How might the GOP phoenix resurrect Eisenhower's virtuous principles of democracy to rise up from the authoritarian ashes of Trumpism?
How might we develop gratitude and equity practices to down-regulate the amygdala and reptilian brains of the Grand New Party (GNP) and regenerate the neocortical brain of the Grand Old Party (GOP)?
Equity is a missing virtue in democracy
Equity is the sacred virtue of fairness. We need slow thinking time to reflect, discuss, and negotiate a shared meaning about what fairness and unfairness mean, before engaging in generative dialogues and responding to complex questions about cultivating equity governance.
Equity prevents and reduces the need for social justice.
Equity governance is about co-creating fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards to benefit all, on a healthy planet.
Equity is about giving each of us, according to our particular needs, fair opportunities to strive and thrive to our highest potential of healthy well-being.
The pursuit of equity also involves enabling families, communities, organizations, networks, and institutions to cultivate the virtues to work and collaborate on the Equity Moonshot quest: co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future.
How might we develop gratitude and equity practices as an antidote to the tyranny of authoritarianism?
Equity governance is an antidote to megalomania and the power abuses of #BIPID (Biases, Isms, Prejudices, Inequities, and Discriminations) that cultivate cultures of fear, hate, and distrust. The political climate of distrust and uncertainty makes strongmen as authoritarian saviors seductive in ways that hoodwink the voters. Authoritarian alt-right tyranny corrodes and erodes the integrity of democracy.
Our leadership, educational, and political institutions have failed humanity in developing the virtues to cultivate equity governance for upgrading democracy.
Our leadership, educational, and political institutions have failed humanity in developing the virtues to cultivate equity governance.
The questions below call for creating exponential opportunities for accelerated learning to launch Equity Moonshot story movements.
Gratitude practices improve one's mental health. Equity practices involve using the Rhodium rule to improve the mental health of all people. These practices cultivate the open-mindedness, curiosity, co-creativity, and collaborative innovations needed to solve our wicked problems.
Be fair and kind to all people, the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil, and plants.
Gratitude and equity practices down-regulate the over-activated amygdala and reptilian brains that imprison mindsets within the walls of indoctrination.
How might we develop gratitude and equity practices to tear down the alt-right walls of the Grand New Party (GNP): self-righteous fundamentalism, blind unquestioning loyalty, and absolute conformity?
Virtuous principles of ethical transformation
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was renowned for his ethical advocacy of virtuous principles to cultivate a high-functioning democracy.
In God, we trust
Practice servant leadership
Devote patriotic commitment to serve our country
Design lean efficient governments for we, the people
Take individual responsibility for self, family, and community
Use transparent accountability to seek the truth
Be modest and generous
Do good and practice humility
Be honest and faithful
Assure justice, magnanimity, humanity, and valor
GOP lost its North Star of virtuous principles
The blind loyalty to Trumpism will live well beyond a second presidential term (if Trump is re-elected) and his death.
How far has the Grand New Party (GNP) of Trumpism deviated from the Grand Old Party (GOP) of Eisenhower?
How might the GOP reverse its regressive downward spirals into the immoral abyss of dysfunctional polarization and divisive toxicities?
How might we root out the deep root causes of alt-right extremism?
Trump is the contemporary poster child of the alt-right. The GNP party has arisen from a long history of alt-right advocacy of political fundamentalism that has fermented fabricated doubts, fear, distrust, paranoia, and conspiracies.
These radical extremists abuse amoral and immoral power to win elections by lying and cheating. They rig the electoral system in their favor.
Both parties spent huge amounts of dark money to smear their rivals in swing states. But the alt-right playbook of extremism dominates over the interests of the middle majority. The tail wags the dog.
The unconditional cult loyalty and rigid conformity of Trumpism speak so powerfully to their propaganda machines of neo-terrorism.
Neo-terrorism is the propaganda war of words, with a sociopathic disregard for the integrity of transparent accountability and truth-seeking.
Alt-right propagandists exploit paranoia to evoke the anti-left reflex against the straw men of communism, socialism, and Marxism. They deliberately escalate fear to over-activate the amygdala and reptilian brains. This inhibits the higher executive functioning of the neocortical brain, leaving the amygdala and reptilian brains to run amok without ethics and virtues.
The red anti-left reflex paradoxically robs cult followers of their freedom of thought, without their knowing. Followers convince themselves that they are bastions of freedom. And yet, their minds are imprisoned within the walls of indoctrination: absolute fundamentalism, absolute conformity, and blind unquestioning loyalty. In this way, propagandists control the mindsets of their cult followers.
Propaganda machines mass-produce subservient underclasses of clones, parrots, pawns, and pit bulls to decimate democracy. Our corrupt, crony, and corrosive democracy is now skirting the edges of a precipitous fall into fascism.
The GOP faces formidable challenges in forging a long-term viable future. The GNP is led by elected representatives with Asocial Leadership Personality Disorder (ALPD). The character flaws of ALPD include pathological megalomania, malignant narcissism, incessant sociopathy, and autocratic authoritarianism.
The GNP leads and fails to serve the people. The hard-core GNP of Trumpism are die-hard loyalists who prevent Eisenhower's principles from ever seeing the light of day. Given this dire state of affairs, the prospects of ethical transformation are highly unlikely. The notion that Trump's tyranny over the GNP will never change is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
How might we develop gratitude and equity practices as an antidote to the tyranny of authoritarianism?
Gratitude practices improve one's mental health. Equity practices involve using the Rhodium rule to improve the mental health of all people
Be fair and kind to all people, the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil, and plants.
Gratitude and equity practices provide ways to down-regulate over-activated amygdala and reptilian brains that imprison mindsets within the walls of indoctrination and closed-mindedness.
Gratitude and equity practices cultivate the open-mindedness, curiosity, co-creativity, and collaborative innovations needed to solve our wicked problems.
How might we, the people, develop gratitude and equity practices to tear down the alt-right walls of the Grand New Party (GNP) supported by self-righteous fundamentalism, blind unquestioning loyalty, and absolute conformity?
How might we develop the moral courage to imagine the impossible dream?
This calls for a GOP phoenix resurrecting Eisenhower's virtues. Too many people blame the government for corrupt politics when voters have not taken responsibility for electing candidates who represent the special interests of corporations, lobby firms, and donors of dark money more than the needs of the people. Only voters can implode the GNP.
How might we, the voters:
Get the GOP out of the GNP swamp of leadership incompetence: the toxic brew of destruction, mayhem, and chaos?
Redress the underlying causes and forces that emotionally drive the GNP to destroy our democracy
Emotional angst and distress are like layers of an onion. Curious empathy enables us to make sense of people's emotional experiences. Empathy peels back what lies underneath the surface. Compassion enables us to ease emotional suffering.
How might our corporate, religious, political, social, academic, and educational leaders empower people to :
Unravel the emotional complexities of Trumpism to alleviate their suffering and their lack of opportunities to flourish as open-minded, truth-seeking, free-thinkers?
Excavate ourselves from the extreme dysfunctional polarizations of self-righteous fundamentalism, blind loyalty, and rigid conformity that drive our toxic divisiveness and our corrupt crony democracy into the gutter of authoritarianism?
Our leadership, educational, and political institutions have failed humanity in developing the virtues to cultivate equity governance.
Equity governance is about co-creating fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards to benefit all, on a healthy planet.
How might our leaders build exponential opportunities for accelerated learning about how to launch Equity Moonshot: co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future?
We need two functioning parties to break down the dysfunctional walls of our incompetent, self-serving duolopy.
How might we, as voters, use a constellation of virtues as the lead attractor for moving beyond the conflicting values systems of dysfunctional polarizations and divisive toxicities?
The questions below aim to facilitate civil discourses and co-create generative dialogues about how to address our complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century.
How might the GOP adopt Eisenhower’s virtuous principles to:
1. Open, inspire, and align our mindsets to launch #Equity Moonshot?
This virtuous quest calls for co-elevating the Rhodium rule of equity practice.
Be fair and kind to all people, the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil, and plants.
To redress the negative biases and prejudices against equity, we need slow thinking time to reflect, discuss, and negotiate a shared meaning about what fairness and unfairness mean, before engaging in generative dialogues and responding to questions about cultivating equity governance.
Equity is the sacred virtue of fairness, It is an antidote to megalomania and the power abuses of BIPID that are drivers of wars, terrorism, and neo-terrorism.
How might we:
Do gratitude and equity practices to down-regulate the emotional reactivity of our amygdala brains and the negative impulses of reptilian brains in ways that ethically transform our mindsets and systems for the greater good?
Cultivate equity governance: co-create fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards to benefit all, on a healthy planet?
2. Re-commit itself to the spirit of the constitution and the republic?
This calls for building trust in developing effective governance across our institutions. This calls for serving, we the people, and not privileged entitlements to corporations, the elites, and the plutocrats.
How might the GOP:
Resurrect itself in the inspiring spirit of Dwight Eisenhower?
Take small steps toward cultivating effective governance?
3. Restore traditional values to resolve moral hypocrisies
This calls for restoring the lapsed core value of liberty: freedom from authoritarianism and government intrusions into people’s personal lives. The GNP has also violated the integrity of fiscal conservatism, transparent accountability, and truth-seeking. This has undermined the higher calling of service to country over party.
How might the GOP divorce itself from authoritarian Trumpism that violates traditional values?
4. Practice servant leadership?
Trumpism is ego-centric, self-serving individualism and self-centered nationalism of “what’s in it for me.”
How might the Trumpism of me become the party of We to co-create a fair-free-flourishing-future on a healthy planet for the benefit of all?
5. Embrace inclusion and diversity?
The extremists of GOP Trumpism are insular and enmeshed with BIPID marginalizes BIPOC: black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
How might the GOP redress the BIPID issues against BIPOC?
6. Engage community and grassroots organizations?
Trumpism has failed to engage a broad range of local communities and grassroots movements.
How might the GOP:
Stay connected with the needs and concerns of serving all citizens?
Build beyond the hard core of the GNP to a broad-based GOP?
7. Co-create a new brand image of hope and optimism?
Trumpism is a destructive force against doing good. It drives fear, despair, doom and gloom pessimism.
How might the GOP rekindle the noble quest to do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of life, and the health of planet?
8. Build bridges, not walls?
The GNP has built insular walls around itself. It has failed miserably to engage democrats in civil discourses and generative dialogues.
How might the GOP move beyond extreme dysfunctional polarizations and toxic divisiveness to build bridges across the partisan divide?
9. Move at the speed of trust and tear down the Berlin wall of Trumpism?
Trumpism is totalitarianism, except the party loyalty is to Trump, and not to the state. Many people thought that they would never see the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Many people feel extremely pessimistic about the fall of Trumpism. Trump’s wall is built on fabricating doubts, fear, distrust, paranoia, and conspiracies to maintain his ironclad megalomania and authoritarianism. Trump is an emotional savant in manipulating the amygdala and reptilian brains of his cult followers.
How might we have faith in redemption to:
Create ethical cascades of strategies and events to build transformational movements that Make American Great Again?
Break the cult Trump trance, tear down the Berlin wall of Trumpism, and implode the GNP?
10. Innovate on effective policies?
The GOP has failed to address public policy issues to solve wicked problems. These problems include political corruption, dark money, wealth inequalities, BIPID, climate change, and much more.
How might the GOP develop policies to serve the interests of we, the people, and not the privileged elites, plutocrats, and the welfare state of corporatocracy?
I think that there are several assertions in this article that are unsubstantiated. It is obvious from what we can outwardly observe that the Leftists have a Globalist agenda of control. They are demonstrating everything that they have accused the right of doing. Trump is a reaction to that oligarchy. I know very few people who love Trump. On the other hand, both extremes are irrational to the majority of the US population and many if most have exited the parties. This leaves us with a centrist choice of which many people see embodied in the values and virtues of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. If health and cleanliness of air, water, and land are important--if regeneration of natural systems is important, then Kennedy is really the only solution.