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Project 2025 -- Big Brother will be watching [1]
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Date: 2023-12-11
In response to this Great Awakening, I have seen an upramp of rhetoric and misinformation, so much so, that I am starting to see Russian disinfo creeping into our largely progressive Substack.
Beware those who claim to be Democrats and Liberals yet sound a lot like folks from the Right.
Their language and stances tell on them.
In any case, Project 2025 is a highly complicated topic, and I am not sure I can do it justice in a short post—I implore you to look at the videos and pass this shit around like Doublemint Gum.
Pull the fire alarm dammit!
The long and the short of it
Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation’s wet dream of a plan coming to life. Should Trump get into office again, you know, the man who recently claimed he would only be a dictator for “one day” —sure, Jan, sure— they plan to dismantle the legislative branch and judicial branches slowly but surely.
To what end, you ask?
The intention is to give all power to the guy who sits in the executive branch. A guy, according to the Heritage Foundation, who would uphold biblical values and infuse them into the law.
Hello, authoritarian theocratic oligarchy.
How they plan to do it
They have already started—it begins with sowing distrust in the institutions we have long held dear in this democracy. Yes. I get it. Red tape bureaucracy is annoying.
Know what else is annoying?
Being executed by firing squad because you didn’t kiss Dear Leader’s ring.
No system of government is perfect, but democracy is as close to an idea of freedom that currently exists. Democracy can be remodeled and reshaped as time progresses, but it does get stuck—highlighting the quagmire inherent with the sharing of ruling powers has a purpose.
To insinuate that giving power to one person is how to get things done!
Just bear in mind that an authoritarian alternative might seem, on paper, viable to some, but is a thousand times worse…
Dystopian even…
The Project 2025 Manifesto is saying the quiet part out loud, but then hiding in plain sight is a brilliant tactic. It softens the message; “If they were planning to do something truly evil, would they be so open about it?”
Ask pregnant Texas mom Kate Cox that question.
Yes, yes, they would.
According to Berkeley Political Review:
With the upcoming presidential election only a year away, voters aren’t the only groups mobilizing. In preparation for the upcoming presidential election, conservative think tanks are gearing up for a right-wing takeover of the country’s policy, personnel, and training. This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, a 1,000-page declassified guide to overthrowing the federal government. Orchestrated by a diverse host of conservative organizations, Project 2025 aims to virtually delete all bureaucratic safety stops, paving the way for an effective, radical Republican administration.
Project 2025 seeks to reinvent the federal workforce to be a loyal extension of the executive branch. Republicans are seeking to replace the core of our federal bureaucracy with like-minded, radical right-wing individuals eager to approve a presidential request at any moment’s notice. To accomplish this goal, Project 2025’s authoring groups recommend that the President reinstate what’s called Schedule F—a Trump-era executive order that would reclassify tens of thousands of the 2 million federal employees as essentially at-will workers who could more easily be fired. It would delete virtually all safety stops for an effective, accountable Republican administration and destroy years of experience in the federal workforce.
Mother Jones also provides succinct but chilling information on this front:
The Center for Renewing America is merely a small piece of the right’s let’s-go-authoritarian operation. Dozens of conservative outfits—led by the Heritage Foundation—have banded together to produce what they call Project 2025, which has released a 1,000-page report, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, which provides a blueprint for a wannabe-White-House-autocrat. Their proposals include removing protections for federal employees so perhaps as many as 50,000 could be fired and replaced with Trump (or Republican) loyalists. This would be done under the banner of annihilating the supposed “deep state” bureaucracy and smashing the “administrative state.” As noted above, this would destroy the civil service, booting out of federal agencies employees with expertise and experience and replacing them with political hacks. We’re talking about EPA lawyers who might inform a White House that its proposal to sell oil leases off environmentally sensitive coastlands would violate the law. Or perhaps a CIA analyst who produces an assessment saying that a presidential policy might yield negative consequences (for instance, a report noting that bombing Mexico could cause an immigration crisis). There’s much more in Project 2025 than eviscerating the civil service. It, too, calls for curbing the independence of the Justice Department and proposes revved-up prosecutions of persons providing or distributing abortion pills by mail. The project urges rolling back environmental regulations, reversing actions to address climate change, and abolishing the Pentagon’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. One chapter that focuses on the Department of Health and Human Services calls on the next president to “maintain a biblically based, social science–reinforced definition of marriage and family.” In other words, the next chief executive should wage a war on marriage equality.
No one will be safe
I had an exhausting and perplexing exchange with a so-called progressive who tried to shoot down my ideas by claiming he was older and far more “liberal” than I was. Even so, this individual was explaining why it didn’t matter who we voted for in this election because no one had our best interest at heart.
My attempts to explain why this was dangerous were called “evangelizing”.
Okay.
He also said he was a White man who did not have to care about women’s issues. There are bigger fish to fry, you see.
This is my response:
Honestly, if people cannot comprehend the dangers of Trump and Project 2025, I can’t help them. For those of us who do get it and know what’s coming down the pike—stay afraid ya’ll, stay very afraid.
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