How to Fight Back in the Universities: Starting a Progressive Policy Promotion Think Tank in Your University

 by Rob Kall

 

Now the right wing is trying
to shut down one of the last bastions of free speech and independing
thinking – the university classroom. They (the fascist idiots) want
professors to get permission from state legislators before they discuss
anything controversial.

 

I think
this is a good time to tap the resources of universities to build the
strength of progressives and the left.

A little background:

 

The
right wing almost totally out-arms the Democrats and progressives with
one weapon — a weapon which has proven to be the most effective and
powerful in American politics. The right has literally dozens of “think
tanks” that are really policy promotion organizations and these
[receive] hundreds of millions of dollars in funding annually. These
operations have produced the most devastating effects in the form of
won elections and seduced special interest groups.

 

[There
is a] need for progressives to develop counterparts to this unholy
plethora of right wing policy promotion organizations, euphemistically
called “think tanks” like the Heritage Foundation, Judicial Watch, Cato
Institute, PNAC, etc.  



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Rob Kall is editor of OpEdNews.com.  Read over 150 of his articles at Rob Kall's article archive.