I read through Wikipedia's summary of Agenda 47. Whether you consider Wikipedia to be an unbiased source is your own opinion, I think it largely suffices.
Some of it is absurd and ridiculous, some of it is more extreme than I would like, but there's some that I think is worthwhile. Mostly focused around policies toward China. At some point I expect to see policy positions from Harris, so I can compare and contrast.
It doesn't spell out the details, but it's damning enough.
And think of what it really means.
Agenda said:
Proposition of ending "Joe Biden's war on American energy" and recovering
energy independence by eliminating "every unnecessary regulation in the federal registry that hampers domestic production," getting out of the
Paris Agreement, and issuing fast approvals to every oil infrastructure project presented to his administration.
Have you not noticed that they consider basically any environmental or safety regulation to be unnecessary? This is basically promising to rubber stamp everything.
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Proposition of not bailing out failing banks, but "unleash energy production, slash regulations," and repealing "Biden's tax hikes," to reduce
inflation.
First, how are they even related?
Second, the first part is asking for a major bank run.
Slash regulations? I got a little peek into the situation locally when my wife's licensing board tried to respond to the governor's mandate on reducing regulations. Nobody found anything more than some stuff that could use a bit of polishing and we ended up with trivialities. (For example, it used to say continuing education had to be completed in the last 12 months, now it's the last calendar year. License renewals are done at the end of January, that's a pretty small change.)
Agenda said:
Proposition to return jobs and wealth to the United States, launching an economic boom and eliminating dependence on China and other countries, by passing the "Trump Reciprocal Trade Act." If any country applies a certain percent tariff on American-made goods, the same
tariff will be applied on theirs; the other countries "will have two choices—they’ll get rid of their tariffs on us, or they will pay us hundreds of billions of dollars, and the United States will make an absolute FORTUNE." This is meant to help the agricultural states and manufacturers.
And how much are there in the way of tariffs in either direction with our major trading partners???
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Proposition to "bring Americans the lowest-cost energy and electricity on Earth," by developing American oil and
natural gas,
nuclear power,
clean coal,
hydroelectricity, "and every other form of affordable energy."
Note "clean coal". No such thing. And note that there's nothing in this about safety. Standard Republican approach--ignore the victims.
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Creating a new way to certify teachers based on their patriotism,
Hey, first of all I want a teacher who can teach. Not one that's going to be indoctrinating people into MAGA.
Agenda said:
school districts that abolish teacher tenure for grades K through 12 and adopt Merit Pay
In other words, inner city schools won't have any teachers. While there are bad teachers you're not going to find them with a merit pay system. That's a huge reward to those who have good students, a major burden to those who have poor students.
Agenda said:
Proposition of "reclaim[ing] our once great educational institutions from the radical Left," by using the
college accreditation system.
The system works fine already. Shitty colleges do not get accredited. What this really is is about basing accreditation on conformance to MAGA goals.
Agenda said:
offering accelerated and low-cost degrees
Sounds very much like the garbage for-profit schools that churn out worthless degrees.
Agenda said:
Great Principals and Great Teachers, i.e. empowering parents and local school boards to hire and fire principals and teachers.
In other words, fire any teacher that hands out poor grades.
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Safe, Secure, and Drug-Free, by "immediate expulsion for any student who harms a teacher or another student."
In other words, keep the victims from fighting back against the bullies. They have to just take the abuse or they're going to be expelled. The bullies are skilled at not getting caught, the victims not so much.
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Universal School Choice. This includes, "that parents can send their children to the public, private, or religious school that best suits" them.
In other words, big subsidies for private religious schools, while the public schools are left to wither. We've already seen what happens with "school choice". It's a huge handout to the upper middle/upper class.
Agenda said:
Proposition of "dismantl[ing] the
deep state and reclaim[ing] our democracy from Washington corruption," by firing government employees, reissuing Executive Order 13957 (
Schedule F), "restoring the president’s authority to fire rogue bureaucrats."
Make everyone a political appointee and the whole system of balances fails. Doesn't matter how many kids you diddle if you're connected enough because you're a good person, the allegations must be false. Stop the witch hunt!
Agenda said:
Proposition of stopping unnecessary government spending by restoring
impoundment,
Making the President have an absolute veto over any spending which helps his enemies. Your state voted blue? All federal employees in your state are out of a job.
Agenda said:
Proposition of keeping
Medicare and
Social Security intact, by cutting federal expenses, help to foreign countries, and eliminating "mass-releases of illegal aliens (...), left-wing gender programs from our military [and] climate extremism."
Another insane combination.
Agenda said:
Proposition of addressing the rise in
chronic illnesses and health problems, especially in children ("
autism,
auto-immune disorders,
obesity,
infertility,
serious allergies, and
respiratory challenges"), looking for their primary cause, by establishing "a special Presidential Commission of independent minds who are not bought and paid for by
Big Pharma, and I will charge them with investigating what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic illnesses."
What is causing? Two big candidates come to mind:
1) Our healthcare system. People that previously would have died now live. If they would just go off and die they wouldn't have a chronic illness!
Fred Trump III writes that his uncle, Donald Trump, made the shocking suggestion during an Oval Office meeting in May 2020
www.independent.co.uk
2) The drug war.
And some of it is misunderstanding.
Yes, autism diagnoses have exploded--but they're a shift, not new. They were troubled before, it's just they were thought mentally deficient rather than mentally disconnected from the world.
Agenda said:
Proposition to reducing
drug costs, by signing an Executive Order telling "Big Pharma that we will only pay the best price they offer to foreign nations (...) this will force Big Pharma to RAISE prices on foreign countries and REDUCE prices very substantially for American Patients,"
Here's the stopped clock bit. He actually got one right.
Agenda said:
Proposition of signing an executive order "making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic
U.S. citizenship."
In other words, shit on the Constitution.
Agenda said:
Proposition of holding a contest to charter up to 10 new cities ("Freedom Cities") in undeveloped federal lands.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47#cite_note-:4-70">[68]</a> Revolutionizing transportation, by promoting the development of "vertical takeoff-and-landing vehicles."
I really do not want to see flying cars until we have full computer control of aircraft. What happens when your typical fender bender becomes fatal??
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Proposition of "shatter[ing] the left-wing censorship regime," i.e. labeling information as
misinformation or
disinformation, in the media or social networks, about subjects like the 2020 elections, Covid, and the "Biden Family’s criminality."
In other words, publish only MAGA-approved stuff.
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Proposition of building a state-of-the-art, next generation missile defense shield, similar to Israel's
Iron Dome, as a deterrent of and protection from foreign missile attacks, in order to prevent
World War Three.
This is simply bonkers. Iron Dome is quite good at what it's meant to do--
short range terminal phase intercept of
dumb ballistic inbounds. The defense zone of an Iron Dome launcher is quite small. You need a lot of them to cover any big city. And they don't have the ability to select the real target from the decoys. And if you're shooting at a nuke you have the huge problem of salvage fusing. It won't be at the optimum height but you'll still be looking at a mushroom cloud--and have no chance at all of shooting down the next warhead coming in behind.
I'm not listing all the evil by any means, just the stuff I could easily spot.
