This previous week was a revealing one for American politics culminating in seven million Individuals marching in protest of MAGA and its sins.
The Speaker of the Home, third in line for the presidency, who proudly tells everybody he’s a Christian when he appears to imply a christian nationalist, calls the Individuals protesting yesterday folks “who hate America.” I used to be amongst them and really, what we hate is what America is turning into beneath his “management”—the authoritarianism/fascism/Nazism rising within the halls of Congress and different excessive locations.
John Roberts’s SCOTUS set us up for a authorities of billionaires, by billionaires, and for billionaires by their obscene Citizens United determination in 2010. That call was within the information this week with the discharge of a memoir by former Justice Anthony Kennedy—who really wrote it. He dreamed up the concept firms are folks and entitled to the identical rights as people.
donations to political campaigns, “together with these made by firms, don’t give rise to corruption or the looks of corruption” and due to this fact might be with out restrict. The Lever stories that the ruling unleashed a flood of cash into politics: between the 2008 and 2012 elections, exterior marketing campaign spending almost doubled from $547 million to $1.3 billion; by 2024, it reached $4.5 billion.*
Right now, 80% of Individuals imagine marketing campaign corruption is destroying America; and 84% imagine particular curiosity teams and lobbyists wield an excessive amount of energy. This contains Republicans, independents and Democrats.
Kennedy laments that “democracy as we all know it’s at risk,” but leaves unsaid his position in Residents United in addition to in his “delivering monetary favors to legislators on behalf of his purchasers” when working as a lobbyist beneath then Governor Ronald Reagan in Sacramento.
Additionally this previous week, SCOTUS is threatening to erase even the tiny bit remaining from the civil rights legal guidelines handed on the expense of martyrs like MLK, Jr. and others 54 years in the past. SCOTUS has green-lighted gerrymandering, as is going on in Texas and different locations at a breathless tempo.
We additionally realized final week {that a} Republican congressperson had an image of an American flag with a swastika in it hanging on his congressional workplace wall.
In the meantime, the Speaker of the Home has closed Congress for 28 days and is doing every part he can to postpone a brand new democratically-elected consultant from Arizona to take the oath of workplace. The difficulty being her vote will assure the discharge the entire Epstein Information. To take action might embarrass the president and another folks in excessive locations, simply because it has this week stripped Prince Andrew of his many titles.
Additionally this week “Younger” Republicans (really ages 18-40) have been caught on tape saying issues like “I like Hitler,” espousing anti-semitism, and calling folks of colour the “n” phrase. And ICE continues to assault immigrants violently on the streets of democratic-led cities and has imprisoned over 170 Americans of their violent roundups.
Thomas Paine, writing on the time of America’s start, declared that our solely king is “the Legislation.” This week the president declared, “I’m not a king”—eerily just like President Nixon’s declaration that “I’m not a criminal.”
Company titans line as much as pay him homage and acquire favors, resembling at a current gathering on the White Home to boost thousands and thousands for his soon-to-be golden ballroom. (Why does he need a ballroom? He can barely stroll to his esteemed golf cart along with his ankles so swollen; and I don’t get the impression Melania needs to bounce with him anyway.)
The Division of Homeland Safety posted “Remigrate” on X selling self-deportation. Far-right politicians in Austria and Germany (AfD social gathering) use precisely that phrase “to seek advice from the mass deportations of non-white immigrants,” notes an skilled. It bespeaks the language “of white supremacy,” and is “a transparent escalation within the language round problems with migration.”**
Nothing to see right here. Nothing to protest in opposition to, proper?
* Veronica Riccobene and David Sirota, “Anthony Kennedy is Making an attempt to Discover the Man Who Did This,” The Lever, October 14, 2025.
** Connor Greene, “Trump’s Division of Homeland Safety Embraces a Phrase With Ties to White Nationalism,” Time, October 16, 2025.
To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.
Banner Picture: “Rejecting Tyrants is an American Custom:” An indication seen on the “No Kings” rally in New York Metropolis, June 14, 2025. Photograph by Rhododendrites. Wikimedia Commons.
Queries for Contemplation
How would you characterize these seven million Individuals who marched on Sunday? Had been you amongst them and in that case, what did you study? Do you imagine that limitless cash spent on elections does give rise to corruption and appearances of corruption?
Beneficial Studying
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth.
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