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Project 2025 Summary in The Guardian
from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/project-2025-key-proposals,
Project 2025: rightwing manifesto’s key proposals and how they could affect you
It's a good summary of the proposed actions, way too much to quote and give it justice. But here are some snippets and my comment.
The first part of Project 2025 is a 900-plus page manifesto, which lays out all the changes that the more than 100 conservative groups on board want to see happen if Trump wins again. Subsequent parts will include suggesting personnel and training them on how the government should work.
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Changes to the Civil Service
One of the project’s largest changes would install far more political appointees beholden to a conservative president’s agenda to all levels of government, and firing civil servants with expertise, who often serve as a check and balance to executive power.
A sneaky way to censor books and threaten teachers and librarians with jail time
As part of its social policy ideas that align with rightwing Christian values, the project wants to criminalize the production, distribution and consumption of pornography. On the Project 2025 website, the group says “pornography has no claim to First Amendment protection and 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.”
The kicker here: who defines "pornography"? So far, like in the case of that "investigation" in Texas, it's anything that whiffs of sex (including gender issues). A librarian or professor who hands a student Gender Queer, or even the old 1960s feminism which celebrates female sexuality, becomes a dastardly, prosecutable villain. Any leftist literature. Any work of art which isn't confined to monogamous male/female marriage. Anything which does not promote the idea that women are labor unit factories churning out labor product for the ruling class (Vance's term).
Who's going to defend these evil "pornographers" daring to think?