Legislative proposals across the nation (including Iowa) are being inspired(?) by Project 2025 (2.5 minutes):

All week I dig into issues looking deep for some insight that will just jump off the internet page that shows in a simple statement or posting just how bad things are getting. After all that, it seems like there is always one story that just leaps out of the computer Thursday morning there was such a story. It was a reference posted in the notes for Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters From An American” for that day.

Among the notes was a link to a substack from Jess Piper called “I Know Exactly What They Are Doing (Rural Foresight). 

Ms. Piper explains how she has been able to spot patterns and what Trump does today is what has been happening in Missouri as a test for a while now:

“You don’t need to be an economist to look around and see that the Trump administration is going to cause economic disaster — a recession or a depression. And it is by design. It is a feature, not a bug. 

How do I know this?

I live under a GOP Supermajority. I have lived under their boot for two decades. They have economically damaged my state and it wasn’t by accident. They did it to sell off the state and workers and land to the wealthy. They created a desperate situation in Missouri and that desperation equates to bounty for the oligarchs. “

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“Many Missourians are now poor and sick and abused and desperate.

The wealthy have thrown shit at the walls in red states to see what sticks. They found the winning formula, wrote it into a plan called Project 2025, and now bring it nationwide.

They have installed the wealthiest man in the world to dismantle the country for himself and his fellow oligarchs. They plan to burn the country down to pay rock-bottom prices for the ashes.”

She then goes on to explain how the MAGA supermajority have dismantled the schools, run small farmers out the state, and other such action that she calls “curated failure” – that is to purposely cause failure for people in the middle class. That is to make people desperate and willing to cave in and accept the crap.

MS.  Piper concludes that giving up is not the answer:

“I have witnessed it from the inside. I live in Missouri and no amount of letter writing has cured my state or persuaded my lawmakers, but one thing has slowed them down…organized action.

Showing up in numbers that can’t be hidden or explained away. Marching in the streets. Testifying by the hundreds. Making lawmakers accountable with constant contact. Letting them know we see them and we know.

Public action.

They want us poor and sick and abused and desperate. They did it in red states and now want the same for the entire United States.

Refuse them. Throw sand in the gears. Take up space. Get in the way.”

I hope that you have picked up that the pattern Jess Piper sees in Missouri is the pattern that has been emerging in Iowa during the MAGA super-majority MAGA legislators with Iowa’s extreme right wing (and the country’s least popular) Governor. Just to flex the old extremist muscle last week the legislature took civil rights away from transgendered Iowans.

As a followup to that this week they are talking about making giving shots with mRNA vaccinations a crime for the vaccinator and on a different note investing Iowa’s surplus funds into crypto-currency vaporware. Make Iowans desperate just as Missouri has made its people desperate. And don’t forget the continuing under funding of Iowa’s public school system and the transfer of education dollars from public to private schools

It is incredible what those who vote for jackasses who will bankrupt them are willing to give up so much so some poor transgendered kid can’t get a fair shake. Ever wonder why no one is moving into Iowa?