*not the author
This tool live tracks the progress of the various campaigns promises that were part of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 manifesto, which supported Trump during his last campaign.
Tap for spoiler
https://www.project2025.observer/
~Personal note: one of the authors is the mod of r/keeptrack, and I hope she strongly considers coming over here~
I wonder what kind of long term damage this will do to the US, why the fuck did shit like this have to happen in my lifetime.
Because not enough Americans voted against Trump. It’s entirely their fault.
No, no. “The non-fascist candidate wasn’t exciting enough! It’s the Democrats’ fault I stayed home while my country burned.”
People like those who claim they’re leftists are FAKE leftists as far as I’m concerned. They had a choice between Coca-Cola and hydrochloric acid, but didn’t vote for Coca-Cola because they wanted natural spring water. Any real leftist would vote for the lesser of two evils if placed in that situation.
Those specific types of leftists want accelerationism the us. They will encourage you not to vote even. They want trump because they think that Trump will crash the government and the US will either be crippled and unable to exert imperialism or the people will become so disenfranchised they’ll experience class consciousness and there will be a glorious socialist revolution. What they don’t realize is that companies will gobble up power and the US will become corporate feudalism that’s even more awful on the global stage and few citizens will fight back as long as they feel personally safe and can eat.
“After Hitler, our turn” - Communists in 1933, Germany.
Well, to a degree they weren’t wrong.
The GDR was run by the Communists, but probably not in a way that anyone was hoping for.
The democrats have failed repeatedly to convince the American people of an alternative vision for the future. Obama provided a vision, but the execution fell short. Not Trump wasn’t good enough of an idea.
Definitely!!
This is such a gross oversimplification, and the fact it keeps getting repeated is the reason I have no faith in the American people getting out of this. This coup has been in the making for decades, but everyone points to the last 5 minutes as the key point we fucked up.
And not the people spreading propaganda?
People arent born hating minorities
I do think Trump and his party are a but to blame tbh.
US soft power is gone now. The sheer treachery displayed in this Ukraine move has completely lost the trust of all of its allies. There’s no way anyone can afford to rely on them for anything now.
The threats to annex Canada and Greenland are the bigger breaches of trust than the moves around Ukraine.
Because the easy times made weak people… People like Trump and Elon. And now the hard times are going to have to forge the strong people… After the weak and wealthy are done harvesting the remaining wealth of America.
That whole “hard times make strong men” litany is pro-war gaslighting, not how humanity works.
The real (main) reason is the corporate takeover of every part of American society, including the parts that were supposed to defend against and denounce it.
In effect, you have to be a corporation or have a net worth of at least a hundred million dollars in order to have any real autonomy in the US and corporatist fascism is the inevitable result of that.
The “weak men” part is the part where people become so complacent, docile, and addicted to convenience that they allow the corporate takeover to happen.
Weak men creating hard times is happening right now, in real time, right on schedule.
That’s still not accurate. Propaganda is much more effective than most people are aware of/willing to admit.
You don’t have to be weak or stupid to fall victim to effective messaging and when all of the most trusted sources of information repeat the same pro-corporate and anti-worker propaganda for several lifetimes, everyone who’s not actively searching for independent sources (which is probably 25% of Lemmy but 75% of the general public) will inevitably be fooled into believing the lie since that’s the only information they have available
Calling people weak for that is textbook victim blaming and pretending that all we need to solve the problems is to be “stronger” is the kind of oversimplification used in the lies that got us here.
Stop perpetuating that stupid meme.