Via Southern Sister Resister |
Daily Kos - Last year, NBC News reached out to 44 of the dozens of people who were part of Trump’s Cabinet at some point during his first term. Only four at the time had said they would vote for him again.
Thom Hartmann - Project 2025 folks and their Steve Bannon fellow travelers, in their effort to tear down America and make our country safe(er) for morbidly rich oligarchs, have big plans, including:
— Placing the
entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies like the
Department of Justice, under direct presidential control through an
extreme interpretation of the “unitary executive theory,” thus turning
the federal police system into an enforcement mechanism against
dissenters.
— Eliminating job protections
for thousands of federal civil servants, allowing for their replacement
by political appointees loyal to the administration, reversing the
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 and returning America to the
corrupt spoils system.
— Dismantling the Department of
Education and transferring or terminating its programs, speeding up the
GOP’s ongoing project of ending public schools (with their unionized
teachers) and replacing them with private, segregated, often-religious
academies for the white upper middle class.
— Slashing
funding for the Department of Justice and dismantling the FBI and
Department of Homeland Security (which will probably be replaced by a
new Schutzstaffel-style police force answerable directly to the
president, as Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott have already done in Florida
and Texas).
— Abolishing the Federal Reserve and
potentially returning to a gold-backed currency, transferring power over
the nation’s economy from the Fed’s technocrats into the hands of the
wealthiest men in America.
— Criminalizing
pornography, abortion, mifepristone, and most forms of birth control,
placing women under the direct control of the state.
—
Removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity, returning us to the days when queer
people were routinely harassed and murdered.
— Terminating
all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and affirmative
action initiatives across the federal government, locking into place the
white racial hierarchy that currently controls most wealth and power in
the USA.
— Cutting funding for renewable energy
research and climate change initiatives while boosting fossil fuel
production so the fossil fuel barons who largely own the GOP can make
more billions.
— Imposing work
requirements for recipients of food stamps (SNAP) and other welfare
programs as the first step toward ending all welfare programs that are
funded by rich people’s taxpayer dollars.
— Extending
Trump’s 2017 tax cuts , which would add $4 trillion to the deficit over
10 years according to estimates, so billionaires can continue to only
pay a 3.4% income tax.
— Requiring a
three-fifths supermajority in Congress to raise individual or corporate
income taxes, making future tax increases on the morbidly rich almost
impossible.
— Infusing the government with elements of
Christianity, rejecting our nation’s Founders’ vision of America as the
world’s first secular democratic republic.
— Eliminating terms like “sexual orientation,” “gender equality,” and “reproductive right” from all federal laws and regulations.
— Appointing more extremist federal judges who would overturn landmark Supreme Court decisions like Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, and Griswold v Connecticut, which legalized birth control.
— Restricting
voting rights by pushing for strict voter ID laws, limiting mail-in and
early voting, and criminalizing voter registration drives as DeSantis
has done in Florida.
— Defunding or abolishing
agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) so America’s consumers and
citizens stand naked before the predation of and poisoning by massive
corporations.
— Limiting legal
immigration levels and making it harder to obtain citizenship or
permanent residency to keep white people as the majority in this country
as long as possible.
— Allowing public businesses and
services to deny service based on “religious objections” to racial and
religious minorities and the queer community.
— Promoting
“patriotic education” that celebrates America's Christian heritage and
the GOP, while downplaying issues like slavery and the Native American
genocide.
— Expanding mandatory minimum sentencing and
reversing criminal justice reform efforts around reducing mass
incarceration so anybody who challenges them can be tucked away in a
profitable private prison.
— Revoking
federal protections for national parks and monuments while opening those
and other public lands to drilling, mining, and development.
—
Allowing states to impose work requirements and time limits on Medicaid
coverage, including for children, pregnant women, elderly, and disabled
beneficiaries who are currently exempt, as the first step toward ending
Medicaid altogether.
— Permitting states
to eliminate mandatory benefits like nursing home care and children's
health screenings (EPSDT) from their Medicaid programs.
—
Encouraging more restrictive asset tests that could terminate Medicaid
eligibility altogether for low-income families with modest savings.
— Converting
Medicaid to a capped block grant or per capita cap system that would
significantly reduce federal funding over time until the program is
strangled to death.
— Establishing a voucher system to
allow Medicaid beneficiaries to purchase private insurance instead,
despite less affordability and benefits, as a precursor to ending the
program altogether.
— Cutting funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and restructuring it along “conservative principles.”
—
Revoking the federal government's ability to enforce
anti-discrimination protections in areas like housing, employment, and
education.
And that’s just a partial list.
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