Project 2025’s vision is not my America
To the Editor:
Most of us now understand that Project 2025, brainstorm of the ideologues at the Heritage Foundation and barely mentioned a year or so ago, is very real and that — right now — our federal government is being radically restructured in accordance with that 900-plus page manifesto as it seeks to consolidate power in the executive branch; to consolidate power to the will or whim of the president.
In order to do so, it must weaken or eliminate the checks and balances of the remaining two branches. As well, it will eliminate or weaken the independent, non-partisan governmental agencies, such as the FDIC, FDA, FAA, etc., that serve as common sense civil protections for every American. Beginning with the mass purging of federal civil servants, Project 2025 barrels on, reined in only by the intervention of our courts which are themselves now in danger of being weakened to the point of ineffectiveness.
But Project 2025 doesn’t just seek to reinterpret and restructure the whole of the federal government. It also seeks to influence each sovereign, individual citizen’s personal life journey. It’s sharply focused (as the authoritarian mind so often is) on matters of sexuality and lifestyle. It would legitimize only its own narrow view of marriage and would reward compliance with that view with tax advantages and preferential treatment in matters of, for example, adoption and foster care.
Project 2025 also contains language that classifies alternative sexual and gender identity as pornographic and goes even further to suggest that library books for children that so much as allude to sexuality whatsoever would be banned and ideally “librarians and other purveyors” of such materials be jailed and/or forced to register as sex offenders! Punishment is central to authoritarian thinking.
Not long ago, J.D. Vance, protege of the Heritage Foundation, was stridently advocating for a bounce in the nation’s birthrate, admonishing American women for choosing careers before motherhood, even stating outright that he knew what was best for our country’s diverse, sophisticated females; that to bear children for the State was their true source of happiness. And their duty. That did not go over well. But Project 2025 calls for just that.
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Project 2025 and the politicians that find authoritarianism personally satisfying have ideas about what is right and proper for all of us, regardless of our individuality, regardless of what we each strive for in our God-given lives. Examine this trend closely before our next election. We the people still have the power of our vote. For now.
Mase Lucas
Scaly Mountain
