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It's literally on page 5 of Project 2025, which equates being transgender with abusing children. Then on page 554 they posit that they must increase the use of the death penalty and they single out "crimes against children" to be one of the things that they should put people to death for. This is literally the plan.
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
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Page 554:
I too am quite surprised so few people seem to have been reading that book. I'm not even American but I've read it.
So much of what has been happening recently is explained in it.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear.
The Heritage Society has thought this through – I meant rank and file republicans haven’t. Thus my original comment about people going Pikachu face when this shit happens when it was all spelt out in Project 2025.
It’s infuriating that most people had no idea what they were voting for, but that’s true. It’s also true that many would still deny it whilst ruffling the ashes of their neighbours from their hair. And they won’t acknowledge it in the future, either.
e: sorry, my fault; rereading, I see I switched between ‘they’ meaning the leadership vs the majority of constituents mid-sentence.
e2: this is exactly why citizens in towns near the Nazi’s death camps were made to walk through and look at what they’d done, by the way. People refuse to reckon with their decisions unless made to look.
Thank you kindly for the clarification. This, I largely agree with. However I do think a large contingency of Trump voters literally want to return to an era where they can abuse the LGBTQ+ community and other minorities with impunity.
That’s true, but again, not consciously. They think of themselves as morally pure, and they’re only following their god’s word. It’s not their fault that others are wicked, and they’ve tried to save us from hell.
That’s why we can’t reach them. They think they’re the righteous ones, and will think that long past when they’re literally lighting the fires upon which they burn us.
I still think that's giving them a little too much credit and that religion is just a convenient excuse to hate people who are different.
That’s certainly what it was at first, but we’re talking about people who have been indoctrinated from birth for generations.
e: I strongly encourage you to watch some of their educational content. I won’t even try to guide you towards anything specific. Just any of it.
I was sent to a private Baptist school until I was in the sixth grade so I am all too familiar.
A very large faction has been weaponising that indoctrination against others, and it’s been increasingly effective.
I am heartened that it didn’t work on you.
If anything my experiences at that school sent me barrelling down a path towards atheism.