US Lincoln Project offshoot aims to boost civics education

Lincoln Project offshoot to try to fight partisan dysfunction through boosted education

The Franklin Project aims to unify people opposed to partisan dysfunction and authoritarianism.

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An offshoot of the Lincoln Project is launching Tuesday, aiming to unify people opposed to partisan dysfunction and authoritarianism through civics education and grassroots organizing, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The Franklin Project, while a nonprofit and legally distinct from its predecessor, will target "the exact same problem ... but from different angles and with different methods," says co-executive director Greg Jenkins, a George W. Bush administration alumnus.

• Lincoln will keep airing its brash, anti-Trump ads while Franklin will focus on nonpartisan education and collaboration tailored to build consensus.
• "We're not the megaphone; we're the convener," Jenkins said.

The Lincoln Project was a breakout star of the 2020 campaign, a group launched by Republicans opposed to Donald Trump. Its signature was quick-turnaround ads attacking him and his policies.

• It faltered earlier this year when John Weaver, one of its co-founders, was accused of soliciting sex from men who had sought to work with the Lincoln Project and his other political ventures.
• The group severed ties with Weaver and several of its other founders also resigned in the aftermath of the news.
• The Lincoln Project is a super PAC, or a political group that can raise and spend unlimited sums on explicitly political activity. The Franklin Project will be a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Such so-called dark money advocacy organizations do not have to disclose their donors.

Franklin organizers believe civics discussions have devolved from an exchange of ideas to "an unhealthy game of winners and losers," as their prospectus states. That's triggered extreme partisanship, fueling the rise of authoritarian figures.

• The Franklin Project plans to develop and provide a K-12 civics education program it will offer free to local school districts.
• It also will establish the "Democracy Corps," a hyper-local movement spread across the nation "that will advocate for and amplify the values upon which America was founded," the prospectus says.
• The project does not plan to align with or endorse candidates, offering a true big tent to anyone feeling misrepresented by either major party, or left out of the current political system, said Jenkins, who is leading the group with co-executive director Erin Dobson, a veteran communications strategist.

What they're saying: "There are plenty of frustrated people out there who don't know what to do, don't know where to go, they don't feel like either of the parties are representing them adequately, and they're right. So, what we will do is tell these folks, 'Listen, you're not alone,'" Jenkins told Axios.

• "We're going to provide you content that reminds you about your roles — as a citizen, what it means to be a citizen, what you can do."
• "If progressives and conservatives don't feel at home with us, then they have a problem," said Jenkins. "Self-identified Republicans and Democrats ought to feel perfectly at home."

 

[breadandcircuses]

The Lincoln Project desperately clings to Relevancy.

 

[Ita Mori]

the only thing that's stopping them from being enacted is lack of political will.

Getting them to vote RINO would also work.
Yes, RINO would suffice.

 

[MrJokerRager]

It's funny watching RINOs trying to find a place in today's climate. I would guess the majority demo is +55-65 years old. They are a minority. They are not liked. The only good things people have to say about RINOs are from geriatric other RINOs, and from democrats when they snake on conservative issues to appease the left. Otherwise they are corporate shills, warhawks, with no real purpose for the betterment of the people; they all deserve the rope.

The best part is naming themselves after Lincoln, who majority of current day Republicans would hate on behind closed doors for not deporting the niggers back sooner to Africa. Though John Wilkes Booth also played a role in stopping that as well. Whenever has anything good come out of Maryland.

 

[Immortal Technique]

The best part is naming themselves after Lincoln, who majority of current day Republicans would hate on behind closed doors for not deporting the niggers back sooner to Africa. Though John Wilkes Booth also played a role in stopping that as well. Whenever has anything good come out of Maryland.

Yea, it's funny most never knew Lincoln wanted to ship the niggers off back to Africa, Haiti, and Central America after the Civil War. It's a little lost piece that is never taught.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Given this news I'd like to start the Mannerheim Project.

The Mannerheim Project will provide valuable civics education to neocons, such as:
• don't groom teenage activists into having sex with you,
• don't take a load of money in donations and then refuse to tell your donors where the money is,
• don't claim to be a leftist movement while being made up of neocons.

Please give generously. All money will go to the Marshal Mannerheim Beer, Kebabs and Fried Chicken Fund for Civic Education.

 

[Merrick]

It also will establish the "Democracy Corps," a hyper-local movement spread across the nation "that will advocate for and amplify the values upon which America was founded," the prospectus says.

Bailing out other countries at the expense of our own country? I had no idea that Washington pushed for that.

The Franklin Project plans to develop and provide a K-12 civics education program it will offer free to local school districts.

This should be treated as hostilely as the critical race theory shit is: if they're nonpartisan, then I'm the Queen of England.

"If progressives and conservatives don't feel at home with us, then they have a problem," said Jenkins. "Self-identified Republicans and Democrats ought to feel perfectly at home."

"Unless you're not a globalist. Then GTFO."

 

[LaxerBRO]

George W. Bush administration alumnus.

The staffer should be shot for his collaborator that started the Iraq War which cost US trillions and most importantly maimed and killed Americans servicing thier country.

No not in Minecraft, in real life. If we have a trial and the mother fucker is found guilty I would volunteer to be the appointed executioner.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I bump this thread to mention the Project Lincoln's latest move to stay still relevant in that tweet.

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1447547536944816143

Cue to a Willy Wonka meme saying : "So you said then White Nationalism is bad! Would you said the same thing if you live in Haiti or Zimbabwe?"

 

[Corpun]

I bump this thread to mention the Project Lincoln's latest move to stay still relevant in that tweet.

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1447547536944816143

Cue to a Willy Wonka meme saying : "So you said then White Nationalism is bad! Would you said the same thing if you live in Haiti or Zimbabwe?"

I clicked that link knowing full well it'd be full of RINOs and retards who think somehow that using AT&T makes you aiding Hitler's resurrection but I'm still amazed at how retarded people are.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I clicked that link knowing full well it'd be full of RINOs and retards who think somehow that using AT&T makes you aiding Hitler's resurrection but I'm still amazed at how retarded people are.

Hitler's resurrection...gee, why not Genghis Khan's resurrection while we're at it.?

 

[Meat Target]

Hitler's resurrection...gee, why not Genghis Khan's resurrection while we're at it.?

Too much cool for this clownish world.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Gotta keep that money coming in to keep paying off victims.

 

[Pastor Martin Ssempa]

Frankly, I'm amazed the North American Man/Boy Lincoln Association is still alive and kicking at this point.

 

[thismanlies]

I bump this thread to mention the Project Lincoln's latest move to stay still relevant in that tweet.

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1447547536944816143

Cue to a Willy Wonka meme saying : "So you said then White Nationalism is bad! Would you said the same thing if you live in Haiti or Zimbabwe?"

The Lincoln Project: Making the connection between groomers and grifters.