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No Regulation: A
Government Replacing Democracy with Greed? By Matthew Fox 11/11/2025 |
In yesterday’s DM and the video that accompanied it, we laid out the latest attempts at democracide, that is the conscious killing of democracy by people like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk (on track to become the first trillionaire in the world). |
And we must not leave out their patron, he who occupies the present White House–currently being dissembled to make room for a grotesque showcase for the richest Americans to gather. The same kind of folks who attended a Halloween party at |
Morning Joe comments on the would-be U.S. dictator raking in cryptodollars and hosting a Gatsby-themed Halloween party just hours before Americans lost SNAP benefits. MSNBC. |
Mar-a-Lago, ostentatious to the hilt at the very time when 42 million Americans were about to be deprived of SNAP benefits, i.e. were going hungry. Now that is a truly scary Halloween event indeed. Yes, the richest country in the world cannot feed its hungriest citizens. Nor
provide health care to 40 million citizens. Cannot? Or chooses not to? What, in their minds, is to replace democracy? We saw how Thiel, the single most influential kingmaker
in the current MAGA government, is so scared of the regulation of AI that he calls such a movement to regulate it “the antichrist.” |
Wealth manager Chris Douglas compares today’s top marginal federal income tax rate in America to that of the 1950s. When Capitalism Worked | What is a government without regulation
of its richest and most powerful citizens? It is surely not a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” that Abraham Lincoln spoke of. He dreamed, as the founders of this republic dreamed, of a |
government where the people reigned. “We the people,” as our Constitution puts it. But a government sans regulation is not a government of “we the people” but of “we the billionaires (and soon-to-be trillionaire).” Without regulation, government becomes available to the highest
bidder, and it is guaranteed to be a government of greed, avarice, and corruption. Of, by, and for the greedy? What could possibly go wrong? When America was building its middle class in the 1950s, there was genuine regulation going on of the most entitled of its citizens. At that time, there was
a closer likeness to the salaries of the owners of wealth and the working class that continued pretty much up to 1980. In 1980, among the Fortune 500, the ratio between CEO pay and the average worker’s pay was 42 to 1. In 2023, the ratio was 268 to 1.* |
The awareness of this gap, whether conscious or unconscious, fueled the anger that got candidate Donald Trump elected both in 2016 and 2024. But now that, as president, he is in no way fulfilling his promises to the lower classes, fire is happening again in the American body
politic. |
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Speaking of “regulation,” such a bete noire among the spoiled classes, let us consider what all spiritual traditions caution about: The capital sin of Greed or Avarice. Thomas Aquinas teaches that “the greed for gain knows no limit and tends to infinity.” He points out that there are
natural desires and manmade desires, but natural desires cannot be infinite because “nature tends to something finite and fixed. Hence, a person never desires infinite meat, or infinite drink.” Manmade desire fans a quest for the infinite. “One that desires riches may desire to be rich not up to a certain limit but to be simply as rich as
possible.” Or richer than the next guy—or every guy. |
A Sister of Notre Dame de Namur — Sister Dorothy Stang’s order — protests in the San Francisco No Kings rally, 10/18/2025. Photo by Alex Chis, on
Flickr. | Aquinas calls greed “the opposite of justice” because it erects such an obstacle to love and compassion. This may help to explain why the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, killed over 600,000 of the poorest people in the world—mostly children—when he and Trump dismantled USAID for starving Africans this year. Millions of Africans are projected to die
next year as a result. David Korten warns that regulation is necessary for |
survival of the planet as we know it. “To accept the reality of physical limits is to accept the need to limit greed and acquisition in favor of economic justice and sufficiency.” Global warming is at issue here—the Earth is finite and can only absorb so much of human greed that in turn
bets on fossil fuels for short-term gain. |
*Collins, Burned by Billionaires, p. 46.
Banner Image: Poverty vs. ostentation: the children in the truck are painfully real, while the model is staged as a luxurious objet d’art. (L) “Family of ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas, near Little Rock, on California
highway.” Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1937, colorized by Ian Betley, 2023. (R) “Ziegfeld Model Risqué.” 1920s photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston, restored by Nick & Jane. Both on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation Do you see regulation as “the antichrist” like Thiel does? And no regulation
as the government to replace democracy? Or do you see greed as needing regulation both as a personal practice and a societal one? |
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