Yesterday I heard a happy Republican
crediting President Trump’s self-proclaimed successes
to his training and experience with consumer-driven accountability;
meaning,
I presume,
his for-profit experience with promotion-driven consumerism.
Now I realize this for-profit wealth of experience
outside Washington,
untainted by prior pubic sector experience,
appears compelling for how he became President Trump
as opposed to continuing as private sector Emperor Trump,
although there is some concern that these two have become the same,
a monstrous hybrid of kleptocracy
and autocracy,
but what does all this say about us?
that we think a lifetime of public service legislation
is less consumer market driven
than a lifetime of private sector management?
I mean
isn’t a democratic government
supposed to be cooperative production
of consumer-citizen satisfaction,
health and happiness and prosperity,
nonviolent communication
cooperative co-investment
and all those other family familiar virtues
we originally declared
as root of our sustainable interdependence?
So, how is this presidential choice not taking a further step
precisely in the wrong, even more caste privileged,
self-promoting,
His Royal Highness
monotheistic direction?
Maybe this happy Republican business advocate
was touting the virtues of more competitive experience
in autonomous response to other capital-driven markets,
the advertised commercial success
emerging from past personal wealth
of big dollar intake outcomes.
Self-promoting budgets,
bully pulpits,
proclaim autonomously held glorious greed,
pitched to larger and larger consumer markets,
promoting incoming revenues
exceeding outgoing revenues.
And yet this is not at all a consumer-citizen satisfaction business
President Trump is successfully selling
within this republican enterprise.
His burgeoning budgets further increase expenditures beyond revenue
when he could move toward balance
by eliminating his proposed tax-revenue cuts
and by turning the bomb dropping
drone happy military
into tree planting militias
in areas of stressed toxic-climate concern.
But,
as long as we continue electing NRA Presidents
for their caste privileged experience
and self-promotional training,
responding to competitive marketing campaigns,
we will continue to receive a competing bicameral absence of cost-effective legislation
with no explicit investment
in our cooperative health care
and compassionate communication education values,
rooted in co-empathic trust
rather than capitalism’s bottom line
of chronically competitive mistrust,
rooted in Win v Lose survivalist theories
rather than Win+Win cooperatively thriving
democratic deep listening experience.
How can we expect any President
or legislature
to produce cost-effective budgets
with resiliently healthy democratic outcomes
when we continue to choose denial of transparent accountability
for measuring cooperative co-investment outcomes
against greed consuming personal wealth investments
that actually disinvest away from future generations
of mental and physical health production outcomes?
healthy soil and water,
healthy climates and landscapes,
healthy extending families and GoldenRule polycultural grace
Not so much rich caste dividends
only for those stock-investors
who choose to remain stuck inside anthropocentric dissociation
Denying what’s happening outside
their privileged real estate,
malformed by navel-gazing competitions
all monotheistic day
and monotonous night,
ego-maniacally exclaiming against panentheistic values
of Gaia’s intrinsically cooperative health
sustaining earthy networks of wealth.
Little wonder so many homeless
and autistic
and chronically ill
people feel compelled to live marginalized lives outdoors
where Earth’s larger canopy feels more therapeutic
than indoor competing anthropocentric
monotheistic caste toxins.
Watch out for lowly peace-makers,
for we are inheriting what’s left of Earth
after the Great Anthropocene Kill.