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Like, diametrically opposite?

People disturbed by things like project 2025 should become more active at local or community level politics, even to help with volunteering in small ways. You are your community and vice versa, we all have a collective responsibility of sorts.

Interestingly, many local positions are often staffed by incumbents or people who run unopposed.

Because there's no money in it and no money behind it. Never will be either. Unfortunately.

Such "equally opposing forces" are purely media creations - there are no such things in actual politics. For instance, there is no such thing as a "far left" - it was purely created by liberal media to be a neat (but entirely fictional) "equally opposing force" for their shitty "both-side-ism" narratives.

Oh there's an opposing force alright. It's not quite legal, there's a lot of blood involved, and currently is not justified. However, if it ever starts happening I think we will see it happen at some point.

It's time for a new amendment. It's the only way things will actually change.

Cause lefties can never agree on anything.

That would be the President's plan.

Biden has given policy points, but he is largely limited as, at best, he is expected to have a tie in the Senate.

We are also seeing this get written by others since the first Trump term saw a vacuum in policy and this is an attempt to get people on board beforehand so Trump's second term is more effective when he goes all dictator.

Problem is that this project is by an extremist group. It's easy to agree on things if you think everything is on the table.

Second part is that the Republican party tends to focus on making sure that people are not educated about what any of the things they talk about mean for the people in the party. Instead they focus on creating the idea that they are under attack by some phantom enemies, going so far as using totally insane conspiracy theories and such and focus on how their policies will hurt those enemies that are the cause of all their current problems. And once people think they're being attacked, they'll give up anything to retaliate.

Then looking at the Democrats, you have a party for right-wing moderates. This party has very little appeal to anyone since most of the right-wing people in the country are enamoured by the extremists. So they don't really have anything they can do that would appease their target audience all that much. I mean moderate conservatives basically want everything to stay exactly the same.

And the left wing half of the country basically has no party creating policy for them at all, and due to the electoral college and various other systems in place, there's no room for more than two parties, and it's extremely rare for a party to disband so that another can do much of anything.

So all of these answers have some truth to them, but they are also missing a key factor. The heritage foundation exists because they are paid tons of money by billionaires to sit around and come up with ways to strengthen their dominance over society. The left simply doesn’t have many supporters with that level of wealth. While it’s possible to do this on a voluntary basis it’s a lot harder than getting paid to do it.

Leftists are famous for infighting and disunity.

I want you to imagine an indestructible box filled with all the world’s comforts. How do you craft it? How do you procure the materials to craft it? How do you search for the means to find the materials to craft it? Hard questions without a simple solution.

Now I want you to picture a decently sturdy box filled with some neat stuff. And now I want you to picture yourself bashing it to pieces. Pretty doable, right?

It’s easy to break something of value, it’s near impossible to craft the invincible. Especially when half of your team is actively bashing.

That opposing force is the sheer amount of desperation people are putting into chasing voters to the polls

There isn't an opposite manifesto because the opposition to Project 2025 is a big tent coalition of several groups that in a proper democratic system would be entirely different parties.

It's a beast with 20 heads that all have to agree to make any significant movement in any given direction, and so all that this monster can agree to do right now is to keep keeping the other guy out and hope a resolution comes in the process.

Only sometimes one of the heads decides to be a privileged little twat and not even agree to that, and then gaslight everyone else about how they all made the twat decide to let the worse guy win.

Anyways the point is someone would have to beat down the egos of a lot of big names to unite the democratic coalition enough to put out a counterproposal to Project 2025.

You probably could do it too with enough being the biggest most confrontational douche ever seen in the DNC to literally everyone until you've successfully bowled everyone else over and browbeaten them into line, but congratulations now the only thing they're more united about than The Project for All is how much they all hate you and want to ruin you so they can all go back to being the petty lords of their sub-partisan fiefdoms.

Project 2025 is a report from a far right think tank, the Heritage Foundation that MAGA aligned groups are all pushing into the news cycle.

There are plenty of centrist, progressive, and/or left wing (the 3 camps that make up democrats) think tanks but those are producing 3 fairly different paths/goals - compared to HF's singular message of "lets make a white christian nationalist state."

So it's easier to for them to build a critical mass of polling (1 high profile UltraCon idea vs 3 different voices out of the Democratic party). The media ultimately magnifies apparent support because extremism drives ratings/clicks and they're all dependent on popularity to make money (or keep what funding they have in the case of NPR/PBS).

Edited for clarity.