Americans don't like Project 2025

From the v1 Project 2025 website:

End no fault divorce
Complete ban on abortions without exceptions
Ban contraceptives
Ban IVF
Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%
Higher taxes for the working class
Elimination of unions and worker protections
Raise the retirement age
Cut Social Security
Cut Medicare
End the Affordable Care Act
Raise prescription drug prices
Eliminate the Department of Education
Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools
Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools
End free and discounted school lunch programs
End civil rights & DEI protections in government
Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education
Ban books and curriculum about slavery
End climate protections
Increase Arctic drilling
Deregulate big business and the oil industry
Promote and expedite capital punishment
End marriage equality
Condemn single mothers while promoting only “traditional families”
Defund the FBI and Homeland Security
Use the military to break up domestic protests
Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in “camps”
End birth right citizenship
Ban Muslims from entering the country
Eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more
Continue to pack the Supreme Court, and lower courts with right-wing judges
Denying most veterans VA coverage
Privatizing Tricare
Classifying transpeople as "pornographic"
Banning gender-affirming care
Ban all porn

You're telling me all that is unpopular??! The "Don't Tread on Me" folks are falling over themselves to have this?

Sounds really non-tready, lol
- This list just reads as "the billionaire list of punishments for the poor that think they're people" I say we craft the inverse list where literally everything the billionaires enjoy is legislated away, kind of like they want to legislate away our way of life we should legislate away their way of life or I guess legislative way their ability to have billions of dollars.
Classifying transpeople as "pornographic"

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- What's your question? Have you never seen conservatives scapegoat a minority group before?
- Doesn't have to make sense. Just has to fit a narrative.
I always laugh when they say "ban contraceptives" because I guarantee that the men in congress voting for it have vasectomies. Are they going to reverse them?
- No, those with the means will still continue to get them, whether that's knowing a doctor who will perform it illegally, or by traveling somewhere it's legal. Same as abortion.
ban IVF? why would they ban a safe and correct use of technology to help couples conceive what the actual fuck, I don't think there is a single nation on earth that does this, can you get IVF in the middle east? this is just mind-blowingly neardenthal
- Generally IVF involves fertilizing many eggs and then picking the best performing. Technically this is abortion.
As most have noted, the right has no objective, they are just against whatever the left is for.
- They're pretty consistent about cutting taxes for billionaires.
- 100% agree
Do the GOP leadership think this is improvement? Do they push this precisely because it’s terrible - for some reason. I don’t understand the madness.
- You have the Christofacist nutjobs who want this, the power hungry fucks who want to control others, and the cowards lacking any ethics that don't want to offend the Christofacist nutjobs.
- It's about maximum profit and control.
As an outsider I'm fine with all of this for the US, as long as the US is completely demilitarized and gets rid of every last one if their nukes. Can't have hyper-religious christian Nazis start nuclear crusades in the name of the only God that matters to them - The Dollar.
- It's fun to disassociate and dream up fantasy scenarios.

the former president's campaign has disavowed the project and recently went so far as to say its "demise would be greatly welcomed," while Trump urged his supporters to boo it at a campaign rally.

You'll have to excuse me if I don't believe for a fucking second that this is anything but optics. It's not like conservatives have to explicitly say they're following the playbook, but they obviously already are – many Republican lawmakers are members of the conservative organizations that wrote the fucking thing (see eg. this bit of news from TN)

Yeah for anyone really paying attention Project 2025 wasn't the smoke, or even the fire. It's just a picture of the fire that's been burning since Barry Goldwater irrevocably shifted what the Republican party was and should be.That event shifted everything to the right because Democrats are still operating under the assumption that the two parties are left and right, and that the general populace sort of exists between the two. We see all those graphs about how only 40% of eligible American voters vote, and I think a lot of people read those charts wrong. Those aren't voters who don't give a shit, those are voters living in places where their jurisdiction is so skewed they don't feel the need to vote, and people who look at the whole political system and see a massive shell game where everyone's fighting to wield power, but no one's really challenging if it's good to live in such a top down administrative landscape where corporations are allowed to do whatever without accountability, and they don't see much of anyone trying to do anything about that. Think about if you're a DC or Hawaiian voter with deeply held social convictions and who's running for office is a neo-fascist and a neo-liberal. How motivated are you to get to the polls when you know all your neighbors see the same thing you're seeing. Your whole community is going to half heartedly show up for the neo-liberal, so you stay home, and then your jurisdiction goes 70% for the candidate you wanted. Sure, the margin could have been bigger if you showed up, but you're broke and poor, and working those hours that day got you enough that you can celebrate with your kids tonight that the neo-fascist didn't win. It's been months since you had pizza. It would really make them happy watch the results roll in while you have a special treat.

We need this election to be a total shit show for the republicans. Like totally painting the canvas with them kinds of beat down. And then, come January, when the Democrats take office, we need to show up in the streets and show them we don't like them either. Our politicians are so beholden to financiers and so isolated from our needs that I don't even think they realize we don't like any of them. Think about this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, according to her positions, and according to polls of Americans, is completely aligned with American interests. She wants to do what we ALL want to do. And how many people see her as an evil virus from Satan because that's what Fox told them she was. How many people see her as a naive idealist who doesn't understand the full picture because that's what NBC and CBS told them she is. She's painted as a radical leftist when really... She's a centrist. She's the exact middle of America.

That's the fucked up political reality we live in.
- I appreciate your comment, keep it up!
- everything to the right because Democrats are still operating under the assumption that the two parties are left and right
  
  The Dems have had all 3 of the presidency, the house of representatives, and the Senate for 4 of the last 24 years. Or 6 of the last 32 years. Or 6 of the last 44 years. They are forced to go to the center to find voters. They have been on an epic losing streak because the left never shows up to vote.
This seems to support your ideas.

I said this in another thread and I will keep repeating it because I think it's important: if you know anyone who is a veteran or has a loved one who is a veteran, make sure they know that veteran's benefits will be severely cut if Project 2025 is implemented.

As someone currently serving, it fucking boggles my mind that anyone who has ever served could be in favor of the Republican party. Even without Project 2025 threatening veteran benefits.

So many of us have been to actual locations where the Church has a stranglehold on the government/is the government. My husband has stories from Afghanistan. I went to Qatar, which, is a "progressive" middle eastern country. I could wear tshirts and knee length shorts, but I was also not allowed to ride in an elevator with the opposite sex, and I was heavily questioned when I tried to buy cigarettes until a male coworker intervened and assured that I could. Not to mention the FUCKING INSANE wealth disparity. Palaces gilded in gold for the government/rich/churches and literal shacks made out of whatever material could be cobbled together in the rural areas outside of Doha.

Why the fuck would anyone who has seen that first hand want to support anything that could even remotely resemble a world like that?
- Then they'll get out and pay attention to how much the GOP hates funding the VA and veteran programs in general.
  
  Republicans as a party are generally "Support the troops but fuck the veterans!" just like always. It blows my mind that there are veterans that are also working class that are MAGA because they are getting fucked over twice as much from the very party that they support.
- Why the fuck would anyone who has seen that first hand want to support anything that could even remotely resemble a world like that?
  
  Because they think they'll be the ones in the gold palaces, and they don't give a fuck about anybody else
And to highlight how bad those benefits actually are, only around 18% of veterans get the benefits they're entitled to.

If it doesn't work out this election.... They won't stop. They have been planning this for over 40 years. They have NI INTENTION of stopping. They will try again unless they are stopped

Of course not. The heritage foundation has been doing this since the 70s. Reagan LOVED them.
- Everything wrong with this country is basically just a game of 6 degrees from Reagan.
They have NI INTENTION of stopping.

The candidate of the Face Eating Leopard Party swears he does not like, and will not use, the face eating manual for leopards.

Crazy FRELP supporters

Unfavorable views of the project rose the most among Democrats, for whom the plan's net favorability dropped by a whopping 36 percentage points, but it also became less popular among the smaller share of Republicans who had heard of the project: Net favorability for Project 2025 dropped 9 points among those who identified as MAGA supporters and 17 points among other Republicans.

I would love to be a fly on the wall when these Republicans finally come to realize who and what they have been supporting all of this time.

They will just double down for a while. Eventually, they will pretend they never supported any of it.

I just want the government to leave me and my rights and my property alone... is that too much to ask???

It's crazy that your comment was the purported Republican platform for a long time, and they transmogrified into the fascist trash party that Orwell wrote about, that the Empire was in films, and that the Nazis were in real life. All because a bunch of US-based domestic terrorist fundies are running a theocratic "war" against freedom, democracy, and choice. How Orange DonOld the Weird, the rapist with 34 felonies is their figurehead makes even less sense.
- Only to the people that were dumb enough to believe Reagan.
"Mind your own damn business."

- Tim Walz
yes, it's a government, if it did any of those things on purpose, it would be illegitimate/weak.

it must fuck up your shit, to prove it can fuck up your shit, to prove it can fuck up anyone's shit.

Americans want affordable housing, affordable health care, better gun regulations, a true ceasefire, and many other things that the establishment politicians don't give AF about.

I don't know about better gun regulations.
- 90% of Americans want something done about guns. They disagree on the details, but common sense things like Universal Background Checks are very popular. I know it's common to depict all Americans as "hamburger, humburger, bang bang bang!" but a lot of people think AR-15 and similar weapons being allowed in the hands of civilians is absurd.

I have to wonder what their point is. trump supporters pretend to not like it and it is the literal roadmap for what they're 100% going to vote for. Most probably don't care.

And saying Democrats don't like it is like saying there'll be a Tuesday next week.

It's probably like in many religions: they respond on what their priest is saying and want their side to win, but never really studied the scriptures.
- It’s a lot like that, yeah.
The right’s desire to win is greater than any sense they might have.

At this point the only reason to vote for Trump is if your brains have been replaced with a yogurt or you're a monster

I can forgive the 2016 Trump voters, Hillary campaigned with Kissinger after all, but America needs to wake up to the realization that a third of the country are actual monsters.