The group behind Project 2025 has a chilling new plan for America’s women

“the default in American culture today is to put the desires of adults over the needs of children” Absolutely true. That’s why we don’t have, among other things, mandatory paid parental leave or paid sick leave, adequately funded public schools, free meals for kids at school, or politicians that care about reducing gun related deaths of children. Nope, the default is to meet the desires of adults in the oligarch class and funnel money up to them at all costs.

From the piece: *The Heritage Foundation’s latest document,* [*“Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,”*](https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/saving-america-saving-the-family-foundation-the-next-250-years) *was published in January, and its purported goal is to reverse the country’s declining birthrate.* *See, if you can’t physically force women to have more babies, which is what* [*abortion restrictions*](https://www.ms.now/news/hawley-abortion-pill-ban-republican-response-trump) *aim to do, you design government policies that pressure women into having more babies.* *You cut off opportunities outside the home, you make the public sphere hostile to women’s independence and you create a system where the only viable path left for a woman is dependence on a man for survival. In other words, you drag the country back to a time when women had fewer choices.*

Basically, their plan is The Handmaid's Tale. The GOP is fundamentally very ideologically similar to the regime in Iran that they pretend to hate so much.

You know what helps the birth rate in virtually all populations of animals? Assuring their stress levels are low. Their policies will absolutely do the polar opposite of what they think. Stepping all over women is not going to bring the birth rate up, it will cause it to decline further. They're stressing people out and that's why the birth rate is going down. Stress causes plants to change their reproduction strategy as well. So, these people are causing the problem that they say they are trying to solve.

> “Today’s adults may favor autonomy and personal development over raising children more than earlier generations did. Thus, greater opportunity cost rather than greater actual cost may be a better explanation.” > Translation: Women today have opportunities their grandmothers could only dream of. They can pursue education, careers, independence — lives that extend beyond marriage and motherhood. And this is playing into the unjustified anger of younger men that pretend society is preventing them from getting laid. I hate these fucks.

The reason the birth rate is declining is because Republican chucklefucks keep giving tax breaks to their billionaire friends, while screwing the lower and middle class, making it unaffordable for more and more Americans to have children!!

Some of us who grew up in Christian nationalism and got out of it have been screaming this is what they want for over a decade just to be told we're being hysterical idiots who don't know what we're talking about. All I can say at this point is that I was raised so conservatively that when I went to Iran the rules felt normal to me, so good luck.

Nothing new. The dream is to have permanent second class citizens, not welcome in the sphere of politics unless it is to oppress other women.

Next administration should declare the Heritage Foundation a terrorist organization.

The Heritage Foundation is truly evil AF. They must be stopped at all costs.

We are simultaneously responsible for the continuation of humanity and not deserving of an education, fulfillment, autonomy or respect. We are not f****** incubators.

At some point they should be branded as a terrorist organization. Won't happen while the current admin is in power, but hopefully soon after.

If a stable birth rate cannot be achieved without the oppression of women and their rights, the birth rate should be even lower. A society that can only exist on oppression shouldn't exist at all.

How does this work when our entire economy has shifted to needing 2 incomes to survive?

Feminism is what made me feel safe and comfortable having children. Patriarchy and the erosion of reproductive rights are what compelled me to get sterilized.

It’s not a new plan. This was their plan before a bunch of idiots voted in the felon

Can anyone explain the contradictory nature of this proposal and the paradox of those who support it? They want to eliminate jobs by the millions with AI, and also reduce government spending on people and services, while at the same time promoting higher rates of reproduction in a society that doesn't prioritize or value human workers. Someone make this make sense.

Basically they are going to do to us, what the Iranian regime did to their people. A whacko religious fundamentalist slave state. —- only in Jesus’ name Great job, Trailer Trash MAGAs

White MAGA women, Gay repubplican, Latino Trump supporters. Three voting block that I guess I will never understand for my whole life

>If women aren’t producing enough children, the answer is not to make parenthood easier with things like child care, paternal and maternal leave and education subsidies. The answer is to make women’s independence harder.

coolcoolcool I plan to not have kids even harder now

It’s the same plan they’ve always had. Saved you a click

This plan wasn’t new even when Phyllis Schlafly was pushing it. Leave aside that American citizens might not all get behind rolling back every equal rights gain since 1950 for a moment, although it ought to be obvious that some of us didn’t think The Handmaids Tale was an instruction manual. And just concern yourself, briefly, with the underlying economics of this moment. Corporate enshittifcstion has crept into every sphere of business, with subscription models and various attempts to capture and hold consumers through ongoing fees and controlled access substituting for such things as making a decent product, shrinkflatiin reducing sizes while prices stay high, and quality in decline. Wages have been falling behind costs for years. Oligarchs and financial engineers come up with ever more creative ways to extract every last dime from the worker to enrich themselves. The automated surveillance of Amazon’s workers is what happens when Taylorism meets utter disregard for the humanity of the employee. Small numbers of software brokers get rich off gig labor, commodifying insecurity and lack of a future as “flexibility” and “independence”. The Heritage Foundation surely does want to torture American women out of the work force. They are also bankrolled by precisely the same capitalist forces that want everyone in America in the formal labor force so that capital can profit from that labor. And certainly the same capitalists who, if someone is making enough to support some kids, thinks that someone is making too much. I wonder if anyone over there even notices the vast gulf between their two competing ideological poles?

I’m rewatching Scandal, and the Republicans on that show are downright the same ideologically to Bernie Sanders at this rate. They keep warning “what if” if the religious nut job Vice President ever becomes President and what they imagine is not even close to how bad we are experiencing life right now.  I know it’s a fictional show, but we have degraded as a society so much since 2011.

Paul Weyrich’s Heritage Foundation, the most influential never elected man in modern history, the father of the religious right and the billionaires who fund them, the architect of the Second U.S. Civil War. https://www.jractivist.com/post/the-second-u-s-civil-war-began-in-the-1960s https://www.jractivist.com/post/big-lies-abortion-guns-voter-fraud-socialism-immigrants-critical-race-theory

MAGA men want the Handmaid’s Tale to become reality.

How long before we as a society realize these people are just pure evil. Literally, objectively, pure evil. If you disagree with me, you’re one of them.

What the f*** is wrong with these people??? Like how are some people this insecure that their need for power undermines every single joy in life. These asshats' need for divisiveness is downright disgusting. 

What conservatives don't want to tell you is why many social support programs allegedly "penalize" marriage. When the modern welfare state was created in the mid-20th century, it was conservatives who opposed giving aid to married couples, because they believed it would encourage "idleness" among men and that ultimately it was a married woman's husband's responsibility to support her and their children, not the government's. It was a very Victorian "widows and orphans only" approach to the safety net.

Fertility rate drop is mostly a function of teen pregnancy dropping and dragging the average with it. The pedos want to reverse that 

When a Democrat comes back to power, they need to declare the Heritage Foundation a domestic terrorist organization & have it disbanded...

Fathers support daughters until they marry. Once married, her focus is home & children. No more double-income families, so men's wages better be getting a LOT higher and/or houses and cars a LOT cheaper. If she's unable to have children, does he divorce her? If the husband loses his job, gets injured, or dies, she will not be able to support the family. Return to parents? Welfare? And down the road, won't poorer families begin to consider girl babies a liability? We all know where that goes.

Oh look, it's my favorite hate group...

When does the world declare the heritage foundation a terrorist organization? I vote for whichever democratic candidate champions this.

We’ve gone over this….. “my body, my choice”! Having to have this same conversation over and over again is exhausting! Women who want to have babies and spend their days cooking, cleaning, volunteering, and doing whatever they want, should be able to do so. And those who don’t want to have babies, should not be forced to do so. Restricting abortions doesn’t eliminate this option, it just makes it harder to obtain and less safe (ie: coat hangers were literally being used to abort babies years ago). And blaming the feminist movement for less babies is wild! Everyone knows it’s impossible to live in this economy and it’s just getting worse. 15 years ago good daycare was $250 a week. I can’t even imagine what it is now. And the cost of food, gas, electricity, and everything is higher than ever!!! No one can afford kids! And our workforce is smaller due to COVID, the aging population, and now shrinking even faster bc ICE is deporting legal immigrants and citizens. So, if women are suppose to have babies and stay home, whose going to do all the work?? The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 supporters are obviously not thinking through their terrible plans. We’ve been down all of these roads before and none of them lead anyway good! Let’s stop trying to turn back time, and start looking ahead and building a future that’s brighter for everyone! Regardless of age, sex, religion, ability, and every other protected quality. And release the Trump files!

Hey remember all those people saying Project 2025 was a hoax and it was just alarmist nonsense? So where are those people now?

reminder that the heritage foundation wouldn't exist without Coors. Stop buying/drinking coors owned products.

What's funny here to a non US citizens, is that the USA is gonna go through what the Middle East have gone through after the Islamic revolution but instead with their own twisted version of Christianity. They will live in the same world as the people they hate so much.

How is this new? It’s been public before the 2024 election.

You know we could have Star Trek like tech if all the money we spent on finding new ways to kill people and used it on education and social programs.

All of this was laid out plain as day within *Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise* (Project 2025). We kept warning people all this shit was at stake but nooooo, they told us we were "overreacting."

It’s like these people have never read Greek literature. Do you think women have no say in how this will turn out?

Here is a summary: The Specific Policy Proposals The article lays out a concrete list of what the blueprint actually calls for: Reshaping tax policy to reward large married families while cutting support for single mothers. Eliminating child care incentives that enable women to work outside the home. Legal frameworks that would effectively ban IVF by granting embryos legal rights at fertilization. Criticizing no-fault divorce — the laws that made it easier for women to leave abusive marriages.

People call me an adrenaline junkie but having a kid today, especially a girl in America, is nearly sadistic.

What helps the population grow is actually allowing tech to do what it should be doing... making peoples lives easier and allowing us to spend less time at work to focus on ourselves, our families, our friends and our passions. Instead we've allowed tech to show "Higher ups" that we can keep pushing ourselves further to exceed bullshit time crunches, quota's and etc with as few workers as necessary all for shit pay and funny trinkets. Forcing us to be stressed and unable to look for better opportunities. I'm not even 40 and I need knee replacement surgery because for the past 10 years I was forced to work 80hr weeks as a utility Locator, hitting records of tickets completed in the company's entire searchable digital history... If I didn't do the work, I was at risk of getting a damage on the project and getting fired or worse, potentially killing someone. Meanwhile my boss is asking me to do more overtime, telling me to do more and more, despite me doubling his own output just 2 years prior and telling him I physically cannot keep this pace up. Even with those hours and my pay, I have less than $200 in my account, barely any personal posessions, and rely on a lot of free content for my entertainment, because I had no time to even cook for myself and was over-reliant on restaurants and such... now I'm at a point where if I don't get a supervisor position or find an entry level desk-job that pays the same as what I earn with my 80hrs, I may as well give up, because I likely wont be able to walk once I hit 40.

Maybe address the economic problems if you want people to be able to afford children. Otherwise you will spawn another generation of dysfunctional families who will be prone to crimes of desperation. Healthcare, education, and economic opportunities are what creates happy functional families, and safe prosperous societies. Super simple stuff.

this is christo-taliban. welcome to United States of Afghanistan 🥲

Can we like, just go to the Heritage Foundation main campus and just burn everyone down with a flamethrower? They’re trying to burn down our country, let’s start with them.

There is absolutely no reason for anyone to add more workers to this corrupt system. I look around and see babies and toddlers everywhere and just wonder how anyone can bring children into the world right now. The solution is not to increase the population. It's clear that a decrease in population is needed. The upper echelon only wants more workers so they can continue to have larger and larger profits until the end of time. It's all disgusting.

Heritage Foundation should just reveal their real name: American Taliban

Anyone who supports & defends this is a giant f****** loser!

This is so ass backwards it’s crazy to think a person with access to this much information would fall for something like this

Not new. 

Before tossing women back barefoot to American kitchens, jobs would have to pay well enough for a married male to afford a wife and kiddies, which will never happen with the current regime.

Ah yes, the Taliban method of birth rate correction.

Why do men hate women so much? The answer to all of this would be simple if women would simply not put up with such men.

They don't want more babies. They want women out of the workforce. The easiest way to do that is to saddle women with so many kids they can't work outside the home. If the right wing wanted more babes, they'd be supporting kids with things like education and food and, other stuff. Oh, and vaccinations so those kids don't die of childhood diseases or be permanently disabled.

I actually read through the Heritage Foubdation’s slop. It’s wayyyyy way way more anti-lgbt than it is anti-women’s rights, although that’s definitely in there too. This however is basically a playbook to undo every civil rights gain the lgbt community has received since the 60s. They want to undo obergefell, make it illegal to be trans, make it so gay people can’t adopt children, make it so it’s legal to discriminate and hate anyone who is lgbt, and it does a ton of fearmongering saying that the left wants to legalize marrying three or more people, and make test tube babies the standard and end natural pregnancy. Absolutely insane.

It's a good thing Trump has never heard of Project 2025. Would hate to see any of those terrible policies enacted.

soundtrack to the end of the world: “Good Boy” by Paris Paloma  “I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down / I just didn't expect them to be such losers I have never seen submission embodied half so well / As in, the feeble competition between men with souls to sell  And I've never seen a guard dog with less fearsome of a bite /  Than with its tail between its legs found at the rich's man side Look at him, he's sweating, he's sweating from the climb / Office worker, soldier, CEO, he's bleedin' and he's blind / And I've never seen a creature more pitiful than him / He drinks power like saltwater, all because he cannot swim Mouths open, servants of a higher power / They told him, it's a staircase, it's a tower / Full circle, wagging tails, wearing a collar / Poor madman, that's what happens when you drink saltwater Burned your tongue too early and realised too late / The tragedy of losing everything you'll never taste / The clearness of the river, the honey on her tongue / Door open to communion, bein' your father's son And I would not expect you to witness what we know / The songs sung in the dark times, the fire and the snow / We'll be piling up our pyre and defend your lords / And we'll have our joy, but it'll never be yours Mouths open, servants of a higher power (ha) / They told him, it's a staircase, it's a tower / Full circle, wagging tails, wearing a collar (ha) / Even the dogs know not to drink saltwater Good boy, you're working exactly as intended / Has the penny dropped? You're never gonna get it / Unrewarded for all of your defending / From your loneliness epidemic Good boy, has any of the money trickled down yet? / You say one day you'll be rich, well, tell me how then / Unpaid marketing department for the power / Good boy, good boy  Oh-oh, good boy  Good boy”

That is frightening

They should try giving people more money to live off of. It just may work

Natalism and fascism: a love story

Let me guess, don't work, don't vote, don't talk, spit out babies?

Handmaid’s Tale is manifesting.

The plan is old. The transparency is new.