Democracide on the Move, Rachel Maddow says, “Game On!”

Today we are all being subjected to an onslaught and firehose of rapid-fire decisions being made by a new White House occupant who is governing by executive decrees.

It is not just the decrees themselves but the machine-gun-like rapidity of them and the radical nature of them that feels overwhelming.  That is part of the strategy—to overwhelm.  It’s impossible to list them all—and not very good for the soul either.  As a Native American teacher told me at the time of 9/11, it is wrong to keep running and re-running the tape of the planes flying into the towers.  That crushes the soul. 

It is not only the executive orders—a recent one being to stop immediately all dispersal of government funds—though this was halted temporarily by a judge within 24 hours and declared unconstitutional by numerous legal experts.  It is also the rat-tat-tat of unqualified nominees for cabinet positions.

More than unqualified—dangerous and sure to collapse the very department they are heading.  Today is the first day of interviews of RFK Jr. to oversee all of America’s health needs, for example.  He who preaches denial of vaccines publicly but made sure his own children had them.  (I had polio the year before the polio vaccine was released, so I know what a gift that vaccine was to all humanity, and we can see its positive results all around the world.)

Or look at Tulsi Gabbard, selected to run all our intelligence departments (she who chose to have two long meetings with sadistic despot and Putin-supported Syrian dictator Bashar Assad).  Or Kash Patel, tapped to run the FBI and use it to go after Trump’s political enemies.  What could possibly go wrong?

Is the point of Trump’s choosing these candidates to run the American government, to destroy that government?  In Rachel Maddow’s show Tuesday night she cited Curtis Yarvin, the political blogger behind vice president J.D. Vance, saying explicitly that we need to replace democracy with “a CEO of the government” who is a “dictator.”  We have to “get over our dictator phobia.”  Vance idolizes this fellow.  They are talking about Project 2025, which is in full motion.

I alerted people to Project 2025 in no uncertain terms in my book, aptly titled Trump and The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook to the 2024 Election. 

In her show, Rachel Maddow is casting light on the Evil running rampant in the new anti-democratic administration. Already, one republican congressman—who took an oath to defend the constitution a short while ago—has sponsored a bill to guarantee that Trump can have a third term.  (Apparently he thinks Trump, already the oldest president ever elected, will prove to be immortal.)

The good news, Rachel points out, is that this onslaught of democracide (my word) is triggering a backlash not only in the courts but among many citizens and citizen groups.  And this backlash will grow as the facts come out more and more. 

Already the administration is backpedaling as governors, some politicians and citizens raise their objections.  As conscience kicks in and the spiritual warrior in all of us responds, “Game on,” Rachel declares.  

To be continued.

See Matthew Fox, Trump and The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, pp. 57-80.

And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society.

And Fox, “Spiritual Warriorhood,” in Fox, One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Faith Traditions, pp. 404-422.

And Fox, “Spiritual Warriors” in Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, pp. 77-104.

Banner Image: Resist – People over power – protesters in Whitehall during the London anti-Trump ban march from the U.S. Embassy to Downing Street, 2017. Photo by Alisdare Hickson on Flickr.

Queries for Contemplation

How are you remaining grounded and centered even as you respond to the matricide, ecocide and democracide that characterizes current American leadership?  How are you taking good care of yourself so you can be a spiritual warrior for the long haul?

Recommended Reading

Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the Antichrist, it is now…Read this book with an open mind. Good and evil are real forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. 
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Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download.

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science.  A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics

One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths

Matthew Fox calls on all the world traditions for their wisdom and their inspiration in a work that is far more than a list of theological position papers but a new way to pray—to meditate in a global spiritual context on the wisdom all our traditions share. Fox chooses 18 themes that are foundational to any spirituality and demonstrates how all the world spiritual traditions offer wisdom about each.“Reading One River, Many Wells is like entering the rich silence of a masterfully directed retreat. As you read this text, you reflect, you pray, you embrace Divinity. Truly no words can fully express my respect and awe for this magnificent contribution to contemporary spirituality.” –Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit

The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine

To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature,  to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that shape the men they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God