“This is a real plan, by people who have been in government, for how to systematically take over, take away rights and freedoms, and dismantle the government in service to private industry..”
“The Heritage plan aims to make it very hard for the government to function. And then you loudly announce that the government can’t do anything.” [“Global Warning”; Zoya Teirstein; December,2024; Mother Jones]
This discussion of “Project 2025” will end with examination of some “Project 2025” roots being in thre old Southern Confederacy, which – given the cruel arrogance of the FAR RIGHT since 1980, should not be a surprise – YOU have just exchanged one “Master” for another.
It’s appropriate to end “Project 2025” evaluation with the slave-owning Confederacy – because that is symbolic of how the arrogant FAR RIGHT sees YOU – as somebody to be exploited. Instead of the old “Fugitive Slave Law” – now we have the “Fugitive Woman Laws”; instead of Black people denied freedoms – now Americans are denied free reproductive rights; instead of Black people being “owned” by slaveholders – now YOU can be “owned” by YOUR employer; instead of Black people denied the right to read – now YOUR school children denied the right to read books that might “upset” them; instead of the exploitive top 1% slaveholders – now we have the exploitive corporations, Wall Street, etc., etc.
It is NOT an accident the modern Republican Party is based in the old Confederacy. It is NOT an accident the post-2015 Republican Party is now a cult led by THER biggest CON MAN in American history – just like the old “Master” telling YOU what the “truth” is. “Deviants” don’t get physically whipped now – but YOU get mentally tortured by getting trashed on the I-net by self-appointed trolls [ !!! or is it Russians !?!?! ]
If Trump “wins election” – YOU may see “1984” in real terms, just 40 years late. In a sense, “Project 2025” is like “Mein Kampf” – except it has over 140 authors instead of one; reflects the combined FAR RIGHT “wish list”. – which VERY SERIOUSLY – intends to take YOU back to ??? 1950, or is it 1900, or is it 1850 ??????
Now, below – SOME of “Project 2025’s” specifics:
1]. “Project 2025 is a blueprint to End the American Dream” [Karen Dolan; l0/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “Six ways the the right-wing playbook hurts children, families, and our communities – all to make the wealthy a little wealthier..:
A] “Millions..will lose health care..slashes Medicaid..eliminate the Affordable Care Act.rolls back {drug negotiations]…
B] “Children will be sicker, poorer, and hungrier..cuts to food assistance programs..[cognitive damage potential]..
C] “Public schools will suffer..eliminate Head Start…preschool programs..programs for students with disabilities…
D} “Millions of families will be criminalized. Mixed-status families [could be ripped apart]..
E] “Food, water, air will be poisoned..reduces or eliminates..[environmental] regulations…
F] “Only the wealthy win..main goal is yet more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations..codify inequality..”
2] “Project 2025 will affect every part of life, even weather updates” {Dispatches; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]:”..the plot to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including the National Weather Service…the problem with the weather service is that it5 tries to predict the weather: …that involves making people aware..we are experiencing unprecedented rising heat around the globe..something Project 2025 means to stop.”
3] “Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid” [Sonali Kolhatkar; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “..how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich…justify ending social programs..[more $$$ to private health care insurers]…
4] “AFL-CIO Guide Shows How Trump Agenda Would Be ‘Catastrophic’ For Workers” [Brett Wilkins; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “..highlights include: -Banning unions for public service workers [pg.82]; -Firing civil service workers and replacing them with Trump anti-union loyalists [80]; -Letting bosses eliminate unions mid-contract [603]; -Letting companies stop paying overtime [592] and allowing states to opt out of federal overtime and minimum wage laws [605]; -Eliminating chld labor protections [595]; -Urging Congress to pass J.D. Vance’s bill to let employers create their own sham company-run unions [599]”
5]. “Despite Trump’s Denials, he and Project 2025 are close” [E.J. Fagan; 7/18/24; Chicago Tribune}: “Project 2025’s numerous unpopular conservative policy positions..have come under fire. As a result, former President Donald Trump and his allies have attempted to distance themselves…The Heritage Foundation is closer to Trump than it has been to any presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.”
6] “Destroying life and liberty..A Christian Nationalist playbook outlines a broad scheme to overthrow American democracy and install a theocracy” [Liz Hayes; June,2024; Church & State]: “Project 2025 offers a 900-page playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accommodate the policy goals of Christian Nationalists…Many sections advocate policies that would undermine church-state separation and religious freedom”:
A] Public Education..”calls for federal funding of “education choice”..code words for {govt $$$ to ANY private school]
B] Abortion & reproductive health care..abortion NOT health care..no birth control.. “abortion surveillance” !!!!!!!…
C] LGBTQ equality – end anti-discrimination protections, return to “Denial of Care Rule”….
D] “Biblical family structures’ – return to “heterosexual, intact marriage”….
E] Foster care discrimination – support for taxpayer-funded groups to discriminate..must pass religious litmus test !!!
F] Public health policies – “..prioritize personal religious beliefs over public health and safety.”
G] Department of labor- end anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ and DEI..employers can discriminate
7] “Project 2025 will guide Trump’s dismantling of democracy” [Editorial Board; 7/18/245′ St. Louis Post-Dispatch]: The Heritage Foundation’s president recently said Project 2025 will drive “a second American revolution” one that “will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”… some recommendations:
A] strip civil service protections for federal bureaucracy by placing them under direct presidential control
B] greatly expand military’s domestic role, include policing and law enforcement !!!
C] more draconian anti-abortion laws; Orwellian stripping of “offending phrases’ from all federal paperwork !!!
D] Dept of Justice – instead of protecting people, prosecute govts, universities, corporations offending it !!!
E] “..turn the FBI into little more than the personal police force of the president..” {King Donald I ???]
F] repeal environmental and climate programs, regulations; gut EPA & downsize agencies
8} “Legislating inequality…the Christian Confederate roots of Project 2025” [Bruce Gourley; July-August,2024; Church & State]: “Like the ideology of the Confederate States, Christian Nationalists’ Project 2025 advocates for “ordered liberty”…In the slaveocratic South, public safety and rule of law meant..forced enslavement of Black persons…”
“..billionaires rather than common folk fund Project 2025’s opposition to fair corporate taxes, effective business regulations, abortion, women’s rights, human rights, public schols, robust Social Security and welfare programs and adequately public health programs – all of which benefit working families…
“Project 2025’s authors in reality parrot ideology of 1950s and “60s Confederate apologists..’
“In addition to Confederate roots, Project 2025 also reconstructs the U.S. Constitution. In the name of their superior “religious liberty” document authors contort the Establishment Clause..” [thus following in the footsteps of the CORRUPT Roberts “court” of right-wing Christian Nationalists political hacks, who contorted the First Amendment]
“The end goal of Project 2025 is religious privilege and power…a theocratic future of religious-based, white male-dominated ordered liberty and structural inequality within which God’s self-perceived chosen people rule over all others.” [hey – correct me – but doesn’t this sound like the “fictional”. “The Handmaid’s Tale”. being brought to life??? What next – the 1692 Salem Witch Trials – with the prosecutors, all except one, being ministerial men ???
YOU – and ONLY. YOU can prevent this dystopian plutocratic theocracy – by YOUR intelligent, rational, fact-seeking. VOTE. against. Trump and his Republican accomplices. on November 5, 2024
YOU and only YOU – can prevent “Project 2025” from occurring
With Justice For All 