Project 2025
Well, since the American media is busy carrying out information operations against the American people, they are not covering things like Project 2025. Let’s just say I started reading the damn thing, and even though I am at the executive summary, there are a few things that are already striking. Or should I say alarming?
The first is who is part of this? The screencaps are of all the organizations participating in this. Mind you, Donald Trump already denied he is part of this, which is a hard thing to stomach when more than half of the authors are veterans of this administration. You know, people like Peter Navarro and Stephen Miller. Why is he denying the links? Well, it could be trouble.
I will use the document's screencaps as I sink my teeth into it. I recommend a pot or two of coffee and a heavy anti-acid dose. This is not something you can be that neutral, either. This document is terrible news, and I sometimes have to check it myself. Am I reading an Alexandr Dugin tract?
So first, what organizations are participating in this? Feast your eyes, and later run the Google. Some of these make Heritage look like a very moderate bunch.
One of the new groups, just from the top, is American Compass. This is their mission statement:
That has my hair on fire. Or am I overreacting to this? But then again, they posted this in the National Review when they announced:
One side favors fewer government programs and less regulation, the other advocates more. Both claim the mantle of buzzwords such as dynamism, opportunity, and mobility. Neither prioritizes the traditional structures of family and community that provide the foundations of a flourishing society, or the capacities that a nation must nurture and sustain to remain strong. Consensus views across the political, business, and academic elite have enormous blind spots, from the dangers of globalization, to the costs of a college-for-all education system, to the value of belonging to a particular place. At home, the data on collapsing families, shuttering communities, stagnating wages, and declining life expectancy are well known. Abroad, America’s capacity to protect and advance its national interests is likewise waning.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/the-return-of-conservative-economics/
If echoes of mid-century fascism or the more modern Dugin or Orban type come to mind, you are on the ball. This is why I read this article a few times.
Some groups are the oldies we are familiar with, like the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life Foundation. Yes, project 2025 will expand on Dobbs in a way that American women will lose all their rights to bodily autonomy. There are rumors; for now, we will treat it as such: they want to repeal the 19th Amendment. In case you are not familiar with them. It’s the right for women to vote. Why would they do that? Well, women tend to be a lot more towards the center than these guys like…especially black women.
Today, I would love to highlight this. It’s still from the executive summary, but I think you should know this. I use screenshots, so no one can say I am taking this out of context.
A couple of themes emerge from this short section. The first is clearly some old chestnuts, like the failure of the family, in particular the black family. I remember this old one from the Reagan years and the old image of the welfare queen. They are not even coding it a tad.
By family, they mean the traditional father-mother union, not said but implied within Christian values. Yes, my ears are already buzzing. We have seen this in the past. Can you think of one example in Italy in the 1930s? Quite frankly, this is also very much down the path of Alexndr Dugin and Victor Orban, as I wrote above.
Remember, heritage ran CPAC in Hungary. This is not accidental. They are bringing back the old chess nuts of mid-century. Russia is doing the same while claiming it’s fighting fascists. So is Hungary, or insert right-wing party in Europe.
Like any far-right movement, they are targeting pornography. Oh, never mind, the Bible Belt is the highest consumer of it. See, here, some well-trodden receipts:
“In America, religiosity and conservatism are generally associated with opposition to non-traditional sexual behavior, but prominent political scandals and recent research suggest a paradoxical private attraction to sexual content on the political and religious right.
We examined associations between state-level religiosity/conservatism and anonymized interest in searching for sexual content online using Google Trends (which calculates within-state search volumes for search terms). Across two separate years, and controlling for demographic variables, we observed moderate-to-large positive associations between: (1) greater proportions of state-level religiosity and general web searching for sexual content and (2) greater proportions of state-level conservatism and image-specific searching for sex”…
In this new study, researchers used “Google Trends” to analyze porn searches while linking state level information from polls asking about religious and political attitudes together with a variety of sex and porn-related search terms.
Statistics aren´t a surprise. On the Daily Beast´s article from 2017: “Christian Right-Wingers Love Porn: New Studies Suggest the Bible Belt Has A Kinky Side.” Homegrown Video announced the results of a six-month study on amateur porn demographics. Just under a third of all homemade sex tape submissions were created in the United States “Bible Belt”.
So, is this a projection? Because conservatives tend to accuse others of their issues. However, the attacks on the LGBTQ community also track to the far right, pro-family ideology that they want to sell us.
Full disclosure: like most American families, I have some relatives who are LGBTQ. I know what happened to this community under German and Italian fascism. We know precisely what is happening in Russia, where this is now an anti-family, anti-state ideology. One that is now profoundly penalized. What will these guys also propose further in the document? Maybe penalize childless families?
These people intend to take us there. This is why I will start to highlight this. Why I recommend you don’t take my word for it, and find time and read it. At the very least, spend some time with the executive summary.
Many of us are starting to do this and compare notes on Twitter. How many is a good question, but we are beginning to do what the corporate media will not do for ourselves. Why will they not do it? Well, political donations speak for themselves.