• dhork@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    the America of the Founding no longer exists

    That’s precisely their plan. The only reason they fetishize the founders so much is because they want to tear it all up and become the new founders, who they will then bind generations to listen to.

    They are admitting that that is the end goal of Project 2025.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-there-will-be-a-new-american-revolution-00166583

    The leader of a conservative think tank orchestrating plans for a massive overhaul of the federal government in the event of a Republican presidential win said that the country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”

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      I’d argue they want to go back to the roots of America. Only wealthy white men allowed to vote, with indentured servitude and slavery for everyone else. I think it’s important we don’t deify a bunch of rich slavers.

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        He knows, but he’s saying that on purpose, to make sure everyone who doesn’t agree is lumped into the "other"s and ostracized. It’s the same reason Trump is still blaming the “radical left” for Kirk’s shooting, even though the shooter is by no means leftist.

        Whenever you hear “the left”, think “Emmanuel Goldstein”, except less Jewish (because somehow the Israelis are on the same side as these people)