The political machine she and Hayden put together, the Campaign for Economic Democracy, was treated with respect by the media, scored a number of electoral victories, and got money not only from her exercise programs and movies but from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the U.S. government under President Carter. Later, Fonda married a billionaire, media mogul Ted Turner, which immunized her from criticism in the establishment media. Dohrn said that she was struggling to come to terms with being 51. To that effort, she brings a unique perspective. Despite her world travels, she seems to know little about the grinding poverty of the socialist Third World.
People live in tar-paper shacks with no indoor plumbing, and so forth.
In her recent remarks at the National Press Club, she was asked about population control programs in Red China, where women who try to give birth without government permission are held down screaming while their unborn children are killed. She said that people have to understand the situation in China. Their needs are greater than everything that the United States could possibly give away. It's a very complicated issue. Over the years, people have given up on their efforts to hold Fonda accountable for her actions against the people of Southeast Asia and the United States.