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"The world is becoming a very dark and dangerous place. It’s not only the
continuing war in Ukraine and the destruction and death being wrought in the
Middle East, but there is also the alarming rise of fascism in Western
countries.
In the USA, the Republicans have turned into an overtly post-democratic party
which has espoused a plan to turn America into a far-right Christian
nationalist presidential dictatorship, Project 2025.
Project 2025 is a plan concocted by far-right Republicans to greatly extend the
powers of the president should Trump get re-elected next year. He would then
use these powers to sack most of the civil service and military chiefs and
replace them with right-wing Trump loyalists. The Washington Post reported the
plan includes immediately invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military
for domestic law enforcement and directing the U.S. Department of Justice to
pursue Trump’s adversaries. The plan also reportedly includes directing the
Justice Department to pursue those Trump considers disloyal or political
adversaries.
The plan urges the next conservative president to “maintain a biblically based,
social science–reinforced definition of marriage and family.” This would see a
national abortion ban, the repeal of equal marriage and laws protecting LGBT
people from discrimination, and the implementation of policies aimed at
promoting evangelical Christianity, and the observance of the sabbath, turning
America into the United States of Gilead.
Meanwhile, legislation would be passed to outlaw pornography, classifying any
books, movies or TV with LGBT content as pornographic, which could see
educators and librarians being registered as sex offenders, and the closing
down of telecommunication and technology firms that facilitate the spread of
LGBT content.
In the UK, the Conservatives might not share the same evangelical Christian
fantasies as their American counterparts, but they are equally authoritarian
and anti-democratic in their own way."
Via Janet Logan.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
