The reasons why you shouldn't worry about project 2025

 

At first, we all know that Project 2025 isn't a hidden agenda. Project 2025 promotes a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals published by the Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 envisions widespread changes to the government, particularly economic and social policies.

Project 2025 is a presidential transition project, referring to Jan 20, 2025, when the architects of the project hope Donald Trump will retake the White House. While the project doesn’t have Trump’s name on it, the director of Project 2025 specifically named Trump as the person who will be in charge of implementing (or not) the objectives outlined in the project’s nearly 1,000 pages’ public document.

The project begins with three promises:

The first promise: “restore the family” and “protect our children.”

They want to remove anything related to gender, including the terms “gender identity, gender equality, gender equity,” and more, from any federal rules or laws.

The same goes for “abortion, reproductive health, and reproductive rights,” those terms and concepts should be taken out of every “regulation and piece of legislation that exists.”

They want to ban pornography and imprison anyone who makes it. They say teachers and librarians who give porn to children should be classified as sex offenders.

The second promise: “dismantle the administrative state.”

The current Congress is the least effective Congress in US history, in terms of legislation passed. They have spent more time choosing a Speaker of the House than they have working on meaningful pursuits on behalf of the American public.

And Project 2025 calls that out. They say that Congress is more interested in being famous than doing important things, and that they pawn off their rulemaking authority to executive departments (what they call the “Administrative State”) like the Department of Education or the Environmental Protection Agency, instead of doing their jobs.

The power to make rules should not lie with the unelected executive branch, they argue. It should reside with Congress and the president. To accomplish this, they have a plan for how to “fire supposedly ‘un-fireable’ federal bureaucrats,” and how to “muzzle woke propaganda at every level of government.”

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Many people repeat the idea that an incoming president in 2025 or some date in the future could come in, make ‘un-fireable’ civil servants who are not political appointees suddenly fireable, replace approximately 50,000 federal workers with political sycophants, and surround themselves with yes-men who will do their bidding. That false idea is terrifying to millions of Americans because the administrative state in fact cannot be dismantled as it stands. The Democrats can’t change it because of the unions, and the Republicans can’t do it because they don’t understand how the process works.

The third promise: national security. But it mostly focuses on immigration and China.

Project 2025 says that “economic engagement with China should be ended, not rethought.” This would be a radical reshaping of the US economy, which is heavily dependent on Chinese-made goods.

They say that “pro-open border elites” want a constant flow of illegal immigration to suppress the “wages of their housekeepers, landscapers, and busboys.” Illegal immigration should not be curbed, it should be stopped completely, the document says.