By Michael Woyton
A lot happened over the past few days that grabbed the headlines, including the convicted felon fake working during a fake shift serving fake customers at a closed fast-food restaurant and the same convicted felon in front of a rally with children present grinningly talking about the size of a dead golf legend’s putter.
But there really isn’t much time left — including today, there are only 16 days left to vote for president — to lose sight of the big picture.
Donald Trump is acting more bizarre by the day and has as Sen. JD Vance as a running mate who is eager to follow through with the GOP’s roadmap to tyranny, which is called “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” or Project 2025.
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I have no doubt that if Trump retakes the Oval Office the plan written by The Heritage Foundation will immediately go into high gear, gutting the civil service workforce and installing Trump loyalists at every level of government.
All of Project 2025’s almost 900 pages are available online for your perusal, but it is admittedly tough going.
That is why it’s important to have people who have the time to delve into it and find ways to let the rest of us know what the right wing has planned should they seize power in January.
In this blog, we tried to present a few of those alternatives that present the highlights — low-lights? — of Project 2025 in order to give the public more information about how they will be affected in Trump/Vance land in the White House.
They included comic creators using their graphic talents, the threat to weather forecasting and a riff on Schoolhouse Rock.
One of the latest is via the urban entertainment website HipHollywood.com, founded by American television host Kevin Frazier.
HipHollywood spoke with Black men ages 18 to 65 and had them share their reactions to excerpts from Project 2025. The resulting video can be viewed below.
The various policies outlined in Project 2025 were broken don with the assistance of UCLA Professor Dr. Tyrone Howard.
Among the points the men discussed on camera were eliminating student debt forgiveness, killing the remaining people on death row and ensuring that nothing will prohibit workplace discrimination.
That last topic led one of the men to say, “I can’t imagine an adminstration that would take us back.”
A couple men were concerned about Project 2025’s ending Obamacare and Medicare and allowing insurance companies to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.
The hits targeting health care made one man say that he was thinking about his grandparents.
“My grandfather specifically,” he said. “This would directly affect him.”
Many if not all of the goals of Project 2025 would directly everyone — except the most well off, white and straight among us — which is likely the point of the whole Heritage Foundation agenda.
If you care about public education, public health, knowing when hurricanes are on their way, women’s right to control their own medical decisions, Social Security and marriage equality, to name just a few things, then there is no choice about whom to vote for president.
Don’t vote against your own best interests.
SEE ALSO: ‘There Is a Sane Vote Here’: Jon Meacham
Lead art: Screen grab from YouTube
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