New Name for The Heritage Foundation: The White Heritage Foundation. Any others?
For the first time in 40 years, the Heritage Foundation got a little sloppy and overconfident, and let it's dog whistle racist underpinnings show. It's time to run with it. I propose we start referring to THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION as THE (WHITE) HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
It will stick! Mainly because the word "heritage" is often used as a dog whistle code word for "racial purity."
By mocking this "think tank" we can diminish its credibility once and for all, the same way we've gone a long way to diminish the credibility of Fox News.
All of these 'think tanks' were set up in the 70s by conservative activists, and various other corporate plutocrats who have no ideology beyond using government as a tool to get richer, often at the expense of the middle class, working poor, and poor. They provided a facade of ideological credibility (ie-propaganda) for what would become the most successful attempt to put the government into the pockets of the rich since the Gilded Age. And for 40 years IT WORKED! Until, around 2005, the (nascent) progressive movement started to fight back by exposing these 'think tanks' for what they really are: propaganda outlets for the plutocrats.
The progressive movement did a great job in the last election exposing the Kochs' naked attempt to buy government, and most people are unaware of the Koch's connection to all three of The Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, and (especially) the CATO Institute.
The Heritage Foundation has just been exposed as a propaganda outlet, and is in the spotlight. We can keep it there by continually referring to it as The (White) Heritage Foundation.
Can you think of any names to call The American Enterprise Institute and The Cato Institute?
I though maybe The Koch-Ato Institute ("Koe-KAY-toe"
for Cato, given that it was originally founded as THE CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION in 1974, and then re-named to make the link less obvious. Most people are unaware of this, and the link should be made clear.
What are your thoughts about potential MOCK NAMES for these 'think tanks?'
PS-EDIT: I just noticed one of the comments in the Krugman Article on The Heritage Foundation suggesting we stop calling it a THINK TANK and start calling it a STINK TANK.
I LIKE IT! Wouldn't it be nice if MSM commentators started saying things like: "According to the conservative STINK TANK known as The Heritage Foundation, immigration reform will cost the economy $6 trillion dollars. But who cares what a stink tank thinks?"
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