NORAD and Project 2025: Consequences?

[dewline]

I am thinking that there will be consequences if that nightmare gets put into operation in the USA, and that they won't be good for Canada in any way. Not seeing any informed commentaries on the subject yet, though.

Comments

[arlie]

I haven't had the intestinal fortitude to read it, though I understand it's both huge and self-contradictory in places.

Slightly tongue in cheek consequences:

- increased housing shortages and costs, as expat Canadians repatriate themselves. Any suggestions for a good place for a retired software engineer to resettle?
- increased immigration; increased claims for refugee status. Maybe even a bit of a brain drain from the south.
- lots of overstayed tourist visas, as with the draft dodgers in my childhood
- more renegotiation of treaties to make them even more favorable to the USA. Just like Trump's previous term.
- "medical tourism" from the US
- ongoing risk of formal or informal US takeover, as their territory becomes less and less habitable due to climate change
- homegrown lunatics wanting the same policies in Canada, or even confused that they don'y already apply in Canada
- bad economic effects of stupid policies won't be limited to the US alone.

[dianora]

We have these sorts in Canada as well. Diagolon for one. North America one giant Gilead. It's tiring work but fascists are still with us.

[thewayne]

Well, I don't know that there can be any informed commentaries. There's a 900 page wish list of what this one group of people would like to do if they could (it is downloadable). Except there's a lot of political and legal - and possibly Constitutional - hurdles to implement it. Not to mention, there's a lot of people who probably trust them, thinking that what they're doing is a good thing, and once these things start becoming a reality, turn against them.

A fundamental problem - pun intended - is that if somehow this thing got implemented is that people are going to start fracturing, and microfracturing, into schisms. People are going to find out that they're not the right kind of "Christian" to meet the definition of whoever is in power.

Personally, it looks like a tsunami is rising against the Republicans and they're about to learn what a snow plow is and why you don't stand on the sidewalk when one is coming down the street.