As I promised in my last article, I have copied these “high-level” statements from the “Project 2025” document at static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf which I will discuss with you today.  Again, for you to fully understand this document, you should read it yourself.  However, just reading the four broad fronts mentioned below, in the forward to this document, should give you a solid “look” at what could be coming.

“… This is an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country from the brink of disaster.

The Heritage Foundation is once again facilitating this work. But as our dozens of partners and hundreds of authors will attest, this book is the work of the entire conservative movement. As such, the authors express consensus recommendations already forged, especially along four broad fronts that will decide America’s future: 1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children. 2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people. 3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats. 4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls ‘the Blessings of Liberty.’”

First, they have mentioned that they want to save us from the brink of disaster.  What disaster are they talking about?  The slow-moving decision making in Congress?  Delays have happened from both sides in Congress, but haven’t the substantial delays been caused primarily by the conservatives?  Maybe they are talking about border issues.  Yet the conservatives blocked their own bi-partisan bill for the border, which they touted as the most significant changes in modern history, because former President Trump wanted to introduce this himself if he won the election.  If it benefited us, why would they do that?  They work for us.

They might also be talking about family stability.  The first “broad front” they mention above is “Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.”  When hasn’t the family been the centerpiece of American life?  Didn’t Roe V. Wade put the family at the center?  Saving the lives of mothers who were having trouble with births?  Saving babies from lives that would last only a few days, or from a lifetime of feeding tubes and machines?  And does this government really protect our children?  Don’t they vote down bills to help feed, provide health protection or better educate our children?  It’s almost like we tell parents to bring all children to term, no matter the consequences, but after that, they are your problem not ours as a nation.  But it does affect all of us.

The second “broad front” they mention is “Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.”  Federal, state and local governments are there to manage the day-to-day operations of education, roads and bridges, police and fire needs, and land usage so as not to encroach on others’ rights.  These and other everyday requirements, not to mention global protection needs, are necessities.  They are provisions that every person doesn’t have the time to complete on their own.  By dismantling the administrative state, who does this work?  By what means?  Even in governments today, aren’t we self-governing?  We vote to set up the governing the way we want.  We vote for those we want.  We vote to make the changes we need.  Sounds self-governing to me.

Thirdly, the “broad front” they mention is “Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.”  Whoa!  Didn’t they just mention that they don’t want the administrative state?  Government is an administrative state.  So, who now defends our borders against these threats?  How is this done?  On this front I feel they are starting to show us that there will still be an administrative state.  A point they will mention through the rest of the document.  So, what do they mean by this?  What kind of administrative state do they want?

Lastly, the fourth broad front they mention is “Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls ‘the Blessings of Liberty.’”  Does this mean that the original Roe V. Wade decision will be back on the books so that women have the liberty to control their own bodies?  Will IVF and contraception and other family decisions be left to those making them?  Will the infamous Electoral College be eliminated so that my vote counts?  And then, will my vote still count no matter what some other small group says or “feels.”

Will campaign finance law be reversed so that the money I want to give to a campaign is the money used and money I give corporations for goods and services, or in the form of investments, be eliminated from being used in that capacity?  Even more, will that money I give mean something and not be overshadowed by an individual giving millions?  How about us giving thousands in taxes while millionaires or billionaires give much smaller percentages of earnings or nothing at all?  Are these losses of liberties too, or just some restrictions with qualifications?

Before 2016 we were rather free.  But those freedoms we want to keep also belong to those around us.  So, there are times when we must all pay a bit to ensure this happens.  We are all in this together and must protect each other.  Now some of those freedoms are being whittled away, slowly but surely.  What I’m most concerned with is that our Constitution will be replaced by the Project 2025 manuscript.  This would mean that all our progress in the past 240 years or so will be lost.

The Bill of rights gone.  The 13th Amendment on slavery gone.  The 14 Amendment on Naturalized citizens gone.  The 15th Amendment on the voting process being denied gone.  The 10th Amendment allowing women to vote gone.  The 22nd Amendment concerning the length of our Presidential term gone.  The 24th Amendment about poll taxes or other taxes is gone.  The 26th Amendment concerning the right to vote at the age 18 gone.  The Amendments can be found at constitution.congress.gov/constitution/.

Is this what you want?