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The entirety of the project 2025 papers feel like the fucking isis Jihad Manifest and Mein Kampf had a incest child.
Oh and i feel like this is all just the surface, thats what they felt ok with publishing, they plan to go full on actual Nazi with more Religion shit.
We call that theocracy or theofascism (a more modern portmanteau). Religion is immensely useful for theocrats and fascists, because it has defacto in- and out-groups plus magic, superstition, and taboos—prime ingredients for making shit up in the name of power.
It is also worth noting that Christianity has been especially bad for climate change action, because even among progressive Christians, there's a belief that their god will intervene.
A fascist theocracy in the US would be globally disastrous for multiple reasons.
That's the political therm, but that paper reads like i said.
That's definitely the impression I get. We've got Republicans explicitly saying that their goal is to appeal to creeps:
How can they say this stuff without questioning themselves? Even if they want to be evil you'd think they'd have the awareness to judge themselves as unappealing.