The Rockridge Institute is a group of distinguished scholars and researchers working to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable, and humane society. We are a non-partisan 501(c)(3) research and educational institution, and do not endorse or oppose any particular candidate or party.
Rockridge works to:
* Reframe the terms of political debate to make a progressive moral vision more persuasive and influential.
* Develop public policies that will bring us closer to a society that embodies this vision.
* Unify progressives around a shared political program and a common moral language.
* Build links with activists, policymakers, the media, academics, and other key groups to influence the public agenda.
Over the last three decades, a well-organized and well-funded conservative movement has appropriated fundamental American values and language, from freedom to compassion to patriotism, and redefined them from a conservative perspective. By defining the language of public discourse, they have set the parameters of the political debate, even though a majority of Americans continue to reject much of the conservative worldview and its policy implications. The right has used the support of a dense network of think tanks, intellectuals, and policy analysts, to articulate its moral vision, disseminate it to the public, and translate it into public policies. More on the Rockridge mission.
We are grateful to the Open Society Institute, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Women Donors Network and MoveOn.org for providing us with funding that enables us to begin our work. Several individual donors have also made important contributions. We are seeking additional funding to advance the Rockridge mission.
Exactly what he's accusing conservatives of doing.
Here you guys go again: a bunch of left-wing intellectuals puzzled as to why the majority of Americans do not accept your values, be it in the public schools, colleges, news media, entertainment and why the liberal politicians you support can't take back government. You go to great lengths, and spend other people's money (usually given by the super-rich) to devise theories and publish volumes about how to convince the rest of us that you know better! STOP! Everyone in politics uses language to sell their views on issues that attracts supporters and repells critics. THIS IS NOT A NEW THING, BOTH THE LEFT AND RIGHT DO THIS ALL THE TIME. Big deal. Why don't you guys just accept traditional values (traditional becuase they've been successful for millenia), the desire to defend our sovereignty and way of life and pay less taxes and enjoy our freedom is HUMAN. AS IN HOMO SAPIEN. DUH!