Yesterday marked a optimistic second for rescuing American democracy from the cynicism and greed of the richest man on the earth and the wannabe-dictator who employed him to switch American democracy with a authorities of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires.
In a earlier DM I name Mr. Musk a “mad hatter” for good cause. Whether or not carrying MAGA hats or Cheez head hats campaigning for a completely discredited supreme courtroom decide in Wisconsin, he took a beating yesterday on the polls the place Individuals voted for presidency of, by and for the individuals.
He spent $26 million to elect his candidate (and near $300 million within the presidential election which purchased him a entrance line place within the Oval Workplace) and in all of the workplaces of the federal authorities the place, within the identify of wiping out fraud he’s as an alternative taking a sequence noticed to erode well being look after the younger and aged, youngsters’s lunches and a lot extra.
Reward to the voters of Wisconsin who advised the mad hatter to exit Wisconsin and never return. And who selected a certified supreme courtroom decide.
One other victory for democracy yesterday was the highly effective 25-hour continuous speech on the senate flooring by Senator Cory Booker. No lavatory break, no nonsense, he beat the file of Senator Storm Thurman who spoke for about 24 hours to filibuster the Civil Rights Act in 1957.
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Kudos to Booker for not solely outlasting the racist rant of 69 years in the past, however doing it with magnificence and ethical goal and uplifting the higher angels of our nature reasonably than feeding the worst demons of our nature.
Referring to Storm Thurmond’s speech, he stated, “I’m not right here although due to his speech. I’m right here regardless of his speech. I’m right here as a result of as highly effective as he was, the individuals have been extra highly effective.”
He cited John Lewis typically, considered one of many heroes who put his life on the road steadily to deliver justice to black Individuals. “He stated for us to exit and trigger some good bother, needed bother, to redeem the soul of our nation. I would like you to redeem the dream. Let’s be daring in America.”
Booker ready for his ordeal by fasting from Friday to Monday and underwent dehydration to the purpose of cramping up. He paid a bodily worth for his decided effort to call the “disaster” and “ethical second” the nation is present process solely two months into the brand new administration.
He referred to as out the risks to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Safety, Head Begin, and the disregard for the structure and the rule of legislation. He proved himself a religious warrior.
Evaluating at present’s second to the civil rights and the ladies’s suffrage moments, he proclaimed that we’re senators with all of this energy, however on this democracy, the ability of individuals is bigger than the individuals in energy. The civil proper motion wasn’t simply gained due to just some Black of us that stood up.
He referred to as on a broad coalition of residents to face as much as the present administration. “This isn’t proper or left, it’s proper or fallacious. This isn’t a partisan second. It’s a ethical second. The place do you stand?”
Democracy additionally gained in elections in Florida insofar as two democrats who misplaced their run for congress there in deep pink districts minimize the vote by 50% in comparison with November’s election. This may certainly rattle the cages of these republican congress individuals who suppose there is no such thing as a political worth to pay for missing the conscience to ever say No to the president.
This weekend, April 5, is a day for marching on behalf of American democracy. You should definitely verify a march close to you HERE.
See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
And Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors To Awaken the Sacred Masculine.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society.
And Fox, Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Presents for the Peoples of the Earth.
And Fox, “Religious Warriorhood” in Fox, One River, Many Wells: Knowledge Springing from International Religion Traditions, pp. 404-423.
Banner Picture: Senator Cory Booker receives a standing ovation as he concludes his 25-hour marathon speech. Display screen seize from CSPAN recording.
Queries for Contemplation
Do you see election day as an encouraging day for American democracy? Will you march for democracy on April 5?
Really useful Studying
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so typically used to unfold management and concern. Nonetheless, given at present’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e-book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e-book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he finds ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historical pagan image of our elementary relationship with nature, to the Religious Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their greater calling to connect with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this e-book — to not point out each girl who desires to grasp the struggles, typically unconscious, that form the lads they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, writer of The Left Hand of God
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox presents a brand new theology of evil that essentially adjustments the standard notion of fine and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics
Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a complete new course for Christianity—a course that’s in reality very historical and really grounded in Jewish pondering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is commonly uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed method.
“Authentic Blessing makes accessible to the Christian world and to the human neighborhood a radical treatment for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these might have originated.” –Thomas Berry, writer, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Presents for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each non secular and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient via which we be taught to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the present of a very good and simply Creator.
“A watershed theological work that provides a standard floor for non secular seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Apply.
“I’m studying Liberating Presents for the Folks of the Earth by Matt Fox. He’s one which fills my coronary heart and thoughts for brand spanking new life regardless of a lot that’s violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang.
