Rage and grievance, sulfuric condemnation, racism and resentment, and a thirst for bludgeoning and dismembering those who oppose their prejudices.

These are the ferocious aspirations of the MAGA faithful, to defenestrate both rhetorically and in other contexts in postures of physical violence, any among our populace who do not comprise the coterie of Caucasian Christian Nationalists.

It is the preceding characteristics and proclivities by which those at the epicenter of the cult of Donald Trump are defined and embodied.

They exist in some fundamental regard to vilify and excoriate those whose racial backgrounds reflect membership in any minority group within our culture. African-Americans, citizens of indigenous origin, those of Hispanic and Asian antecedents are equally inferior and deserve little consideration, when calculating those social and political priorities which should animate our governmental policies and determinations.

None among the preceding warrant any consideration or assistance in their quest to actualize their individual depictions of the American Dream, and the substantive contributions so many of them provide to our republic’s welfare and prosperity are dismissed and delegitimatized.

Moreover, should you be among those who embrace theologies such as Judaism, or Muslim precepts, or any other normative religious system other than the traditional institutional elements which comprise the broader panoply of a Protestant value system, the members of the MAGA universe reject those creeds and spiritual dogmas as alien apostacies and in their intrinsic content repugnantly anti American, and thus beneath contempt.

Should you inquire in a posture of incredulity and despondency how is it that those tens of millions among us who radiate these venomous biases and fervid animosities have come into being in this the world’s most ancient and revered democratic polity?

I shall be most pleased to provide for those who wish to discover the fundamental influences that are responsible for this contemporary societal tragedy the causes of this affliction that is devouring our nation’s soul and spirit.

This cadre of malignant populists have been marinating in a broth of virulent pathogenic influences for decades. Since the advent of the Reagan hegemony when greed and a national rampant materialism swept over our culture, and the financialization of our society began its ascendancy, these forces have in the decades since inflicted great harm on the economic realities in which they are trapped.

In the four decades since their advent these pernicious influences have intensified and in their pervasive scope been responsible for so much within the lives of these Americans that have precipitated the erosion of their modest platforms of financial security and the companionate loss of their social status and an associated dramatic decline in their perception of their self-worth.

So too do those who comprise these groups suffer from the delusion that they as Caucasians are culturally superior and reside at the apogee of our national racial hierarchy, have witnessed in postures of apoplectic enmity the various federal initiatives to assist the ascent of other ethnic groups in this republic, i.e. African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, and those of Asian descent, to redress historical grievances that have endured for generations.

For it is these unremitting prejudices that have consigned so many in those aggregations to lives of poverty, educational deprivation , environments of virulent racism, and a societal climate of abuse and the rejection of their legitimate claims and their strenuous attempts to achieve a measure of equity, as they strive to exit the cruel deformity of life as second-class citizens.

In other portions of their universe, the oligarchs have orchestrated the decline and attendant impotence of organized labor to represent the interests and welfare of their members, and until very recently could not prevent the further erosion of their precarious financial circumstances

Major public companies shed employees and replaced them with independent contractors who were denied virtually all benefits that had been customarily regarded as integral components of the mutual explicit contractual relationships that were extant between these corporate behemoths and those who labored within their facilities,

Thus were medical insurance, overtime increments, paid vacations, compensated holidays, bonuses, profit sharing, productivity allocations, and other ingredients of traditional employment agreements severely circumscribed, if not entirely rescinded.

Moreover, the resources within these companies that had supported these disbursements were primarily utilized to serve three purposes; the reacquisition of the corporation’s publicly traded shares of stock, and the award of mammoth bonuses to senior executives in these entities, and the distribution of enormous dividends to the firm’s shareholders.

The unceasing dynamic of globalization has been responsible for the continuing decline of manufacturing facilities that have departed from our shores and assumed residence in other environs, in which labor costs and environmental safeguards are but a fraction of what previously obtained domestically.

Though wages have recently experienced a national ascendency, these modest gains have not improved in any meaningful regard the lives of tens of millions of employees who have been subject for decades to the significant erosion of their financial well-being.

The financial institutions who sit astride our economy have affixed to their credit instruments obscene and unprecedented APR’s, that now approach 30%, and the private equity firms that constitute the “shadow banking sector” so defined in that they escape in any substantive regard the requirements that various federal regulatory agencies impose upon the nation’s largest banks with regard to “stress tests” capital reservoirs that must be held in reserve, and other regulations to ensure that the debacles that so devastatingly impacted our populace in 2008 does not recur.

At this moment as we approach the 2024 plebiscite this autumn, the expenditures allocated by those in the private sector to ensure that lobbyists at all levels remain continuously engaged in influencing both federal and state governments to deter the enactment of legislation that will erode their profits or circumscribe their political influence has approached unprecedented magnitudes.

However, it is their generosity to the welter of nonprofits that represent those in the MAGA world that receive the funds which enable them to conduct the culture wars in virtually every locale and encampment of our society where controversy and conflict reigns, that is supremely damaging to our democratic polity and the cultural cohesion which our republic so desperately requires at this moment if we are to survive intact as the worlds most respected representative government.

These contributions stoke the efforts of those who wish to remove from school libraires the works of authors who comprise the canon of those who reside within the LGBTQ Universe

These donations operationalize campaigns to limit abortions and curtail reproductive care in a broader context. These dollars activate the dynamics which fuel the efforts of White supremacists and other endeavors’ of hate and virulent prejudice in the religous realm, i.e. antisemitism and Islamophobic activities, and other initiatives to ridicule and, dehumanize those whose racial origins and theological embraces fall outside the realm of “Christian Nationalism.”

However, the extraordinary irony of this unceasing allocation of massive sums to those groups and individuals who are engaged in various facets of the comprehensive national “culture wars” is the fact that in virtually every element of the rhetorical and inter-organizational combat in which these individuals are furiously engaged, the oligarchs who sustain these exertions are rarely committed to the normative values these entities so ferociously advocate,.

The sole motivating animus that prompts them to provide these financial bequests is to sustain the enmity, hatred, bigotry, and chaos that is extant throughout every corner of our republic.

This unholy alliance between the oligarchs who sit astride our polity and the components of the MAGA movement enables in numerous instances the elevation and retention as public officials those who are vigorous proponents of the policies and agendas which benefit this miniscule coterie of billionaires, whose affluence and the augmentation of their political influence are their only concerns.

The mammoth sums required to fuel those political campaigns that result in their victories have as their source the identical group of the obscenely wealthy that support the lobbying community in the nation’s capital and in other cities in this nation, sustain the activities of MAGA nonprofits, and provide the funds to innumerable entities that exist to frustrate the progressive forces in the United States that are dedicated to enlarging the realm of social justice initiatives.

So too do they seek to augment the magnitude and virulence of those legislative initiatives, and governmental policies that reaffirm the continued consignment of various minorities and religious adherents within the dungeons of poverty and hopelessness in which they have been dwelling since the inception of our nation’s founding

What may ultimately emerge from the dysfunction, paralysis, and in some centrally substantive regard, the total inability to produce legislation that can attract the support of a majority of representatives who serve in the halls of Congress and in other innumerable law-making bodies in our nation, is the perception that the systems, institutions, and processes of our democratic polity are no longer relevant or viable and in order to maintain a functioning society we must jettison these entities and replace them with an autocratic or authoritarian form of governance.

There are tragically numerous historical examples of this eventuality. The ascension of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany, the Mussolini era in Italy, and in a more contemporary time frame the totalitarian state which Vladimir Putin sits astride, and the political status that exists in Venezuela, and the substantial erosion of political liberties and civic autonomy which Victor Orban continues to orchestrate in Hungary.

It is to these destinations that our oligarchy will escort us if we do not mount an unprecedented national campaign to deprive them of their influence and financial efficacy, for they are of the opinion that their commercial interests will not be negatively impacted in a culture that has forsaken representative democracy and embraced an authoritarian modus operandi.

They subscribe to this view because they are intimately familiar with the massive profits that those industrial behemoths at the apogee of German society generated during the fascist period in which the Third Reich was the hegemonic force in their nation, as well as in numerous other examples in which the historical record confirms that totalitarian states are those environments in which mammoth commercial entities can thrive and prosper if they subordinate their mercantile agendas and provide unflagging support for the ascendant regime.

However, beyond their primary incentive to unceasingly augment their affluence and political hegemony, there is a simultaneous animating force, that in some respects eclipses their fervor to retain the two previously articulated goals.

What terrifies this miniscule cohort of billionaires is the belief that the progressive coalitions within our nation whatever the specific initiatives these organizations are advocating, constitutes a secondary or tertiary importance that is dwarfed by the preeminent consideration that irrespective of the fate of these particular proposals be it, success or failure, or other succeeding cascades of policy goals or objectives, there will never eventuate a moment in our polity when the requests and demands of this coterie of our populace who so fervently embrace the normative concerns that comprise a social justice agenda for America will ever be satisfied or cease their efforts to accomplish the realization of their vision of what constitutes an equitable society in which the fullness of the aspirations the founding fathers articulated almost two and a half centuries ago will finally become an empirically rendered cultural reality.

Their collective perceptions about those who comprise the liberal progressive element of our society will be unrelenting in their efforts and exertions to mitigate poverty, diminish racism, abolish religious bigotry, eliminate misogyny, restore reproductive care for women, and ensure that those who are members of the LGBTQ community enjoy the rights and opportunities that all others in this culture must be afforded,.

So too are they of the unalterable belief that the enlightened humanists in our culture are fervently committed most crucially to the formulation and deployment of a national strategic initiative that has as its objective the elimination of the suffering and hopelessness which life in circumstances of abject poverty has consigned so many millions of our fellow citizens. They are most correct in their assumptions.

Among the central requirements to actualize that agenda are the imperative financial resources to operationalize the policies and programs necessary to accomplish these objectives. What we are requesting is that the oligarchs among us contribute to the federal treasury those allocations which are proportionally equivalent to the levies imposed upon the overwhelming majority of our citizens who labor as salaried employees in those entities which compose our economy.

At this historical moment their armies of lawyers and accountants devise and utilize those innumerable exemptions that allows them to legally escape their civic responsibilities and take refuge in the complex labyrinth of regulations that so richly enables the twin predispositions’ of tax avoidance and tax evasion.

The cure for these lethal pathologies which the oligarchs among us have perpetrated and sustain will not be found in the halls of Congress where so many representatives are beholden to the class of plutocrats that fuel their endless campaigns to gain and retain their status as public officials.

Nor does the Executive branch of our government possess the capability to effectively countermand the agendas and priorities which this elite coterie unceasingly seeks to implement.

Moreover, the current composition of the Supreme Court provides aid and comfort in its judicial determinations to much of what the plutocracy choses to support and advocate as well.

Thus, the sole segment of our society from which the possibility of a redress of our grievances and the multitude of afflictions which are extant resides with an aroused and committed citizenry, that is dedicated to a transformation of this nation into a democratic polity in which a structure of national equity may become a reality that reflects as its intrinsic character an ascendant and vibrant humanistic ethos.

At this moment of crisis in our republic it is once again as it has at so many crucial previous junctures of the life of the world’s most preeminent democracy, if our salvation is to be achieved it will be as the result of the unrelenting and ferocious activities of “We the People.”

And at the epicenter of those exertions we must initiate is to identify every major source of financial support for those organizational entities which comprise the MAGA universe, as well as those individuals within these funding entities who sit at the apogee of these institutions.

Beyond revealing their existence and the fact of their monetary largesse that maintains the operations of these sources of bigotry and the viability of a destructive populist dynamic, we must locate and unveil the specific private sector corporations from which these executives derive their wealth.

In addition as a central element of this process of research and investigation we must illuminate the principal clients of these companies that by their purchases of the products and services these commercial ventures provide sustain their viability.

Equipped with this vital information we must engage with the senior corporate executives who serve as members of the board of directors and the CEO’s of these entities and inform them of our unceasing opposition to their political agendas and their monetary contributions to those in the MAGA environment, and request that they cease and desist in these activities.

Our multi-tier campaigns should include public relations initiatives which highlight their donations to these organizations, demonstrations at annual shareholder meetings. coordination with the national coalition of progressive organizations to implement and sustain a boycott of these groups and the companies that purchase their products and services.

In addition we must institute litigation in response to those policies and actions these private sector actors sponsor or undertake that contravene federal regulatory policies or state laws with particular concern for those actions which are discriminatory and reflect racial or religious bias or are environmentally harmful.

Among those who are currently contributing the most generous sums to the MAGA constellation of organizations are Robert Bigelow, whose principal commercial involvement is Real Estate development. Timothy Mellon is also a most lavish in his support of various MAGA entities. Linda McMahon, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Connecticut, and the wife of the Chairman of the WWE, Vince McMahon, have provided substantial financial allocations to groups within the MAGA world,, as have Diane Hendricks of Hendricks Holdings, whose revenues are derived from the sale of roofing and windows manufacture and installation. Tim Dunn who has allocated substantive sums to various components of the MAGA structure, has generated his most considerable wealth from oil drilling activity.

However, the preceding are but the most notable of those in our oligarchy who continue their support of entities who are engaged in endeavors that are literally precipitating the unraveling of the world’s foremost democratic polity.

We must convey to all who are meaningfully involved in this effort that the continuation of their financial support for the forces which are tearing this nation asunder will be at the expense of the enormous wealth they have devoted their lives and energies to accumulating.

This is the momentous undertaking to which we must devote our energies and the unrelenting dedication of our total resources as we confront an existential moment in this the Spring of 2024. We must not fail for if that eventually befalls us the loss of our system of representative government will become permanently irrecoverable. Should that occur historians will one day write that this extraordinary tragedy dwarfed in its significance in the annals of the liberal enlightenment all that preceded it.

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