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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 SILVER
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Subject: Re: John Oliver Weighs In
Date: 07/09/24 1:26 PM
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It’s real education about Project 2025

Project 2025 reminds me very much of Agenda 21.

It will be very effective it getting the base super-concerned. After all, a super-conservative group has put together a proposal to implement super-conservative policies. Progressives deeply dislike those policies in general; but now that they've been collected in a thing with a title ("Project 2025") that's identified with a specific organization, there's now a convenient label to make those policies scarier and more tangible. The conservatives used Agenda 21 (an otherwise anodyne set of UN proposals) to some effect that way, even though there was no real mechanism by which the UN writing those goals down made them any more or less likely to be implemented in any way at any level of American politics. The same is likely true of the Heritage Foundation - while they have the ability (like the UN) to give an enormous platform to any set of policy proposals, and they have some influence within domestic politics, they don't have any real mechanism for implementing it unless it's something that Trump already wants to do.

So while I think that Project 2025 can be an enormously effective tool at getting base Democrats super-riled up to donate and volunteer, I can't see that it's at all and effective issue for persuading "normies" outside of the base to change their vote.
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