Project 2025 (Discuss)

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by u crank

Well .. those seem like very reasonable goals.

Yes, these are not crazy goals. Less government IMO is good. The states should be carrying a majority of the decisions and load. IMO, democrats are more so socialist. Big government is wonderful. The democratic party is not what it was.

I have read some more of 2025, still nothing way out line yet.

[AVGWarhawk]

I mean, is this wrong? We have seen this. Just sign the bill that is loaded with pork and related items that have nothing to do with what the actual bill is for.

Instead, party leaders negotiate one multitrillion-dollar spending bill—several
thousand pages long—and then vote on it before anyone, literally, has had a chance
to read it. Debate time is restricted. Amendments are prohibited. And all of this
is backed up against a midnight deadline when the previous “omnibus” spending
bill will run out and the federal government “shuts down.”
This process is not designed to empower 330 million American citizens and
their elected representatives, but rather to empower the party elites secretly negotiating without any public scrutiny or oversight.
In the end, congressional leaders’ behavior and incentives here are no different from those of global elites insulating policy decisions—over the climate, trade,
public health, you name it—from the sovereignty of national electorates. Public
scrutiny and democratic accountability make life harder for policymakers—so they
skirt it. It’s not dysfunction; it’s corruption.

[AVGWarhawk]

To this...I have to agree 100%. But a few here on the form think anything else, no globalization, is isolationism.

The same goals are the heart of elite support for economic globalization. For 30
years, America’s political, economic, and cultural leaders embraced and enriched
Communist China and its genocidal Communist Party while hollowing out America’s industrial base. What may have started out with good intentions has now been
made clear. Unfettered trade with China has been a catastrophe. It has made a
handful of American corporations enormously profitable while twisting their
business incentives away from the American people’s needs. For a generation, politicians of both parties promised that engagement with Beijing would grow our
economy while injecting American values into China. The opposite has happened.
American factories have closed. Jobs have been outsourced. Our manufacturing
economy has been financialized. And all along, the corporations profiting failed
to export our values of human rights and freedom; rather, they imported China’s
anti-American values into their C-suites.