THE TECH INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

America is at a serious spiritual inflection point in its march toward a just multi-cultural democratic society. Thus, it has rightly been said that: “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Transactional politics in the Trump Administration is on full display spearheaded by billionaire tech-industrialists. No doubt about it, transactional politics is autocratic politics to the nth degree. The 2025 presidential inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President is a calibration; not a celebration, because an individual can purchase position and power, but you cannot purchase, love, honor and enduring respect. Of course, the inauguration of President Trump was indeed an abnormality in the history of American democracy, and Trump’s Presidential ceremonial ritual was with- out spiritual-moral mean- ing. Therefore, in the case of President Donald J. Trump, it is “immoral man”, but moral society. With President Joseph R. Biden it was moral man, but immoral society. America, it’s a shame when democratic political discourse becomes ungodly, distorted, and spiri- tually upside-down. Right is right. Wrong is wrong, and individuals cannot make wrong right, and make wrong work for universal good. I am spiritually reminded of the choice that Pilate gave the Israelites when he asked what is...