Self-governance

   Before I leave Kevin Roberts' introduction to Project 2025 I must mention a major contradiction in terms -- that is all about terms. 

   "America’s corporate and political elites do not believe in the ideals to which our nation is dedicated—self-governance, the rule of law, and ordered liberty," he writes. "They certainly do not trust the American people."

    Wait a minute. Isn't it the conservatives, the group he champions, that doesn't trust a woman to make choices about her own medical care? That doesn't trust people to choose who they want to marry? And refuses to hear the wails of a teen struggling to accept a gender that just doesn't fit? They certainly don't want to allow self-governance for anyone whose choices don't agree with their own. 

    And how does Roberts suggest we deal with this disparity? By eliminating certain terms from "every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists." Those terms include:

• sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”)
• diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), 
• gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive,
• abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights

   Roberts equates transgender ideology with pornography, as addictive as any drug, he says.

   "Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders," he suggests. 

      It's no surprise that a few pages later in the section examining the executive office of the President, the Mandate for Leadership advises elimination of the Gender Policy Council and replacing it with a special advisor to the president on family life. 

   As long as that family's life doesn't have any of the terms that have been eliminated.