As NBC News reports, the Heritage Foundation is pushing the White House to pass initiatives to financially reward newlyweds, create deeper tax incentives for married couples, discourage online dating — paradoxically, it would seem — and even start opening government-run “marriage bootcamps.”

According to the Heritage Foundation’s framework, called “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the camps would serve as reeducation centers for unmarried couples

I smell a grift. Anywho, there was some similar wastes of money under Dubya. There’s a very simple correlation when it comes to marriage: people with better economic indicators are more likely to be married than people with economic insecurity. So improve people’s economic wellbeing and we’ll see more marriages. Of course, the Heritage Foundation’s concern for America’s moral status goes out the window the moment that concern threatens ’s bottom line.

I'm guessing the male version of these camps will be Andrew Tate style "here's how to trick women into sleeping with you to carry on the white race for another generation" stuff and the women's will be "You are worthless and should settle for the first guy who shows interest in you because your only value as a woman is as a baby factory."

I will never break my Volcel oath!

Yeah the sequel to Barasca was pretty disappointing, I bet this horde of rabid colonizer savages can adapt it better for reality.

We didn't stand with the gays when they came for the gays because we weren't gay

We didn't stand with trans when they came for the trans people because we weren't trans

We didn't stand with the immigrants when they came for the immigrants because we were born here

Now that they come for us the straight cis unmarried couples there is no one to stand with us

Super horny jail let's goooooooo

The Lobster mode

I would kill my way out or die killing

I never went to any camp and never will

Summer, space, band or etc.

Nothing can ever make me a camper

I don't really get the point of this even from a deranged fascist viewpoint, I'd "understand" doing this to force couples to have kids, but what's the point of forcing people to get married when divorces exist. Do they also plan to make getting divorced illegal or borderline impossible or somehow force married people to have kids something?

putting the sheer majority of your voter base under 70 into camps seems like it might be detrimental but i dunno, i don't work at a think tank

The "have sex" agenda is part of what got Abe doohickey'd!

These marriage camps wouldn't possibly also be gay conversion camps for lgbt people right? I'm a gay trans woman.... would they give me a husband to make me straight, or a wife? What's the straight option there?

I also love the opening line:

the think tank behind the infamous Project 2025 policy wishlist, which dragged down Trump’s most recent reelection campaign with its massively unpopular proposals

I really don't think the opinions of people who did not vote for Trump really need to be considered here. They weren't the target audience for these proposals. It didn't drag down his election campaign. These proposals were incredibly popular with their target audience. Like, he won.

"Completion of the program means walking down the aisle" sounds like a hostage situation holy shit. Escape the torture camps in a body bag or matrimony, your choice.

Hell yeah history nerds we are doing Anabaptist Muenster Rebellion speedrun

They have to make gay marriage illegal before they do this or it would be completely pointless

what's the counter-offer from the left?

Some of their ideas like decrease in online dating are good but you know it’s going to have the same quality as Christian “sex education.”

Some countries do give out money to incentivize couples having kids but they don’t make much of a difference.