How Kevin Roberts' new book shows Project 2025's intent to "control" women -- and even worse **IMPORTANT READ**

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On MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains how Kevin Roberts' new book shows Project 2025’s intent to “control” women

Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 08/14/24 7:08 PM EDT

Well, the progressive media watchdog group, Media Matters, got its hands on an advanced copy of that book that Roberts has written. It's titled "Dawn's Early Light, Taking Back Washington to Save America."

And in it, they find this: "Roberts repeatedly invokes revolutionary rhetoric. 'It's time for a conservatism of fire,'" he writes. Roberts also proposes a question to his readers asking this, "What's your Alamo? What are you dying for? There's a time for writing and reading and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country and build our future."
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ANGELO CARUSONE (MEDIA MATTERS PRESIDENT): One thing that always sticks out at me since we went through the copy is this one part in the book. And it'll sound familiar because it -- and it explains partly why Vance was so willing to write the foreword -- where Roberts writes about the fact that he doesn't believe -- and argues -- that having a child should not "be an optional individual decision."

And what he argues for is that it's a societal one. That did not only take -- they should use soft means like pressures, but they should do everything possible from a policy perspective to take away that choice from individuals. That means banning contraception. That means taking a whole suite of issues against reproductive health and, you know, banning abortions. That is a massive overhaul.

And to me, the one through line throughout the book -- whether he's railing against education or he's arguing for rolling back unions and eliminating them and rolling back workplace safety protections, or even when he goes into this massive tangent about dog parks, which he's sort of angry about the fact that there are more people that have dogs than children which can't be entirely true -- that feels like one of the through lines, which is that fundamentally, if you just read it and you let it absorb, you're left with this idea that there's a bunch of childless people out there that are destroying the country, and that something really drastic is needed. And that is a theme that we've heard throughout Project 2025 and Roberts in order to stop them from ruining the country.
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more: https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/msnbcs-deadline-white-house-angelo-carusone-explains-how-kevin-roberts-new-book-shows

https://www.nbc.com/deadline-white-house/video/deadline-81424/9000374447 (you need to sign up for an "NBCUniversal Profile" for permission to watch)


Kevin Roberts is one deeply misguided individual. His thinking that "whoever has the most population, wins" is out of date by centuries. Education, science, technology, and freedom from superstition and suffocating religious oppression have made the individuals in modern society so much more powerful than their predecessors that an average American can accomplish things that an ancient king with thousands of slaves and thousands of soldiers could never do. WE DON'T NEED additional human bodies to achieve great ends -- more population only sucks the resources from the planet and threatens to exhaust our ability to live the lives that we do. Great ideas and great movements thrive and grow when individuals grow inwardly, more than when they grow in numbers. Conservative DO NOT recognize internal growth -- other than being "born again" -- as a factor in people's lives, nor as a desirable end. As Mr. Roberts makes clear, people (presumably "ordinary" people, not their self-annointed leaders) can not serve any worthwhile function other than breeding. Their only contributions come from their bodies; the authority to make contributions from the mind is reserved for the entitled who lead them.

The whole idea of conservatism is to keep things as they are -- those who are comfortable don't want to risk their comfort, so just don't change anything! But ANY form of improvement requires growth and change -- which is complete anathema to conservatives.

Conservatism is the idea that not only do things not need to improve, but that no change in their imagined "ideal" society can possibly constitute an improvement.

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1. Kevin Roberts go fuck yourself.

Just another weird pervert.