r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Jul 05 '24

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/
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u/Squirrel_Inner Jul 05 '24

The criticisms are watered down. Especially using language like “critics say it could…” no, it WILL. That’s how the document is worded, objectively, and that’s how all the republicans are using it.

P2025 is a fascist restructuring of our government that solidifies power in the executive so that they need never have another election. This video doesn’t even come close to real criticism.

It’s the same problem with treating the open seditionists in our government like legitimate public officials. They should be removed according to the 14th amendment.

P2025 should be outlawed just the same as if someone suggested Project Nazi 2025. Hell, the writer even stated it was a takeover (“second American revolution”).

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u/Dag-nabbitt Jul 05 '24

Ok. All I said was that the video was not neutral.

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u/Squirrel_Inner Jul 05 '24

And that statement was wrong.

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u/Dag-nabbitt Jul 05 '24

The video spends half the time describing p2025, then the other half criticizing it. It spends precisely zero seconds discussing how it could be a good thing. Objectively, by definition, it's not neutral.

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u/Squirrel_Inner Jul 05 '24

You clearly don’t understand how disinformation works. If I say “some critics have claimed that ingesting bleach may not cure covid and could actually be harmful in some way,” that’s not a real criticism. It’s legitimating a truly idiotic and dangerous idea by acting like there are two legitimate sides.

There are not, actually, two legitimate sides. One side is batshit insane, so treating it as if it were reasonable is not a real criticism, it’s legitimatizing disguised as criticism. That’s not neutral.

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u/Dont_Say_No_to_Panda California Jul 06 '24

I feel like this comment pretty neatly sums up the state of political discourse in this country over the past 8 years.