There may be a lot to ponder over the election outcomes on Tuesday. Even Republicans are exhibiting concern. Texan Senator Ted Cruz known as it “a catastrophe” and “an electoral blowout.” Sean Hannity known as it “a catastrophe of an evening” and tells us his New York buddies “are formally depressed and scared.”
One letter author, figuring out himself as a “lifelong Republican,” feels “they’ve misplaced the Republicans who’re centrists….There may be nothing in MAGA for us so we’re voting for candidates who higher replicate our values.”
Ah, “values.” What a candy phrase to listen to when watching masked thugs beating up on individuals on the streets and financed by the Trump funds (“large lovely invoice”) to the tune of $145 billion voted on by each Republican in Congress. Those that additionally voted to intestine Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and USAID cash for dying kids in Africa and elsewhere, whereas giving trillions in tax cuts to billionaires.
One other letter stated: “As an Ex Republican, I agree, MAGA doesn’t have anywhere for common sense centrists or the rule of regulation, truly. Not one factor.”
The president has turn into a lame duck president after simply 9 months in workplace. The emperor has misplaced his garments.
Democrats are licking their chops over what would possibly transpire a 12 months from now when mid-term elections happen. Kudos to all those that ran and listened to the voters and gained, and all those that confirmed as much as vote for widespread sense and the widespread good and values apart from the dominant voices of these now accountable for issues.
It’s as if somebody or one thing lastly lit a match in People, and “we the individuals” awoke out of an extended slumber. Democracy occurred. Folks voted their outrage. I feel that is only the start of a collective wake-up.
I’m wondering what the billionaires and the businesses that acquired equal largesse within the Republican evil funds invoice are pondering as of late after the election. Perhaps their funding in essentially the most corrupt administration in historical past might not have been so sensible in spite of everything?
We all know the names of no less than 24 individuals and firms who’ve put cash into Trump’s pockets for the glitzy “ballroom” that can dwarf the White Home. Amongst them are these: Altria (Philip Morris); Amazon; Apple; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Google; Lockheed Martin; Meta (Fb); Microsoft; Palantir Applied sciences; T-Cellular.
The quantities they’ve contributed are being stored secret, however the reality of a blatant battle of curiosity for every of those firms is not any secret. Many of those firms maintain big contracts with the federal authorities—$279 billion since 2021 alone!
Lots of them had been dealing with federal enforcement actions for violating varied rules, together with many antitrust and labor rights violations. However their circumstances have, in lots of circumstances, been dropped now. Shock?
Collectively, these firms doled out $960 million to lobbying and political contributions throughout the 2024 elections alone.
These firms at present have “a stunningly big selection of pursuits earlier than the federal authorities—from taxation to commerce coverage, battlefield area consciousness to phone poles, shopper privateness to product legal responsibility guidelines, appropriations to cybersecurity, and far more.”*
It nearly smells like “pay and play,” doesn’t it? That is capitalism at its most bitter. It’s Citizens United and SCOTUS at its most silly and damaging of actual democracy and actual accountability.
Moreover, “these firms are engaged in an completely embarrassing spectacle of prostrating themselves earlier than a wannabe dictator.” That dictator and his sycophants took a shellacking on the polls this week.
May American democracy be rising from its slumber? Keep tuned. Keep lively. Keep alert and keep concerned. The ability resides within the American voter and journalists and media who select to talk fact and never lies.
* Robert Weissman, Michael Tanglis, Eileen O’Grady, Jon Golinger, Rick Claypool and Alan Zibel, “Banquet of Greed: Trump Ballroom Donors Feast on Federal Funds and Favors,” Public Citizen, November 5, 2025. All quotes hereon are from that article. See the complete report HERE.
Banner Picture: A blue wave of Democratic victories rose all through the U.S. on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Picture in Wikimedia Commons.
Queries for Contemplation
How are you feeling concerning the election outcomes this final Tuesday? Do you see some hope on the horizon for American democracy? In what methods are you contributing to the trigger?
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul & Society
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
“Warriors for Ecological and Financial Justice,” in Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior For Our Occasions
Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient For a New Technology
