Our democracy has moved two steps forward and one step back for a couple hundred years. There have always been losers in every step of the way, which is tragic. But no policies driven by greed and power will come close to generating a larger group of winners. The common people will all become losers
"Respect is such an underated value in our brassy social world which rewards the most disrespectful actions and words. We may not be able to change what we've created but we (read I) could stop giving our attention to it." ~ Joyce Wycoff
Joyce, I am listening to what you are saying and reading the quotes you have included. I want to thank you for bringing my attention to Project 2025 because you piqued my curiosity...enough that I decided to read the Mandate for Leadership, which was originally written in 1979 and published in 1981 during Reagan's time in office. It's a long read....I am only just getting started. I am trying to read it as simply an American, not left or right, conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat. I've also started looking at the other 3 pillars. I think the idea of being able to take short online courses to learn about the different branches of the government and the inner workings would be really educational. I try to avoid taking what I read in the media at face value since it's mostly skewed, so thank to you I am now doing some research. Thanks for that.
Last week I wrote about respect and the importance of communication and listening to help get our country united. I realize that by commenting here, I am subjecting myself to disrespectful communication. But since I am a firm believer that we each need to call for respectful discourse, I felt that it was important for me to take that chance.
Thanks again for sending me down the Project 2025 rabbit hole. I know I'll learn something.
Thanks, Heather ... I'm going down that rabbit hole also and am interested in what you learn from Mandate for Leadership. Maybe we could cross-post? I know I am biased so I am trying to come at this with an open mind which is a challenge in these over-heated times. Sounds like we're both trying to remain rational, if not unbiased. And, I've already started getting some "disrespectful" notes. I guess it just comes with the territory ... I've decided to not engage with it. Let's keep sharing what we find.
Politics hasn't found a spot in Kindness Magnet and I plan to keep it that way. 🙂
You can download the Mandate for Leadership from the Project 2025 website - no need to buy anything. It's going to take me a while to get through it! And you can read about the online courses there as well.
It's horribly scary. They've been working at it for decades. On the Media did an episode about 2 months ago on Leonard Leo of The Federalist Society. Scary.
Scary $hit. Thank you for linking to this plan so we can read it ourselves. I agree with one of the posters above-a political party or figure is not going to maintain democracy. It takes collective action.
It can be complicated and convoluted ... but it's truly important. Maybe you could find an organization or person you trust to help you feel more comfortable knowing what's in front of us this year.
Makes me so damn angry that for decades a viable third party has been blocked in the USA. THIS is why. Two party corporatocracy is two sides of the same corrupt coin. Billionaires buy who they want and put them in office - no matter how corrupt or criminal the individual is. So one has to look at what is under this - Greed, in a word. Why do the Owners want someone who is a warmonger or a crook or a misogynist or an ecocidal maniac? I think we know the answer to that. Divide and conquer and worse- reduce the population through means like war and genocide. How do the People keep falling for it? We must evolve.
There are criminal cartels running everything in the world - politics, medicine, banking... everything. Sometimes when I look at US elections, I feel I am witnessing a gory gladiator show in a huge arena, and that the people are being thrown to the lions or tearing each other apart over wildfires started by the Owners and Handlers so we miss what's really happening - which is a global attempt to remove civil rights. It is all so monstrous.
I'm sorry. I try so hard not to be 'negative,' but having followed the money for decades, I see the truth and it frightens me how much Critical Thinking seems completely lost in the USA. This is waaaay bigger than politics. I don't know how we stop the juggernaut - with a bigger juggernaut of unity and for lack of better words, love and tolerance. But how do we get there from here when what is coming at us and the earth is so violent and thoughtless?
First and foremost, people have to stop believing that some political figure or political party will be some kind of savior, or that anyone of anything will 'save' us. We are being asked to save ourselves and unify so that the collective can be the stronger Juggernaut. But you can't mandate that. It needs to come from within each person. We need to get Critical Thinking and connectedness with all life - not just human - back; if we ever had it. Looking to Indigenous peoples who knew and still know reciprocity - how to give as well as take, and not take too much - seems the only path to take. At least moving in that direction feels true, whatever befalls.
I don't know what the end of this year will bring but for anyone able to travel; go forth, see the world while you still can. Our job is to love the world and all of nature I think - and see ourselves as a part of nature, not separate from it.
Thanks Joyce, Information like this needs to be circulated. Like I say, the months are going to fly by. Massive Democratic and Independent voter turnout is what'd needed.
Our democracy has moved two steps forward and one step back for a couple hundred years. There have always been losers in every step of the way, which is tragic. But no policies driven by greed and power will come close to generating a larger group of winners. The common people will all become losers
"Respect is such an underated value in our brassy social world which rewards the most disrespectful actions and words. We may not be able to change what we've created but we (read I) could stop giving our attention to it." ~ Joyce Wycoff
Joyce, I am listening to what you are saying and reading the quotes you have included. I want to thank you for bringing my attention to Project 2025 because you piqued my curiosity...enough that I decided to read the Mandate for Leadership, which was originally written in 1979 and published in 1981 during Reagan's time in office. It's a long read....I am only just getting started. I am trying to read it as simply an American, not left or right, conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat. I've also started looking at the other 3 pillars. I think the idea of being able to take short online courses to learn about the different branches of the government and the inner workings would be really educational. I try to avoid taking what I read in the media at face value since it's mostly skewed, so thank to you I am now doing some research. Thanks for that.
Last week I wrote about respect and the importance of communication and listening to help get our country united. I realize that by commenting here, I am subjecting myself to disrespectful communication. But since I am a firm believer that we each need to call for respectful discourse, I felt that it was important for me to take that chance.
Thanks again for sending me down the Project 2025 rabbit hole. I know I'll learn something.
Thanks, Heather ... I'm going down that rabbit hole also and am interested in what you learn from Mandate for Leadership. Maybe we could cross-post? I know I am biased so I am trying to come at this with an open mind which is a challenge in these over-heated times. Sounds like we're both trying to remain rational, if not unbiased. And, I've already started getting some "disrespectful" notes. I guess it just comes with the territory ... I've decided to not engage with it. Let's keep sharing what we find.
Politics hasn't found a spot in Kindness Magnet and I plan to keep it that way. 🙂
You can download the Mandate for Leadership from the Project 2025 website - no need to buy anything. It's going to take me a while to get through it! And you can read about the online courses there as well.
Happy Valentine's Day - a bit early.
I was trying to avoid politics but think I'm going to carve out a section for 2025, and, hopefully, retire it in November.
Thank you for letting me know about this. John trying to be grateful after receiving horrifying information about Project 2025.
It's horribly scary. They've been working at it for decades. On the Media did an episode about 2 months ago on Leonard Leo of The Federalist Society. Scary.
Scary $hit. Thank you for linking to this plan so we can read it ourselves. I agree with one of the posters above-a political party or figure is not going to maintain democracy. It takes collective action.
Scary shit but moving toward collective action - yes
I do not understand politics, it is way over my head
It can be complicated and convoluted ... but it's truly important. Maybe you could find an organization or person you trust to help you feel more comfortable knowing what's in front of us this year.
Makes me so damn angry that for decades a viable third party has been blocked in the USA. THIS is why. Two party corporatocracy is two sides of the same corrupt coin. Billionaires buy who they want and put them in office - no matter how corrupt or criminal the individual is. So one has to look at what is under this - Greed, in a word. Why do the Owners want someone who is a warmonger or a crook or a misogynist or an ecocidal maniac? I think we know the answer to that. Divide and conquer and worse- reduce the population through means like war and genocide. How do the People keep falling for it? We must evolve.
There are criminal cartels running everything in the world - politics, medicine, banking... everything. Sometimes when I look at US elections, I feel I am witnessing a gory gladiator show in a huge arena, and that the people are being thrown to the lions or tearing each other apart over wildfires started by the Owners and Handlers so we miss what's really happening - which is a global attempt to remove civil rights. It is all so monstrous.
I'm sorry. I try so hard not to be 'negative,' but having followed the money for decades, I see the truth and it frightens me how much Critical Thinking seems completely lost in the USA. This is waaaay bigger than politics. I don't know how we stop the juggernaut - with a bigger juggernaut of unity and for lack of better words, love and tolerance. But how do we get there from here when what is coming at us and the earth is so violent and thoughtless?
First and foremost, people have to stop believing that some political figure or political party will be some kind of savior, or that anyone of anything will 'save' us. We are being asked to save ourselves and unify so that the collective can be the stronger Juggernaut. But you can't mandate that. It needs to come from within each person. We need to get Critical Thinking and connectedness with all life - not just human - back; if we ever had it. Looking to Indigenous peoples who knew and still know reciprocity - how to give as well as take, and not take too much - seems the only path to take. At least moving in that direction feels true, whatever befalls.
I don't know what the end of this year will bring but for anyone able to travel; go forth, see the world while you still can. Our job is to love the world and all of nature I think - and see ourselves as a part of nature, not separate from it.
Yes! We have to take this seriously.
Thanks Joyce, Information like this needs to be circulated. Like I say, the months are going to fly by. Massive Democratic and Independent voter turnout is what'd needed.
M A S S I V E !