Project 2025: Christo-fascist Core Principles to Reshape US Education

And turn all education into a powerhouse for religious indoctrination (Scroll to the end to listen)

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Imagine you’re a little girl in the American South. Your parents live in a rural town with one public school in your district. But they don’t want you to attend school with Black people, and they certainly don’t want you to be taught humans evolved from monkeys.

So they join a Christian Nationalist church and enroll you in church kindergarten to take advantage of the tithing-member discount.

For 13 years, you learn God created everything in 7 literal 24-hour days. You memorize chunks of the Bible in lieu of being taught about art, because art is nothing but perversion and filth.

Your history books teach you that slaves were happy on the plantation, and the Founders meant for America to be a white Christian nation. According to the Bible, Black and Brown people were cursed by God, so it’s okay to treat them as inferiors.

You don’t know anything about your body or sex, because sex education makes children curious. Instead, you are taught to abstain from all physical contact with the opposite sex and remain chaste until your wedding day. You are also not allowed birth control pills to control your monthly cramps, because your mother says hormonal birth control causes abortions.

You graduate fully indoctrinated in the Christian Nationalist worldview.

This is what the framers of Project 2025 have in mind for all American students. We have a lot of Project 2025 language to cover today, so let’s get to it.

Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Depart-ment of Education should be eliminated. When power is exercised, it should empower students and families, not government. In our pluralistic society, families and students should be free to choose from a diverse set of school options and learning environments that best fit their needs. Our postsecondary institutions should also reflect such diversity, with room for not only “traditional” liberal arts colleges and research universities but also faith-based institutions, career schools, military academies, and lifelong learning programs.

The next Administration will need a plan to redistribute the various congres-sionally approved federal education programs across the government, eliminate those that are ineffective or duplicative, and then eliminate the unproductive red tape and rules by entrusting states and districts with flexible, formula-driven block grants. This chapter details that plan.

Project 2025, page 319

“Freedom of choice” is code for “taxpayer-funded Christian Nationalist schools.” We’ll dive deeper into that language tomorrow, but it’s already evident in the paragraphs below.

As the next Administration executes its work, it should be guided by a few core principles, including:

Advancing education freedom. Empowering families to choose among a diverse set of education options is key to reform and improved outcomes, and it can be achieved without establishing a new federal program.

For example, portability of existing federal education spending to fund families directly or allowing federal tax credits to encourage voluntary contributions to K–12 education savings accounts managed by charitable nonprofits, could significantly advance education choice.

Project 2025, pages 321 - 322

Which charitable nonprofits could framers of Project 2025 have in mind? Churches are charitable nonprofits. Faith-based organizations are charitable nonprofits. Parochial schools are charitable nonprofits.

But it gets worse.

According to POLITICO, Leonard Leo, longtime leader of the Federalist Society, has already advanced a case to break the educational barrier between church and state. The group’s lawsuit in Oklahoma would force taxpayer funding of a public Catholic school, which could transform all public education into Christian Nationalist education funded by taxpayers.

They mean to dismantle the Department of Education such that they can co-opt and control education themselves. We’ll see more of that language this week.

Restoring state and local control over education funding. As Washington begins to downsize its intervention in education, existing funding should be sent to states as grants over which they have full control, enabling states to put federal funding toward any lawful education purpose under state law.

Project 2025, page 322

Here’s more detail about funding, where they again use the words “any lawful education purpose.”

Streamlining existing programs and funding so that dollars are sent to states through straightforward per-pupil allocations or in the form of grants that states can put toward any lawful education purpose under state law would bring a needed easing of the federal compliance burden. The federal government should confine its involvement in education policy to that of a statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states.

Project 2025, page 325

Will Project 2025 consider taxpayer-funded Christian Nationalist education a lawful purpose? Several red states already allow taxpayer-funded voucher programs that can be used to send children to Christian schools. (Source: The Brookings Institution) Given that they highlight faith-based institutions in our opening section and they are pursuing at least one lawsuit to force public funded Christian schools, it’s a logical conclusion.

Bolstered by an ever-growing cabal of special interests that thrive off federal largesse, the infrastructure that supports America’s costly federal intervention in education from early childhood through graduate school has entrenched itself. But, unlike the public sector bureaucracies, public employee unions, and the higher education lobby, families and students do not need a Department of Education to learn, grow, and improve their lives. It is critical that the next Administration tackle this entrenched infrastructure.

Project 2025, page 323

These are the first of several core principles Project 2025 outlines for education. Believe them when they call the Department of Education of “cabal of special interests.”

If they can destroy the Department of Education, Christo-fascists can work at the grassroots level to make education conform to their vision: a generation of children indoctrinated in white Christian Nationalism. I was indoctrinated as a child. It took more than 2 decades, numerous mistakes and failures, and much therapy to unwind. We don’t want this Christo-fascist future for American children.