周末学习：Project 2025
这是一个千载难逢的学习critical thinking的机会。本人对这个Project还在学习领会阶段，不持立场。但是这关系到我们和孩子的未来，不能不仔细了解它的精髓和对未来的影响。
老中谈论政治议题，多从日常生活的经验着墨，少有逐本溯源的探究根本，这样也就无从了解政治的长远影响。这点上小中往往强于老中没那么感情用事，这得益于贯穿美国中小学的人文教育和训练。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
https://www.project2025.org/
以下摘自wiki百科的简介：
Project 2025[a] is a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal governmentand consolidate executive power should the Republican candidate win the 2024 presidential election.[2][3] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with those who will be more willing to enact the wishes of the next Republican president.[3]It asserts that the president has absolute power over the executive branch.[2][4]Critics of Project 2025 have characterized it as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to transform the United States into an autocracy.[5][6] Many legal experts have asserted it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state,[7][3] and civil liberties.[8]
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said in July 2024 that "we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."[9] Paul Dans, the project's director, said in April 2023 that Project 2025 is "systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, [of] aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state."[10][11] The Project proposes deploying the military for domestic law enforcement.[12][13]
Project 2025 envisions widespread changes across the government, particularly economic and social policies and the role of the federal government and its agencies. The plan proposes taking partisan control of the Department of Justice(DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and sharply reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuel production.[7][14] The blueprint seeks to institute tax cuts,[15] though its writers disagree on the wisdom of protectionism.[16] Project 2025 recommends abolishing the Department of Education, whose programs would be either transferred to other agencies, or terminated.[17][18] Funding for climate research would be cut while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be reformed along conservative principles.[19][20] The Project seeks to cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid,[21][22] and urges the government to explicitly reject abortion as health care.[23][24] The Project states that life begins at conception,[21] and seeks to eliminate coverage of emergency contraceptionunder the Affordable Care Act[21] and enforce the Comstock Act to prosecute those who send and receive contraceptives and abortion pills nationwide.[24][25]The Project seeks to infuse the government with elements of Christianity.[6] It proposes criminalizing pornography,[26] removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,[26][27] and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs,[3][27] as well as affirmative action[28] by instead having the DOJ prosecute "anti-white racism."[29]The Project recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of undocumented immigrants living in the United States by using the military to capture and place them in internment camps.[30][31] The Insurrection Act of 1807would be used to allow the military to engage in domestic policing and assist capturing undocumented immigrants.[32][33] It promotes capital punishment and the speedy "finality" of those sentences.[34]
Some conservatives and Republicans have criticized the plan for its stance on climate change[35] and foreign trade.[16] Other critics believe Project 2025 is rhetorical "window-dressing" for what would be four years of personal vengeance at any cost.[36] The project's authors also acknowledged that most of the proposals would require the Republican Party to control both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.[36] Other aspects of the plan have recently been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and would face court challenges, while others still are norm-breaking proposals that might survive court challenges.[37] Although the project cannot, by law, promote a specific presidential candidate, many contributors have close ties to Donald Trump and his 2024 presidential campaign.[38][39] The Washington Post called the project "the most detailed articulation of what a second Trump term would look like."[40] In April 2024, John McEntee stated that the Trump campaign and Project 2025 planned to "integrate a lot of our work" by summer.[41]While the Trump campaign initially said the project aligned well with their Agenda 47 proposals,[36] the project has increasingly caused friction with the Trump campaign, which has generally avoided specific policy proposals that can be used to criticize him.[40] In July 2024, Trump disavowed the project.[41]
