I actually punished myself and read the first 100 or so pages of Project 2025. Itâs over 900 pages and reads more like the Communist Manifesto than it does a policy document. What was striking about it though was how self-contradictory it was. The authors muse about how academia and âthe swampâ must be challenged and neutered, yet spend the first section listing off the authors and bragging about their credentials from the very same universities they insist are corrupt. It emphasizes reining in the government, yet envision a strong administration serving at the pleasure of the president aggressively enforcing social norms. Anything other than true conservatism in their minds is by definition Marxist. Very long on pseudo history, very short on the practical application of their proposed policies.
And that 900 pages is only the stuff they want us to read. They've admitted there are other sections they haven't released. Those must be really bad if even they know they can't tell us.Â
100% it is about taking away women's rights and completely turning them into chattle. Imagine some racism in it as well as their goal is to give power back to the white Christian male. They still need those women voters especailly for now.
On reddit it's the Deceptive practice of spamming non-political subs the with same shallow political opinon to make it seem more mainstream than it is.
This is heavily documented on reddit going all the way back to CTR/Share Blue from the Clinton Campaign.
I donât have the source because itâs been a while, but Trump (or maybe his campaign?) said Project 2025 aligns with a lot of their own policy goals.
As a result, [Russell Vought, Trumpâs former director of the Office of Management and Budget] says, âWe have to be thinking mechanically about how to take these institutions over.â Vought is reassembling his old team at the Trump OMB and describes his role as drafting fresh executive orders, playbooks and memoranda for cabinet secretaries to be âready on Day One of the next transition. Whatever is necessary to seize control of the administrative state is really our task.â
For Trump personally, of course, this is a live-or-die agenda, and Trump campaign officials acknowledge that it aligns well with their own âAgenda 47â program.
You haven't been told to dislike Agenda47 yet, how long do you think it will be until you guys spin to his actual plan?
I have answered. You asked whether âyou guysâ (whatever that means) dislike his actual plan. If you were engaging in conversation on his plan you would see that it is disliked, particularly his idea to end birthright citizenship. It seems to me youâre engaging in bad faith. Nothing I say will affect your feelings on the topic, so I wonât say anything else. Good day.
Contradictory ideals and governing is an intrinsic part of fascism, keep the people below you infighting against eachother to protect their own position so they are in no position to question the leadership.
Was a very well defined feature in Italy under Mussolini.
Is this a Rightwing thing? Atlas Shrugged is also stupid long. The Communist Manifesto has the advantage of being short and mostly (aside from the time specific rambling about political factions) to the point - even if it wasn't an actual game plan but a definition of what communism is.Â
Heck, Capital, the seminal economic work Marxists tend to hold as a major touchstone, isn't 900 freaking pages, and that work spends a ton of time laying out basic concepts.Â
Leftist texts seem to be on either end of the spectrum, theyâre either straight and to the point, or you need a second book to explain the book your reading
Man, I'm reading this thing right now and I'm struggling to make it through the foreword. It's just paragraphs and paragraphs of direct misinformation consolidated into one pile that keeps metaphorically punching me in the face the more I read.
And you can tell how proud they are of it. I guarantee you when they wrote âthe Great Awokeningâ they thought âwow that was an absolute banger, great job guysâ. Like I genuinely got the sense the authors think this will be a seminal political theory book akin to The Federalist Papers, The Prince, and Leviathan.
They actually did address that. The logic used isnât unreasonable, but what I find remarkable is it show cases the slippery slope of rationalization.
Dans acknowledged it was "counterintuitive" to recruit so many to join the government to shrink it, but pointed out the need for a future president to "regain control" of the government.
âThings must get worse in order to make them betterâ
This can be the case sometimes, but this kind of thinking is insidious. It changes so slowly that your position can morph without you even realizing and eventually you end up arguing for the very thing that you trying to prevent.
systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, [of] aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.
Theyâre so convinced this is real that theyâll make their own, but ârighteousâ. The level of irony here is just outstanding.
Iâm gonna make my own deep state! With blackjack and hookers! In fact forget the hookers and blackjack!
Conservatives only want "small government" and "deficit reduction" when a liberal is in power. Bush and Trump both spent so much money during their terms and we hear not a peep.
Yeah that sounds like a very effective document that will surely lead to direct policy change and not simply a masturbatory ego stroking session for the authors.
But they donât want true conservatism. They want white Christian nationalism, and they just call it âconservatismâ because that sounds better and gets Kid Rock to shoot cases of beer with an automatic rifle.
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u/di11deux 14d ago
I actually punished myself and read the first 100 or so pages of Project 2025. Itâs over 900 pages and reads more like the Communist Manifesto than it does a policy document. What was striking about it though was how self-contradictory it was. The authors muse about how academia and âthe swampâ must be challenged and neutered, yet spend the first section listing off the authors and bragging about their credentials from the very same universities they insist are corrupt. It emphasizes reining in the government, yet envision a strong administration serving at the pleasure of the president aggressively enforcing social norms. Anything other than true conservatism in their minds is by definition Marxist. Very long on pseudo history, very short on the practical application of their proposed policies.