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
