The election season is certainly interesting. All sorts of unexpected developments have happened in July, and no one can predict what will happen between now and November. Although we focus on the individuals running for President and other offices, we should remember that each election ushers in an entire government. Each government seeks to implement the priorities of a political party. It is often said that elections have consequences. This is certainly true for the 2024 election
We live in a time when people’s rights are more precarious than they have been since the 1960s. We see threats to civil rights, women’s rights, the rights of self-determination, religious freedom, and the right of free speech. These threats are coming from the right, and members of the right are giddy about the possibility of instituting a political agenda that our founding mothers and fathers would have rejected.
You can see this in the policy proposals of Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican administration published by the Heritage Foundation and other groups aligned with the former President. Project 2025 is a comprehensive agenda to
increase the power of the President,
reduce the effectiveness of the governmental agencies,
engage in mass deportations,
limit reproductive rights,
push the LGBTQ+ community back into the closet, and
establish a conservative culture that benefits the powerful.
The Red, Wine, and Blue project has published multiple documents outlining the Project 2025 agenda and providing resources, presentations, and videos to educate and mobilize against this unprecedented agenda. At the root of Project 2025 is the idea that not everyone should be equal under the law and that the governmental agencies that support equal rights and opportunities are illegitimate.
Project 2025 focuses on limiting the rights of women, ethnic and racial minorities, non-Christians, and members of LGBTQ+ communities. If these policies are successful, it is frightening to think about whose rights will be limited next.
The idea that some Americans are less equal than others is profoundly anti-American. Our nation was founded on the idea that all citizens are created equal and have “certain inalienable rights.” Our history is one of expanding rights and legal protections to benefit all citizens. Equality is at stake in this election, and the challenge to equality that Project 2025 represents exists regardless of who the Republican or Democratic presidential candidate is. The stakes in this election are clear, and it is clear who is on the side of equality, personal rights, and freedom.
It is important to vote for equality and opportunity and to support Democrats at all levels of government and in all states.
N.B. This blog was posted on the day President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris for President. Take a moment to celebrate President Biden's legacy by contributing to the Democratic Party's General Election Campaign—link to ActBlue.
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