No Kings Day is that this Saturday when hundreds of thousands of Individuals will march to protest what America is changing into below MAGA. I actually shall be amongst them.
Satire catches the general public’s consideration and one satirical proposal put ahead comes from the “Trillionaires for Trump” foyer.
“Pricey aspiring billionaires,” it begins.
Already planning on going to the following No Kings Day on Saturday, March 28? Why not go in model? Excessive model. In prime hat and tux or tiara and night robe? Sure, you can also be part of Trillionaires for Trump and hit the road in your city chanting: “Billionaires united won’t ever be indicted!”
Put in your best Gilded Age night put on and you can also be part of the ranks of the .000001% on our mission to spotlight how our system of presidency serves the pursuits of rich elites slightly than the Individuals….We want you to get your ass(ets) into the streets to proceed our momentum throughout the nation.
They suggest slogans to shout alongside the best way and perhaps placed on indicators: “Companies are Individuals Too” and “You say ‘No Kings,’ We are saying ‘MORE BLING!” “Wealth Care, not Well being Care.” Everybody is aware of in spite of everything that billionaires, budding trillionaires and Epstein Elites are a persecuted minority in America. However not for lengthy. The development below MAGA is evident to see. The invitation is signed, “From the Trillionaires for Trump secret lair.” You may be part of “Trillionaires For Trump” HERE.
Satire goes a good distance in protest and interfering and uniting peoples below oppression. Give your greatest to the trigger.
A really substantive contribution to understanding what’s unfolding in America got here once more this week from Thom Hartmann. Final yr he had the braveness that each spiritual journal I do know lacked, to interview me about my e-book, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ (see under).
This week’s article by Hartmann is poignantly titled “America Didn’t Simply Change—It Was Systematically Poisoned.” And subtitled, “How many years of company energy and political technique rewired the nation from inside…” *
Hartmann lays out the historical past that has introduced us to this second of America teetering on the precipice of democracy’s demise. Whereas acknowledging that Trump the person “is poison,” the difficulty didn’t start with him. “First got here the poison of huge cash corrupting politics.” Within the Seventies, tobacco lawyer Lewis Powell denounced rules on tobacco and Ralph Nader’s push for seat belts and Rachel Carson’s environmental warnings as bringing communism to America and threatening its free enterprise system.
Richard Nixon put Powell on the Supreme Court docket the place he authored “Boston v. Bellotti” which dominated that “cash wasn’t cash: it was speech.” That “produced a tsunami of company cash” for the GOP within the 1980 elections that Reagan commandeered and Democrats adopted swimsuit in 1992 below Invoice Clinton and the “New Democrats.” It set us up for Residents United.
Massive enterprise and billionaires found that a number of million {dollars} can lead to trillions in returns. Extra just lately, “Republicans on the Supreme Court docket legalized” this “democracy-killing corruption.” Union bosses have been demonized, right-wing radio and Fox “information” echoed the message. When Reagan got here into workplace, the center class constituted about 60-65% of America. Right this moment it’s below 45%.
The poisoning of American race relations occurred with Nixon’s “southern technique” proper as much as Trump’s “Mexican rapists” memes and Muslim hating and ICE raids. Evangelical preachers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and the explosion of the NRA have been a part of the combo and right now white supremacists and Christian nationalists reign in some very excessive locations in authorities and the army.
I strongly suggest studying Hartmann’s essential historical past lesson in its entirety. And resist. And march. And snigger. And do satire. And convey your values to the physique politic.
* Thom Hartmann, “America Didn’t Simply Change — It Was Systematically Poisoned.” The Hartmann Report, March 20, 2026
Banner Picture: Protest signal from the Trillionaires for Trump. See further slogans and entry indicators HERE.
Queries for Contemplation
Are you attending No Kings Day or supporting those that are? How essential do you suppose satire will be? How unfold it extra? How does Hartmann’s historical past lesson help your understanding of the place America is right now as a rustic?
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Sins of the Spirit, Blessing of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society
Trump & the MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient For a New Technology
Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson and Jen Listug: Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion
Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
