

• Barack Obama, the lifelong leftist who was elected U.S. President in 2008;
• the Cloward-Piven Strategy, a political blueprint (outlined by sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven) by which the left seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading government bureaucracies with a flood of impossible demands designed to push society into crisis and economic collapse;
• the phenomenon of political leaders whose primary objective is to entrench themselves permanently as part of Washington's "ruling class"—and who lose touch, in the process, with the needs and concerns of the voters to elected them to public office; and
• Islamists who have attained elected or appointed political positions in American government, on the federal, state, and local levels.