In moments such as this American moment in 2016, we would
have talked. That personal loss is now
the missing link in my life, to know, to experience and honestly share with one
other person, one other human being, each new sunrise, each new happening, good
or bad. When one has such a blessing, the
rest of the world can go hang for the best possible gifting is not to face the
whatever alone. The human tragedy that besets all of us is that we rarely appreciate
what we have when we have it. Not until
we are without do we completely understand.
Is America going to have to learn the hard way? Is freedom no longer to be our national character? Maybe, just maybe, we are due to feel the
overt pain of political oppression before we can rightly appreciate what it
means to be free. As a country, in this
political season, we are at such a moment as this, a moment that will shape our
future or the lack of it.
As Americans we have been spoiled by two hundred fifty years
of government that largely reflects the will of the people. Our freedom is summed up in the word
democracy. Webster’s Dictionary defines
a democracy as “government in which the people hold the ruling power either
directly or through elected representatives, rule by the ruled”. We the people and our interests are supposed to
be what matters to our politicians. Our
freedom loving democracy is historically unique to this world as envisioned and
enshrined by our forefathers in the Constitution. Our new American establishment politicians of
both parties say by their actions that this ancient document has become obsolete
in our modern world. No longer is their
primary concern the people that they are supposed to serve, instead the people
are to serve the rulers. Their new plan
is, in effect, a third world like political coup of America. Some of us are sickened by that possibility
and sickened as well that so many Americans seem not to understand the threat. To remain America, we cannot ignore the fact when
you betray the people you betray our democratic system.
The unaware or otherwise invested will object saying, wait
one minute, our representative political system is not changing, we will be electing
the same number of politicians to Congress and the White House. The voting will go on! Yes, the voting will go on but if both choices
are self-serving politicians serving their donor class, the people have no real
choice and the election result can only mean that the governed have no voice in
their government. Politics will continue
to be as it has long been, only about words, empty promises and money, not doing
the will of the people. When there is no
real choice given to the people by our elite politicians and their donor
contributors, America will no longer be America. Each voter needs to ask themselves on
November 8, as Americans, who are we, who are we really?
I have been talking to cousin Jerry via email who comes to
this election from a liberal mindset but is willing to use his brain. He asked the question recently, when Mr. Trump
loses the election, will you be disappointed in him? My response, absolutely not, he is the hero of
the people, willing to shoulder every abuse to finally give America a real
choice. Should the people choose to
abandon our heritage, this country will have to learn the hard what freedom means.
We the people have the last opportunity to restore American integrity
to our politics by electing Donald Trump.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
