More on Project 2025

I'll offer a few videos that go into a few facets of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 document. I will keep the focus on city planning as well as women's rights, but let's be aware that this is an expansive document that would fundamentally alter American life in a way that would harm the average citizen. 

Let's start with CityNerd. His focus in the video below is primarily on urban transportation, which is crucial. He also does take a moment to get into some of the bigger picture stuff about how federal agencies would be run by partisan hacks rather than staffed by professionals who actually understand their jobs. He also reminds us that Trump implemented the Heritage Foundation's agenda for him quite faithfully: 64% of its proposals ended up becoming policy.


He also takes some time rebutting critics of his Project 2025 videos:

Here's another video done in the style of Schoolhouse Rock (for any of us who remember growing up on that):

And here is another brief explainer:

And finally, here is a deep dive on what Project 2025 means for women's rights in the USA:

There is so much more out there. If you want to read the original document, here it is. There is certainly plenty of Project 2025 that would be of immediate concern to me. Eliminating the Department of Education would be self-defeating if we wish to remain a competitive power. Given how many folks who work in the public service sector take out considerable student loan debt, efforts to eleminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program would drastically disincentivize anyone considering getting specialized training and using their expertise critical for many for less pay than they might get in the private sector. A brain drain is the last thing we need. Overall, putting so much power into the Executive Branch, unchecked by the other branches, strikes me as a way to effectively create a dictatorship or kingdom (after all, now that we're about 250 years removed from being subjects of a monarchy, maybe there's nostalgia for those "good old days"?). I've read what I can in what passes for spare time and it offers a bleak vision for America. We can do better than that. We actually can choose better this November.

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