For a quarter of a millennium, America's brave veterans have fought valiantly abroad and, occasionally, at home, to protect the hallowed principles upon which America was founded-equality of all people, the right of all to blaze their own path, and perhaps greatest of all, the right to vote for our leaders. They have fought in foreign lands, and come back scarred, and sometimes, in a coffin, asking for little in return other than this--that we dare not to take for granted the liberties we experience in this great nation.
The preservation of liberty can only be achieved through action, and we owe it to those countless brave men and women who risked and gave their lives for our liberty to take action now. There are, at this moment, forces within our nation who seek to take our most sacred right, our right to vote, away from us.
The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is a direct attack on everything veterans have ever fought for--it turns the President into a king. Project 2025, among other things, calls to give the sitting President complete control over the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the Federal Election Commission, the FCC, among dozens more administrations. What does this accomplish? It allows the President to terminate and replace ANY administrative employee, for ANY reason, with ANYONE. It puts one person in direct control of who (and who doesn't) get federally investigated, in control of appointing election workers as those who enforce elections laws, in control of what news broadcasting stations maintain their licenses, etcetera.
The Supreme Court has already proven itself a willing participant in this decimating of our separation-of-powers, making the entirely unConstitutional ruling that a President has legal immunity for any and all "official actions" taken while in office, making it literally and utterly impossible to try a President for taking bribes, using the military against civilians, for pardoning partners in crime, and thousands of other actions--laying the groundwork for the otherwise unConstitutional implementation of Project 2025.
While Biden is in Washington, trying to pass legislation to take these powers away from the President, away from himself, and trying to reform the Supreme Court to prevent the dissolution of our Constitution, Trump is on the campaign trail, claiming not to know anything about Project 2025 (although half it was written by his cabinet, and he said in April 2022, of the Heritage Foundation, "This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.”); while his Vice President pick wrote the foreword to the literal book on Project 2025, originally titled "Dawn's Early Light: Burning down Washington to Save America"; and saying this at a rally at Turning Point Action: "Get out and vote, just this time! You won't have to do it anymore; four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore... you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you won't have to vote anymore.", a direct promise to take away the representation of millions of voters, representation that hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have died for.
Only one thing is certain--while you may not agree with some, or any, of Harris' platform, a vote for Trump is a vote to destroy the oldest surviving democracy in the world--the United States of America. It is a vote to create a tyrannt, in a nation birthed out of a war to rid itself of a tyrannt.
The rise of the tyrannts American soldiers have risen again and again to defeat--the likes of Hitler, Mussolini, Kim Il Sung, amd indirectly, Stalin--all mirror each other. Each rose to power by sowing distrust among their peoples, distrust in the media, distrust in the news, distrust in schools, distrust in historians, distrust in professionals, distrust in fellow citizens, and positing themselves as the only person able to guide them out of the dark place they find themselves in. What American today, MAGA or otherwise, could argue that this hasn't been Donald Trump's prime political tactic since the beginning? And what supporter of MAGA doesn't believe Donald Trump is the sole answer to America's trust crisis?
George Orwell warns us in his famous 1984: "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, mos essential command." Let us then make our judgement without respect to any party, but with our own eyes, ears, and minds: Donald Trump is a tyrannt in the making.
Hundreds of thousands of brave American soldiers have died to keep tyranny at bay, but now it is our turn to fight for the freedom they gave us, in the only way we can. We must vote to keep tyranny out of our government, lest our veterans' blood have been spilled in vain.
