The Republican Party’s much discussed but little understood “Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project, A Mandate for Leadership” must be engaged and rebutted.
It is a danger to democracy.
Prepared by the Heritage Foundation as a conservative roadmap for a new Trump administration, the 920-page, 180-day playbook offers a mandate for multiple changes in federal government policy. Forty-four pages, about 5%, are devoted to education.
Those pages allege a radical left-wing bias in university teaching, without evidence, and continue from there.
Project 2025, an openly right-wing agenda for America’s future, would require a selective
teaching of American history by omitting mention of race and slavery. It also would substitute religious belief for scientific evidence in studying weather forecasting and environmental change.
It would reclassify federal scientists as political appointees, subject to partisan tests. It
would substitute political tests based on a notion of Christian Nationalism for professional
expertise, stifling critical thinking and free speech.
The science of evolution would be in question. It would diminish adherence to the Freedom of Information Act that supports the public’s right to know what its government is doing.
These proposals are radical, not conservative.
While Project 2025 is positioned as guidance for a Trump presidency and he may not win the election, it is a ready-made agenda for those in the House and Senate who wish to impose their radical, authoritarian views on the country.
The project calls for the abolition of the U.S. Department of Education. It would turn over
consumer protections from predatory proprietary schools to the states and retract the
“borrower-defense” repayment provisions of the federal loan system put in place to protect
students from for-profit schools and lenders.
It would turn college student loans over to private banks, from which they were removed in the 2008 financial crisis, and move funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), in place since 1890, to the Department of Labor, which focuses on statistics not education.
Project 2025 also calls for eliminating Head Start; overhauling the educational accreditation
system, reducing its political neutrality; and rolling back Title IX protections for sexual assault survivors and LGBTQ+ students. It calls for ending all investigations into Title IX violations and for prosecuting all government agencies, colleges, corporations, and other private employers that maintain Affirmative Action or DEI policies. It provides tutorials for how rightwing activists can impose their agenda on local school boards.
Public education was established to ensure an informed citizenry, essential to a functioning
democracy. Project 2025 would deny freedom in favor of authoritarian dictates.
Instead of supporting public education, it would allow for the banning of books, restricting independent inquiry, allocating public funding to restrictive religious schools, cutting funds for the support of children with special needs, and placing a greater emphasis on free market economics than on democratic institutions.
Our history of higher education is not perfect, to be sure. However, it is a history of steadily
improving quality and equality because leaders at the campus, state and federal levels
pursued positive agendas for advancing access, excellence and affordability. Project 2025
would erode this progress without substituting positive alternatives.
Project 2025 deserves rebuttal not only for its education proposals, but for others as well. We should not remain silent or neutral. We, as educators and private citizens, should affirm the purpose and benefits of education to society and the individual; the need to protect food, water, land and air from unregulated commerce; and voting as a foundation of democracy.
We should honor community obligations as well as individual aspirations. Even entrepreneurs like judges depend on the rule of law equally applied.
Project 2025 is not conservative. It does not conserve rights and freedoms. It limits them.
It opposes inconvenient history and science deemed uncomfortable and would impose views that its authors find more comforting even if false. Only by challenging this agenda and advocating for freedom of inquiry and free speech will we preserve them and our democracy as we approach our nation’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026.
Dr. Robert A. Scott, President Emeritus, Adelphi University and Ramapo College of New
Jersey; Author, How University Boards Work, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Co-
Author, Letters to Students: What it Means to be a College Graduate, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024
Ready for The ‘Great Reset’?
by Gary Feldman (The Real Deal)
by The Island Now
December 16, 2020
The Great Reset, considered to be the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is a created reform of “technocracy” (also referred to as “sustainable development”) that will transform all industry in every facet. It will affect everything from government, energy and finance, to food (our lifeline), healthcare, medicine, real estate – all aspects of life.
Technocracy, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, is a political philosophy that refers to government by technicians who are guided solely by the imperatives of their technology (Artificial Intelligence, robotics, computer chips, GPS tracking, WiFi, biometrics, etc.).
The Great Reset’s biggest players will be in data collection, computer technology, telecommunications, weapons manufacturing, finance, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and the food industry.
According to Forbes magazine, technocracy is an economic system referred to as “stakeholder capitalism.”
Promoters of the Great Reset are using the experience of COVID-19 to advance their plan. Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, in his book “Covid-19: The Great Reset” describes how the virus disrupted both economic and social infrastructure and “what changes will be needed to create a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world going forward.”
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says, “Covid-19 will usher in a world where insecurity and unpredictability constitute the new normal. Companies will digitalize faster, innovation will be spurred by the necessity of finding new ways of working and cutting cost. Many things will not go back to the way they were. The impact of this, along with the huge hangover bill for dealing with the virus and the loss of economic activity, will be to produce a lot of hardship with the burden falling often on the most vulnerable.”
The aim of the Great Reset is to fundamentally restructure the world’s economy and political relations on basically two assumptions. One: Every element of nature, every life form is a part of the global inventory, owned by globalist individuals.
Two: Absolutely all the world’s inventory will need to be strictly accounted for in a central database, all readable by a scanner, and ID’ed and managed by AI (Artificial Intelligence) using the latest science. The goal is to count (scan), then efficiently control and manage absolutely all resources (and, yes, that includes people) with unprecedented digital precision.
The Deep State puppet masters are implementing the plan using unequivocal genius via technology.
As explained by journalist James Corbett, the Great Reset is a new social contract that will tie every person to it through an electronic ID linked to your bank account and health records, and a social credit ID that will connect to you and dictate every facet of your life. This global agenda includes tracking and monitoring, and ultimately controlling the world through digital surveillance.
There won’t be a single aspect of human life left out of this plan. All this is sealed with surveillance of how we interact with our fellow human beings in general. Was everyone told to have no more than 10 family members at your Thanksgiving table?
According to speculators, the Great Reset will be invoked by governments in a forceful manner without consent. Fear is used as a manipulation tool. And any time someone dissents, they will be accused of being “anti-science.” Any science that conflicts with the status quo is declared anti-science.
With the Great Reset comes the endangerment of our right to privacy. In our 50 states, we have the Constitution that stands in the way of this violation, as of now. Are you paying attention and understanding the increasing and muscling attempts to sidestep, compromise and invalidate our Constitution? The intent is anti-humanity.
The technocratic elite could ultimately hold the power over people’s assets, leaving all people with no ownership, no possessions. Think about the lyrics of John Lennon’s song, “Imagine.” “Imagine no possessions……. no countries…. no religion too.”
Plan for Our Food under the Great Reset
The Defender, a media platform by the Children’s Health Defense, points out that the architects of the Great Reset claim it will reduce food scarcity, hunger and disease, and even mitigate climate change.
But a closer look at the corporations and think tanks that the World Economic Forum is partnering with to usher in this global transformation, suggests that the real motive is to tighten corporate control over the food system. The WEF insists the future of food and public health hinges on genetically modified organisms, lab-grown protein, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals.
As noted by Jeremy Loffredo of The Defender, the ultimate goal is to replace wholesome, nutritious foods with GMOS, lab-created. The proposed diet aims to reduce the meat and dairy intake of the global population by as much as 90 percennt, replacing it with foods, including cereals and oils that are made in a lab.
Vandana Shiva, scholar, environmentalist, food sovereignty advocate and author, raises a harsh critique of this proposed diet, saying it is not about nutrition at all, but big business and its corporate takeover of the food system.
“The Great Reset is about multinational corporate stakeholders at the World Economic Forum controlling as many elements of planetary life as they possibly can. From the digital data humans produce to each morsel of food we eat.” She says, “The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life.”
Green New Deal: Part of the Great Reset
The Green New Deal would expand, on a vast scale, the federal government’s control over how people produce and consume energy, harvest crops, raise livestock, build homes, drive cars and manufacture goods.
In terms of the approach to methane, a Greenhouse Gas: Methane gas heats the environment. Farm animals expel this gas and will be slaughtered in the guise of reducing methane gas in the environment.
The reality is that farm animals are fed genetically altered corn and soy, unnatural to their diets, forcing methane gas to be created in their systems. Humans expel methane gas as well. A high carbon tax will be placed on what will be left of meat.
Then the population will be enticed to go along with the lab-created plant protein that simulates real meat. Almost all plant protein created in a lab must have a stem cell harvested from an animal in order to be grown synthetically (actually rendering such plant proteins non-vegetarian). Animals will be slaughtered to make way for this new synthetic meat.
The End Game
The Great Reset, through Technocracy, is a method of totalitarian control of the environment and every being on the Planet. EQ (emotional intelligence) is the only way to understand the many layers of this agenda.
Would you call the Great Reset a conspiracy theory or pure genius?
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