There is no fairly permanent "Democratic Policy Institute" like the GOP has with its Hoover Institute (which sucks)

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11. I know that they don't have power of persuasion for more than a few.

Compare to the propaganda mills with social media bots and visceral appeal.

They may be wonderful but they don't move the needle.

That's my concern.

I quote Ibram X. Kendi:
from the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning
https://democraticunderground.com/100216524810

The best, the ONLY cure to WhiteChristianNationalism, race baiting, mysogyny, etc. is WINNING

Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable.

And that day is sure to come. No power lasts forever. There will come a time when Americans will realize that the only thing wrong with Black people is that they think something is wrong with Black people. There will come a time when racist ideas will no longer obstruct us from seeing the complete and utter abnormality of racial disparities. There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing , intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves. There will come a time. Maybe, just maybe, that time is now.

Meanwhile, the GOP turned from a party that supported civil rights to one that brutally opposes civil rights.
Their STINK TANKS brainwashed them (starting with Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy&quot into racist, white christian nationalists, loving Hitler and Putin.