Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks?
Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks?
Yes. For instance https://www.brennancenter.org/ recently did a tabletop exercise where they looked for all the worst things that could happen during a trump second term and looked for ways to stop them from happening. See (or rather hear) https://youtu.be/9SlnDvGHhBw
I mean this is a good idea, but the opposite of the question stated. Are there no think tanks to implement liberal solutions as opposed to stopping or fixing conservatives policies.
Why can't we scheme as well as conservatives?
My brain skipped as I read Brennan and tabletop in the same sentence and jumped to Dropout/Dimension 20.
Not American but - Freedom From Religion Foundation? Love their commercials featuring Ronald Reagan’s son.
“I’m Ron Reagan, unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell.”
Holy shit. That is actually awesome. https://youtu.be/Gm2XiOvL_Fg?si=dKcglZEEWYPD5PcL
I mean, the ACLU
Open Society Foundations, Center for American Progress, stuff like that, I guess.
As I see it, they are more active on idpol and immigration than the economy and the issues that were decisive in the US election this time around.
Immigration was one of the most decisive issues...
Not for the side OSF is on.
Conservatives fear immigration, liberals largely don't care. A small amount of people care deeply, providing a good enemy to bash who are sufficiently few to not cause issues but also sufficiently loud to keep the flames going.
I think the real question are there any think-tanks that are willing to fight dirty to get liberal policy like the heritage foundation does for fascism.
WE are the liberal think tanks.
But nobody's listening.
Seconding Center for American Progress. There are also a ton of issue specific organizations and professional societies that are non partisan, but focus on improving policies that tend to be left leaning. For example Planned Parenthood is technically a nonpartisan nonprofit, but many other health or environment related non-profits have a policy team that tries to advance their cause the best they know how. Being nonpartisan means they aren't limited to speaking with one side or the other and can keep a drum beat going on their issues regardless of the political winds. These orgs could use your donations now more than ever.
These orgs could use your donations now more than ever.
As well as your volunteer time
Think tanks are the fronts for oligarchs to provide an academic veneer for the extraction regime they are running via the government.
These clowns will drum science and white papers for whatever owners need, fake news will then shill it until peasants larp as their own thought.
This is the crux of the policy loop, people make great careers larping this shit especially with proper "education"
I am sure some of them shill something useful for a pleb but I treated them as a hostile propaganda actor unless proven otherwise.
Somebody pays for these clowns to be vomiting their works... It ain't the peasants
Okay, then what is the process for creating good policy?
No sure tbh, Nordic would be an example where capitalist regime feels compelled to provide social stability to keep their mostly homogeneous plebs in line but these people have solidarity among themselves so they would flip out otherwise. They are also smaller
France seems to be another example. Singapore is efficient also.
With that being good EU style governance is bring eroded too. Look at Sweden the liberal darling.
Excess immigration backfired but I think that was socially engineering by Swedish owner class so they can erode the power to of the state and its ability to deliver social policy. Either way, it Sweden is regressing into the direction as US and UK now although way behind and slower
Global capital has gotten brazen, they are colluding among themselves.
TLDR short of ww2 style event with a big dick daddy like FDR, the current trend is not reversible.
The Nepo baby regime controls all of the institutions for making policy, private and public. Best peasant can is win small W to be pacified. Police will be designed for the benefit of people who control us. We have no infrastructure to fight back in any meaningful way besides being a discerning consumer and voting third party to dent the regime legitimacy.
The whole DNC ramming kamala is just ex-maple 48474 that working within the two party system is counter productive exercise for most w2 wage slaves.
You are not opposing shit voting for either regime whore. Going into opposition requires mental and life style changes.
Most people can't be bothered to stop eating fast food even though they know it is "mostly" food, same thing with other aspects of life.
I ain't gonna shit on peasants but if we can't help ourselves, why would the rich do it for us?
Some good answers already. To add, in the media sphere Pod Save America and their related branches is a liberal progressive media organization that tries to run counter to the conservative media ecosystem, trying to ride the line between policy wonkery and approachability.
The Brookings Institute
George Lakoff is practically a one-man think tank