Look You
Look you. For just a minute, I ask you to think about
something. You can readily see all the disruption, discontent, want, suffering,
and unhappiness all around us, with people, with nations, and with the world
for that matter. You don’t have to be told. You know things aren’t right. Why? For
just a moment, look beyond what you see, what you hear, and even how you think
you feel. The late French economist, thinker, and artist, Frederic Bastiat told
us that there is that which is seen, and that which is not seen. Looking for that
which is not seen, cast aside from your mind for just a moment all the clutter
and garbage that is fed to us on a daily basis and ask yourself a question.
What on earth is behind all of this that is not seen that is causing all of
this? What is really going on?
Allow me to suggest an answer to all this misery. That answer
is the struggle for power and dominance, the basic answer to everything. The
greatest, yet the most basic struggle is between God and Satan. Before you cast
that aside so brusquely, please, just consider it. We all know who is going to
win in the end, but that struggle is happening all around us each and every
day.
Now, let us bring this discussion down to earth where we can really relate.
For the past approximately two and a half centuries of our nation’s existence,
our people have been suffering between the pull of two forces—capitalism, the
interests of the rich and the privileged, and the interests of the people, God’s
creation, put here by God to “dress, till, and keep”, i.e. rule, a very long
time before capitalism was ever given a thought. Before you cast that aside, too,
recall to your mind what we were told by Jesus, God’s Son, that man cannot
worship God and mammon, i.e. money, that it is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In that light, I say to you, this earth exists for man—all of us—not just the rich and privileged. To this end, you also know that business exists to serve
the wants and needs of man—not the other way around, to rule over man.
Therefore, as you listen to your television, read in your newspapers,
glean from your computers, and, also, relate with your friends and neighbors,
behind all the information you “take in”, are the influence, propaganda, and
mind control resulting from this struggle for power. In your study of history,
you can see it in the Republican Party from the beginning of the industrial
revolution in the mid 1800s to the present, and in the Democratic Party pretty
much from the “seventies” to the present, neither of whom have really served
the people that well until people like Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth
Warren, etc. came to the fore.
So, therefore, if we really want to “get on the road” with
solving our problems in this great nation, I suggest we must first determine
which way we want to go, i.e. direction, and “get it done”, rather than continue
to follow the messy and expensive direction we are now doing. That decision should be made by the people. Perhaps we need a
new party, do you think? I do know this for certain. Our country is going to
continue to “go downhill” until our people wake up, get involved, and address
this question.
Moving a step further in this discussion, there are those who
say our country is not a democracy. It is a republic. They are mistaken. Our
nation is a democratic republic. It is true that, in our beginning, our
democracy was weak. Our senators were elected by representatives in the Houses
of Representatives rather than directly by the people as we now do. Also, women
couldn’t vote in those days, and neither could blacks, who were treated like
machines with no regard for their humanity. They were property to be bought,
sold, traded, and even killed at will. If our founders had been able to have
their way in our beginning, only the wealth and property owners would have had
the right to vote. Our democracy has come a long way baby (as they say), and
could come even further if our people would only get off their duffs and take
back our country from the corporations and very rich, i.e. the Corporatocracy
and Power Elite—the very rich, the, well, you know who; or, what is it they
say? You Know.
Only if the people, our people, take charge can we take back
our country—not with guns, but at the voting booths across the nation, in
demonstrations, and with pressure on our representatives in the “House” and
senators in the “Senate”. Do we remember the “sixties”? It worked then. Even
our president then decided not to run for a second term. Also, it would be one
big help if people would read more and be better informed so as to really know
what they are talking about. I say again, “Look you”.
