The phrase "a destructive idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts, thoughts, or beliefs that have harmful or negative consequences.
Example: "The proposal to cut funding for education is a destructive idea that could harm future generations."
Alternatives: "a harmful notion" or "a damaging concept."
But what I currently find most ominous is the spread of a destructive idea: the view that now, less than a year into a weak recovery from the worst slump since World War II, is the time for policy makers to stop helping the jobless and start inflicting pain.
The notion of the independent, rational economic actor is a fictional crock of ideology -- disconnected from real life, disorienting to healthy communities and a destructive idea for social change agents and job-seekers alike.
The most destructive idea is a "resolution of disapproval" concocted by Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska.
The destructive idea that there's a tradeoff between inflation and economic growth has unnecessarily retarded our expansion and capital markets in the past.
"Hot on the heels of its plan to stop communities and farmers from upholding environment law, the government is now bringing back its destructive idea to remove most of our federal environment protection," she said.
Had the elections board counted that against him, whether or not he had set foot back in Chicago for months at time, it would have lent credence to the destructive idea that there is Washington and there is the rest of us, and somehow public servants are supposed to choose between the two.
Luckily, he gave me space to talk about my feelings and never once validated the destructive idea that it was my fault.
It would have acknowledged that the jury understand current affairs and this idea that sometimes one person, with one evil destructive idea, can change the outcome of history -- especially for the worst.
He was probably upset at the idea of the reality (cops have long manipulated data in whichever way suited them) on the ground sullying his long-celebrated, but ultimately destructive, idea that cops could and should police for the numbers.
And the Los Angeles Nomadic Division, a non-profit devoted to public art, is in the process of buying space on 100 billboards alongside Interstate 10, from California to Florida, and giving ten artists the opportunity to comment on the "extraordinarily influential (and often times destructive)" idea of "manifest destiny" and the brutal expansion of the United States from sea to shining sea.
Peterson, who served in President Nixon's cabinet, has funded a lot of events and "educational" materials to promote the misguided and destructive ideas about government spending that dominate the discourse inside the Beltway.
