With new executive order NSPM-7, the Trump administration claims the right to replace the authors of the US Constitution in determining what freedoms we will and will not be allowed.
Whereas the First Amendment gives us the rights of free speech and peaceful protest, NSPM–7 argues that disagreement with their agenda - anything they deem “anti-capitalist”, “anti-Christianity” or “anti-American” - creates the POTENTIAL for violent extremism, therefore the government has the right to disrupt it. It says they’re going after extremism in “immigration, race, and gender.” They want to identify the “animating common threads” that they think cause the problem.
Excuse me…?
That’s why heavy duty U.S. military is in Portland at the ICE facilities now, using tear gas and mace against peaceful protesters. The Trump administration is shredding our Constitution and waging war against the very freedoms they swore an oath to protect.
So now let’s talk about solutions.
If we only look at our situation a from a material perspective, it’s as terrifying as we sometimes think. But there’s more here going on here than meets the eye. There are psychological, emotional and even spiritual dynamics underlying all this, and a perspective that expands our problem solving options for dealing with it.
I met a young man a couple weeks ago who said something beautiful. He said, “America is stronger than anything they can do to us.” That’s not just poetry; it’s an understanding of energy. They can destroy a government but they can’t destroy the American dream. There’s an ideal at the core of America that they cannot touch.
There is an outer America and the inner America. The outer America is the externals of our government. It’s true they’re taking a hammer to it, and we we know why: they want to impose a corporate dictatorship in America. And in order to do so you have to demolish the basics of our democratic government. Whether you’re Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the techno-bro crowd; or organized white supremacists; Christian nationalists promoting such things as repealing the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote; or the Heritage Foundation touting Project 2025, such forces have a unique view of how America should operate. But let’s not kids ourselves. That view does not align with the founding principles of the United States.
Once again, as during the Civil War, a generation of Americans is called on to determine whether a nation “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…can long endure.”
President Trump and his henchmen can can assault our principles. They can demolish our agencies. They can undermine the basic functionality of freedom and liberty in America. Those things they can do, and they are. But they cannot touch the point of it all, because America’s ultimate reality lies in another realm. We are an ideal, and if we hold that ideal close to our hearts, committing to its protection and praying for a miracle, then our nation so conceived will yet endure.
