The best time of day in Landers is the
early morning hours in the cool of the day when the summertime flies are still
asleep. It has become my retirement
ritual to smoke a morning cigar and follow our national happenings on Fox and
Friends. This ritual has inspired me to
write opinions about the national political debate on the opinion page of our local
newspaper. None of my opinions are really
welcomed by the paper but to their credit, most are printed. You see, I was before the election and am to
this very day an avid Trump supporter who is, in my opinion, the greatest American
hero of my lifetime. His election by the
people has given me great joy and a renewed hope that my country will return to
being the land of the truly free.
Former President Obama has taken up
residence in the Dark House of Washington to direct radical left politics. I am sure our paper will call this term
racist but it is really about morality, about honesty, about truth and
fairness. The term, Dark House, reflects
the divide between good and evil, between the oppression of government and the
interests of the people, it is the divide between Darth Vader and Han Solo in
the Star Wars saga. The dark side navigates
the national interest by protecting those who are complicit with the dark
agenda and punishing those who stand with the people of America. This dark side small ball reduces the political
discourse to hate mongering when the function of our government should be to
protect and facilitate people opportunities.
The dark side ignores our laws, deceives
and condones violence against Americans as necessary to further the dark agenda.
Our political system, our justice system,
even the medical community are only tools to punish all who may dissent. Our court system is about making political
statements not the law of our land. The
Internal Revenue Service is about making political statements not administering
the collection of taxes in a just manner.
Our intelligence services are about making political statements not
protecting the security of the people.
Our foreign services before Trump have been about making political
statements here at home and not making our world safer.
The dark side has only one
creditable issue that must be addressed by our current Republican politicians. Politicians of the left rightly disparage the
wealth gap in America but wrongly champion the redistribution of wealth as the
solution. The so-called Affordable Care Act
is not really about the health of the people but about further depleting the
wealth of the middle class. Redistribution
from on high is a perversion of our world as it exists. Our world is a competitive place. In biological terms, our world moves
according to the survival of the fittest.
In economic terms, our world moves according to the effort personally
expended to build a future for you and yours.
Effort does not always bring the results we crave but effort always results
in a more fulfilled life. America has
always been about hard work and the pride it brings to the individual.
Instead of the middle class
carrying the burden of healthcare for the poor and those with pre-existing
conditions, let's be fair, our hard-working politicians should tax stock market transactions. A $1.00 healthcare tax per transaction would
bring $30 billion a month to the crisis.
This seems only fair but the swamp will resist. Politicians of both parties, including Barack
Obama, are in debt to the special interests of the few.
G.Goslaw
Landers, CA
