By
Madeleine Kando
During Biden’s State of the Union address, the President referenced a speech given by President Franklin Roosevelt almost a century ago. Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the American people that his were no ordinary times. ‘Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world’.
Biden continued: ‘Now it is we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union. Freedom and democracy are under attack again, both at home and overseas’.
These words are no longer alarmist rhetoric.
While France becomes the first country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution, the United States is barreling its way in the opposite direction. The Far Right is now ready ‘to battle anti-American “woke” forces’ and enshrine white Christian patriarchal values in our government.
In case of a Republican victory in the 2024, the far right is planning to implement an authoritarian takeover of the America Government. They call it ‘Project 2025’. Published by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Project 2025 is a clear threat to our democracy, and we must treat it as such.
It wants the President to have direct control of all the departments in the Executive branch, so it can gut them at will (including the DOJ and the FBI) and reform others, such as the Department of Education, by funneling tax money into religious charter schools, instead of public schools. It calls the DOE a “one-stop shop for the 'woke' education cartel” and plans to close it down altogether and return all responsibility for education to the states.
An illegal instrument called "Schedule F" would allow the President to fire and replace thousands of civil servants who are now shielded from political manipulation. The entire Executive branch will become politicized.
The lengthy document covers all departments in great detail. It wants to give a President (Trump is their favorite candidate) complete control over Education, Health Care, Defense, the Press and even Finances.
It is frighteningly candid in its goals for the future of the country.
It wants to ban all abortions and restrict sexual and reproductive health and rights. It wants to instate hardline Immigration policies, end Climate Change Efforts and Restrict Environment Policies.
It wants to withdraw from the United Nations and other international bodies.
To push their agenda, the Heritage Foundation has assembled a coalition of more than 80 far-right groups that have been spreading hatred against LGBTQ+ communities, immigrants, Muslims, and people of color, and has propagating medical disinformation, climate change denial and election denial.
If you think that this is alarmist and that they will never get away with it, that our institutions are strong enough to protect our Democracy from this slide into autocracy, you are mistaken.
The previous Trump administration was too disorganized and unprepared to act on this frightening blueprint. Now they have all their ducks in a row and are ready and able to destroy everything that we, as a democratic country stand for.
Judging by how much dark money is behind this project, including the Koch brothers, it is doubtful that their efforts to weaponize the Executive branch to do their bidding is just an empty gesture.
President Biden should have mentioned this in his State of the Union. He should have warned us that if we don’t vote or try to stop the Republican attacks on our liberal values, we will no longer have a country.
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