• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    In case people don’t know what Project 2025 is.

    Here’s the document:

    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise

    AT LEAST READ THE FOREWARD. It very meticulously lays out their 4 goals:

    1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
    1. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
    1. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
    1. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty

    In plain language they want to:

    1. Effectively make LGBTQ+ persons illegal, unable to marry, adopt, or even exist openly, nationally ban abortion, ban education about black history and systemic racism;
    2. hamstring or eliminate a bunch of government agencies like the Department of Education, the EPA, the DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, and to eliminate many positions within the federal government or install loyal puppets;
    3. close our borders completely, pull out of NATO and the UN, invest heavily in oil, coal, and natural gas while divesting in renewable energy and removing environmental regulations, and exert extreme control over tech companies and universities;
    4. create school voucher programs which very much are to allow parents to segregate their children and use tax dollars to fund conservative, religious, private schools at k-12 levels, and eliminate social welfare programs. Also includes the contradiction of “champion the dynamic genius of free enterprise” and “include antitrust enforcement against corporate monopolies.”

    The whole thing is full of conservative buzz words, “anti-woke” rhetoric, and contradictions about free enterprise while wanting to exert control over people and “big tech.”

    But it’s also dangerous because they’re going to attempt to consolidate power to the next Republican president. There are complicated and far-reaching consequences to the things they’re proposing that would take an academic paper to get into. For example, Ron DeSantis just signed a bill making lab-grown meat illegal because of the “global elite.” It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s part of the reactionary, anti-leftist, culture war bullshit the Republicans are on right now.

    That summary should be enough to show why this is so dangerous.

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      7 months ago

      Here’s the education of the guy who heads the think tank that made this bullshit up:

      Roberts earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a Master of Arts in history from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in American history from University of Texas at Austin.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Roberts_(academic)

      So basically, a history professor with 3rd rate qualifications from 4th rate universities.

      No experience or knowledge in politics whatsoever.

      If this is the garbage that actually sparks off the next US civil war, I will lose my fucking mind at the stupidity of it all.

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      7 months ago

      Wow. Thanks. With your summary and the titles alone I can make sense of that manifesto:

      1. Define families properly to include all colours of families. Make them (the people) more important than corporate greed and capitalism. Make sure their children have access to education. And care for them if their parents aren’t well off.

      2. The state has no business dictating people’s reproductive rights, choices in gender issues and religion. Instead they need the state to provide infrastructure to them, healthcare etc to enable them to achieve what they want individually. People need the freedom not to get shot on the streets or at school by some lunatic. And democracy in the USA is broken. Governance by the people needs true choices. Less lobbyism, gerrymandering and childish behaviour in the senate.

      3. Make good choices in a globalized world. Sustainable politics. Trade and be friends with your neighbours and other friendly nations. If you want to be strong, you better have friends and also show them they’re worth something to you.

      4. Freedom and Liberty? That’s a pretty straightforward proclamation to celebrate LGBTQ+ people, women etc as god made them. I’d say that extends to anyone and all the diversity and richness of life. And include welfare programs for the disadvantaged, as God and the founding fathers wanted equal opportunity. And the USA currently only cares for the rich. Contradicting any of Jesus’ teachings.

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        7 months ago

        Did you read the document? Those four goals are all double-speak for taking away rights, dismantling government agencies, promoting christo-fascist ideals, and controlling the American people.

        You literally don’t have to take my work for it, I’ve provided you with the document.

        All of what you said is exactly what the Democrats are trying to do, but getting blocked by Republicans at every turn.

        But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that authoritarian doublespeak actually works as it has on you. There’s a reason 1984 sometimes feels way too real. You’re not willing to read.