I didn't read Haggith's entire list of (thinly veiled) grievances. The article is way too long to dedicate the necessary time to. Anyway, we get it...Leftists don't want Trump to run the show. Guess what? We elected him to do this! Guys like the author can relax. Think of it like a lifesaving surgery. You don't look forward to it...you're afraid to go through with it...but you'll wake up and find out your life is MUCH better. I'm sure Haggith was VERY upset by the Colombia tariff threats...and the Canada tariff threats...and the Mexico tariff threats. I bet he decried Trump for starting a "trade war" and all the rest of the stuff the Democrats were spouting (I don't come here often enough to know for sure). But it worked (as usual) because Trump knows what he's doing. I now that's a bitter pill to swallow, but there it is. It could be worse! Harris might have won! LOL!
Yup. It didn't even take that long. The damage was done in about two months, but it took two years to reveal how bad it was as we tried to start back up and saw how much didn't restart properly. Then we have spent years paying for it with record deficits. This probably won't be that bad, and it may not be bad at all, but it does have that potential and could go on for four years, v. 15 weeks.
THAT BLIZZARD WAS A GIFT TO YOUR SUBSCRIBERS. GREAT ARTICLE..I READ (COPY, VOICE ACTIVATE) IT ALL.
The Legacy of the Catholic New Right in Project 2025
The Heritage Foundation Returns to Its Roots
By Chelsea Ebin
The Radical Mind author Chelsea Ebin writes about the Religious Right and Project 2025 for Public Seminar.
For the past four decades, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has published policy proposals ahead of presidential elections. The most recent installment of the “Mandate for Leadership” series, published in 2023, is a 900-page collection of essays written by a host of right-wing thinkers and advised by more than fifty conservative organizations that has come to colloquially be known as Project 2025. Written with a future Trump presidency in mind, Project 2025 lays out a radical agenda to concretely reshape US political institutions and transform American social and political culture, and it has garnered considerable attention from the media, the Democratic Party establishment, pundits, and scholars for its overt Christian nationalism and authoritarian proposals.
At first blush, the vision laid out in Project 2025 may seem like a departure from what we have come to expect from conservative political thought or Republican Party politics. It is unabashedly revolutionary in its scope and vision, and it does not seek to conserve established institutions but, rather, to transform them. Moreover, it has decidedly anti-liberal and anti-democratic undertones, which are at odds with the foundational principles of the US Constitution. It is, in a nutshell, a radical set of proposals.
But when I first sat down to read Project 2025, I was most struck not by the newness of the proposals but by their deep familiarity. Half a century after its founding, Heritage Foundation has gone back to its roots and to the vision of one of its key founders, the right-wing political activist Paul Weyrich. To understand Project 2025 and its implications for the United States, we need to understand what it was Weyrich sought to create and what he hoped to accomplish.
I AM BLIND. I CAN PARTICIPATE HERE WITH COPY/VOICE ACTIVATE AND GET THE MESSAGE.. I AM 87 IN MARCH AND SOON TO BE WITH THE LORD...BUT I SO WORRY ABOUT YOU ALL.
Summarize the article in your own words. Point out what you like about it, what resonates with you. A paragraph or two is reasonable; copying the entire article is not. After your summary, post the web address of the article for people wanting to read the original that you’ve summarized.
I would generally agree with you, Randy; but I think her point is, as a legally blind person, that typing out even two paragraphs is painstaking, so she does the copy and paste because she doesn't have to read anything. She can have the article she is quoting from read to her. That makes it hard to visually single out small parts to copy and paste when a computer is reading a full page to you.
What I did not point out, and you may not realize, David, is that she posted a comment on your article yesterday which DID summarize articles that she read, complete with links to the original articles. So she knows how to do this. Why she decided today to cut-and-paste the entire article instead of just summarizing it, I have no clue.
I have worked with deaf children. Like Annie, they too have a serious handicap, but they don’t preface every encounter with the general public by holding up a sign saying, “I’m deaf.” Likewise, Annie did not have to start her comments, today and yesterday, by proclaiming in the first sentence that she’s old and blind. I don’t start my comments by declaring that I’m old and a cancer survivor (true). Both her comments and mine should stand or fall on their content, without being stoked by the comment creator’s handicap.
I appreciate your concern that people get to the point. More so when I see them doing this for reasons other than just to save reading and typing effort, as I think was the case with Annie. Many of the ones where I feel as you do are just using my article as an opportunity to post a lot of articles of their own or of someone they want to champion. In those cases my site is just being used, and I hate it, and am glad for people like you pointing it out. So, your intentions are appreciated.
In Annie's case, I didn't feel she was trying to leverage her handicap, but was explaining why she writes in all caps (so that people wouldn't think she is screaming at them) and why she relies a lot on copying and pasting. I have a publisher I send my articles to who asks me to send my excerpts or my personal emails to him in all caps (or enlarged type) because he has a hard time reading them, and he writes his own stuff that way so he can see what he's writing.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ADVICE. A MESSAGE UNREAD IS A MESSAGE WASTED. MY BLINDNESS IS A HANDICAP BUT I SO WANT TO GET A WARNING ACROSS TO THOSE NOT AWARE. PROJECT 2025 IS YOUR FUTURE. BE SAFE.
THANK YOU FOR CARING. I POST MY AGE AND DISABILITY TO LET OTHERS KNOW MY LIMITATIONS.
BUT LET ME ADD TO THE CONVERSATION: The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a “presidential transition project” created as a blueprint for recruitment and indoctrination , The plan calls for establishing a government that would be imbued with “biblical principles” and run by a president who holds sweeping executive powers.
DAVID: WHY DO I WORRY ABOUT TRUMP? THE CATHOLIC CHURCH … AS FAR BACK AS THE TIME OF JESUS AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE. READING HISTORY IT IS THE DARK AGES, THE INQUISITIONS, THE JESUITS, THE REFORMATION, BLOODY MARY, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE BIRTH OF THE PROTESTANTS
I AM NOT AGAINST CATHOLICS. MOST OF MY FAMILY ARE CATHOLICS. BUT FEW KNOW HISTORY. AND TRUMP IS NOT THE BEST MAN TO BRING ON CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM.
And it is in awareness of that very long and dark history of pogroms and religious suppression and especially state control over the masses by the Church (which also at some points saw Protestants doing the same thing) that I wrote the other article you kindly expressed thanks for. We're both talking about serious dangers of Dominion Theology or, by another name, the Church Triumphant or, yet another name for the same thing, Manifest Destiny or, yet another, Divine Rights of Kings
The prophetic theological basis, propounded by St Augustine, was called amillennialism, which interpreted the Book of Revelation as saying that Christ's reign doesn't start when he returns but was meant to start in in absence and be carried out by the Church to ready the world for his return.
It all comes down to huge power claimed by the Church. In my view of history, that always goes bad--very bad--so the Church should stay with Jesus' teaching on meekness and humility, applying persuasion over global affairs through the simple spreading of truth. The lust to use the government ropes of power to Christianize the world (or Islamize it) or more specifically Catholicize it or Protestantize it has always gone bad. Better to just stay with proselytizing it.
I didn't read Haggith's entire list of (thinly veiled) grievances. The article is way too long to dedicate the necessary time to. Anyway, we get it...Leftists don't want Trump to run the show. Guess what? We elected him to do this! Guys like the author can relax. Think of it like a lifesaving surgery. You don't look forward to it...you're afraid to go through with it...but you'll wake up and find out your life is MUCH better. I'm sure Haggith was VERY upset by the Colombia tariff threats...and the Canada tariff threats...and the Mexico tariff threats. I bet he decried Trump for starting a "trade war" and all the rest of the stuff the Democrats were spouting (I don't come here often enough to know for sure). But it worked (as usual) because Trump knows what he's doing. I now that's a bitter pill to swallow, but there it is. It could be worse! Harris might have won! LOL!
I'd just rather not have my surgery done with a lawn mower.
(Gotta love the criticism of people who are reading challenged.)
“What if this goes like the lockdowns Trump approved under Covid?”
Fifteen weeks to flatten the country?
Yup. It didn't even take that long. The damage was done in about two months, but it took two years to reveal how bad it was as we tried to start back up and saw how much didn't restart properly. Then we have spent years paying for it with record deficits. This probably won't be that bad, and it may not be bad at all, but it does have that potential and could go on for four years, v. 15 weeks.
87 THIS MARCH, LEGALLY BLIND
THAT BLIZZARD WAS A GIFT TO YOUR SUBSCRIBERS. GREAT ARTICLE..I READ (COPY, VOICE ACTIVATE) IT ALL.
The Legacy of the Catholic New Right in Project 2025
The Heritage Foundation Returns to Its Roots
By Chelsea Ebin
The Radical Mind author Chelsea Ebin writes about the Religious Right and Project 2025 for Public Seminar.
For the past four decades, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has published policy proposals ahead of presidential elections. The most recent installment of the “Mandate for Leadership” series, published in 2023, is a 900-page collection of essays written by a host of right-wing thinkers and advised by more than fifty conservative organizations that has come to colloquially be known as Project 2025. Written with a future Trump presidency in mind, Project 2025 lays out a radical agenda to concretely reshape US political institutions and transform American social and political culture, and it has garnered considerable attention from the media, the Democratic Party establishment, pundits, and scholars for its overt Christian nationalism and authoritarian proposals.
At first blush, the vision laid out in Project 2025 may seem like a departure from what we have come to expect from conservative political thought or Republican Party politics. It is unabashedly revolutionary in its scope and vision, and it does not seek to conserve established institutions but, rather, to transform them. Moreover, it has decidedly anti-liberal and anti-democratic undertones, which are at odds with the foundational principles of the US Constitution. It is, in a nutshell, a radical set of proposals.
But when I first sat down to read Project 2025, I was most struck not by the newness of the proposals but by their deep familiarity. Half a century after its founding, Heritage Foundation has gone back to its roots and to the vision of one of its key founders, the right-wing political activist Paul Weyrich. To understand Project 2025 and its implications for the United States, we need to understand what it was Weyrich sought to create and what he hoped to accomplish.
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2024/08/30/the-legacy-of-the-catholic-new-right-in-project-2025/
Paul Weyrich Melkite Catholic deacon
Luke 12:37
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to
sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.”
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You do realize that no one reads massive cut-and-paste comments, right?
RANDY,
I AM BLIND. I CAN PARTICIPATE HERE WITH COPY/VOICE ACTIVATE AND GET THE MESSAGE.. I AM 87 IN MARCH AND SOON TO BE WITH THE LORD...BUT I SO WORRY ABOUT YOU ALL.
Summarize the article in your own words. Point out what you like about it, what resonates with you. A paragraph or two is reasonable; copying the entire article is not. After your summary, post the web address of the article for people wanting to read the original that you’ve summarized.
I would generally agree with you, Randy; but I think her point is, as a legally blind person, that typing out even two paragraphs is painstaking, so she does the copy and paste because she doesn't have to read anything. She can have the article she is quoting from read to her. That makes it hard to visually single out small parts to copy and paste when a computer is reading a full page to you.
What I did not point out, and you may not realize, David, is that she posted a comment on your article yesterday which DID summarize articles that she read, complete with links to the original articles. So she knows how to do this. Why she decided today to cut-and-paste the entire article instead of just summarizing it, I have no clue.
https://www.thedailydoom.com/p/american-empire-part-two-holy-war/comments
I have worked with deaf children. Like Annie, they too have a serious handicap, but they don’t preface every encounter with the general public by holding up a sign saying, “I’m deaf.” Likewise, Annie did not have to start her comments, today and yesterday, by proclaiming in the first sentence that she’s old and blind. I don’t start my comments by declaring that I’m old and a cancer survivor (true). Both her comments and mine should stand or fall on their content, without being stoked by the comment creator’s handicap.
I appreciate your concern that people get to the point. More so when I see them doing this for reasons other than just to save reading and typing effort, as I think was the case with Annie. Many of the ones where I feel as you do are just using my article as an opportunity to post a lot of articles of their own or of someone they want to champion. In those cases my site is just being used, and I hate it, and am glad for people like you pointing it out. So, your intentions are appreciated.
In Annie's case, I didn't feel she was trying to leverage her handicap, but was explaining why she writes in all caps (so that people wouldn't think she is screaming at them) and why she relies a lot on copying and pasting. I have a publisher I send my articles to who asks me to send my excerpts or my personal emails to him in all caps (or enlarged type) because he has a hard time reading them, and he writes his own stuff that way so he can see what he's writing.
I agree that I don't like a lot of links either.
LRANDY..
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ADVICE. A MESSAGE UNREAD IS A MESSAGE WASTED. MY BLINDNESS IS A HANDICAP BUT I SO WANT TO GET A WARNING ACROSS TO THOSE NOT AWARE. PROJECT 2025 IS YOUR FUTURE. BE SAFE.
THANK YOU FOR CARING. I POST MY AGE AND DISABILITY TO LET OTHERS KNOW MY LIMITATIONS.
BUT LET ME ADD TO THE CONVERSATION: The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a “presidential transition project” created as a blueprint for recruitment and indoctrination , The plan calls for establishing a government that would be imbued with “biblical principles” and run by a president who holds sweeping executive powers.
DAVID: WHY DO I WORRY ABOUT TRUMP? THE CATHOLIC CHURCH … AS FAR BACK AS THE TIME OF JESUS AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE. READING HISTORY IT IS THE DARK AGES, THE INQUISITIONS, THE JESUITS, THE REFORMATION, BLOODY MARY, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE BIRTH OF THE PROTESTANTS
I AM NOT AGAINST CATHOLICS. MOST OF MY FAMILY ARE CATHOLICS. BUT FEW KNOW HISTORY. AND TRUMP IS NOT THE BEST MAN TO BRING ON CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM.
And it is in awareness of that very long and dark history of pogroms and religious suppression and especially state control over the masses by the Church (which also at some points saw Protestants doing the same thing) that I wrote the other article you kindly expressed thanks for. We're both talking about serious dangers of Dominion Theology or, by another name, the Church Triumphant or, yet another name for the same thing, Manifest Destiny or, yet another, Divine Rights of Kings
The prophetic theological basis, propounded by St Augustine, was called amillennialism, which interpreted the Book of Revelation as saying that Christ's reign doesn't start when he returns but was meant to start in in absence and be carried out by the Church to ready the world for his return.
It all comes down to huge power claimed by the Church. In my view of history, that always goes bad--very bad--so the Church should stay with Jesus' teaching on meekness and humility, applying persuasion over global affairs through the simple spreading of truth. The lust to use the government ropes of power to Christianize the world (or Islamize it) or more specifically Catholicize it or Protestantize it has always gone bad. Better to just stay with proselytizing it.