Would you say that "socialized medicine" or "environmental activism" was a bigger threat to American freedom?
My sister & brother-in-law got this survey in the mail. The sad part is that it has an intended audience some of whom presumably receive it with enthusiasm. Creepy conservative enthusiasm. I am pretty sure a liberal survey could reach equal skin-crawling propaganda levels, but the Heritage Foundation sure does have an excellent slice of the market share. I would be particularly interested in the line of reasoning explaining how “Environmental Activism” threatens American Freedom. Yowsas!
Themocracy
Think tanks, political parties, NGOs, etc. use “surveys” as a fundraising tool. They’re not designed to be accurate or scientific, but to get people fired up/outraged/motivated about the issues so they give money. They never use the data for real research (beyond figuring out what their donors care about), it’s just an attempt to get money. And they’re a good example of why the age of direct mail fundraising is dying: it can get quite gimmicky and bogus.
My primary concern is that people in the US are motivated to donate by the shameless parade of “threats” to American freedom mentioned in the survey. Scary.
Hmmmm. Smells like the handiwork of Rebecca Hagelin, Christian-right-wing-nut-extraordinaire. (She’s about as far right as, oh, I dunno, Attila the Hun?) I think she runs the HF’s marketing campaigns these days. Pretty sad.
But don’t worry, Kate. Your (very valid) primary concern is properly balanced by plenty revenue-generating “threats” on parade by the left. The latest headline I saw attributes kidney stones to global warming. So, now if you get sick, it’s because of that darn global warming, and therefore you should donate cash to the cause (then move to Canada to get better).
Vary scary indeed.
Is it any wonder that the ilk of the Heritage Foundation and their droogs with feel-good-sounding stylees like “Americans for Prosperity” are fond of suggesting that the defence of American soverignty and soverign identity “antient and pecuilar” is somehow intertwined with that of free-market capitalism, and vice versa, in Orwellian Newspeak stylee?