Joe Biden’s age doesn’t matter.
Yes, I know that’s not what you’ve heard, so let me put it another way: Imagine your car is low on gas, then imagine your car is on fire and rolling off a cliff.
In this analogy, Biden’s age is like a fuel shortage problem.
Perhaps in other circumstances, this might be an issue worth considering for Republicans, Democrats, or anyone in between who plans to vote in November. But not in this election.
Not when the other option is a disaster.
If Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions, one finding he sexually assaulted women, and multiple convictions finding he and his companies, partners, and charities committed fraud of some kind and paid porn actresses to cover up their affairs, don’t deter you from electing him to be leader of the free world (and I ask you to read this sentence over and over again), what’s to get you interested in his plans to destroy America?
That is the now infamous Project 2025.
This plan was developed by people who worked closely with Trump and advised him during his disastrous first presidency, but of course Trump now claims to know nothing about it, because to admit that it is Trump’s plan would be a plan that directly benefits Trump and other wealthy white elites who want all power and decision-making limited to a handful of far-right billionaires, and would cost them the votes of the other 99 percent of the country.
If there’s one plan that might break the grip of the Trump Cult, it’s this one. It’s that bad.
Because Project 2025 doesn’t just do the typical right-wing nasty stuff like marginalizing black people and women. Oh, it does include that, but it doesn’t just do that.
For example, what if we eliminated veterans benefits? What if we abolished Social Security? What if we abolished Medicare? What if we raised taxes on the poor and middle class? What if we cut taxes on the wealthy and big corporations? What if we banned contraception? What if we took away free and reduced-price school lunches from poor children?
It’s a mishmash of awful stuff.
And it’s all down to Trump and the Republican Party, from the former advisers who helped write it to the Heritage Foundation, which commissioned it all, and which played a key role in Trump’s first administration, has more than 60 members working in the White House, and is a key Republican policy maker at both the state and national levels.
This is the dream of the powerful elite: to have all the power, all the preferential treatment, eliminate all regulations that force us to treat workers with courtesy, eliminate all programs that could be a ladder out of poverty, repeal all laws that try to ensure equality, and eliminate all taxes that could help the most vulnerable among us.
This idea of ​​concentrated power should come as no surprise to Alabamians. Last week, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party preached that democracy is bad because the majority cannot be trusted to make sound decisions. Party lawmakers stuck to this philosophy during the last legislative session, when Republicans in the state Senate decided that Alabama voters could not be trusted to vote to legalize gambling and the lottery.
Do you see what’s going on here?
They are attacking democracy because democracy ensures that the voices of the poorest people are given as much weight as the voices of the richest people. Democracy levels the playing field.
And, well, that can’t be allowed, because it would mean that ordinary working people would have just as much say in how this country is run as a Supreme Court justice and a rich guy who vacations on a yacht.
In the end, it’s always been about power and money. That’s what racism is about. That’s what bigotry is about. That’s what all this weird religious nonsense is about. That’s what gay hatred, trans hatred, anti-black hatred, immigrant hatred, non-Christian hatred.
It was all a way to divide us. It was a way to keep working-class white people from realizing that they have much more in common with working-class blacks and Hispanics than they do with wealthy white people. It was a way to deflect attention from economic status and basic, everyday economic fairness onto skin color or religious beliefs or sexual preference.
All to ensure that the rich stay rich and the poor never vote in their own interest.
Project 2025 simply puts that idea on paper and reveals the end result: the elite’s utopian American dream.
And they are betting that even after they tell you what they want to do, you will fall for it.
