The right wing has spent BILLIONS on policy promotion think tanks. The left must develop them. It's the only way the left will take back not only the congress and the whitehouse, but the high road, the democratic party (which is spineless, leaderless and visionless as currently led by the weak, republican-lite republicrat DLC cavers. I call them cavers because they are taking the Democratic party DOWN.)
Here are some articles I've written in the past on the need for policy promotion think tanks. Anyone have a few million to help me get one started?
How To Take Back the Moral Turf from the Right
The Echo Chamber as a Political Weapon
31 Ways to Take on the Neocon Think Tanks: A Progressive Policy and Position Promotion Think Tank Prospectus
Understanding the Difference Between a Think Tank (TT) and a Right Wing Policy Promotion "Think Tank": Why the left desperately needs to "get it" and create about five of them.
Chaunce's Garden; Progressives Must Stop Tilling The Field with Spoons
Starting a Progressive Counterpart to the Neocon's Most Powerful Weapon-- the Policy Creation and Advocacy Think Tank; Join the Grassroots Effort to Build One
Where are the Real Patriots While Bush Rapes and Trashes America?
If Wealthy Liberals and Liberal Foundations Don't Fund Think Tanks to Take on the Right, then We Might as Well Throw in the Towel.
Envisioning a Progessive Counterpart to NeoConservative Think Tanks like Project for a New American Century
Progressive Bows and Arrows against Neocon Cruise Missiles; Time for Friends of Democracy to HelpNext Page 1 | 2
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