Another organization name seemingly pulled out of a hat. Web search found nothing about “Blue Collar Dollar Institute” that’s not by “Blue Collar Dollar Institute,” so probably a recently-created astroturf. Tenuous link, but one of their contributing authors is Michael Berghaus, who is or was Director of Economic Researcher & Strategy for Charles L. Shor Foundation For Epilepsy Research Inc., which in turn is a donor to the Conservative Partnership Institute. Certainly BCDI’s published articles have a definitively nationalist tone. My best guess is that this astroturf supports the Trump faction of the American right wing.
“Blue Collar Dollar Institute”
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2 responses to ““Blue Collar Dollar Institute””
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I tend to avoid reading people I know I will agree with because I don’t want to risk adopting a flawed argument that I agree with before I notice the flaw.
I prefer to read people I expect to disagree with, find a sentence that I agree with, and use it while building my own argument. To me, this is like finding a chink in their armor.
Other than that, yeah, a lot of stuff lately does a great job of hiding what they are thinking, while making it seem that the reader should agree with the article. I think they do it by leaving out the details of meaning. Everyone can support the call for a “better” economy, as long as we don’t know what the caller has in mind to achieve that improvement.
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I don’t see the “Blue Collar Dollar Institute” as a group I disagree with. I don’t see it has having a viewpoint at all, merely a policy agenda, as I see it as a typical astroturf. My complaint isn’t with problematic content, it’s with low signal-to-noise ratio.
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