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Rockridge Institute - Reframing the Issues
The Rockridge Institute is a group of distinguished scholars and researchers working to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable, and humane society. . . . 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.

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