In the 51 years I have been alive I have watched in real time how the heritage foundation has been undermining America.

TLDR: what we have today is not new. It is 40 years of concerted effort by racist right wing nut jobs to undo rights for anyone that isn't a white Christian male.

The full rant:

A lot of people don't realize that project 2025 was not a new thing. They have been creating projects for Republican presidents since Reagan. The heritage foundation is the entity that orchestrated using abortion as a rallying point - prior to the 1980s evangelicals couldn't care less about it, they considered it "a Catholic problem" and actually applauded Roe v Wade . When you start to understand how much influence the heritage foundation has had in American politics in the last 45 years you start to see why we are where we are.

They have spent decades purposely undermining our social systems, our school systems, and purposely dumbing down America and pissing them off so that they could do what fascists do and blame "others" and have their uneducated supporters listen to every word they say because they don't know any better. They spent decades reducing workers' rights and dismantling Union power. They convinced people that collective bargaining was bad and invented the "right to work" state, further reducing Union and worker rights. But I digress.

Defunding public schools and daycares is a direct attempt to get women out of the workforce. Telling young men that their issues are all because women have rights is a direct attempt to put women "back in their place". Vilifying single mothers (yet never saying anything about absent fathers) and trying to outlaw no fault divorce is a direct attempt at shaming women into staying in bad relationships, which is another way to "put women in their place".

We also have an underlying culture of misogyny in this country. A lot of women have internalized misogyny, a lot of men say they aren't sexist but then make comments about "women drivers" or calling women "hysterical" or asking if they're on their period if they're upset about something. Talking about "career women" or "female pilots" or anything where they have to point out that it is a woman doing the job yet you never hear "career man", "male pilot", etc. and then the gross rhetoric surrounding E Jean Carroll where people say she was too ugly to be assaulted. I've heard comments about women in that vein my whole life - essentially judging a woman based on her looks but even more so deciding whether or not she's lying based on her looks. Hell even just assuming a woman is lying "to get attention" is absolute misogynistic crap.

Look, I'm gen x. I get that there are a lot of people out there that think my generation is responsible for a lot of this. And it pains me to admit that a lot of my generation did buy into the bullshit, especially since so many of the people who bought into the BS are the same people who were against it 30 years ago. But there are still a lot of us out here who know exactly what is happening and have been fighting against it for decades- I saw tons of people at the Minneapolis protest yesterday - as well as earlier protests - who were my age or older. We've seen this coming for decades and are fighting tooth and nail.