The right-wing think tank behind Project 2025 is now crafting new policy suggestions, including an incentive for married couples to have more children, according to a report.
Following its controversial 900-page blueprint for President Donald Trump’s second term, the Heritage Foundation is now drafting a new position paper that includes calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family,” referring to the program to develop the first nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported.
The forthcoming paper, titled “We Must Save the American Family,” reportedly urges the government to pour funds into individual families rather than child care programs, like Head Start, according to the Post.
The Heritage Foundation is also urging the president to issue orders that require all proposed policies to “measure their positive or negative impacts on marriage and family.” If a program scores poorly, it should be revamped, according to the Post.
“For family policy to succeed, old orthodoxies must be re-examined and innovative approaches embraced, but more than that, we need to mobilize a nation to meet this moment,” the paper reportedly reads.
Not to defend their hypocrisy, but making single-income households viable again would go a long way towards increasing birth rates. There’s a grain of truth in the fascist stupidity.
That’s kinda the trick to all of this. As long as you’re willing to accept or ignore the fact that you will only benefit from these policies at the cost of excluding or harming others, then you will see it as in your best interest to support it.
That’s why I say that aspect of it (making sure families make enough money to survive on a single income if they chose to) would actually be a pretty liberal/bipartisan policy if it weren’t targeted at only benefiting traditional nuclear families. It’s definitely not a small government/fiscally conservative/traditional Republican policy.
If you look like what we believe traditional America is supposed to look like, and you’re willing to comply/fall in line with what we say has to be done to achieve this policy, you’ll be rewarded (allegedly). That is how this whole operation works. They need a population of people who are willing to be exploited in exchange for some benefit to help carry out a worse exploitation on the people being harmed by the policies they create.
It’s not too dissimilar from policies that might, for example, tank the economy, destroy thousands of jobs, and then offer an abundance of hiring positions working with ICE at a huge starting salary with zero experience. As long as you comply, you see nothing wrong with what you’re doing or who you’re working for (because again, empathy is a sickness), and you have faith that this is just what God wanted to happen, then the people at the top keep making a fortune off these policies and you’re allowed to live comfortably. You and the people creating these policies both benefit. It’s in your best interest to just do as you’re told and trust this administration the same way you would trust in God to receive his blessings. This all allegedly being part of God’s plan, has always been their way of rationalizing and explaining away anything morally questionable.
The New Right targeted what they used to call the moral majority, and started using classic in-group vs out-group tactics not long after the civil rights movement by calling for a return to “traditional” American values. They started out by attacking “multiculturalism” in the 70s by claiming it was an attack on their own values, then it gradually shifted to “political correctness” and popularizing the term “cultural marxism” in the early 90s to describe a culture war on Christianity and any “traditional” values. Eventually, it was updated again to “wokeness” and then to the most recent attacks on anything that can vaguely blamed as DEI.
They wanted to create the illusion of an attack by the left to make it seem that there is just no place for Christians. That they aren’t welcome or wanted because the goal of the left is simply to destroy Christianity and promote Cultural Marxism. Meanwhile, they claimed to be fighting back in the right to try and preserve and hold on to our “Christian” nation and our traditional values. Since they are fighting this fictional war (that they very deliberately created) on behalf of God, that means God chose to put them and everyone else in whatever position they may find themselves because he needs them there to carry out his plan.
This also means they can claim their own positions of power can simply be explained by divine will, but really this is the ultimate quiet part that the leaders at the top of this movement never say out loud. What really connects the people like Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk with the rest of the more traditional types in the Heritage Foundation is this bizarre belief in a sort of natural caste system. There are simply people who have and those who have not. There are people who count and people who don’t. That’s just the natural order of things, and there is no reason to look for reason why that is, or how a deck was stacked. It’s just the way it is. If necessary they will try to make a claim about social darwinism and survival of the fittest, or selfish genes, or any number of very questionable BS arguments as to why anyone should believe that they and only they were born to win the game.
They truly believe there is a sort of natural hierarchy ordained by either God or nature that allows for an elite few to be granted great power and control over everyone else. As far as everyone else, it becomes only about God. There is another hierarchy for those willing to help carry out God’s plan by serving those at the top who control, and then those that they claim go against or just don’t seem to fit into God’s plan.
It’s unclear why God would ever create anyone that didn’t fit into his plan, but that kind of thinking and any questioning of their power and control can easily be written off as just another example of someone who is either willingly or unwillingly (they are the ones who are brainwashed by liberal media, universities, Soros, etc. and just don’t know it) fighting the war on Christianity on behalf of the cultural Marxists.