No. of Recommendations: 6
Why attempt to incorporate
Project 2025 into campaigning against Trump/Vance?
Any reference to
Project 2025 is a great way to highlight the contrast between the things not just a fringe sect of Republicans but nearly ALL Republicans care about:
* rolling back voting rights protections
* adding more anti-democratic measures to State Constitutions to make legislatures LESS responsive to voters
* eliminating protections for civil service workers
* paralyzing the ability to create new meaningful regulations for safety, environment, health
* imposing nationwide abortion bans via federal law
and the real things all voters and politicians should be focused on. One great example is another "Project 2025," the effort to secure a new legal framework governing water rights between the states in the Colorado River basin, the American Indian tribes and Mexico. The existing treaty governing those rights was crafted nearly 100 years ago and is built upon statistics for rainfall and available water which are now off by probably twenty five percent. If a contract says 20 parties get to divide 100 units of water equally, it doesn't matter how hard each party jumps up and down screaming for its "5 share" it is legally entitled to if the ACTUAL total supply is only 75 instead of 100. There is NO WAY for all twenty parties to get their 5 in perpetuity without destroying the resource.
That existing legal agreement expires in 2025.
That's something every person living in the western Unitied States can grasp with a sound byte.
"While the Republicans devised a NEW
Project 2025 to re-fight old battles and further redistribute power and wealth to the already powerful and wealthy, the rest of us would like to focus on NEW problems that are REAL problems that effect our very EXISTENCE and lead every citizen to ask the most basic question... Where is my next glass of drinking water going to come from? How much will it cost? Will I be able to afford it? Will I be able to drink it?"
PBS ran a 90 minute special program on the natural and legal aspects of the effort to negotiate a new water rights regime for the west.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpUCsaP5_QWTH
