It's all too easy for the MAGA sycophants outside the United States, such as Frank, to rally behind DOGE (a non-existent department), applauding its dismantling of things like the Department of Labour and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. These individuals, comfortably shielded by Australian employment and consumer laws, fail to grasp the scale of the damage being done.

Project 2025 is painfully transparent. The objective is to dismantle the United States and reconstruct it based on a framework designed to empower corporate elites and billionaires, all while privatising essential services and agencies.  Lower taxes, especially for the elites, but everything else becomes a subscription service.  This process strips the populace of their rights and their ability to challenge the growing oligarchy.

And the consequences are unfolding before our eyes.

Once these agencies, gutted of staff, gutted of resources, and infiltrated by Trump loyalists, have been rendered ineffective, the next phase of the plan will commence. In the case of the Department of Education, it will be eradicated entirely. As their functions dwindle, Trump will stand before the masses and claim that privatisation is the solution, spinning a narrative that the private sector could do it better.  This will include education, with publicly funded vouchers for elite schools to continue, more welfare for those who don't need it paid by the lower income earners (like the MAGA faithful).

This is the inevitability he's engineering. The so-called "shaking up" of the system is merely a prelude to the country's destruction, to be remade in his image,or more accurately, according to the contours of Project 2025.  He only cares about being appointed the emperor of this new system.

And it's already in motion.

The MAGA movement won't wield the power they fantasise about. The system, once in place, will be built not for them, but for the corporate elites, tech bros and billionaires. The rank and file, like everyone else outside this insulated circle, will become fodder for the grinder.

And yet, they cheer on this self-inflicted carnage.

It’s a tragedy. I would love to be proven wrong, but when you read Project 2025, when you compare it to Trump’s actions so far and promises of what's to come, when you listen to the tech bros, and when you observe the current trajectory, the reality is inescapable.

If this all comes to pass, the MAGA faithful will get exactly what they deserve.  They were warned.

ProudKangaroo wrote on Feb 8^th, 2025 at 2:24pm:



Very well summarised.

I would add only that what we are seeing regarding the treatment on immigrants thus far will soon roll out onto other people of colour, Indigenous people, women, and people with disabilities.

Along the way they'll scoop up the dissidents and those following the "wrong" religions.

Less than a century later folks, and we're here again. But this time with a superpower.

ProudKangaroo wrote on Feb 8^th, 2025 at 2:24pm:



Very well summarised.

I would add only that what we are seeing regarding the treatment on immigrants thus far will soon roll out onto other people of colour, Indigenous people, women, and people with disabilities.

Along the way they'll scoop up the dissidents and those following the "wrong" religions.

Less than a century later folks, and we're here again. But this time with a superpower.

ProudKangaroo wrote on Feb 8^th, 2025 at 2:24pm:



Very well summarised.

I would add only that what we are seeing regarding the treatment on immigrants thus far will soon roll out onto other people of colour, Indigenous people, women, and people with disabilities.

Along the way they'll scoop up the dissidents and those following the "wrong" religions.

Less than a century later folks, and we're here again. But this time with a superpower.