By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
The American people felt a new sense of vigor, a new president would be coming into office, the economy was starting to fire on all cylinders again, and things were actually working in Washington DC. Of course, where would America go with this newfound prosperity, and ever increasing abundance?
That's when the big debate started, and the think tanks on both sides of the political spectrum were drawing battle lines in the sand and organizing their intellectual debating points. But it wasn't just the Republicans and Tea Party, and Democrats and Socialists, this time there was a new player one which was stronger than ever now; the ever present and growing third-party with their libertarian zeal, something that was definitely catching on with the American people.
Scott Klein perhaps started off the debate when he was asked to renew his membership at one of the Washington DC think tanks as a fellow. He didn't like the socialist leanings and posturing that the think tank he was a member of had taken. He was well aware of exactly who the big donors to the think tank were, and the fact that the think tank was really an offshoot of a well connected Democratic law firm. Nevertheless, the group had always stated that it was partisan-politic-neutral, and only wanting true progress for America, but that was a laugh.
Yes, Scott Klein was madder than hell, and that's putting it mildly, he'd gotten tired of taking orders of which research projects to drop, the editing of his reports by staff, and the removal of several of his award-winning papers on the think tank's website. So he fired off an e-mail to the president of the progressive organization; Jonathan Protesta that stated;
Your members are so caught up in their views, that there is no debate left, they won't look at the empirical data, the facts, they enter all discussions at the point of political impasse from their new AGW religion with hyperbolic graphs in tow on down. What's there to talk about? Look Jonathan, we have too many insane environmentalists pitching nonsensical unreliable alternative energy promises such as wind power, who have no clue as to the reality. We have a bunch of old-timers there who don't get it either, have made rotten predictions and now have to live with their miscalculations, their credibility is shot, it hurts the entire group.
Are you not forgetting when I defended our organization after the Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal attacked this organization a few years back. Still, there are too many anti-capitalist members who've seem to have forgotten Hitler was a socialist sending around emails of Republicans with Hitler-style mustaches. Remember FDR caused a lot of economic challenges and unintended consequences, look how those programs have grown today, a 1/3 of the Federal Budget for Social Security, yah, we need more socialism in America, right? Many of our members were big-time vocal supporters of the Obama Administration as well, which just blows me away to no-end, and I cannot believe for the life of me that anyone would fall for such nonsense and teleprompter speeches, especially fellows in this organization.
Any fellow, futurist, or long standing member in this group worth their salt could have seen that coming a mile away - shovel ready jobs, alternative energy, high-speed trains, not on a socialists' watch, not a chance Jonathan. Whatever tools our think tank members are using don't work, judging by their predictions. I wouldn't take any credit for that Jonathan. Here is the deal, we live in the real world, not some fantasy-land, this isn't Harry Potter on holiday, nor is it Wizard of Oz tweeting his meat like Congressman Weiner, or a Comic Book version of Soros making his latest commodity plays to cause world starvation making a cool 100 million in the process, while preaching love for humanity at Davos.
Yes, it's great that the original founder of this think tank met a lot of former Presidents and mucky-mucks here in Washington DC; good for the organization, something to lay a foundation on, prove self-worth and all that, but we can do better. What about in the here and now, today, in the present period? What are you really doing, talking about stuff, promoting member's concept drawings of utopian bubble cities; I don't see anyone building it? Think about it Jonathan.
Okay so, you put out a decent magazine, have an incredible eEzine list of the who's who here inside the Belt Way, yes, and some interesting articles, political research, reports, but really, it's nothing our organizations followers can't find in GizMag, Kurzweil's AI, OECD, UN Habitat for Humanity Program, MIT Technology Review, SpaceWars, DARPA press releases, TED, Industry Technology Trade Journals from TradePubs.com, or listening to on Coast-to-Coast mid-night conspiracy radio. It's the blind leading the blind Jonathan.
Jonathan, I need more, I am underwhelmed. I was really hoping for more. What you have on our website is repetitious, more noise, and the views of our members are not good enough, except for a very few standouts. How does being a member help me, or any of the other dedicated fellows in our group, or those interns we are grooming to blaze the field into the future? Your answer appears to be to give our team the tools we need, but many of us truly dedicated researchers have a system which obviously works better, at least based on the false-positive predictors and our member's predictions. The Hudson Group, CATO Institute, AEI, Heritage Group, and OTH are clearly blowing us out of the water here. They are right, and we can no longer pretend that socialism is good for America, as it's quite frankly been a disaster.
Whose team are we on Jonathan? Are we for America's future and progress or are we trying to turn this place into another economic depression as the Obama Administration did, we need to decide Jonathan. Personally, I am bored Jonathan, bored with being some sort of socialist soldier, censored by the committee, I need more. It's not good enough, why can't we push our organization to greater heights, why are we settling for mediocrity, why Jonathan? We have the opportunity to do great things. We need to stop acting like "flash-mob mentality" socialists and the apologists for humanity's ills. We need to get this show on the road.
Our group is promoting people as consultants who don't have a clue as to what they are talking about and they are mis-advising folks, corporations, and government agencies. You want me to "participate" and yet our website makes it damn near impossible, it's hard to comment even when logged in, even as a member with a log-in code, I can't comment, or set up a blog, not that I'd care too, but all the same. Our organization's secretary had advised me that my reports, comments, and insight is being censored, sentences being modified to established political correctness protocol, may I ask what on Earth that is about? Obviously this isn't a think tank anymore, it's just more Washington DC political punditry.
Our group is no longer functional, the communication systems on the website are hard to use, and as a Facebook twenty-something with an average of 682 friends might say; it sucks. Further, I see many of our members as the folks that are causing bad decision making in government and promoting horrible solutions based on socialist thinking borrowing plays out of the AGW theory alarmists' playbook. Our think tank should probably close and start over, then communicate better with our members. I have some information I'd like to get out too, but I keep getting censored, and quite frankly, I don't need some show-boat promoter, chimpanzee level intelligence, carbon-based organic biped telling me how to think or what to look for when doing reports, futurist studies, or research on this pale blue dot.
If they knew what they were talking about, they could argue or debate their points on the merit of their views, without censoring, plus they would have made better predictions without the stealth trickery we are now using with; brevity, ambiguity, and short Kiplinger style sentences, or ripped off bullet points from Professor Dychtwald's newsletters or the lasted UN message of the week. It's time for us Jonathan to start acting like a Think Tank, rather than dummying down our reader and leaders here in Washington DC with more socialist driven nonsensical material. And Jonathan if you disagree with what I've said here, consider this my resignation, and your new Think Tank competition.
Sincerely,
Scott Klein, PhD
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Jonathan did not agree, and Scott Klein made good on his promise. The socialist-based think tank did continue, with global partners, mostly European. It had lost most of its US Corporate based funding and Democrat Political support except for the outright socialists still left in Congress. The US had changed, socialism once again had been rooted out of American Society, well until the next pendulum swing, hopefully decades away.
Meanwhile, the intellectual debate in America was taken to a higher-level, and the political correctness, and noise of socialism had to compete based on reality, not political or media propaganda. America had grown up, and it was thriving once again.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
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