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Project 1225 [1]

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Date: 2024-07-08  

Conservatives have changed their goals.

For a long time, the goal was to reinstate a fictional vision of the '50s with hardworking white middle class families a-la Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best. “Instate” would be the better word than “reinstate,” because they were chasing a vision that had never really existed.

Then in the '90s and early '2000s it devolved into wanting to reinstate the "gilded age" of industrialist robber-barons. They were chasing an image of the 1890s through 1920s when there were few or no workplace rules or environmental regulations, and corporations could do what they wanted without accountability.

Then Enron showed us that the end goal is not corporate wealth, but the wealth and power of the few owners of it all. The ultimate end goal is to feed the greed of the the growing billionaire class who are bent on owning a greater and greater percentage of not just their companies but all resources, including ours.

Then there’s this nugget from Project 2025:

“Improve military recruiters’ access to secondary schools and require completion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)—the military entrance examination—by all students in schools that receive federal funding.” (Project 2025, page 134)

This calls for all public school students to take the standard military entrance exam, but not private school students. Essentially, the peasants will fight for the wealthy.

So today, the conservatives appear to want to rush us headlong into the 13th century system of feudalism.

What's next, the late Cretaceous?

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