Destroying The Common Good. Enclosure Acts, Project 2025

Daily Kos, Jan. 5, 2025.

Well, the apprentice gets a new chance at governance. Lacking his own vision for America, he has appointed or nominated countless people who will work to implement Project 2025 within 180 days. Speed and damage are high priorities. The goal isn’t to improve federal agencies. It is to weaken them beyond recognition so they are unable to discharge their duties, thus removing most, if not all, constraints on the free market.

In his first term, Trump transformed governance by destroying all of the norms and guardrails. In like measure, Project 2025 will weaken federal agencies as to make them non-existent. While Project 2025 is grounded in some conservative values, it is primarily a libertarian power grab, which makes it the enemy of the Common Good. This has happened before, with horrific results.

In medieval Europe, much of the land, known as the commons, was a vital resource accessible to everyone for shared use. Peasants relied on the commons to graze livestock, collect firewood, forage for food such as nuts, berries, and medicinal herbs, gather water, and plant small crops on marginal or less fertile land.

These shared resources were essential for sustaining their families and communities, providing a safety net in times of hardship.

However, the enclosure movement gradually transformed these common lands into private property, typically granted to wealthy landowners. Initially, landowners charged fees for the use of what had been free communal resources. Over time, they enclosed the land entirely, using it for their own purposes, such as grazing sheep for the lucrative wool trade or cultivating crops.

This privatization deprived peasants of their traditional rights and means of survival, leaving them unable to sustain livestock or grow enough food independently...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/5/2295242/-Destroying-the-Common-Good
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- The Inclosure Acts[a] created legal property rights to land previously held in common in England and Wales, particularly open fields and common land. Between 1604 and 1914 over 5,200 individual acts enclosing public land were passed, affecting 28,000 km2. - History...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_acts
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- Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative published in April 2022 by the American conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation. The project aims to promote conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the federal government of the United States and consolidate executive power...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025