The end of the overview/foreword to Project 2025 is near. Here I must apologize; I am not so much the masochist to subject myself to 800 some odd pages of this garbage. You will have to hold your nose and go in the dumpster yourself for specifics.
Part three of this examination was a motherfucker to finish; I never thought I’d be as tired of conservatism as I am now. That’s saying a lot. But it is incumbent upon all thinking members of the body politic to understand what real radicalism looks like, such that you may not recognize your beloved United States if they get what they are after.
Let’s bring it home.
PROMISE #4 SECURE OUR GOD-GIVEN INDIVIDUAL RIGHT TO ENJOY “THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY.”
The Declaration of Independence famously asserted the belief of America’s Founders that “all men are created equal” and endowed with God-given rights to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
I know this is insanely popular dogma, but I must briefly assert that the declaration did not mean “all men”. Absent from the sentiment is the status of women and slaves. Furthermore, this nation is one of religious plurality-yes, it certainly is Christian majority, but it’s ignorant to invoke today the narrow monotheism that was prevalent at the time the document was produced. As an atheist, I cringe when this atavistic horseshit rears its head.
It’s the last—“the pursuit of Happiness”—that is central to America’s heroic experiment in self-government. When the Founders spoke of “pursuit of Happiness,” what they meant might be understood today as in essence “pursuit of Blessedness.” That is, an individual must be free to live as his Creator ordained—to flourish.
Nope, that’s just Christian nonsense-bibbledy-babble. Next.
Our Constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought. This pursuit of the good life is found primarily in family—marriage, children, Thanksgiving dinners, and the like. Many find happiness through their work. Think of dedicated teachers or health care professionals you know, entrepreneurs or plumbers throwing themselves into their businesses—anyone who sees a job well done as a personal reward. Religious devotion and spirituality are the greatest sources of happiness around the world. Still others find themselves happiest in their local voluntary communities of friends, their neighbors, their civic or charitable work.
The willful misinterpretation of the doctrine is astounding. Once again, these Puritans want your nose to the grindstone, wed forever, popping out puppies, and genuflecting to their idea of God. It’s so boring it’s painful to contemplate. You’ve got liberty, but you can’t really use it. Something is very wrong here. I’m sorry, but fuck these fucking people.
The American Republic was founded on principles prioritizing and maximizing individuals’ rights to live their best life or to enjoy what the Framers called “the Blessings of Liberty.” It’s this radical equality—liberty for all—not just of rights but of authority—that the rich and powerful have hated about democracy in America since 1776. They resent Americans’ audacity in insisting that we don’t need them to tell us how to live. It’s this inalienable right of self-direction—of each person’s opportunity to direct himself or herself, and his or her community, to the good— that the ruling class disdains.
I do indeed like this class war he’s obliquely committed to, even though I’m sure this dude is living high on the hog himself. But let’s get one thing straight about the founders; they were the rich and powerful. It’s typically the poor man who has to go fight for their interests for the crusts of bread left by the wealthy, and early America is no exception. Last paragraph, the author told us what we must do to live well-then does an apparent volte-face asserting that we don’t need anyone to tell us how to live and that we can self-direct. Very confusing. The number of contradictions in this essay is truly mind-bending and is the reason I almost quit reading this.
Left to our own devices, the American people rejected European monarchy and colonialism just as we rejected slavery, second-class citizenship for women, mercantilism, socialism, Wilsonian globalism, Fascism, Communism, and (today) wokeism. To the Left, these assertions of patriotic self-assurance are just so many signs of our moral depravity and intellectual inferiority—proof that, in fact, we need a ruling elite making decisions for us.
I don’t think we should be proud of how slowly we ended the practice of slavery, nor our reluctance to offer women the vote. And for God’s sake, if anyone loves mercantile behavior, it is this guy, clamoring for the reindustrialization of this land and oil derricks from sea to shining sea as does his master Donald Trump. And I’ll be damned if I’ve ever known more of a fascist American leader than His Orangeness. Let’s be clear here-most Americans do not want anyone making decisions for us, elite or otherwise, to include the religious right that this guy so obviously belongs to.
But the next conservative President should be proud, not ashamed of Americans’ unique culture of social equality and ordered liberty. After all, the countries where Marxist elites have won political and economic power are all weaker, poorer, and less free for it.
I think I should start an organization called Stop The Killing Of Words. Woke. Radical. Agenda. Marxist. Elite. All of these nebulous ideas remain such when abused. Marxism, for all the term is worth anymore, is typically anathema to elites. They’re the target for actual Marxists. Few countries, if any, have ever practiced it as a way of government, partly because it’s a utopian intellectual abstraction that usually doesn’t survive the revolution. Here, its adherents are generally confined to academia, where class, power, capital and materialism are studied in a number of subjects. There is no real reason to fear a Marxist these days. In America, I don’t really think there ever was, given our general right wing authoritarian bent over the decades.
The United States remains the most innovative and upwardly mobile society in the world.
Simply not true anymore. Upward mobility seems to have disappeared, if not something of a phantasm to begin with.
The promise of socialism—Communism, Marxism, progressivism, Fascism, whatever name it chooses
What a bullshit move, trying to shoehorn all these -isms under the umbrella of socialism. The ineluctable fact is that social democracies tend to enjoy more general satisfaction, happiness, better health, longer lives, and better wage gap control.
—is simple: Government control of the economy can ensure equal outcomes for all people. The problem is that it has never done so.
No one, and I do mean no one, has ever suggested that government ensures equal outcomes for people. What is more important to people is access to those outcomes, such that perhaps they may have similar outcomes. Things like the ability to go to a good school that won’t bleed you until you are buried wouldn’t hurt, nor would guaranteed healthcare. Ideas like that are working for more successful nations than ours.
There is no such thing as “the government.”
What the fuck does that even mean? Even rhetorically, this is stupid on its face.
There are just people who work for the government and wield its power and who—at almost every opportunity—wield it to serve themselves first and everyone else a distant second. This is not a failing of one nation or socialist party, but inherent in human nature.
This is a curious statement coming from someone who is signing on to a giant booklet on how to run the government.
Nighttime satellite images of the Korean peninsula famously show the free-market South lit up, with homes, businesses, and cities electrified from coast to coast. By contrast, Communist North Korea is almost completely dark, except for the small dot of the capital city, Pyongyang, where a psychotic dictator and his cronies live.
Lack of research much? South Korea got a nice jumpstart from us after their civil war. After that, the government under dictator Hee nationalized parts of the economy at the behest of the chaebols, who are South Korea’s elites. It’s not a free market paradise at all. North Korea is a shit nation, obviously-we like it that way to make an example out of them, in order to show what happens under communism. Their failures have more to do with the dynasty that runs it anyway.
We see the same corruption expressed on an individual level whenever billionaire climate activists, who want to outlaw carbon-fueled transportation, fly to A-list conferences on their private jets. Or when COVID-19 shutdown politicians like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and California Governor Gavin Newsom were caught at the hair salon or dining at fancy restaurants after moralizing about how everyone else must stay home and forgo such luxuries during the pandemic.
I presume jackoff here is talking about Al Gore when he’s talking about private jets. Sorry, but Gore doesn’t have one and walks the walk on offsets when he has to travel.
This dick will fall for any rightwing lie. No, Nancy Pelosi did not break restrictions, see here. The one about Newsom is regrettably true, and he admitted it modeled poor behavior. But not getting simple stuff right that a quick Google check would confirm is just fucking sloppy. It’s just easier to dissemble when your voter base is about as stupid as a pet hamster.
The Soviet empire was a social and economic failure. North Korea, despite the opulence of its tyrants, is one of the poorest nations in the world. Cuba is so corrupt that its people regularly risk their lives to escape to Florida on rafts. Venezuela was once the richest nation in South America; today, a decade after a Marxist dictator took over, 94 percent of Venezuelans live in poverty.
Keep on hammering at the worst examples. The best are here.
By contrast, in countries with a high degree of economic freedom, elites are not in charge because everyone is in charge. People work, build, invest, save, and create according to their own interests and in service to the common good of their fellow citizens.
Sounds communist to me, with everyone in charge. To Guantanamo with him!
There’s some other meager bones to pick at, but most of it is repetitive, hyperbolic and jejune. I fear that if I continue, I will become those things as well. But generally, now you see what these moralists want to do with free society- lash everyone to this perverted ideal of happiness that a great many of us are not interested in. Witness the sheer number of lies, exaggerations, and half-truths these people employ to make their nauseating beliefs palatable to the gullible. Half the country is going to pull the lever for it.
Vote accordingly.
The Illogical Seminary 