Wingnut Welfare Operation in Disarray

It's the Heartland Institute an outfit that turns tricks in the climate denial circuit:

The first Heartland Institute conference on climate change in 2008 had all the trappings of a major scientific conclave – minus large numbers of real scientists. Hundreds of climate change contrarians, with a few academics among them, descended into the banquet rooms of a lavish Times Square hotel for what was purported to be a reasoned debate about climate change. 

But as the latest Heartland climate conference opens in a Chicago hotel on Monday, the thinktank's claims to reasoned debate lie in shreds and its financial future remains uncertain. 

Heartland's claims to "stay above the fray" of the climate wars was exploded by a billboard campaign earlier this month comparing climate change believers to the Unabomer Ted Kaczynski, and a document sting last February that revealed a plan to spread doubt among kindergarteners on the existence of climate change. 

Along with the damage to its reputation, Heartland's financial future is also threatened by an exodus of corporate donors as well as key members of staff. 

In a fiery blogpost on the Heartland website, the organisation's president Joseph Bast admitted Heartland's defectors were "abandoning us in this moment of need". 

Over the last few weeks, Heartland has lost at least $825,000 in expected funds for 2012, or more than 35% of the funds its planned to raise from corporate donors, according to the campaign group Forecast the Facts, which is pushing companies to boycott the organisation.

Wingnut Welfare are programs instituted by wealthy patrons of the conservagencia to foster the dissemination of ideological bullshit repackaged for the larger world.  This is done by funding ideologues and hacks through think tanks and ideological institutions.  This allows the further dissemination of wingnuttery by means not otherwise not available due to the competitive realities in the market place of ideas.  Heartland Institute is a Wingnut Welfare outfit.

One of the bad things about the Wingnut Welfare is that it creates a cycle of dependency where the winger is forced into ever more virulent rhetoric in order to please its benefactors. Call it a cycle of Pavlovian Madness whereby the winger is rewarded only after he descends into the throes of an ever-increasing cacophony of extreme rhetoric. He becomes ensnared in this perverse cycle until ultimately he is lost; unable to separate reality from the truly absurd. The cycle can only be broken when the victim hits bottom. 

What is happening to Heartland is an example of this vicious cycle. The Virulent Wingers at Heartland were unable to understand that their Unabomber campaign would backfire spectacularly.  They simply had descended so far into fathoms of wingnuttery that many had started to accept their own lies as reality. 

Some day we will defeat the wingnut welfare and free those trapped in its cycle of dependency and free these folks to understand the dignity of hard work under the conditions of the free market . But this day is not here yet.  Perhaps it is one day closer for the wingers that work at Heartland.