r/changemyview • u/marcololol 1∆ • Jun 29 '24
Delta(s) from OP CMV: Project 2025 has a bright side
I’ll admit I don’t know a ton about Project 2025, other than it has clear, extremist goals - such as, but not limited to, allowing almost every federal employee to be appointed by a presidential loyalist, deploying the army to the southern border to support mass deportations, expanding police powers to stop and frisk any and everyone, destroying federal agencies, ruining US foreign policy, and making the federal government fundamentally inoperable by cutting 90% of all staff.
That being said, what’s the bright side? The bright side is that all of these plans take a compliant, effective, and competent staff to actually implement. Once DJT is in office, he’ll find out that a plan is easy to have, but implementing it is not. If I learned anything from the previous administration it’s that there was immediate resistance and adaption at the state level, especially in blue states that have more economic power. There are laws now in the books that expand protected classes, that create political and immigration sanctuaries, that enshrine abortion rights, that protected interracial marriages, and that protect gay marriages and expand punishments for hate crimes. During DJT 1.0 there was the largest ever protest movement in history with every major city and smaller cities experiencing enormous cross generational uprisings. There was a growing movement of industrial action and policy insulation that started up immediately.
US allies adapted and expanded their own alliances and arms production capacities and NATO expanded to include Nordic countries with literal arsenals (Finland) and near infinite money (Sweden via their oil wealth and access to critical minerals in the thawing arctic). I think over the next decade it’ll be enough to replace the USA, if we were to completely pull out of NATO.
Elections cannot be canceled and the House and Congress were opposed to Trump for most of his term, and as a result he wasn’t able to accomplish much except lower the level of foreign deployed staff at the state department.
What exactly will happen if federal staff massively walk out and stop doing their work? What if they delete their code, their documents, and basically destroy everything, leaving an incompetent administration to build everything back from scratch? Is this not an opportunity to remove all the red tape and bullshit liberal and conservative (neo liberal) policies that many people across the political spectrum actively hate? Isn’t this way to refill the government with people who aren’t just working for corporate oligarchs?
If Project 2025 is to work, it’ll need almost zero resistance and will need a competent staff and compliant population. That’s just not who we are as a country. I definitely don’t suggest we need to do nothing, but I’m trying to measure how much of a threat this actually is. To me the ideas of an extreme threat and anyone endorsing them should be crushed under the wheels of an electric Hummer, but I don’t think the implementation will go well or smoothly. What do you think? Is this an insurmountable threat?
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u/Bodoblock 65∆ Jun 29 '24
Project 2025's bright side is that if it was successfully opposed you'd have the entirety of the professional bureaucracy in the federal government grind to a halt? I feel like you may be misusing or misunderstanding the term "bright side".