Reply #36: Well, not now that he's cut off the revenues to please the unpleasably privileged...

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As for inroads to various programs guaranteeing their survival, I suggest you take a look at the general Modus Operandi of organized religion: take more, and use every shift in your favor as a justification for greater inroads. The messianic and religiously intolerant metaphor works far too well for the current reactionaries running our country, so the model just seems to fit even for the secular acts in the offing.