LS, how difficult would it be to put together a short but sweet pamphlet to do just this? Alternatively, do you know of such a publication already in existence?
Attention spans and indoctrination of the last couple of generations being what they are, a hard hitting, concise but powerful work is necessary to bring many of the younger crowd around IMHO.
In teaching my classes, it takes me the better part of one 50-minute period to lay out, with examples, Smith's theory of capitalism, and another half-hour to explain communism.
I would say a YouTube video might get it across the quickest, a pamphlet for the next level of intellectual maturity. David Barton has a ton of good stuff, but my thoughts if I had unlimited funds would be to have him or someone like him to write up the video presentation, but have someone else present it.
What about a series of advertisement length videos to be broadcast on programs that high school/college/young twenty-somethings watch? I have no idea what that would be since we don’t watch a lot of TV. (Saturday night Live??)
But have it presented in a very hip, cool way, by actors or personalities that they would listen to.
I think the pamphlet idea would be fantastic too, it might be something that would be read by working people/professionals who just never really learned how our country & economy work.
I needed something like this the other day when I was talking to a Hispanic businessman, very sharp guy but pretty misguided on some things. I’m not very eloquent myself and not good at arguing/explaining things out. It would have been so helpful to be able to hand him something and say, read this and then we can talk over what you disagree with.