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

The Henhouse

The question has been raised about the conscious character of America.  Namely, is America a hen house as stated on this blog?  Our illustrious local paper calls this accusation discrimination.  We shall see as the women of America have a choice to express in this presidential election.  Is the vagina body part the most distinguishing qualification for the Oval office?  To this point in the opinion polls, the answer from the hen house is in the affirmative.

 

No other conclusion can be reached by any rational observer of the facts.  Message doesn't count, the future of all Americans doesn't count and the forked tongue of the lady candidate matters not at all.  Hillary is the most anti women candidate to seek the office of what has always been the most distinguished leadership position in the world.  

The clincher has surfaced that Hillary's closest confidant, Huma Mahmood Abedin, the long time chief assistant to Hillary in her post as Secretary of State and a fixture in the Clinton Foundation is a graduate of the Muslim ideology that sends all women to the back of the bus.  It should be noted that this privilege will only be accorded if there is a seat available that is not occupied by a man.  Go figure this if you can. 

How else can this insanity compute?  Hen house ladies use your brain this time and prove that this blog is in error.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

The election for the future of America

I have a secret admirer.  She sends me cards without a return address in response to my guest posts in the High Desert Star.  We were on the same wave length when discussing money in politics as she supported the brief candidacy of Bernie Sanders.  This last card begins, “Glen, you are such a dope!”  What has gotten her all riled up you ask?  Right, her boy sold out for a Hillary funded house on the lake and she is left with only Donald J. Trump as an alternative.

I get it, this is a female response of displaced anger but then she proceeds to recant the Democratic talking points against Mr. Trump.  “Trump is a trigger happy whack job and suffers from terminal adolescent arrested development.  He will not win, and he will withdraw before the election because his ego will not accept his tanking in the polls.  He won’t release his taxes because he has a great deal to hide.  Love your libertarian friend.”  One might question her thinking but most of all her definition of love that precludes considering an opposing opinion.

The American female, particularly the older white hens, disrespect Mr. Trump because he is an Alpha male, an old school alpha male type that has never shown his face in American politics for about forty years.  It must be a real shock to accept the fact that there are just a few left around.  The definition of an alpha male is a dominating character among a group of individuals.  We have coyotes out here in Landers and most are emaciated specimens in survival mode except for one good old boy who is the leader of the pack.  He is fat and happy with a swagger that refuses to run when confronted with a human foe.

My libertarian friend, America needs an alpha male in the White House at this historical hour to stand up for the interests of the little people, those of us without political power.  Yes, Mr. Trump fits the definition of an alpha male, he does have a very large ego but that ego is our only hope to change the hen house that America has become thanks to our predictable and precise politicians who have sold out America to every moneyed interest in the world.  No one who is not an alpha male could stand up against the growing fury from our domineering freedom robbing American political structures.

Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”  Please allow me to list the enemies that are confronting Mr. Trump, then judge him.  Possibly, Ms. Libertarian, you may discover an alpha male that is not really that offensive to your delicate nature.
  
These are the enemies of Mr. Trump because these are the folks who are enslaving the people.

1.    Big government Democrats who will need a greatly expanded tax base (taxing the rich won’t do it).

     2.    Big government Republicans who only care about their funding sources from the free trade lobby.

     3.    Minorities, red, yellow, black and white who have been deceived and as a result will make their America the land of the rich and the poor.

    4.    All politicians who get their paychecks from taxpayers, the Wall Street moneyed interests, corporations and the big banks.

    5.    Government bureaucrats, federal, state and local who are being paid by the taxpayers and want their kids on the gravy train.  

    6.    Stock market investors who depend upon unrestricted free trade.

    7.    The broad based 401K voters who prize their own self-interest.

    8.    A majority of the ladies of America who are offended by Mr. Trump, his male demeanor, no nonsense personality and fresh thinking.

    9.    The open borders political action crowd with their globalist intentions.

   10.     The mass media, every newspaper and almost every broadcast media are ganging up on Mr. Trump to try and slander him instead of his pro American agenda.

We might as well call Mr. Trump the ultimate underdog!  Only a very large ego that has been responsible for building a very large business in the private sector can and will stand for the people who have been left out of the decision making by our corrupt politicians.  Mr. Trump has never taken a dime from these folks and it scares them to death and they are reacting with predictable name calling fury. 

We voters, are we to be hood winked into a third world America?  Mr. Trump thinks not but should you decide to be stupid at the ballot box, remember, that vote ensured the demise of freedom in America.  Mr. Trump, will not quite, he will shoulder the abuse in order to give all Americans a more prosperous future.  Should the voters of America decide for the status quo corrupt politics, the election will have consequences (Obama words). 

Can you be shamed out of standing up for the future of America?  

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

Every

Sitting on the front porch and watching the sun rise over Goat Mountain every morning is the best of each day. The wonder of the rising sun, day after day, year after year, century after century, why should it be so?  It is quite impossible for we humans to fathom the meaning of that little eternal word, every.  Can the rising sun be that consistent?  Such a question leads to others and we are forced to think beyond our petty limitations.  Perhaps, Burt Bacharach was searching the “every question” when he penned the tune so many years ago, “What’s it all about, Alphie”?

The lyrics of this song say the answer is love toward our world and humankind but is this not, in at least one important way, an answer based upon our limitations?  Is it not an earthbound answer?  There was a time in my life when such thoughts or questions were understood to be nonconsequential to this seemingly significant human.  There was a time in my life when it seemed prudent to shift into that comfortable place, the God scenario of heaven and hell as an excuse to never have to ask such questions again.  There was a time in my life when I gave up asking or thinking about the eternal question because there were no answers that seemed appropriate.  The asking was pointless and so far removed from the daily grind.

This time in my life, the “every question”, remains the only question without a full blown answer.  Could this not be an answer?  Our limitations were meant to leave the individual, every individual, without an answer.  As humans we are meant to freely search the hinterlands for the consistency that the sun brings every morning, to search without success in this world.  Life is either that pointless or our search was meant to teach us the meaning of something.  If there be a God, an architect of this unknowable seemingly immoral existence, the word that he would have us swallow is freedom.  We are free to make our limited world whatever the individual reckons to be most rewarding. Freedom cannot be the exclusive possession of the few.  Freedom was designed to be the highest order of this world.  Freedom is for everyone, it is meant for everyone and we depend upon every other human to achieve that freedom.  Freedom is the life value most desired by humans whether we acknowledge the desire or bury it.  Yet, freedom is the most difficult value to give to another.  Now that is a long term goal that makes sense.

The evil in this world says just trust me.  Evil says don’t search, don’t think, don’t question, just trust me.  The mother goose of religion says just trust me.  The mother goose of political government says just trust me.  The mother goose of social order says just trust me.  The mother goose of wealth and privilege says just trust me.  The mother goose of human allegiances gives comfort to life but it also says, just trust me.  The mother goose of violence says just trust me.  Each claims to have our future best interest as their motivator but the claims are a lie.  Self-interest is at the heart of their message.

There is only one messenger from whom I would take counsel and from whom I have failed to emulate.  Jesus of Nazareth never used the word freedom but he lived the word on this earth for a few short years.  He was truly free from the political intrigue of his time and place.  He was truly free from the religious dogmatism of his ancestors and so-called leaders.  Jesus condemned no one but encouraged all to endorse and embrace  the eternal value of the rising sun, the freedom of another day or days.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Boom or Bust?

Saturday, July 30, 2016

America, it is time to hunker down.  Past time really, Middle America has increasingly felt economic distress for the last twenty or more years.  Our politicians have put us in this predicament, relegating the people to a no win economic situation that is beyond any human control. There will be more pain and the bad news, the pain is about to explode to a place that we, as Americans, know nothing about.  The Democrats will call this prediction doom and gloom as if the prediction is merely a political talking point.  Our reality, the reality of the little people is already here, it is the reality of 2016.  Regardless of who is elected president to shoulder this blossoming American economic crisis, there will be more pain for more Americans and the pain cannot be avoided.

The Obama administration has doubled down on those same economic policies that made the pain inevitable preferring to distract the people with race baiting and blaming the political opposition for all that is wrong with America.  Their social engineering has been purchased with the future well being of the great majority of Americans. Our American nemesis is not the military, the police, the middle class, capitalism, white privilege, abortion rights, guns, male political dominance, conservative thinking, racial and identity discrimination or any call for personal responsibility.  These are but Democratic attacks intended to distract and whip up the electorate to maintain political control for the moneyed interests who shovel money to the few political elites who can keep hold of the power.  We the people are an expendable commodity and this country is no longer America.

The nemesis that is tearing away at the fabric of America is easy to spot, if one is really looking.  The bad guy is money in politics.  The large corporations, Wall Street investors and the big banks have one focus, their stock prices not the people.  Americans are valued only as consumers to buy products from their growing overseas investments that take American jobs to third world countries.  Growth in the American economy is not in the Wall Street play book.  Are you watching the American growth numbers over the entire O’bama rule?    The numbers have been less than 2% above zero and falling lower of late, these are historically low markers.  Do we the people need four more years of the same old?

The stock market greed misters are politicking to scream, yes we do!  Fox news reported yesterday, the 28^th of July, that the greed misters have given 53,000,000 dollars to the Hillary campaign and to Donald trump a mere $19,000.  Still not convinced, Charles Payne of Fox business dared you to google, “protection team”.  The insane and artificial rise in the market of the last few weeks is an orchestrated bait by the Wall Street working group to fool the millions of 401K voters to vote for Hillary and not the pro-growth policies of Donald Trump.  The sad truth is that this ploy may dupe the unsuspecting.

 

This uninvolved stock market watcher believes that the bust in the stock market is closing upon us regardless of who wins the election.  The market as a whole is a bubble just waiting to burst.  If Hillary wins it means another four years of zero interest rates and the Federal Reserve pumping billions of dollars to the greed misters of Wall Street.  Our only real chance to minimize the damage and pain of the coming bust is to go the pro-growth route with Mr. Trump.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA

  

Who are the political fools of 2016?

Simply stated the political fools are many in 2016.  The whites who blindly follow Mrs. Clinton and her elitist dictatorial Wall Street agenda, are fools.  The blacks who blindly follow the agenda of the first black president even though he has made their everyday economic situation more intolerable, are fools.  The Hispanics who insist that our country welcome all their distant relatives even though this will make America into the banana republic they escaped, are fools.  Women who insist on the woman being president, regardless of her history, loyalties and integrity, are fools.  The gay and lesbian communities are fools if they assume that practical freedom resides in liberal politics.

The biggest fools of all are those who follow after a candidate or a political party and vote without knowing why?  Some of us say at election time, I’m a Democrat, some say I’m a Republican or an Independent and by saying so we have an excuse to stop thinking.  Some of us react to candidates emotionally as if we are electing a new family member or a pastor for the congregation.  No emotional reaction will give us a clue about the ability of a man or women to lead the country.

 

You can easily identify these folk because the total sum of what they have to offer is a string of personal insults, presumed character flaws and name calling from a stagnant brain.  Our politicians of every strip, get all warm and fuzzy by preaching to this mindless choir because they will accept anything they are told.  Please let us think together.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA   

Why should the people elect Donald Trump as President?

Wearing my Trump hat around Yucca Valley is just plain fun.  At times the reaction is silence or on one occasion there was a gathering of multicultural young people around my van.  While waiting at the drug store, a senior lady asked why I would be voting for a candidate such as Donald Trump.  This question was quite welcome but along with the question came an obvious disgust for the man.  Cloaking an opinion in a question while really not wanting an answer, is a female trick that we, in your face males, find offensive and cowardly.

Responding gruffly without thinking, I asked the question, do you expect me to vote for that Hillary hag?  She was quite startled but the dictionary says that a hag is a female demon or evil spirit, an ugly, often vicious old woman.  This is Hillary, she has proven herself to be a hag, time and time again, over a life time.  She has also earned other appropriate monikers such as greedy, a liar, crooked and a criminal, a woman who has made millions and millions of dollars from selling political influence to powerful donors, foreign and domestic.  This is not another Republican talking point for it is the Hillary reality show, just talk to Bernie Sanders.

 

Enough said, please allow me to answer the question from the senior lady, why Mr. Trump, you ask?  Donald Trump is the man that country needs at this hour.  The U.S.A. has been in crisis mode for decades but now this country is one election away from never again being a true democracy whose future is in the hands of the people instead of the big donors and the political elites.  Our politicians of both parties have pandered away our future to every interest group who pays to play with money or potential votes.  As a result, politics is about being nice and saying the politically correct words that the donors and the interest groups want to hear, it is about spinning the truth. 

  

Our politicians assume that the people are so gullible and so invested in their own interests that they will believe or accept all the lies as normal.  Hey, people, are the politicians right?  Do we not care about the truth?  Do our own personal economic interests rule our lives or can we reach beyond them to again find the peoples’ democracy?  Are the Wall Street donors to be in charge of our future?   This is the fundamental issue in this election and Donald Trump is the only candidate for president that can and will say no to a dictatorship of the wealthy. 

This is as clear as the nose on your face but if you remain skeptical, take a close look at the very long Trump enemies list.  The Wall Street stock market types are funding every stop Trump movement because their only priority is unencumbered free trade even when it cripples the middle class.  The Republican establishment politicians are fighting his leadership because their donors are pissed and it flows downhill.  The big government Democrats are promising free goodies and race baiting because they don’t want to talk about the selling out of our American democracy.

 

Mr. Trump only promises a better, safer and more prosperous America, so what’s to hate?  He is not a hard line ideology who will insist upon his way resulting in another decade of national stagnation.  He is a negotiator and a builder who brings people together to accomplish the task at hand.  He is a doer.

“Make America Great Again” is not just another cutesy political slogan devised to win an election.  Some of us believe it is his heart felt desire for all the people.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca