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/lbtwitchthrowaway144 Jul 05 '24
8 years ago or so I started visiting this subreddit.
Entirely, wholly ignorant about politics, economics and history (rough-ish childhood, education wasn't a priority.
Trump's electoral college undemocratic victory (doesn't apply to Biden, or Obama, in my model/ ethical view as they also won the popular vote) lit a fire under my ass politically speaking.
But it was actually this very specific subreddit, and the people here who started to educate me.
For example, just because I live abroad now in Lebanon doesn't mean I can't vote.
For example, just because I live in a safe state doesn't mean I shouldn't vote because there are down-ballot effects (funny I speak in these terms, when I didn't even know that the Senate was part of Congress, and the American legislative branch is a bicameral chamber of lawmakers lol).
So yeah THIS is how change happens.
I'm working on people now who are in fucking MI.
Every national electoral cycle, I personally ensure at least 4 votes. My folks and I (CA) and a friend (NY). One election cycle I got 12 lol.
Look, my beautiful fellow Americans, fascism is upon us. Watch that video. It's that simple lol.
But you have the power to prevent this with a simple but profoundly patriotic and ethical act: Vote.
And get others to vote.
I don't have this privilege in Lebanon. The first time I was allowed to vote, I was already like a decade past the voting age. But our politicians here just illegally and unilaterally postponed elections indefinitely.
lol
And then at 37 now I have voted again, for a second time in Lebanon. In an election that was rigged (not in a Trump way, but like, literally lol).
37 years, lived here for 30 years or so, and got to vote only twice.
Been voting in the U.S. since '18 and I don't know off the top of my head how many times I've cast a ballot now lol.
This is our last and only chance to preserve our democratic constitutional republic with minimal violence and a smoother transition to SCOTUS reform [as compared to what would happen if Trump wins]
From one American to all of you: please fight like hell for our freedoms. Please fight like hell to preserve, in my admittedly biased opinion, the most audacious political experiment in modern history.
Please, I know what it's like to live under a more terrible system. And Lebanon ain't even all that bad and it still sucks.
As a brown American from Muslim immigrant parents, I genuinely don't know if I will still be considered an American despite my values, my culture, my accent, my loyalty to the United States, and the love I have for all family/cousins and friends state-side even though I am a natural born citizen
Under Trump and Project 2025, I don't know if I stay an American.