That's a subjective position to take in the first place, because values are used that weigh and judge multiple factors.

Which is why your mission statement should be goal oriented

"to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense" isn't a goal?

As far as goal setting goes. It’s not very measurable. There is not enough definition

No, it's not lol. Goals need to be measurable, and none of those are measurable metrics.

At best you could say they are poorly defined goals, which is why I prioritize metric based mission statements over ideological ones.


Anyway, I think I've explained myself on this well enough. I don't trust organizations that assume their conclusions before doing their analysis. Think tanks are far too ideologically driven to produce trustable results. When somebody sets out to prove conservative policies are best then all of their analysis will come back saying conservative policies are best even in cases where they obviously are not. The same goes for a liberal think tank.

I'll leave you with a big glaring contradiction in their mission statement. They want individual freedom and traditional american values, but traditional american values do not include civil rights, rights of gay people, etc. which is antithetical to individual freedom. This would be easy to catch if they didn't have a poorly defined, ideologically based mission statement.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on May 8 2020 11:05pm