The shutdown’s endgame isn’t fiscal restraint — it’s faith-based control.
Project 2025 envisions welfare replaced by religious indoctrination.
SNAP cuts are a feature, not a bug, of a theocratic social order.
Collective action and secular aid are the antidote to coercion.
As 42 million Americans face the loss of SNAP benefits, Sam Osterhout and Andra Watkins trace the crisis beyond partisanship to a deliberate restructuring of power — a moral economy built on obedience, not need. Andra connects the shutdown to Project 2025’s blueprint for dismantling public assistance, funneling it into church-run programs that trade aid for indoctrination.
What’s being built isn’t just a parallel government but a merger of church and state under authoritarian logic. Yet both point to resistance already forming: community networks, secular food banks, and local boycotts that reassert the principle of mutual care over coercion.
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