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From Martin Luther King + 50 to Dallas, Minneapolis, Baton Rouge –--

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If there ever were a clear showing of how violence breeds violence, we have just seen it.  

The murder of police officers in Dallas was despicable.

And every murder of a Black man or woman by police is despicable.

And we will not cure the one until we cure the other.

As murders from Ferguson to Staten Island to Baton Rouge to Minneapolis gave rise to fear and rage, it was more and more likely that some few would let their rage boil over into murder.

And I can hear the cries from some politicians hovering in the air, ready to descend:  More contempt, more humiliation,  more hot lead must be poured upon the powerless. Violence breeds violence.

Black Lives Matter.  AND Blue Lives Matter.  AND Green Lives Matter.

It does not detract from the horror of police killings of Black men and women -- a form of terrorization -- to say that the killing of police officers by snipers –-  a form of terrorism – also matters.

And the choking to death of a Black person in police custody – “I Can’t Breathe!” -- grows, not lessens, in importance when Mother Earth herself is choked.

Choked in the custody of Corporate Carbon Pharaohs -- Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Unnatural Gas. When Mother Earth herself  cries out “I Can’t Breathe.”  When children plagued by asthma from coal dust and oil-refinery fumes cry out, “We Can’t Breathe!”

These forms of violence are interconnected.

Treat people with brutality and cruelty long enough, and some will respond with indiscriminate terrorism.

At some point the ethical and spiritual wisdom of all our traditions, of an Amos and a Jeremiah, a Jesus and a Buddha, a Badshah Khan and a Gandhi,  a Mary Dyer and a Martin Luther King and a John Lewis and a Sojourner Truth,  will stop convincing some who marinate in fear and curdle into rage.

We are approaching the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s great “Riverside Church” speech against the murderous US War in Vietnam (April 4, 1967) and  then the 50th anniversary of the murder of Dr. King, our quintessential preacher of nonviolence (April 4, 1968).

The history of top-down violence by America the Powerful –-  against Africans where violence took the form of enslavement, and Natives where it became or verged on genocide, in the Philippines, in Central America, in Vietnam and Iraq where it shattered whole nations – has run like a bloody thread through the whole history of a nation that has once more celebrated, once more proclaimed that we are all  endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights – to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is long past time to atone. With inner moral truth and eco-social transformation. With prayer and action.

The Shalom Center has proposed that we make the year from April 4, 2017, to April 4, 2018 – the year of Dr. King’s most difficult struggle and of his death --  into an American Jubilee Year of Truth and Transformation.

A year of confronting what Dr. King in his Riverside Speech called the deadly triplets of Racism, Militarism, and Materialism.  What makes these three not merely three, but triplets? Like triplets, they share the same DNA.  The DNA of subjugation. domination, greed for power and wealth, contempt for others and especially The Other.

From Riverside Church in New York City to the US Council of Elders to multireligious groups in Boston and  Southern California, we have already found resonance for this seed of a decent life, sown into a graveyard of our grief.  See our proposal on our Home Page at https://theshalomcenter.org

We started sowing these seeds on a shoestring – on one thread of a strand of a shoestring.    We sowed the seeds, beginning without the resources and the money that are necessary, because we knew the Year of Truth and Transformation was necessary. We implore you for your help to nurture these seeds. Please – please!! – click on the maroon Contribute button on th left-hand margin, and   write “MLK + 50” in the “Honor of” space.

We all need to do this work. But without your help, we can’t.

July 4, 2016: Independence Now! from Corporate Domination

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13-star flag of American Revolution

 For many Americans, the 13-starred Flag of the American Revolution continues to  symbolize resistance to tyranny.. Below you will find a new “Declaration of Independence from Corporate Domination.” We recommend it for study and as several of its paragraphs say, for action – during the days before, on, and after the Fourth of July.  

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: That among these are –

  • life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the sharing of Beloved Community throughout our planet;
  • a life-sustaining share of the Earth’s abundance;
  • honorable jobs with living wages and income, based on livable hours;
  • a rhythm of work and rest that frees time for family, neighborhood, citizenly service, and the spirit;
  • democratic elections and legislatures not controlled by wealth
  • peace among all peoples;
  • and responsible relationships embodying, healing, and upholding the sacred web of life upon this planet.

We affirm that governments, corporations, and other institutions are founded solely to secure these rights and uphold these responsibilities, deriving their just powers from the consent of those they govern and whose lives they shape.

We affirm that at the present time, the power of large corporations - especially those in banking, the military-industrial complex, health care, and fossil fuels – is dominating many branches and aspects of the American government and deeply damaging both American democracy and the American future.

We affirm that to redress these wrongs, it is incumbent upon the people to undertake nonviolent action through elections, lobbying, free speech and a free press, strikes, purchasing campaigns, sit-ins, teach-ins, rallies, and vigils;

And therefore we demand: 1.  Actual full employment with a living income for all on the basis of a 32-hour work week 2.  Universal health care on the model of Medicare for all 3.  Strong laws to prevent global climate disaster and swiftly move the US and world economies from fossil-fuel dependence to renewable energy; such laws to include capping greenhouse-gas emissions and placing a rising tax on the production and emission of carbon dioxide and methane, with the income to be divided among

MLK + 50: A Year of Truth & Transformation

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April 4, 2017 to April 4, 2018

April 4, 2018 — two years from now — will be the 50th anniversary of the death -- the murder -- of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

April 4, 2017 — one year from now — will be the 50th anniversary of his speech to Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam, at Riverside Church in New York. There he warned us of the “deadly triplets” of racism, militarism, and materialism that were endangering America. (And still are.)

We propose to make the year from April 4, 2017, to April 4, 2018, an American Jubilee Year of Truth and Transformation — through action as well as emotional and spiritual reflection and repentance.

We intend to make it a year for renewing the struggle to end the malignant impact of racism, militarism, and materialism and to move toward what Dr. King called the Beloved Community.

The murder of Dr. King crystallized in one moment a thread of violent history in American efforts to “make America real”:

Americans have never collectively and at a spiritual level faced this part of our history, seen it as a continuing self-inflicted wound, done penance for it, and committed ourselves to work against it in all its manifestations.

If activists around the country were to take the initiative to use his Riverside speech as the beginning point a year before, it would be far more likely that the year would address Dr. King in his fullness and his focus on the root causes of American dysfunction, rather than the vanilla-washed version of him so prevalent in the mass media and official political discourse.

To begin the year: On or about April 4, 2017, everywhere in the US churches, synagogues, mosques, schools, colleges, and other community organizations hold readings of  Dr. King’s Riverside speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence,” along with discussion of how to apply it today.

At the heart of his speech were these words:

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.  (For a full transcript of the speech, see https://theshalomcenter.org/node/71)

(With Dr. King at the microphone at Riverside Church, nearby is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.)

In some cities, there might be gatherings of “Clergy and Laity Concerned About America,”  echoing the “Clergy And Laity Concerned About Vietnam” whom Dr. King was addressing in 1967.

In that speech, King named the racism, militarism, and materialism that haunted and endangered America then – and still.

  • The racism he warned against has made the criminal “justice” system into a machine for repressing Black, Latino, and Native communities; has made the burning of fossil fuels a tool for spewing poison into the air and water in neighborhoods of color; has made voting laws into tools of suppressing Black and  Latino voters; and has made Muslims and Latinos into objects of hate..
  • The “materialism” he challenged encompasses three triplets of its own: the despiritualization of society; the  greedy treatment of Earth as an abusable commodity that now threatens the whole web of life on Planet Earth; worsening inequality of wealth and income into hyper-wealth and broader, deeper poverty – a combination that deeply wounds democracy itself and corrupts our elections and political system.
  • Today we face militarism not only in an endless war of the kind that Dr. King denounced but the militarization of many urban police forces and a quasi-military system of mass incarceration. And we face the emergence of major political leaders and followers with a strong stink of fascism in their policies, their language, and their actions.

Anniversary gatherings could spark and plan continuing actions, in the spirit of Dr. King’s Riverside speech and of his actions against racism and war, his strong support for labor unions of the poor (like the garbage workers of Memphis for whom he died), and his commitment to nonviolent resistance.

During the entire year, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and other community-rooted groups around the country would make the following a constant effort:

  • Arrange study groups and teach-ins to examine Dr. King’s Riverside speech and other inspired and inspiring documents like Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, and in the study process to explore how to address the issues raised there.
  • Hold monthly religious services (and perhaps monthly fasts) aiming at the religious and spiritual transformation of America beyond racism, militarism, and materialism.
  • Organize nonviolent direct action of three basic types: teach-ins or freedom schools; actions that directly challenge centers of egregious violence and oppression; and grassroots models that actually embody in the living present our vision of the kinds of future institutions (such as neighborhood solar-energy co-ops, neighborhood cultural festivals, etc.) that Dr. King called the Beloved Community.

To end the year, we will issue a Call for a National Day of Action, Atonement and At-ONE-ment on April 4, 2018, together with special religious services and a myriad actions around the country to move past the “deadly triplets” of racism, militarism, and materialism. For some people, a day of fasting might seem appropriate.

Are we facing an American "Brexit"?

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 Is it Enough to Defeat our US Version in an Election?

Or Should we be going Deeper

To Heal the Fear, Rage, & Disgust

Beneath the Trump Campaign?

In the wake of the victory of Brexit, already many American  commentators are wondering whether it portends the victory of a similar movement in the United States, typified by voters for Donald Trump.

What are the similarities? Brexit voters were motivated by two feelings that trumped the experts’ warnings of economic disaster that would flow from leaving Europe.  The two feelings were fear and disgust.

1) Fear of losing their country –-   their culture --  especially to a wave of immigrants.

2)  Disgust that the political process of the European Union was undemocratic and deadlocked -- unable to cope with the collapse of the Greek economy, or the flood of refugees, or the aggressive behavior of old/new Russia.

Notably, though some polls had predicted a vote for Brexit, the numbers were considerably higher. Many “Leave” voters evidently masked their socially disreputable opinions when pollsters asked how they intended to vote. And notably, though younger voters strongly opposed Brexit, they voted in smaller proportions than their elders.

To many,  that sounds like US politics: Fear and resentment of “outsiders” at the bottom, disgust with deadlock at the top and the lessening of actual democracy. Should we doubt the accuracy of polls that report only a minority of US voters feeling like Brexit voters? Should we expect younger Americans to stay home instead of voting?

Some of these commentators have pointed out that in the UK, “minority” communities strongly opposed Brexit.  In the US, the “minority” communities are a far larger proportion of the voting population than they are in Britain. So the “Brexit” vote in America is much less likely to win a national election than it was in the UK.

But should Americans be satisfied with the continuing presence of a big minority of frightened, angry, resentful, and disgusted voters?

The deep issue in the US is not Donald Trump himself but the existence of that band of voters. Most  of them are not economically desperate right now, but may feel their economic futures blocked and frustrated.  (Surveys suggest their average income of Trump voters is around $72,000 per household; of Clinton & Sanders voters, about $61, 000.) The Trump voters tend to be considerably older than, especially, Sanders voters.  Having already lived through a generation of worsening inequality and the disappearance of the industrial economy in which they grew up, they may feel far more fear than hope.

What is clear –- but is mostly either ignored or scorned by progressive commentators -- is that they are culturally and psychologically desperate. They are feeling marginalized, thrust out of dignity and respect in “their own” country. They see cultural honor and respect going to communities they see as the “new un-Americans” (Blacks, Mexicans, immigrants, Muslims, gays, uppity women, etc). They feel themselves treated with contempt. They respond with a kind of internal "Brexit" -- keep these upstart communities out -- physically where possible (the anti-immigrant "wall") and culturally for sure. 

Their fear and fury grows every time progressives dance their jig of joy that precisely these upstart communities will soon outnumber the old insiders.

It is easy to label their fears as “racist, chauvinist, misogynist,” etc. At one level, an accurate description. At that level, labels of contempt.

But if we seek to create a healthy America, we need to go deeper.

It would betray the long stumble of America toward fuller democracy if we were to abandon our insistence on affirming and empowering the “new” cultures. But does that require marginalizing the old ones?

Can we respond to their sense of exclusion and marginalization?   -- Respond with compassion and creativity, not simply proclaiming our moral superiority over these “contemptible racists”?

Orlando: Scapegoats Coming Home to Roost

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[This essay is by Arlene Goldbard, president of The Shalom Center, author of a number of books on community-based culture as necessary to political democracy,  and Chief Policy Wonk of the US Department of Arts and Culture (not a government agency).]

What is scapegoating? When a man opens assault-weapon fire at a gay nightclub and murders more people than any lone assassin in U.S. history, and before more than a smattering of information about his life and motives surfaces, politicians rush to outdo each other in attributing his deranged and evil act to his religion. (See The New York Times for a concise account of Trump’s fear-mongering, and sadly, see Politico for a glimpse of Clinton’s jump onto the scapegoat bandwagon.)

What is scapegoating? When a Baptist preacher in Sacramento, a man of Latino heritage, applauds the deaths of nearly 50 individuals whose sole crime was dancing while gay and Latino, saying, “I think Orlando, Florida, is a little safer tonight. The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die. I’m kind of upset he didn’t finish the job.”

Singling out one facet of identity to blame for whatever the scapegoater detests is always—and I mean always—vicious, untrue, and damaging.

When evil-doing happens and we tell the story by leaving out most of the truth so as to pretend membership in one vilified category explains an evil that is actually grounded in a pervasive brokenness—well, what’s that thundering noise I hear? A flock of scapegoats coming home to roost.

Homophobia is a cultural issue. Hatred and resentment of Latinos is a cultural issue. Scapegoating is a cultural issue. Hyper-masculinity is a cultural issue. And while cultural means alone may not suffice to heal them (that assault weapons ban is necessary, for instance), certain cultural interventions will go a long way to help.

Since Omar Mateen opened fire, I’ve been hearing from folks who belong to categories singled out for hostility—people of Latin heritage, LGBTQ folks, Muslims—many of whom are social activists, working their hearts out for equity and justice, and right now, doing their best to persevere and offer support despite an even heavier burden of scapegoating-induced hatred coming their way.

Reb Arthur's 2d Bar Mitzvah?! What's that?

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For Reb Arthur's 2d Bar Mitzvah
The Gates Are Close to Closing!

Below: Read Praise of Reb Arthur

By Bill McKibben, Ruth Messinger, & Other Notables


The Shalom Center Board invites you to celebrate Reb Arthur’s 2nd Bar Mitzvah on October 29, shortly after his 83rd birthday.

The gates are (almost) closing, the limited space is close to full (no kidding!), and the registration cost is going up on October 2nd.

So -- now's the day and now's the hour! --  REGISTER HERE to be with us in Philadelphia at The Shalom Center's extraordinary fund-raiser in honor of Reb Arthur's 2nd Bar Mitzvah on Saturday afternoon, October 29th. .......... SORRY, NO WALK INS WITHOUT PRIOR REGISTRATION!

Reb Arthur's work benefits us all:  seeking justice, pursuing peace,  healing our wounded Mother Earth, and sounding the Shofar of new life for our spiritual and religious traditions and communities.

So if you can't be with us physically, but you want to support Reb Arthur in continuing to do that work through The Shalom Center, make a contribution by clicking this link .

Remember: You can also use either the "Registration" form or the "Contribution" form to sign up for sending a 200-word-maximum letter for the Tribute Book about your encounter with Reb Arthur, or about your own Bat/ Bar Mitzvah. After you've signed up for that, all Tributes must be sent to Office@theshalomcenter.org by September 30.

Join us in song, in story-telling,  and in celebration!

As we announced this joyful celebration, we started receiving Mazeltovs from various leaders of movements for peace, justice, and healing of our wounded world. Below you will see notes from several of them --  Bill McKibben, Ruth Messinger, Rabbis Michael Lerner, Elliot Dorff, and Jay Michaelson, among others. You'll also see two wonderful photos of Arthur -- then (at 13) and now.

But first, details for you, on how to take part either in Philadelphia or by long-distance connection:


The event will be a fundraiser for The Shalom Center, supporting its work and inspiring Arthur to keep going — as we always hope, biz hundert und tzvantzig, gezunt und shtark — till 120 in good health and strong spirit!

You can take part by attending the Bar Mitzvah and the celebratory supper party to follow; OR by contributing in Reb Arthur’s honor even if you cannot attend; AND (either physically present or not) by underwriting a page in the Bar Mitzvah Bukher's Booklet featuring your story about Reb Arthur or your own Bat/Bar Mitzvah.

Join us –- and Rabbis Shawn Zevit, Deborah Waxman, Marcia Prager, Gerry Serotta, Shefa Gold, Cantor Jack Kessler, and other notables, friends, and family --  at this twice-in-a-lifetime celebration on October 29.

You need not attend to honor Reb Arthur and contribute to The Shalom Center.  To make a contribution, click here  and complete the form.

To reserve your seat for supper and support the Bar Mitzvah event and The Shalom Center, click REGISTER NOW  and sign up for Reb Arthur’s 2nd Bar Mitzvah Celebration during this early-bird period before the contribution level riss on October 2 or the space  fills up. Sorry – no walk-ins!

Here are the responses from just a few of our most renowned social0activist herooes:

From Bill McKibben:

Time and again, at some important moment in the key environmental fights, I've looked up from a podium to see Art Waskow in the front row, or tuned into a key webinar to hear him making a cogent point. The point is, he's always there. There's no one who's showed up more often, added his voice more unselfishly, made his time on this earth count. So, mazel tov! 

-- Bill McKibben, 350.org

From Ruth Messinger:

What an honor it is to celebrate the second bar mitzvah of the amazing Arthur Waskow.  No one is more deserving of this honor.  With the energy of a passel of 13 year olds, Arthur continues—on behalf of all of us—to speak truth to power,  to focus our energies on building peace, creating a world with reduced strife and the possibility of building community across lines of difference,  and to insist that we work together to save our planet from the environmental degradation that is destroying homes, livelihoods and lives of some of the world’s most marginalized people.

I know Arthur would want us to use this occasion—as we did not, most likely, fully use our own coming of age experiences—to dedicate and rededicate ourselves to the work he has mapped out as essential to the future of Jews and the future of the world.

-- Ruth W. Messinger, President,  American Jewish World Service


From Rabbi Michael Lerner:

Arthur Waskow has long been one of the most inspiring Jewish thinkers I know. What a joy to have discovered a Jewish spiritual progressive in the early 1970s

This Election: Three Thresholds

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In this election campaign,  the American people came to the edge of three thresholds. We crossed two of them and turned back from the third.

Each threshold beckoned to a different large constituency of "left-out" Americans. The lesson of the election campaign is that we need to build a movement beyond the election that can unite these three by speaking to the spiritual, cultural, and economic needs of each of them.

Muhammad Ali & Breaking the Rules

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[Jacob Bender, the author of the following celebration of Muhammad Ali, is an affirmatively identified Jew. He and the Philadelphia chapter of CAIR, the Council of American-Islamic Relations, both "broke the rules" (unofficial but strong) of their respective communities when Philadelphia CAIR hired Bender to be its executive director. Both he and they have thrived in their relationship.

[Bender had created an extraordinary film, "Out of Cordoba," that celebrated the period in  Al-Andalus -- now called Spain -- during the Middle Ages, when Jews, Christians, and Muslims  enjoyed philosophy, politics, poetry, religious conversation, and life with each other.

[The film focuses on two great philosophers pictured below -- the Jewish Moshe ben Maimon or Rambam (Maimonides) and the Muslim Ibn Rushd (Averroes) -- who both lived in the Andalusian city of Cordoba.

 

[You can see a trailer of the film at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkmCm3aqkXE&spfreload=10>

[Now, just after the death of Muhammad Ali and just before the New Moon that began the simultaneous sacred months of Ramadan and of Sivan -- the months of the Revelation of Torah and Quran -- Bender wrote this memory of "Muhammad Ali and Me." With his permission, we are sharing it with you. It lifts up for us how Muhammad Ali "broke the rules" of conventional America, and how a young American Jew responded. I will add a few other comments of my own after his essay. --  AW, editor]

"Muhammad Ali and Me"

By Jacob Bender
CAIR-Philadelphia Executive Director
 
I saw him in person once. It was during his exile from the ring, after his championship title had been stripped from him by the white establishment that controlled the sport. But to the African American community,

The "I" Who Spoke at Sinai-- and Nag Hamadi

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Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, which comes fifty days after the second day of Passover -- seven weeks of seven days, plus one day -- begins this year (2016) on the evening of Saturday, June 11.

What does it celebrate, what does it teach?

My own sense of its meaning has been deeply transformed by an ancient teaching from the Nag Hammadi library (which has been called a “Gnostic” collection). The story of how I got there is after this essay, where the color changes to maroon..

But first: In Biblical tradition, Shavuot celebrated the spring wheat harvest, as hundreds of thousands of Israelites brought sheaves of newly sprouted wheat and two loaves of leavened bread to the Temple in Jerusalem.

But as the Jewish community became more and more widely dispersed, and then when the Temple was destroyed and the Jewish community shattered by the Roman Empire, the ancient Rabbis realized they could no longer celebrate Shavuot this way. Indeed the food-offering connection with any piece of earth grew weaker.

To replace food and land, the Rabbis sought to make words of prayer, words of Torah, words of reinterpretive midrash into new ways of connecting with God. They sought to create a festival when all Israel in every generation could stand at Sinai to receive the words of Torah and speak new words of Torah, just as all Israel in every generation could use Passover to become again a band of runaway slaves, newborn from Egypt’s Tight and Narrow Space (Mitzrayyim).

So the Rabbis transformed the Torah’s agro-meaning of Shavuot into the festival of Revelation.

Who spoke at Sinai? Anokhi – a heightened form of the usual Hebrew word for “I,”  Ani.  When the Universe calls out to us, the “I” Who calls is Anokhi. Some say it was not only the first word at Sinai, but perhaps embodies in Itself the entire Revelation.

For if the Universe calls out “I” to us, everything else follows:

  • “Don’t waste My Name by forgetting that each breath you take is the ‘pronouncing’ of My Name,”
  • “Set aside time for you and for the Earth to rest and reflect,”
  • “Don’t murder a human or a species,”
  • “Don’t wallow in greed so as to covet,” and all the rest.

“I, YHWH, YyyyHhhhWwwwHhhh, Breath of Life and Hurricane of Change, Who brought you forth from the Tight and Narrow Place, the house of slavery….”

While the Rabbis were working out this transformation of Shavuot, an unknown writer in the Semitic language Coptic was giving a different valence to that great Anokhi.  The text, called “The Thunder: Perfect Mind,” was stored away in the Nag Hammadi collection of religious texts written during the first two centuries of the Common Era.  That library -- -- a collection of mostly Christian texts that the early Church refused to name as part of the sacred canon -- was unearthed by moderns only recently

 But “The Thunder” is not Christian, and its whole text is built around Anokhi Whose Divine Voice was/ is Feminine.

Its title, “The Thunder,” did not describe any specific part of  its content –- but the whole text feels like The Thunder that spoke at Sinai. 

Here are excerpts

Only Hearts can Trump Trumpery

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"Trumpery" is a real word.

Says the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

"Trumpery derives from the Middle English trompery and ultimately from the Middle French tromper, meaning "to deceive." (You can see the meaning of this root reflected in the French phrase trompe-l'oeil-literally, "deceives the eye"  -- which in English refers to a style of painting with photographically realistic detail.) Trumpery first appeared in English in the mid-15th century with the meanings "deceit or "fraud'  and 'worthless nonsense.' "

How prophetic!

Diamonds (that is, money) cannot trump Trump or his Trumpery.  Clubs (that is, coercion  -- violent or nonviolent) cannot trump Trump or his Trumpery. Even spades (hard work and the labor movement) cannot trump Trump or his Trumpery. Only hearts can trump Trump and his Trumpery.

That is, only turning our hearts to what is moving and enraging Trump’s supporters can trump Trump and the trumpery he spews into the body politic. And that is the real issue facing America -- far deeper than one presidential election.

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