Opinion: 'Liberal elites' saw dollar signs in Indian tribes
"Indian tribes were originally designed to be profit generators from which their creators could raise money for political candidates, trade victimization for votes, and generate revenue for their affiliated businesses.

At the turn of the 20th century, when liberals looked upon Indians, they did not see a unique people whose indigenous societies should be protected. Instead, they saw dollar signs.

Nothing makes liberals as giddy as school girls than identifying a class of victims and then rushing in to save them. Luckily, these paternalistic do gooders have, for generations, enjoyed extensive political influence within the Department of Interior, which had jurisdiction over Indian tribes.

The nation's monopolists, particularly those working in the oil and automobile industries, had consolidated immense wealth and power through this federal agency which had granted their businesses land and mineral rights upon which they built the nation's most profitable enterprises, catapulting many of them into billionaire status."

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