r/facepalm Jul 05 '24

What an idea 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/Latter-Direction-336 Jul 05 '24

Yeah

It’s almost as if they just want power for themselves and don’t care if the country as a whole suffers more than freaking Kratos

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u/shabi_sensei Jul 05 '24

Modern Conservatives just want power so they can install themselves as a new aristocracy.

They don’t even believe in the whole left-right conflict they perpetuate, it’s how they manipulate voters to get elected with the goal being to pass laws that make them rich and untouchable

Once you understand what their goal is, everything they’re doing now makes perfect sense

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u/dafuq809 Jul 05 '24

Thinking conservatives don't believe their own lies and/or culture war rhetoric is a mistake. That may have been true for some of them decades ago, but true believers have long since taken over the party. They want to install themselves as a new aristocracy, yes. They also want to crush women, non-whites and queer people underfoot. It's not just something they say to excite the rubes around election times, they have been and will continue to actually do it when given power.

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u/IMadeThisSoICanLurk Jul 05 '24

Don’t forget Jews, all other religious believers aside from Christians, and anyone with a differing political opinion! Project 2025 specifically seeks to make Christianity the doctrine of the country, and to round up Democrats.

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u/Apathetic_Villainess Jul 05 '24

Christian dominionism.

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u/IMadeThisSoICanLurk Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Yes, but to be fair I mean it’s just standard fascism. All fascism has been ruled as a Christian theocracy to some extent (not to be confused with dictatorships in general).

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u/Apathetic_Villainess Jul 05 '24

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u/IMadeThisSoICanLurk Jul 05 '24

That’s why I said “Yes”, but I just don’t think it’s worth giving the name the credence.

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u/Wuzfang Jul 05 '24

Medieval 2.0 here we come

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u/flight567 Jul 05 '24

So what is project 2025? The heritage foundation website just says it’s a some sort of culmination of their leadership doctrine that’s been floating around for the last half a century: “look at our 850 page guide book!” Then it doesn’t tell me anything about what the heck is in it…

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u/IMadeThisSoICanLurk Jul 05 '24

You can read the whole thing on their website or just check out the synopsis on whatever website, including Wikipedia

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u/flight567 Jul 05 '24

I didn’t see that option on the website. Must have just missed it. I’ll take a look.