Project 2025: Note 1

I was listening to a Deep State Radio podcast with guest Dahlia Lithwick and she was insistent that people read Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation.  If you're eyes didn't just glaze over I'm going to assume you know who these intellectual clowns are and won't go on a tangent here.

The hour is late.  If I take the time to make this look pretty, I'll run out of time.  Therefore, I will mostly limit this to cutting and pasting phrases that get my attention as I run across them.  My only hope is that something here will inspire your to go look for yourself.

If you're a good man (or woman) and you are doing "nothing" right now, be assured that evil will flourish.
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From Project 2025: Policy Agenda

Chapter 3 -- CENTRAL PERSONNEL AGENCIES: MANAGING THE BUREAUCRACY

Page 5

The Centrality of Performance Appraisal.

" In fact, as Ludwig von Mises proved in his classic Bureaucracy,14
unlike the profit-and-loss evaluation tool used in the private sector, government
performance measurement depends totally on a functioning appraisal system."
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You can check out Ludwig von Mises at Wikipedia.  He's a favorite with the right-wing crowd.

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From Wikipedia:  "Mises emigrated from Austria to the United States in 1940.[3] Since the mid-20th century, libertarian movements have been strongly influenced by Mises's writings. Mises' student Friedrich Hayek viewed Mises as one of the major figures in the revival of classical liberalism in the post-war era."

"At one time, Mises praised the work of writer Ayn Rand, and she generally looked on his work with favor, but the two had a volatile relationship, with strong disagreements for example over the moral basis of capitalism.[27]"

"Mises, in his 1927 book Liberalism, wrote:[48]

"It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history. But though its policy has brought salvation for the moment, it is not of the kind which could promise continued success. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error."
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"Fascism...brought salvation for the moment..."


What would you like to bet, a lot of smarter Trumpers are holding their noses and clinging to that thought for dear life?

Don Brown
June 14, 2024