@ChickPea
Allow me to teach you about a little thing called Project 2025! I so happened to post part of it over in the spirituality thread. Here’s that part:
“The next conservative President must make the institutions of
American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender idtentity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender sensi-tive, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists. Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”
Essentially, they want to make it illegal for trans people such as Elly and myself to exist. They want to label us as sex offenders so that they may then round us up and arrest us. Sound familiar? Sound like what Germany was up to in the 1930s and 40s? That’s because it is! We’re not demonizing the far-right. The far-right is demonizing us.
And that is but a small excerpt of the 900-page manifesto that is Project 2025. It’s the American conservative party’s vision to drastically reshape the country into what they want it to be. And their vision excludes people like me.
Unfortunately for them, things are very different this time around. A group of hackers managed to bring the project into the national spotlight. Many powerful people joined the resistance via endorsing Harris - whose website had (and probably still has) all of Project 2025 on it. Many states are going to prove to be a thorn in the side of conservatives should they actually try to enact this. I find myself in the fortunate position of living in a blue state.
Big Orange also wasn’t a wise figure for the conservatives to throw everything behind. Nobody likes him. Not even the people you’d think would. I’m disabled, and as such, I have nothing but free time. This is true now and was true during Big Orange’s first term. To keep myself informed and to help counteract the lies I would occasionally be told about Big Orange, I watched leftist news channels on YouTube day in and day out. I am not kidding when I say I know my stuff here. The odds of Project 2025 coming to pass with Big Orange at the helm are much worse than you’d think. As for his running mate and to-be VP? I’m also not as scared of him as most are. He showed much more civility and much less fanaticism in his debate with Walz. It also wasn’t too long ago that he correctly compared Big Orange to Hitler, and I have a feeling that sentiment hasn’t completely left his mind.
One last thing I’d like to point out - no, a majority of Americans don’t hate you and don’t want Project 2025. The reality is much simpler and stupider. The cost of living is too high, and they bet on the wrong horse to help bring it down. There’s the hateful, vocal minority, absolutely. But for the majority, it really is as simple as grocery prices are too high. They blame Biden and Harris for that, even though it’s not their fault and Harris had plans to help in that regard. And for young voters, they were kids and young adults during Big Orange’s first term, so they don’t remember what it was like and how ineffective he was at helping the average Joe.
Guess they have to learn the hard way.
