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Is Cruelty the Name of
the Latest MAGA Politics? By Matthew Fox 11/1/2025 |
Whatever happened to the idea of the “common good”? It seems to have been washed out by the recurrent flood of hatred, cruelty, lies, and cold-heartedness that marks the current MAGA political era. |
Wiping out aid to starving millions around the world by gutting USAID was the opening gun for this policy. Hundreds of thousands of people are already dying in Africa as a result of this murderous policy. Bill Gates, to his credit, called it out in stark terms (speaking of Elon Musk who led the |
Former evangelical pastor Pat Kahnke examines the twisted theology behind MAGA evangelical cruelty. Video starts at the 8:00 timestamp. Culture, Faith, and Politics |
charge): “the richest
man in the world is killing the poorest children in the world.” This cruelty comes home today as 42 million poor Americans will be deprived of their SNAP benefits and go hungry. Most of its recipients are seniors, families with kids, and people with disabilities. Since its origin in depression days, SNAP “has never been disrupted this
way.”* This federal program is part of the price being paid for the government shutdown, which is happening because the president ordered the minority House leader, Mr. Johnson, not to negotiate with Democrats to end the stalemate. Johnson has given Congress an unprecedented five-week vacation in fealty to his master. He
has abandoned both his job and his Christian religion to do so. |
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| Much, if not all, of the
reluctance to call Congress back into session is due to the determined effort to protect billionaire friends of Mr. Epstein from the release of the files that would implicate some of them. Just as the new book by victim Virginia Giuffre implicated ex-Prince Andrew, who is finally paying a price for his crimes toward
underage girls. How many American potentates in high places are urging Trump to keep the Epstein files forever under wraps? Johnson is doing exactly that by refusing to swear in the newest member of Congress. |
Behind the politics of cruelty is also a politics of hoarding. The same billionaires who received a $4 trillion tax relief do not want to see SNAP funds released. With their super wealth, they are buying up American media hand over fist to control news and information. There are many ways the money can be
released, even during a government shutdown. Never before in American history, even during government shutdowns, has SNAP been cut off. Cruelty has been raised to the level of policy in MAGA politics. Whether one is talking about ripping law-abiding and tax-paying immigrants from their jobs and their
families by masked men working for ICE, or about using tear gas and wooden bullets to attack non-violent protestors objecting to these strongarmed tactics, or establishing “inhumane conditions” in ICE facilities where victims are being held.** Its purpose is to generate fear. Cruelty runs deeply in the veins of today’s
politics, where prices for health care are skyrocketing to the point that millions will lose their health protection beginning this month. |
Cruelty comes from a very dark and dangerous place in the unexamined dungeon of the soul. Psychologist Erich Fromm, on studying 20th-century history, concluded that sadism and taking pleasure in others’ suffering are born of self-hatred. |
MAGA’s cruelty is unleashed thanks to the cruelty of their leader. Mary Trump examines the historic cruelty of her uncle and his parents. Mary Trump Media |
The hatred we witness in today’s version of authoritarian politics derives from a deep place of self-hatred indeed. A wise person once said, “Love others as you love yourself.” Its obverse can easily happen: “Hate others as deep down you hate yourself.” When rage and revenge dominate and forgiveness is
lacking, hate has its day. And cruelty. And sadism. Love is the only cure for hate, and it begins “at home”, as Meister Eckhart put it, “with one’s own body and one’s own soul.” Will we ever learn? |
Queries for Contemplation How central a role do you see cruelty playing in today’s MAGA politics? How
are you spreading light on such darkness? How have you learned to love both self and neighbor? |
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