Project 2025 will cement America as a rightwing authoritarian state
The language of the linked article by Mr Barrington Salmon may seem to veer into conspiracy territory at times…if it wasn't so well-documented. At the risk of "yelling into a echo chamber"…
“The actions of liberal politicians in Washington have created a desperate need and unique opportunity for conservatives to start undoing the damage the Left has wrought and build a better country for all Americans in 2025,” the Project 2025 manifesto said. “It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.”
Meyerson, editor-at-large at The American Prospect, said far-right conservatives and The Heritage Foundation have an extensive enemies’ list that includes “welfare recipients, lazy and liberal civil servants, anti-business regulators, environmentalists, and union bosses, “scientists, woke bureaucrats, woke educators, woke diplomats, woke generals and admirals, woke G-men, and anyone who doesn’t indulge the next Republican president’s every whim (an adaptation to the likelihood of a Trump nomination),” in the commentary titled, “The Far Right Has a Plan to Remake America. They Even Wrote It Down.”
America is at an inflection point, vacillating on a knife’s edge because of Trump, who has tapped into a deep reservoir of grievance, hatred and resentment plans that will be fully unleashed in a second term. Trump’s incendiary rhetoric – mirroring Hitler and Mussolini – is convincing observers that he’s a fascist, to add to his authoritarian bent.
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There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.
Vote against this but remember to have a plan b that doesn't involve living the US.
Most people can't escape. It's very hard to become a citizen of another country. Plan B should not be where to live. But we definitely should have a plan B.
Plan B should be some kind of direct action beyond voting. Leaving the country is somewhere around plan E or F.
My plan is kms tbh
Maybe we should fight for our country.
If I believed fascism and camps were coming for me I wouldn't let lack of citizenship stop me from fleeing.
I'd be working under the table jobs as a undocumented worker.
All you need is residency.
When Putin took over Russia and turned it into him getting 99% of the votes every election, most people of Russia did not leave. When Putin cracked down on journalists, free speech, and gay/queer people, hell even his own oligarchs aren't safe next to a Russian window, most people of Russia did not leave. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the first and second time, most people of Russia did not leave.
Have Russians bought the Kremlin propaganda hook, line and sinker? What does it take for a citizen to say enough is enough before they leave their country? Do Russians lack the means to afford the ability to leave their homeland, potentially forever from friends, and generations of families? Unfortunately, most people whether it's Russia or the US, simply do not have the means, the finances, the connections, or the resources to leave. A minority of us will have access to this luxury, but for a majority of us, we are simply fucking stuck. And in case it's not clear, I do not support Russia, I hope the Putin regime collapses sooner than later.
Funny thing is Republican states are more dependent on the Federal Government than Democrat states. So they are going to stop themselves? https://www.governing.com/finance/are-republican-states-more-federally-dependent.html
Well not those people of course, those are the good people.
What they meant was brown/gay people. And that's just to start with.
I believe that people will do the right thing and vote against fascism and for democracy. There is no plan b for me.
Also, as far as emigration is concerned, it is important to remember that dictatorships like Russia, China, and North Korea are all waiting for a second Trump term to invade NATO members of Europe, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific, and South Korea respectively. Regions of the world that seem safe now may soon be at war.
This is not intended to discourage anyone from moving. If you have a safe place to go, don't let me stop you. But it's important to remember that a second Trump term will have wide reaching consequences beyond the United States.
How can you vote against something that has already been getting enacted for the last few presidential terms. This shift started with Bill Clinton, it's just until recently it got a name.
You vote Biden and not Trump. You then keep working to make the system and world better.
That's gonna be a hard no. Unless you are from the donor class there is no 'make the system better,' this is pure delusional thought. Liberals made the same claim in 2020 by declaring 'push Biden left after the election,' he just moved further right.
But that just isn't true, he didn't move further right, he has moved left. Not nearly as far as I would like, but definitely left. He's turning out to be the most progressive president since LBJ. Admittedly, that's more of a criticism of how right wing the office has been in that time, than it is high praise of Biden, but it is true.
You are falling off script, its supposed to be FDR.
"I don't like what you're saying, therefore you're clearly following someone else's script"
All the echo chambers parrot FDR, and Biden isnt to the left of either. Hes to the right of Reagan and Baby Bush
If I'm not saying what you were prepared for, maybe you are the one with a script. It's LBJ. LBJ was significantly more left than Biden, but can you name one since?
Yepp. “Vote blue no matter who” is worse than MAGA at this point, because at least conservatives are honest about who they are.
Okay comrade.
The main problem is that largely over the course of our country's recent history it is one vs one. It just doesn't work. If you were hiring for a very specific, hard, responsibility filled job would you pick between only 2 people? Yes I know that primaries start with more but lets be real - how many of those weren't already decided before the campaigns started.
Exactly the way that Malcolm X described them In bullet or the ballot, wolf versus the fox. The exact same way that MLK referred to them in letters from a Birmingham jail.
Are you talking about the guy who was assassinated in 1965?
Are you using it to reference modern politics?
I'm talking about the way that both of them described milquetoast liberals as being worse than Republicans, more of a danger to society, and prevent progress despite all their rhetoric.
Do you think nothing has changed in sixty years?
No they haven't, Marx described them the same way too. Their technique for staying in power by co-opting marginalized groups before stabbing them in the back has remained the same.
Well if no one could change anything in the last sixty years what do you suggest we do?
Stop electing Democrats
So Republicans are the solution? But we've had plenty of Republicans as President and all over the country. If their ideas and actions were so great why haven't the Republicans swept everything by now if it is so bad?
I’m glad to be chatting with someone smarter then everyone else who have thought of this problem since Karl Marx wrote about it but couldn’t solve it.
Please explain. What exactly has been enacted? A rightwing authoritarian state?
What? Again, please explain. What "shift" started with Clinton? What is this name of which you speak?
Go back about 30 years and research DLC and 3rd way democrats. The entire shift to the right started with Bill Clinton at that point.
It's always been a right-wing authoritarian state, when Trump was locking up protesters during the George Floyd protests, Democrats correctly called him out for it. But were strangely silent while protesters protesting against mass genocide in Gaza are also getting arrested, losing their jobs, while ignoring that he further funded Israel and completely bypassed Congress to get them more weapons. Sounds very authoritarian to me.