Number 2 of a Series

These people never seem to catch on. Critical Race Theory? That dead horse? Here is something from my Facebook feed.

Help Us Get CRT Out of American Schools

Right now, Critical race theory is teaching American children a divisive, racist, anti-American ideology based on the false idea that everything in life can be reduced to race.

But with your support, The Heritage Foundation is leading the fight to ban CRT from American schools before it creates the most discriminatory, least civil generation our nation has ever seen.

Your support will help The Heritage Foundation do more than just talk—fighting back against CRT with meaningful direct action:

• Providing eBooks like this one to help us reach and teach more Americans about the dangers of CRT — and the steps they can take to fight back
• Providing an interactive CRT legislation tracker that allows you to see what CRT legislation is pending in your home state
• Enabling our policy experts to continue to appear in national media and work directly with lawmakers to educate them on the need for legislation that gets CRT out of our schools
• Crafting model legislation to help states draft bills to reject CRT — legislation which is already being used by lawmakers in several states to prohibit compelled speech and protect teachers and students from CRT’s prejudice

We won’t stop until the false, divisive curriculum of CRT is banned from every school across our nation.

But because Heritage does not work for special interest groups, we rely on the support of concerned citizens like you to see these efforts through.

Your donation will sustain our work to keep CRT’s racist, anti-American rhetoric out of our nation’s schools … before it tears our nation apart at the seams. The time to fight is now — this issue cannot wait.

Two points:

• Critical race theory is not taught to American children.
• Are these people crazy, stupid, or dishonest?

I pick the third option. See this from Wikipedia.

Climate change denial[edit]

The Heritage Foundation rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.^[73][74] The Heritage Foundation is one of many climate change denial organizations that have been funded by ExxonMobil.^[73][75] The Heritage Foundation strongly criticized the Kyoto Agreement to curb climate change, saying American participation in the treaty would “result in lower economic growth in every state and nearly every sector of the economy.”^[76] They projected that the 2009 cap-and-trade bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, would result in a cost of $1,870 per family in 2025 and $6,800 by 2035; on the other hand, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projected that it would only cost the average family $175 in 2020.^[77]

Voter fraud claims[edit]

The Heritage Foundation has promoted false claims of voter fraud. Hans von Spakovsky who heads the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation has played an influential role in making alarmism about voter fraud mainstream in the Republican Party, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.^[78][79] His work, which claims voting fraud is rampant, has been discredited.^[80]

Following the 2020 presidential election—in which President Donald Trump made baseless claims of fraud after he was defeated for reelection—the Heritage Foundation launched a campaign in support of Republican efforts to make state voting laws more restrictive.^[81][82] Heritage, through its political arm, Heritage Action for America, planned to spend $24 million over two years across eight key states to support efforts to restrict voting, in coordination with the Republican Party and allied conservative outside groups, such as Susan B. Anthony List, American Legislative Exchange Council and State Policy Network. Almost two dozen election bills introduced by Republican state legislators in early 2021 were based on a Heritage letter and report.^[83] Heritage also mobilized in opposition to H.R. 1./S. 1, a Democratic bill to establish uniform nationwide voting standards (including expanded early and postal voting, as well as automatic and same-day voter registration), reform campaign finance law, and prohibit partisan redistricting.^[81][82] In 2021, Heritage Action spent $750,000 on television ads in Arizona to promote the false claim that “Democrats … want to register illegal aliens” to vote, even though the Democrats’ legislation creates safeguards to ensure that ineligible people cannot register.^[82] In April 2021, Heritage Action boasted to its private donors that it had successfully crafted the election reform bills that Republican state legislators introduced in Georgia and other states.^[84]

Anti-critical race theory legislation[edit]

In 2021, the Heritage Foundation said that one of its two priorities (along with tightening voting laws) was to push Republican-controlled states to ban or restrict critical race theory instruction.^[85] The Heritage Foundation sought to get Republicans in Congress to put anti-critical race theory provisions into must-pass legislation such as the annual defense spending bill.^[85]

Are we surprised? American conservatism has gone downhill since Dwight Eisenhower after a short rise. See, for example.

I can only imagine. The Heritage Foundation appears to operate on either stupidity or fraud, and I must say I have a low tolerance for stupidity.