Project 2025: A Document Dredged Up
from the Depths of Hell

There are still 60 days until the Trump Administration takes the reins of government. That is enough time for us to define who we are, what we stand for, and why we intend to become and remain a thorn in the side of Donald Trump and his tribe of MAGA sycophants.

During the campaign Trump repeated again and again that he knows nothing about Project 2025, the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing organization of misfits, thieves, and humanity-haters. He also said he has no intention of following anything in it during the coming four years. As usual, he was lying through his teeth. It is a 920-page document that sets forth an agenda on how to strip the remaining wealth from the bottom 90 percent and give it to the top 10 percent. It would propel the US into a duopoly of incredible wealth by the few, and unspeakable squalor by the many. To achieve that end Project 2025  envisions  eliminating most of the federal government’s programs and give that money to the ultra-wealthy.  It is scheme that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir Putin would love to be the author of.

Here is a question and answer from CoPilot, Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence model about the intent of Project 2025:

Question: Can you summarize project 2025 and comment on whether it is a road map on how to transform the US from a democracy to a dictatorship?

Answer: Project 2025 is a comprehensive policy initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative propaganda organization. It aims to reshape the federal government under a conservative administration. The project includes a detailed policy agenda, a personnel database, training for potential political appointees, and a playbook for the first 180 days of the next administration.

Key Highlights of Project 2025:

1. Downsizing the Federal Government: Proposes significant reductions in the size and scope of federal agencies, including the elimination of the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security.
2. Policy Changes: Includes controversial measures such as banning abortion drugs nationwide, reversing policies that allow transgender people to serve in the military, and eliminating Head Start programs.
3. Executive Power: Advocates for a strong unitary executive theory, which would place the entire executive branch under the direct control of the president.
4. Cultural and Social Policies: Calls for the removal of terms like "diversity," "equity," and "inclusion" from federal regulations and policies.

Concerns About Autocracy:

Critics argue that Project 2025 could lead to an erosion of democratic principles and a shift towards autocracy. The plan's emphasis on consolidating executive power, reclassifying federal civil service workers as political appointees, and infusing government with conservative Christian values has raised alarms about potential threats to the rule of law, separation of powers, and civil liberties. Some experts believe that while the U.S. may not become a full-blown authoritarian regime, it could move towards a semi-autocratic or hybrid regime similar to Hungary under Viktor Orbán.
In summary, Project 2025 is a bold and controversial blueprint for transforming the U.S. government. Whether it leads to autocracy depends on its implementation and the checks and balances within the American political system.

My Comments: What a weak summary! Project 2025 is  the autocratic outline of how to assemble a group of misfits to head each cabinet position or agency for the purpose of destroying them, thence to shift their budgets to corporations and their stockholders to lead the destruction of the US government and our Constitution as we know them. It is an outline of how to take wealth from the poor and the middle class and give them to the already ultra-wealthy. Without wealth, there are no opportunities. Without opportunities there is no freedom. Without freedom there is no purpose. And without purpose there is no reason for civility

Is this what the MAGA-types voted for when they went into the voting booths across America in early November? Probably not.  They are brain-washed lemmings.  And to think that not a shot was fired. The 49.5 percent who voted for Trump gave in and gave up to an incorrigible dictator without a fight. That is what history will record. One ignoranmus is now leading 70 million ignoramuses. Good bye to the land of the free, and the home of the brave. Good bye to opportunities, self-reliance, and personal virtue. Goodbye to honor, decency, and the Spirit of 1776. You just validated that the Heritage Foundation is staffed by evil incarnate, and you are known to them as obedient slaves.

You have been duped, and you gave up your honor and your integrity to a group of scalawags-- without a fight or a whimper.

The Heritage Foundation has shown us that they are far from the mainstream of who we are and what we stand for. Thomas Paine seized the moment before American patriots rose up in defense of democracy when he said:

“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

Washington invoked Paine’s words to his troops before going into battle. On the night of December 25th, as Washington prepared to make a strike on Trenton, he ordered that Paine’s words be read to the entire army as a reminder of the importance of their task.

“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”

It is fair to ask: Where is the fight, the honor, the cause that elevated men and women back in 1776? Who listens today to their voices? Have we lost our heritage? Have we lost our courage? Have we lost ourselves?

Just 70 years later, Horace Mann challenged us to the very core of our beings when he uttered said these immortal words: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

Winston Churchill did not waver in the face of threats to freedom: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.”

We do not have the luxury of changing our way of life on anyone’s whim. Freedom and slavery are binary opposites. We are either free or not. We either stand with Washington, Paine, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Churchill and with patriots throughout the ages, or not. Since the Revolutionary War ended, 646,596 American troops have died in battle and more than 539,000 died from related causes. Did they all die in vain? Is freedom a choice?

Patrick Henry knew the answer. It was in his DNA. His words still echo in our schools, in our churches, in town halls, across fields and prairies, and in the hearts and souls of patriots every where: “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”