(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Project 2025 Cribs from Orwell [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-01 Before we dissect the Heritage Foundation plans to take a wrecking ball to the whole Federal Government, I need to comment on their language. Well, actually, I’m largely going to give you examples of how Orwellian it is, how it performs the function of substituting for thought, and means precisely the opposite of what it says. See Winston Smith’s conversation with the Newspeak language designer Syme in 1984. Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. 'There is a word in Newspeak. I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise. Thus, WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Replace “bad” with “ungood”. “Better” is “+good”/”plus-good”. “Best” is “++good”/”double-plus-good”. Glossary Conservative—Edmund Burke was once the Father of Conservatism, but has become a knee-jerk, bleeding-heart, tax-and-spend Liberal Progressive Soshulist Conservatives: Endangered species? Conservatives: Endangered species? Conservative values Freedom—For White patriarchal Christianist Nationalist Supremacists only Liberty—Ditto, with corporations and dark money added Family—Anti-LGBTQIA+ bigotry; racism against Black single moms Pro-Life—forced births, but no support for mothers or children; Fetal Personhood, but no human rights for the fetus except the right to kill the mother Pro-Choice—Mass murder Heritage—NOT the Civil War, the Klans, and Jim Crow; How dare you suggest otherwise! Separation of Church and State—A lie, because this is a Christian country Government personnel—Return to the spoils system, with political appointees everywhere, drawn from a database of apparatchiks, trained at “the Presidential Administration Academy, an online educational system taught by experts from our coalition”. Original intent—Our intent First Amendment freedom of religion—Only for approved kinds of Christian First Amendment freedom of speech, and of the press—Only for Truth as defined by Heritage et al. Second Amendment—Open carry, no licensing, no restrictions Voter registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction—“Federal election offenses that are never appropriately investigated and prosecuted.” Education—Propaganda CRT—Critical Race Theory being taught in schools DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion being taught in schools, corporations, DoD, and everywhere else in government as unlawful “affirmative discrimination” against Whites History that gives White children sadz Racist propaganda against Whites “Grooming” “Voter registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction”—“Federal election offenses that are never appropriately investigated and prosecuted.” Public schools—institutional ideological tyranny, to be overcome with vouchers under the Dog Whistle of “parental choice”. News—Propaganda Fake news—Anything true about them Truth—Trump’s tens of thousands of lies and universal hate; GQP hypocrisy Immigration—open borders; Illegals stealing jobs; illegals illegally voting; illegals smuggling drugs; illegals driving up crime rates Economist—Milton Friedman. Well, Arthur Laffer. Los Chicago Boys who ran coups all over South America and around the world. See Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine. Taxes—Soshulist theft from financial typhoons Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate change/renewable energy—A hoax; the conspiracy to “ban the fuels that run almost all of the world’s cars, planes, factories, farms, and electricity grids.”; “America’s vast reserves of oil and natural gas are not an environmental problem; they are the lifeblood of economic growth.”; Climate fanaticism Washington establishment/our Political Class/globalist elites—Only the evil Democrats since FDR betraying the country, not any of the virtuous Republicans in Watergate, Cambodia, Iran-Contra, the WMD hoax, forever wars, torture, recurring recessions, or Trump’s lies and crimes The “Great Awokening”—“A totalitarian cult” Radical equality—What Democratic elites, “the rich and powerful have hated about democracy in America since 1776.” The promise of Socialism, Communism, Marxism, progressivism, Fascism—“whatever name it chooses—is simple: Government control of the economy can ensure equal outcomes for all people. The problem is that it has never done so.” Therefore Conservative must take control of the economy. The American people—Conservative Republicans and Libertarians, as opposed to Those People/the rest of us Human rights—Only the ones in the Bible. The rest are Human Wrongs. Fiscal limits—The Reaganite Starve the Beast program to bust the budget and try to force cuts to social programs Feckless—Partisan Democratic Running Dogs Courageous—Partisan Republican Adventurists Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Cheap Grace—What Godless Democrats think justifies them, rather than the Christianist delusion. “The Pursuit of Happiness”—“The pursuit of [pseudo-Christian] Blessedness”. “An individual must be free to live as his Creator ordained.” Civil Service—Unaccountable, unfirable bureaucrats In one word, Projection—Whatever you do that is evil, blame the other side for it first; Every accusation is a confession. Other Resources on Project 2025 WTH is Project 2025? with Thomas Zimmer What is Project 2025 And Why Is It Alarming?--Democracy Docket Project 2025—Wikipedia Behind the Curtain — Exclusive: How Trump would build his loyalty-first Cabinet—Axios Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab—Axios AFPI Welcomes Lee Zeldin to Pathway to 2025 Initiative—America First Policy Institute Agenda 47—Trump’s official campaign plan for his next Presidency Sufficient unto the day is the MAQAism thereof. Me [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/1/2248893/-Project-2025-Cribs-from-Orwell?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=community_groups_This+Week+in+the+War+on+Women&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/