Friday, September 2, 2016

The Guilt Merchants

Guilt is good.  Guilt tells us who we are and why we are alive.  Guilt is an internal emotion that alerts us to a possible threat to our human sense of right and wrong.  We all have this sense because it organizes every society regardless of character.  We are all blessed to have this warning system but when we stuff these signals beneath layers of compromising excuses and refuse to be authentic, we cease to be human.  When we do so, the individual becomes me centered, life is narcissistic and only about the animal like survival of the fittest.  As humans, we are “more” beings, more than the simplistic life of the animal and plant worlds.  More than money, more than fame or an identification with any race or religion, we are internally driven to do what is right for each other.  For some strange reason, best left with those who know more, we are all birthed to search out our guilt instinct.

All guilt is not good.  We all have struggled with false guilt in our lives.  Every human society or culture around the world organizes itself to some extent by exploiting our guilt signals.  Instead of the individual searching out their own inherent warning signals we allow the culture and the religions of that culture to tell us why we should feel guilty and how to expunge these feelings.  The how usually involves a perceived enemies list that is surely a greater threat than any supposedly fraudulent warning signals.  There are those persons or institutions within the culture who use guilt to manipulate the folk, in effect they are guilt merchants.  The task of searching out the source of our guilt is a very personal trip, it is difficult and confusing but to accept the unauthorized version of others is a recipe for moral failure.  The moral failure of the individual has negative consequences just as the moral failures of cultures, societies and countries make consequences impossible to avoid.

America is suffering under just such a consequential burden imposed upon us by our politicians.  These guilt merchants want the people to feel guilty for anything and everything so that they can maintain political power and control our destiny.  The Hillary-Obama agenda is the forty-year old Democratic guilt playbook on steroids, designed to make the people feel guilty about racial injustice and the economically less fortunate.  While the people are wallowing in their false guilt, the Democratic Party politicians are holding an American fire sale and our country is being auctioned off to the highest bidders.  The highest bidders are first the free trade lobby funded by Wall Street, the big corporations and their stock market prices.  Second, the Muslim communities who are buying access with their oil money to further the replacement of our greatest treasure, freedom, with an Islamic cultural oppression.  If one is watching, it is as plain as the proverbial nose on your face and the consequence of these Democratic policies can only result in economic collapse as our safety net becomes overwhelmed by the deluge of poor immigrants, legal and illegal.   Where does this leave the American citizen?
 
A refusal to be authentically human is like a snowball rolling downhill.  As the snowball rolls it picks up speed and grows in size.  The Clinton political forty-year dynasty is the snowball that has reached gargantuan size as more and more revelations are exposed about the Clinton Foundation.  The negative consequence for the American people is that the snowball will crush the hopes of all the people at the bottom of the hill.  Voting in 2016, as never before, is a political as well as a moral decision that will determine our consequences and destiny as a nation.  The destiny we choose will be lived out by our children and their children.  Should we not all pause to consider the consequences before we vote?   Search out your own internal signals, are you being manipulated by the guilt merchants?

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca