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Project 2025 is about uneducated people now having power and trying to stop other people from becoming educated

I think the people who work at the Heritage foundation are very well educated, they're just also very cynical.

I downloaded the file (must still be somewhere in my "Downloads" folder with many other forever-unread PDFs). I would suggest for anyone living in the US, to find and read that because this is (more or less) what will happen in the/your country in the next 3.5 years.

(if I remember well it's 150-170 pages - and since I don't live in the US the meme "Ain't Nobody Got Time for That" is spot on).

This is another good resource: https://www.project2025.observer/

Skip the reading (it's too hard) - watch the documentary version instead, Idiocracy (2006)

Totally different situation. President Camacho found the smartest man in the world to fix his problems.

Good point. In our timeline America found the dumbest man in the world to fix its problems.

To be fair, they took the two most average Americans and sent them to the future in the movie. We skipped steps and chose someone the most average person could completely understand today. Apparently, the future is now.

The movie also sent Upgrayedd but left that story arc for a sequel.

Project 2025 is only the “part 1” doc, and they’re tracking to wrap most of it up this year.

You don't need to read the file. It's history repeating itself. Just read about China during the cultural revolution or Cambodia during the 70s.

It's around 900 pages. In NYC we have a study group to go over it -- we've covered just a handful of chapters. But most people can get a lot out of just reading the opening section.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-202...

You can understand, for example, most of their tactics about immigration by reading the section on Homeland Security, tariffs by reading the Economy section (by Peter Navarro), and so on. They are in fact hewing pretty closely to the plan.

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