If yes, we should petition them so that they’ll scramble a counter-Project 2025 in case the 2026 midterm elections have a blue wave.
If yes, we should petition them so that they’ll scramble a counter-Project 2025 in case the 2026 midterm elections have a blue wave.
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the heritage foundation only discredited the right
The left is just not aligned into a cult of personality like the right. It’s much more decentralized and can’t even agree on daily talking points let alone a master political plan.
I’m not aware of any well-funded liberal “think tank” dedicated to undermining American democracy.
SWEET JESUS NO – YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS.
The whole “paying for murders to get sex changes in prison” thing started from an ACLU questionnaire response from the Harris campaign.
Knowing how horribly it would be a damn Christmas tree of various interest group wish lists that would inevitably hit on reparations / returning indigenous people’s land / trans issues in ways that would royally piss off conservative leaning middle-America – you would hand the right wing a f@cking goldmine of crap to hit us with that would be taken out of context and used to beat us to death with for a decade.
I don’t why when people ask if there’s a liberal equivalent to something on the right the assumption is that the liberal thing needs to be inherently as god awful as the right wing thing.
There are plenty of left wing think tanks. Demos, The Roosevelt Institute, Center for American Progress are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
All of these institutions have policy suggestions they’re coming up with. I don’t know that putting it into one over-arching document has any particular benefit over the proposals being more dispersed.
Heritage used to Center-Right and OK-ish, doing decent policy-based work, but went to the dark side over the past 5 or 10 years. Brookings might be the Liberal counterpart of the “old” Heritage, maybe toss in the Progressive Policy Institute as well, but nothing like the current wacky Heritage.
No. There’s no money in it. Research cited by the left comes from actual academia, which as much as Republicans want to cry about it, isn’t politically motivated.
No but all they would need for a “project 2028” is
None of this really requires a lot thought as we can be pretty open about it. The reason the right needs think tanks is because they know their policies are unpopular – what they think about is how to get it done despite no one wanting it.
No. The Republican Party is largely financed, and to a great extent run by, a group of billionaires who get together regularly to hash out the strategy they want to pursue and the messaging they want to use to pursue it. Heritage and their other think tanks are one component of a shrewd, strategic, ruthless political machine. The Democratic Party has nothing remotely like this.
Are you asking if there are liberal think tanks, or something more specific to the HF? Your question isn’t exactly specific.
Yes, there are plenty of liberal think tanks. CATO is an obvious one, supporting a pretty basic set of liberal ideals.
>”including support for lowering or abolishing most taxes, opposition to the Federal Reserve system and the Affordable Care Act, the privatization of numerous government agencies and programs including Social Security and the United States Postal Service, demilitarization of the police, open borders and adhering to a non-interventionist foreign policy.”
The ELF (European Liberal Forum) is a big umbrella organisations that binds liberal think tanks together, so every single organisation under them would count, but their combined might is what gives them genuine presence.
It’s supposed to be The Brookings Institution and The Center for American Progress. However they are not as well funded and they have had their own internal divisions. Then you have organizations like The Century Foundation, Economic Policy Institute (“EPI”), and New America. Also, many foundations like the Rockefeller, Ford, and Open Society, among others, also contribute to a lot of left wing causes. Finally, groups like NAACP, The National Urban League, League of Women Voters, and NOW also contribute to left/center left causes.
No. I’d say half of the Dems’ problems stems from constantly marketing themselves as the “not the other guys” party. Running yet another campaign on “we’re against x, y, and z” is not a good idea. We need them to instead run a positive campaign in which the candidates all clearly have principled positions that they truly believe in.
Unfortunately, not really. All of ours are much more fact based and center-leaning.
Our Project 2025 was just “competent government”. We didn’t need a magic secret plan.
Sure, the universities. I don’t mean that in a “universities are too liberal” way, but that institutions like the Heritage Foundation were created explicitly as a sort of “captured” alternative to good-faith research and academia.
Yes, reality
The 2026 and 2028 election started immediately after the 2024 results were called. We are in a perpetual campaign … a perpetual fight for this country. The other side hasn’t stopped and neither should we. Start organizing and get to know your local, state and national candidates now. The Democrats have organizing trainings now which I get … and attending at: https://traindemocrats.org/
Academia as a general matter, I guess?
I’m curious where folks here would spot Rand Corporation along the left-right continuum.
The rich have all the resources. They come up with ways to get the dumbs to vote for people who will pass their agenda. Conservatives are the easiest to control. What would a liberal equivalent of that be?