Look at these idiots. At a recent Donald Trump event these Millennials showed up and displayed the net result of their vast ignorance. If you want to understand why Donald Trump needs to be president it is because of this Millennial generation raised to be socialists through their public educations. These people need to think completely different about things before it’s too late, and maybe—just maybe, Trump can do it through his ability to work the media. Nobody else has a personality large enough for the job, and these people are in real trouble. There are a lot of them out there, and they are very sick.
Check out Jesus in the background. God help us—and if that is the son of God back from the dead—he should probably crawl back into the cave he was resurrected from. What a loser.
Even for me, I was a little shocked that Prince had died. It wasn’t the loss of a person that I considered to be something scratching the surface of a oveman, but the last great loss of a great talent from the 80s. I feel worse for the modern kids who don’t know what it’s like to have James Brown, Michael Jackson and Prince all alive and making music for their society all on stage together. With the modern record industry comparatively crushed relative to that unique period in 1983, shown below, the amount of raw talent that was enjoyed by the 80s may not be seen again for a long time. For modern race baiters who declare that America is a racist nation, they obviously don’t know much about our history. I am proud to say I live in a culture that produced minds like Prince, Michael Jackson and James Brown. Prince for all his small stature of 5’ 2” made the best of it and walked around like he was 9’2”. I always thought of him as a remarkable person and he had an impact on me that lasted.
I also thought he was a little weird—and for whatever reason, we accept culturally people who are extremely different if they are musicians. It’s a very strange thing to watch people who pick on others for being different turn right around and wear the shirt of a famous musician that behaves in very eccentric ways. Prince was certainly one of those people. Prince was about nine years older than I was, so as he was making his most famous music, the album “Purple Rain,” I was traveling all over the country as an Explorer in the High Adventure Boy Scout Post, 962 ran by one of my arch rival school teachers from the 7th grade. Me and that woman hated each other, but she was access to adventure so I put up with her and spent a lot of my time from 14 to 16 years of age doing just about everything human beings could do regarding adventure, rappelling, backpacking, spelunking, and competing against others in yearly competitions at Camp Frielander in Loveland, Ohio. It was the only thing that could have held my interest at that particular time and I thrived in that environment. In a lot of ways Prince and I came to age at the same time in very different ways. Both of us learned to think bigger than just being human which a lot of Prince’s songs reflected.
I was never particularly compelled by the religious leanings of Prince, but I did enjoy his otherworldly approach to life—the eternal aspect, and he seemed to accompany me everywhere during those Explorer days. Explorer Posts are divisions of the Boy Scouts of America, but they are co-ed activities so there were always girls around—especially on the competition campouts where explorers from all over the southern Ohio region showed up to fight it out at Camp Frielander each August. Most of the competition was fire department Explorer Posts and those from various police divisions—where young people were basically in apprenticeships for those careers. My Explorer Post was designed to make global adventurers, and the skills I learned there I never forgot. I always had extreme confidence and all that came to excessive fruition during this period of my life—and my antics seemed to always occur next to a Prince soundtrack. No matter where I was, or what I was doing, Prince was on the radio or on somebody’s private boom box. And when it came to confidence and multitasking, I looked at Prince and took some young direction. My introduction to the Explorer Post world came at Camp Frielander where on my very first night I blew up our campfire on purpose with a homemade bomb and picked a fight with a rival Explorer Post over a girl who me and the other males all wanted. From winning several of the events and gaining everyone’s instant attention, like Prince I had splashed onto the stage of adventure boldly. Within a year I was giving speeches in front of massive crowds at GE Aviation in Evendale and running around the University of Cincinnati like I owned the place and I was still six to seven years younger than all the kids attending. From Prince I learned to step in front of an audience and take charge. With him being so short and strange, I used to watch how he handled things and I incorporated many of his social tactics to my own escapades. So I can say that Prince greatly improved my life during a key time.
Within a few years I was elected president of the Dan Beard Council for the entire Tri-State region and I eventually secured the girl that we all wanted whom I had met that first night at Camp Frielander. But by then I had outgrown her and I had rapidly evolved beyond many of the people who were with me that first night of that summer competition. Literally the day that I was elected, which occurred at General Electric in front of a packed house I had met another girl that I liked a lot more so I was looking for a way to get rid of the other one and her father was one of the guiding administrators for the entire Dan Beard Council in the eastern part of the country. Later that night when I was supposed to be in fight against a bunch of kids at my school, one of them ended up dead and of course I was the key suspect—everyone in the Explorer Post community abandoned me, including all my girl friends—and Prince’s constant music was the only thing that made sense to me during that period. It was a surreal feeling to listen to the song, “When Doves Cry” as police cars all over Cincinnati went looking for me to question me for murder. In 24 hours I went from the top of the world to just a few steps from jail and it was very strange. But at no time was I afraid, or did I weep for my losses. I simply recaptured myself quickly and got back to what I did best and within a few weeks, had recovered completely and was back to my usual persuasions.
Prince was so boldly creative that he gave to my mind, which desired unlimited energy, a glance into the eternal—and that carried me to places that would soon become self-sustainable. I outgrew Prince by the end of the 90s largely due to the fact that I did more before I was ever 19 than some people did in their entire lives. By the time that Prince did a song for Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film, I had outgrown him—but I continued to always admire the eccentric musician. Prince was wildly imaginative and magnificently talented and I learned a lot from him at a key time in my life—and it was clear when he died that future generations wouldn’t have the same opportunity—and for me that was the saddest aspect of the mysterious death at Prince’s Paisley Park home and studio in Minnesota. Prince at 57 didn’t eat meat, and was pretty religious for a rock star—and he had such a tiny little body. So diseases took a toll and if he took some drugs to alleviate the pain, he likely put himself under too much strain—and he left his body to join the focus of his otherworldly pursuits which had been a big part of his music for so long. It was that otherworldly appeal which I always enjoyed and drew from for myself. So it didn’t surprise me that his soul just decided to leave his body one day as the body struggled under pressures only the living understand. Prince seemed indifferent to life and death, so he obviously didn’t have much fight in him to struggle through such tribulation. But it’s always a shock to see that someone as full of life as Prince had left the world of the living—because it seems counter to his core personality.
Death is a journey of its own, and Prince took it closing a chapter on earth that future generations will only hear about. I learned a lot from Prince, and I am happy to say that his overman appeal to me is something I quickly mastered myself—and actually exceeded by the time I was 30 years old and had suffered through many more tragedies on the same scale as that day I was elected onto the Dan Beard Council and lost it all just a few hours later. Prince seemed at that time to be the sage from the top of a mountain who had all the answers, but it wasn’t long before I was looking down on his mountain and thinking how small he really was. That’s not Prince’s fault, as an artist, all he did was present something to contemplate through his music—it was up to us to bring meaning to it—and I did—living the life of a boundless adventurer who didn’t know any limits. I probably achieved more earlier because of Prince than I would have without him. Then suddenly he was gone as quickly as he came, like a purple haze and a distant memory that will soon be forgotten like a purple rain once the sun comes back out and distracts us from the day. Such is life—but for me, I will never forget. He was certainly one of the best and our society won’t produce another like him likely for hundreds of years—if ever.
Sometimes you readers here ask me my advice on financial matters, and when I give my opinion and you listen you profit wonderfully, and everyone lives happily ever after. But as I watched with some level of horror that the Disney owned company ESPN fired the great baseball pitcher Curt Schilling over his social media disgust about transgender politics while my third grandson was being born at the hospital I have decided to give this advice for free before being asked. If you have any Disney stock in your portfolio, then you should dump it now. Not only does the Disney Company need to be taught a lesson due to their bad management and advocacy of progressive politics using their extensive entertainment vehicles to attack traditional family values—but it’s just good sound financial policy. Disney is running all its companies in the ground—most people just don’t see it yet. So for your own good, you should stick by Schilling—who is a real man, and dump Disney. Perhaps they’ll learn something and fix their company, but as of right now, they are headed toward a miserable end as they have attached their star to progressive politics. CLICK HERE TO READ PREVIOUS EXAMPLES OF THIS FAILURE. Here is why Disney stock is headed for troubled times.
Disney has bet a lot on Star Wars, but those best days are now behind it. With The Force Awakens breaking $2 billion dollars at the box office and falling short of Avatar, future movies will be disappointments up until 2020. There are other Star Wars movies that will do well from now until then, and the merchandise sales will be healthy, but the Star Wars mythology is on a downward trend and losing steam quickly. By 2021 Star Wars will be half the value socially that it is now. It will still be considered successful compared to the other properties that Disney runs, but it won’t be enough to carry the whole company.
The Marvel films are in their fourth quarter of effectiveness. The superhero films are losing their appeal and Marvel is the latest “has been.” DC Comics is the new fresh face and even those films will have run their course by the start of the next decade. New films will not hold the same appeal that they have over the last decade and this will seriously damage Disney’s market intentions.
Disney is leaning toward making a gay protagonist and Frozen is on the radar to launch that attempt—they experimented with the idea in that popular musical. It will be a devastating attempt that will be greatly rejected and severely damage the animation division at Disney. So far they have been dancing around the surface, but there is a lot of pressure politically for them to commit more deeply to gay protagonists as primary characters. Once they do that, there will be serious market backlash, and you won’t want your money in the Mouse House at that point in time.
ESPN is going down the tubes with the destruction of cable television. With streaming services taking over the home television markets, ESPN is one of the first major casualties. Baseball is already having trouble keeping ratings during summertime broadcasts and with the poor PR issues regarding concussions within the NFL, professional sports are having a hard time attracting a younger audience. There are too many options for young people and sports are becoming decentralized at a key time and ESPN will find itself on the way out quickly in the years to come. The problem that professional sports face is similar to what the music industry has suffered from in recent years. Studio music has been weakened as options have given more people outlets, but taken away the extraordinary profits that have been enjoyed in the past.
The Disney Parks are getting killed in the Orlando market, even in the Hollywood region. Universal Studios has been far more innovative and has not attached their image so intensely to progressive politics. They have wisely kept a lot of the politics to a minimum where Disney has chained themselves to rainbow-colored castles and flamboyant employees. The Disney parks have taken a noticeable dive over just the last few years looking more like an apologist of the Obama White House than an entertainment company. While Universal Studios was building the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and many other updates Disney was focused on attracting more girls while alienating boys. They have heavily invested in Frozen and their new Fantasyland area. Universal’s attractions are appealing to both boys and girls while being equally thrilling to adults as well. But Disney has alienated boys while focusing on girls and ignoring the adults. They hope to fix that situation with the new Star Wars land at Hollywood Studios, but that will be a few years away toward the end of the Star Wars appeal. It will arrive at market too late and will lose steam by the mid 2025 time period.
It has long been known that the great Howard Ashman of Disney died of aids because of his gayness, but he was smart enough to write songs to musicals that featured romance between men and women—because they have mass appeal. Because of Ashman’s talent Disney has been forgiven by the public. Yet when Disney goes after a strong sports figure like Schilling—who won a world series bleeding from a last-minute surgery to his ankles–because he doesn’t think that men and women should be sharing a bathroom, Disney has crossed the line. They believe that by employing Shilling at ESPN that they control all aspects of his life. Where Disney employees like Ashman were allowed to have a homosexual lifestyle that led to his death—Disney supported that lifestyle. When it came to Schilling, a man known as a conservative who has taken stands on Muslim troubles and gay rights advocacy during his private life—Disney has shown that it discriminates against conservatives while giving free passes to progressives to express themselves any way they wish. The double standard is an attack on conservative value, and that of course is a terrible business decision on their part. So in spite of their social activism, they are making decisions that guarantee their future failures.
What Disney is doing to Curt Schilling is showing conservative America that they have the power to tame a big conservative lion-like the pro athlete and Hall of Famer. They were supposed to be hiring Schilling for his inside baseball knowledge as one of the greats. But what they really want is to control society’s behavior by taming one of the great male idols within professional sports. And that is not the decision-making ability of a great company—but a bunch of idiots and soon to be failures. For that reason, and many of the others mentioned above, and many, many others not even yet talked about—you should sell your Disney stock today, because you’ll wish you listened tomorrow. That tomorrow may not come for another ten years, but it will come—and you’ll wish you had spent it somewhere else instead of a progressive company riding the coattails of a truly great man, “Uncle Walt,” to use the company to change America instead of motivating it to greatness.
The commenter below actually said some decent things, so I’m not going to rake him over the coals. He is the product of his modern environment shaped by public education, popular entertainment and political necessity. In fact I agree with him on several issues—his comment is a welcome form of debate—and I like to see people thinking. However, the context of capitalistic function is off and I will explain why after you’ve had a chance dear reader—to ponder over his words as he left them followed by the link to the 2013 article I wrote which initiated the small banter. When I wrote that particular article Seattle, Washington had just elected an open socialist onto their city council and it was a sign of things to come. Of course I was right in all aspects—within three years, we have an open socialist running for president and now they are coming out of the wood work everywhere. They believe the stigma of socialism has been removed from our social context. They are talking more openly about the topic which is good—because it allows us to finally deal with the excessive problem that collective based cultures face and how it impacts their national GDP. Here is the comment as printed.
Paul Brar
Doesn’t Boeing earn a healthy profit every year? If so, why cannot they pay their workers decent wages and provide decent pension options. If a company was not profitable or earning low profits, then your article would be justifiable but when it come to very large corporation who make millions in profit every year, I think the workers should expect decent wages, working hours, good working conditions, etc. Further, please do not confuse Socialism with Communism, they are not interchangeable. For example, Social Democratic countries in Europe are mostly democratic capitalistic countries with social values that protect the workers from exploitation. That is the future and once we keep evolving, we will realize profits are not the main aim for humanity but evolution. Evolve to be able to travel to other planets, advances in medicine so that we can live for 400 – 800 years, where the whole planet is connected and basics needs are free for everyone (i.e. food, housing, clothing, etc.) and profits are made by advances in technology which compete with open source technologies. There is enough on this planet for double or even triple today’s population but greed has led to social/economic inequalities. We have to evolve as we are not much better than animals with basic technology. Reason for life would be to evolve as humanity, not hoard for the next generation.
Here is the problem with what he said, Boeing has one primary objective, it makes airplanes—the best airplanes that it can and their profits are a product of the successful implementation of that objective. The employees are there to serve the needs of the business so that Boeing can achieve its stated goals. If Boeing needs to secure its workforce to retain their skills and reduce unneeded employee turnover, then the company needs to pay what they need to in market value to retain those employees—through benefits, work hours, etc. Boeing does not exist to be a job provider—their primary purpose is not to provide sustainable jobs to the people who work for the company, and the employees are not equal partners in the productive enterprise. They show up to work, punch the clock, do their task, and they return home to do whatever they desire with their earnings exchanged for their labor. The mistake that socialists and communists make is that they assume that a job is collectively owned and that they are equal partners in providing labor to a marketplace. They completely ignore the tendency of free-enterprise for which the founders and ownership of Boeing participate in to assume all the risk of a profitable venture and that any disproportionate rate of pay which might be enjoyed at the top—by CEOs and the board of directors, is that the risk of success or failure is completely on their shoulders so the greatest rewards are garnered by them alone. In a capitalist society—which is what America is supposed to be—income is directly linked to the amount of risk assumed by an individual. And by risk it is attributed to the level of responsibility for task completion that a worker possesses.
Under collective bargaining agreements unions have destroyed the value of a good wage because everyone gets it no matter what they bring to the table of productive enterprise or the level of risk assumed by individuals. The lackluster sloth that only has a passion for video games once they are off work can make as much money as the person who desires to work through all their breaks to achieve more productivity at work and continues to work long after everyone sleeps for the night. What happens as a result is that you get fewer of the latter and much, much more of the former regarding employee behavior. If you have ever done business with a French company you get a taste of what I’m talking about. In France, which is a heavily socialist country, the emphasis isn’t on productive output in most cases; it’s on personal time and vacation periods incurred. There is very little passion among the French workforce to complete tasks because they take the products for which they manufacture for granted. They believe they are all equal contributors to output. As a result, most of their workforces are planning their two months of vacation each year instead of thinking about accomplishing the task of productive enterprise, and their nation suffers as a result. Human beings are driven by the opportunity to profit and when employees see that they can get ahead in life and that profit is there for them if they do well; they tend to find ways to be productive. But if they get paid regardless of whether strategic product objectives are fulfilled or not—they tend to perpetually plan for their lunch breaks and vast amounts of vacation time that they incur as a result of their socialist underpinnings.
All this European socialism which emerged from the communist plunge taken early in the last century is derived from Immanuel Kant’s philosophy which has spread like a disease across the world. While many don’t consider the collectivist theory to be reminiscent of communism, it is a direct byproduct of small “c” communism without the ruthless dictators. America’s plunge toward socialism is directly the fault of labor unions which have been functioning under communist oriented sentiment for decades and 7 years of a presidency that openly beholds the softer European versions of collective bargaining at the first sign of a sizeable profit margin.
The failure in understanding is that money is a unit of measure and not of actual value. To fall in love with money or profit and base a philosophy on it is like basing the value of a measurement off a yard stick and not the thing being measured. By itself a yard stick, a ruler, or anything resembling a measuring instrument has little value until it is used to measure the height and width of something. In relation to those results, we might say something is bad or good based on the dimensional characteristics. Profit is a measurement of a company’s’ financial success, it is not a pool of money meant to be equally distributed among a mass workforce.
Collective bargaining has muddied the water of free enterprise and made it so that companies hoard their profit to protect themselves from mass employee insurrections such as layoffs and disproportional yearly increases not rooted in value toward a company’s actual worth. A line worker does not have equal value to the risk takers at the top. They may physically work harder as the line worker, but they get to leave at the end of a work day relatively free of responsibility—so the input toward a company’s wealth is not equal. The executive at the top of a company worries about the health of the company usually 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Sure they play golf with clients, go out to eat and get to travel around the world, but it’s not all fun and games—the stress they endure is not proportionally distributed among those enjoying collective bargaining benefits. That is why the executive likely earns six figures for a 50 to 60 hour work week while the hourly worker has to work 70 to 80 hours of overtime to receive the same. However at Boeing, members of their machinist union are easily compensated at the six figure range as seen at the link below—and most of them are not exceptional employees by any measure—they are average and can only achieve such high rates of pay because the health of the company has been able to sustain it without leaving for another country where they can protect their profit margins. The union and the collective bargaining that the company has to endure due to socialist policies never stops asking for more money and Boeing is at a point where they are seriously balancing out whether or not to out-source all their work because the collective bargaining agreements are too unreasonable—and they are at a tipping point.
The concept of collective bargaining is a faulty one; it is a socialist concept that should not be in any American business. It’s not wrong for a line worker to make six figures if they outwork all their peers—but when all boats are forced to rise together the incentive to be better than the next worker, or to learn and endure more for the productive enterprise of a successful business is taken away, what we get is lackluster performance that ultimately makes that company less competitive. The only reason that the United States has endured with these socialist policies as long as they have is because most of the world isn’t any better off. America is still the best option for a company like Boeing because it is close to the end-user of their products and the labor pool is relatively stable for the high-tech jobs they require. But that doesn’t make it right and at some point in the near future we either have to reject outright the socialist collective bargaining concept for the good of our national GDP, or we will gradually lose more and more manufacturing until only service oriented businesses remain. And that is where America stands in 2016—dangerously close to the edge of oblivion.
So while the commenter above was right about the tail end of his observations—about the direction of the human race—he isn’t quite there regarding the motivations for getting there. If we expect entrepreneurs to continue evolving and driving the marketplace forward, we need to take the shackles off them and not expect them to carry all of society forward with little to no profit incentive. Boeing does not owe its profits to the workers—the workers are compensated based on their value—at least they should be. The collective bargaining agreements under their labor contracts are excessively burdensome and will eventually destroy the company just as insects acting as parasitic entities on a nice healthy tree will eventually kill it for their own sustenance. Socialism is a concept that must be rejected at every level—especially at Boeing and the Seattle region in general. Socialism only benefits the lazy and unproductive and holds back the efforts of the exceptional. But it is the exceptional that drives mankind forward, and that is a concept that every socialist and student of if ignores—which is why under any name that they call it—collectivism destroys culture—it doesn’t enhance it.
It takes a special kind of optimist to win consistently and it takes an even more unique personality to pull out victories when everyone else is ready to throw in the towel. I’m a sports fan for only this reason—I’m always on the search for the miraculous—because it sometimes shows itself in our games. But in real life, it is far harder to see—because we often do not have units of measure to capture such things since the ending of a clock and the parameters of success and failure are not so easily interpreted by rules everyone agrees on. That is why the Wollman Rink lingered in disrepair for so long in New York City until the big dreamer Donald Trump stepped up and provided the much-needed private sector miracle that everyone needed—and as the video shows, it restored a bit of happiness to those who didn’t have it three months earlier.
The mayor of New York at the time was Ed Koch—seen in the video speaking. He was a big time Democrat who didn’t like Donald Trump. Trump had no choice but to work with the mayor for his various building projects, so the two had a contentious relationship. It was with great reluctance that Ed let Donald Trump even touch the beloved rink—and to throw in the towel to allow the private sector to take a swing of the bat. Donald Trump being the big thinker that he was immediately went to work thinking outside the box and talking to the right people so that he could make the right decisions. If Trump was asked how he was going to do all the things needed before he did it, Trump couldn’t have told anybody because he didn’t know, just like a star athlete can’t put last-minute heroics down on a sheet of paper to show pin-headed bureaucrats how they can duplicate his success. That is because the success starts with a state of mind and optimism derived from past accomplishments. Then the execution of that optimism has to be communicated to others so that they can do the right things at the right time through unrestrained leadership.
Trump had no “plan” as politicians and other idiots at the back of the train regarding the “Metaphysics of Quality” CLICK TO REVIEW often require—he only had a trust in himself to do the right things at the right time—and that’s what he did the moment that Mayor Koch gave him the green light. The first thing Trump did was talk to an ice maker who was in the business of making it for a Canadian hockey team instead of the current outfit that was located in Miami, Florida. In hindsight it should have been obvious to the politicians involved that they should have had someone with great experience advising them on how to build the rink in the temperate outside climate of New York—but after seven years, they hadn’t yet figured it out collectivity. They make the same mistakes in the military all the time, overpaying for things because nobody is competitively bidding and sources are usually generated behind political donations. The same thing essentially happens to everything the government touches at any level—decisions are not made to work with the best and brightest because government is too focused on “equality” and opportunity to make decisions based on merit. So they are weak to identify elements of success when they need to.
It is that system of government that Donald Trump has had to contribute to for so many years, and in the very liberal New York area—a Republican like Trump has had no choice but to pad the pockets of politicians to fund them away from tampering with his projects. As Ted Cruz says, “Trump funded Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer—along with many other Democrats” he’s speaking from extreme ignorance. Well, that’s simply not true—Trump paid them to go away because that’s how politics work—they are second-handers always looking to take from those that have. The best way to get them off your back is to pay them off and if you give them enough money they’ll help you no matter what political party you’re from. In the field of battle there is no room for such ideological nonsense as Cruz utters. Here is a guy who has never built anything—never created a single job who only understands political theory applied in the vacuum of conservative thought and he thinks he actually has the right to judge someone like Trump—who has been doing things on a big scale for three decades and knows just how to work the system to get what he wants out of it. When Cruz speaks about this topic of political funding, it is disgusting because he has no experience for which to utter the words.
I don’t see any way out and I am an eternal optimist. I am that guy who wakes up every morning and always believes he can win no matter what the odds. I am all that and then some—and I’m saying America is at its end—we get this one election and that’s it. We are losing in the world and our enemies are sensing it. If we want the Republic of America to survive to 2020 we have to act now and hope that someone like Donald Trump can do for America what he did for the Wollman Rink. To him it is simple; it just requires more advisors to speak with which he loves doing. It will involve a whirlwind approach that has never been seen before in the White House. Trump will work day and night and he won’t take vacations—and our many problems will get fixed quickly—relatively—just as the Wollman Rink was. And if I’m the head coach trying to figure out who needs to be on the field in these last seconds—I want my best guy doing the job—not some political hacks who are responsible for us losing the game in the first place at this late stage. I want the private sector guy who has a track record of doing the impossible—and Trump is that guy. We just have to give him the opportunity and to get out of his way and hope for a miracle—because that’s where we are as a nation.
Trump was wrong when he declared that the process which robbed him of all the Colorado’s delegates without a single vote cast was not very democratic. He’s right about the democratic process, but America has never been a democracy—which is just a stepping stone toward open socialism. America is a constitutional republic which should be better but in this case isn’t. The voting process which was intended to select those representatives were sold to the public as being acquired through a democratic process—but in this case it was cut short and was sabotaged by the Republican Party. That revelation has only served to substantiate the intense level of anger that has intensified during the primary campaign season. Yes, the system is rigged, it always has been, and we all knew it. But we didn’t know what the cost was to us because we had never seen another viable alternative that had gotten so far in the process other than Ross Perot many years ago. Trump by his popular successes has forced the party leaders to outwardly show their protections for the first time to people who are learning about this whole process as it develops in front of them. We should have learned all this in our public schools, but instead kids learned to riot and vote for socialism—so people are shocked by what they are seeing.
Among the #NEVERTRUMP clan, there is a feel of superiority over Trump and his supporters because those constitutional geeks work really hard to understand the Constitution and are legitimate nerds in a lot of ways. They are like Star Wars fans who argue over little specifics of the movies because they know everything while the common viewer only see a fraction of what they do in casual viewings. The #NEVERTRUMPs like the rules of the system because they worked really hard to learn that system—it gives them a feeling of superiority over everyone else—they are specialists on that topic and they secretly want to protect that specialty. I know several of them personally. So it gives them quite a charge to see that Trump is furious at losing delegates to Cruz. They would argue that if Trump wanted to play the game, then he should have learned the rules. But, what those #NEVERTRUMP geeks have forgotten is that Trump’s candidacy represents a large faction of the American population that have no desire to learn the rules of the game—because they hate the game—and the Republican Party has just solidified that sentiment epically. They want a change in the rules, they want to play a different game, and they sure don’t have any desire to learn the old rules.
This notion that the Republican Party can do whatever it wants—that they can nominate anybody they care to is preposterous. Sure they have their little club and they seem obsessed with controlling who is in it with them and where they stand in the peaking order in relation to others. No question many of the party leaders want to be king makers deciding who county commissioners are, governors, and presidents—but that’s not the way it was supposed to be. What they want to control is ultimately representatives of “the people” who elect them into a representative republic. The Republican Party for instance isn’t bigger to me than myself, or my family, or my community. It’s just a group of people who I either agree with or don’t. I am not beholden to a sacrificial relationship with them in any way. So if they show themselves as philosophically deficient—as they are clearly in the run for presidency in 2016—I have a right, and obligation to reject them. The “Party” does not have authority over “me” and is not empowered to provide “me” with a representative vetted by them for their own purposes. Clearly the Republican Party interprets their role as such—but I along with many others completely reject that premise. I will not vote for Paul Ryan for anything. He screwed up in 2012 and he won’t get another chance by me. I will not vote for John Kasich. He is the governor of my state, and he has let me down—he’s turned out to be an idiot. I will not vote for Mitt Romney—he has been a failure. I will not vote for Ted Cruz—he’s just another attorney running for office. I don’t want any more legal geeks messing with laws any more. I’m tired of the same old mess offered by the Republican Party and they either want to represent my philosophic conservatism, or they don’t. If they don’t, I am not beholden to them to take whatever piece of crap they offer.
The Republican Party arrogantly believes that it is the end all of American politics—as if the matter has been settled long ago after the Civil War turned out in their favor. They’d be incorrect, each age has its own challenges and the party leaders are either aligned with those challenges, or they will fail to lead their party to a position where it can be beneficial to the constitutional republic for which we are all a part. That republic was always founded on the merits of individualism, not collective assimilation—and that is precisely where the Republican Party is going wrong—in assuming that the “party” is too big for any one individual.
Trump represents a public need to establish a return to individual association. He is the ultimate pronoun “I” and that is what the people who vote for him want to see emerge in this year’s election cycle and obviously the Republican Party has a problem with that declaration. That leaves Trump and his supporters without a party—which of course will give rise to a competing party to rival the Republicans and Democrats. If 30% of the voting public doesn’t have a political party which represents them—or seeks to—then what are they to do? Surrendering their beliefs to one of the two other options isn’t viable as individuals. Yet the Republican Party seems inclined to insist on such a thing. As Ted Cruz gloated about his legalese victories around the west, particularly Colorado—and the use of the party machine in Wisconsin to goad Donald Trump into throwing a fit because people weren’t voting for him—he is assuming that the masses are on his side. Show me one time that Ted Cruz can fill a stadium with supporters like Trump does. All Cruz has on his side are the political geeks, not the average people who make up our Republic. They aren’t–wait until Cruz gets to New York, and Pennsylvania. The masses are speaking, and they haven’t been picking Ted Cruz. Cruz has been playing the legal game, but not winning the hearts of the masses. When Kasich says that it’s the delegates that matter, he’s right from his perspective within the game of politics—but the party for which he belongs is supposed to serve the conservative interests of the republic and instead they serve a collective notion of consensus building which I would argue is un-American. Want to see a national consensus established by the will of the people where they generally agree—go to a Trump rally. Trump voters, me included, reject that collectivist philosophic position and the party should be listening, instead of working to hold society to a set of rules designed to protect a system they have learned to profit off of as public servants.
When the smoke clears, Trump will have won many more votes in the primary effort—yet the political party seeking to maintain their control of that system will attempt to ignore that fact and offer up the same old garbage as they have before. And now that many of us have had a taste of what could be, we aren’t going to swallow that pill again—because it leads nowhere and we’ve learned. It is not the voting public that has to learn a lesson here—it’s the Republicans. They either get with the program, or they will be replaced. It is they who are in the weakened position—the public holds all the cards because ultimately the “party” either serves the interests of the public—the conservative public—or they don’t. And given their behavior against the popular front-runner Trump—it is obvious where all this is going. When it gets there I’ll be joining that old man from Colorado. I’m not going to hold my nose and vote for another Republican loser. They either start winning—or I’m done too with them. And victories are measured by the popular vote in this primary race, not the legal gymnastics of lawyers and political geeks.
I’m at a point where I don’t think I could support Republicans even if they did get behind Trump all of a sudden. I think the process is so broken and the philosophies so displaced that there is no mending it. As the link above describes the Colorado situation from the point of the of the GOP, the issue remains that the party leaders have made a system that ultimately they control, because it is rule heavy and requires a full-time staff to learn all those rules. It puts the power of candidacy in pin-heads and political addicts instead of the best and most viable candidates and is the root cause for why the Republican Party has been so grossly ineffective for such a long time.
Anyone can see what the root cause of the problem witnessed in the following Alex Jones video was. In it there was a group of people that we might call, “social justice warriors” who have grown up in a society deliberately softened to allow for their rise by a political class hell-bent on staying in power—no matter what. These kids, and the adults that they will grow into, have been empowered by essentially removing the ramifications of their lunacy—the consequences of their personal assault against individual liberty. The blame clearly falls on our global education system and the forces which gathered to perpetuate their stated curriculum. It has made me realize that a practice long forgotten for its perceived barbarity needs to be dusted off and inserted back into our American culture—the gentlemanly practice of dueling. As radical as that may sound, we must find some version of it to emerge in this modern century otherwise we won’t make it into more advanced stages. To see why, watch this video then all of the following for substantiation.
The duel as it was inherited from Europe was widely practiced within the United States for quite a number of years by our early presidents and was a declaration of individual honor. In that society from which our Constitution was written, an individual’s honor was required to have a civil society. If some rogue threatened that sanctity then ramifications just outside the grip of the law were required to keep the peace and maintain an orderly society. We all know about the famous Alexander Hamilton duel with Aaron Burr—which I think about quite a lot. I was born in the Ohio city directly named after Hamilton who lost his duel with Burr and died. I also think of President Jackson a lot when I think about duels and the kind of attitude which formed the country of America. Dueling and honor went hand-in-hand which provided a foundation for our laws.
When I was growing up the Department of Education had just been enacted, so they didn’t have time to drive this trend out of our culture. Even one hundred years after the Wild West, dueling was still a common practice among kids in my school of Lakota in Liberty Township, Ohio which was essentially settled by war heroes of the Revolutionary War. When something which insulted individual honor fell outside the established law of the school or the society outside which controlled it, boys would settle the issue with a fight after school—which I found myself in a lot. Failure to show up to one of these fights would lead to extreme scorn and a loss of respect up the pecking order of male influence among both sexes. If you were challenged to one of these fights, you didn’t fail to show up. I always did, and most of the time, just as it was when the dueling action was pistols—handshakes and respect were given out and sometimes friendships were forged. People respect courage and when two people faced down each other over a dispute that couldn’t be legally worked out by putting a hand on the Bible and letting God sort through the details—individualized respect was the only real option which bound our society together.
Think about it, when you are in the grocery check-out, what keeps you from belting the person in front of you in the head and taking their place in line—is it fear of the law—of being arrested for assault? Perhaps for most, that is their first reaction—but these days people have a lot less respect for the law as police officers and their methods of control have come into question. So what is the next layer of defense which prevents you from acting—you look the person over and decide that you could physically overpower them and take their place in line. What keeps you from doing it? Essentially, fear…………….fear of what that person might do if you challenged them in some way. If you push them they might turn around and clobber you, or they might have a gun and shoot you. That threat forces you to respect their individual boundaries at a primal level which then paves the way for respect at the legal level. Without a foundation of respect for individual integrity, no laws in any land can have real influence.
And that is the primary issue, public schools are in the business now of teaching collective rights, not individual ones. As seen in that video, the Donald Trump supporters represented individual values whereas the social justice warriors represented collective values—and our society has put its priorities on the collective effort over the individual ones and that’s how we find ourselves in this current mess. Those social justice warriors have no fear of individual retribution so they are free to attack anything, anywhere over anything. They have grown up lacking respect for individual property or sanctity and are acting on behalf of collective efforts for achievements which extend beyond their personal gains. The way to fix that whole problem is by empowering the individuals to defend their positions with actual respect–and unfortunately that means with all human beings—an imminent fear of being removed from the face of the earth so that a proper dialogue between two parties can emerge.
Years ago I was with a group that was buying a mechanical bull for a nightclub I was involved with and we were at one of those honkytonks to see it in action. I had on my customary cowboy hat as I have since I was a little kid and I was standing in front of a couple of guys at the bar who were obviously drunk and looking for a quick ego boost to their reputations. As I watched people ride the bull in question I felt something rub against the brim of my hat from behind, so I turned quickly and saw the hand of some sappy looking bastard removing his hand quickly hoping that he wouldn’t be caught. Of course I confronted him angrily and I told him that if he did it again I’d beat the rat piss out of him. He and his friend were two tobacco chewing rednecks who thought they were more authentic than me, and they didn’t need to wear hats to country bars—which essentially was what they told me. My response was to take them outside and show them that they weren’t “shit,” both of them. Of course they headed for the door to protect their honor as they were with women who were both at the bar urging them not to fight. When we got outside they saw the anger on my face and realized that the fight was not going to go well for either of them. A bouncer stood on the porch and watched, letting things play out respectfully. Suddenly the two guys apologized for touching my hat and they were quick to want to make friends. I accepted and we returned inside where they bought me a beer and were nice to me for the rest of the evening. Their dates were grateful and everyone had a pretty good time the rest of the night. When I left they even went out of their way to say goodbye and shake my hand.
Protests are getting out of control in our country as socialists, communists, and various anarchists raised in our public education system to not respect private property, personal integrity, or any level of valor have no fear of the law or the individual integrity for which laws were written to protect—and honestly, they need their asses kicked. They are the result of what happens when you don’t retaliate for someone touching your hat, or insulting your personal name in a newspaper. Without that basic respect for other human beings, there is no society to build from and everything plunges into chaos, which is exactly the goal of liberalized social justice warriors. They aren’t warriors at all, only instigators who don’t expect to be punched back in the mouth once they’ve leveled their insults. We live in a society now where they can touch my hat yet don’t expect to be punched in the mouth for it. Once you do, they want to retreat to the law to settle their honor—which is essentially what has been happening at Trump rallies. The society which created these losers doesn’t want to acknowledge that individual liberty is the key to holding all of society together. They want to believe that it is the acceptance that the tapestry of a global society brings that will garner respect for each other—and they are miserably failing in their psychological assessment. Just because they have de-clawed a tiger and removed its teeth, and even castrated it of its aggression, a tiger is still a tiger. You can’t put a bunch of snot-nosed communists into a cage with it and let them poke it with a stick and not expect the tiger to attack those idiots. At some point the individual temper of the tiger will break through the social constraints placed upon it. And in many ways, there are a lot of people in this country who have been treated as such, castrated intellectually, and tied up individually to make the collective masses feel equal. This has given rise to a period in our history where just about everyone is offended at something that somebody else says and that is leading us to a disaster—legally. But, if the practice of dueling were to make an official comeback, and even become legalized again as it once was—then people these days would be a whole lot less offended, so easily. And then, we might just find a way to work together toward achievements that require teamwork. First however, a respect for other individuals must be established, and that only occurs when acknowledgement of those other people is based on a foundation of integrity. That is what the old duels established and that necessity is every bit as strong today as it was 300 years ago. Only now we see what happens when we outlaw the mechanisms for achieving that respect—we have a mad, runaway society full of losers, imbeciles, and malcontents.
We live near a railroad and deep in the night, trains let out their horns announcing that it is approaching a place where it intersects with the road. The road I live on is rural compared to most in Butler County and it’s a dead-end within a heavily wooded area. My wife is a housewife so she’s home most of the time and has studied this behavior for years so she knows with some certainty that when the train lets out it’s whistle—not always—but often enough—that the signal has been given to pick up the packages that were thrown off the train near that particular intersection—day and night. Within those packages are smuggled drugs and other villainous items carried over vast distances by small time traffickers who don’t want to risk the larger shipments through the highway system by tractor-trailer.
My wife and I have some experience with this stuff—we got ourselves into a lot of trouble in Mason, Ohio several years back when we exposed a drug network of marijuana distribution for which the police department was involved in. Of course the media didn’t want to cover the story because they viewed us as nosy busy bodies poking into other people’s business. Even the mayor at the time was involved—I sent him video of the drug transactions when the police failed to act—and it just caused us more trouble, not less. You can’t do much when the law is working with organized crime to sell drugs to a suburbanite neighborhood. If the law refuses to help good people, the actions at that point are very limited. Now 16 years later the social trend is even worse, and more libertarian. Drug tolerance has established, first in our education system, then through our media outlets—movies, video games, and music—then political acceptance of it and the obvious side money that can be made by turning eyes away from the crimes, a landscape of drug use that has made Butler County, Ohio one of the most ravaged drug infested areas of our country—more people die of heroin overdoses than of anything else. It’s the biggest killer that nobody wants to talk about—because so many people are associated with a little bit of guilt in letting it happen.
As I sit on my porch and watch pick-up trucks drive by my house after retrieving the shipments down by the railroad tracks I get more than a little frustrated. The law protects those punks from people like me, but the law doesn’t protect me from them. They are free to bring the vile influence of drugs into my community because nobody wants to stop them. The police only care when they want to make headlines with a drug bust. The politicians don’t want to admit that there is a problem, and society loves to get “high” off narcotics—everything from alcohol to heroine—with marijuana use making up the muddy middle. If there were any justice in the world we’d have a legal system where I could be deputized to just go round-up all these bastards and stop the flow from external outlets—since the police won’t or can’t do it. I’d do it gladly. Then if we would defund any public school that takes a soft stance on drug consumption—we might start to turn the tide on the user end. If a teacher gets caught promoting drugs in any way—they should be fired and the school they worked for penalized with reduced funding. And anybody caught promoting drugs in a social context should be ridiculed to the ends of the earth. Here’s why according to the Journal News of Butler County.
The MHARS board has determined it needs about $3.5 million more a year to deal with addictions. Taxpayers already agreed to fund more mental health services by approving a five-year, 1-mill mental health levy on March 15, but dealing with the county’s opiate epidemic will require more funds, officials said.
“We looked at practically addressing the opiate epidemic,” said Scott Rasmus, executive director of the MHARS board. “… It was around $3.5 million as we developed this business plan to address the opiate epidemic in a practical way in Butler County.”
Here’s my position on this whole drug problem. It’s fine for people to have that stupid libertarian outlook on life—that “live and let live” nonsense about if people want to smoke dope, drink themselves into oblivion, or even smoke cigarettes its their right to live as free people and do as they please—even though I can smell a cigarette from a mile away—and it does bother me. But the moment someone asks me for money in the form of taxes, then the community has made it my business. I didn’t vote in favor of the 1 mill mental health levy—but it passed. And now two weeks later the MHARS board is testing the waters with this 3.5 mill levy to deal with the aftermath of this irresponsible drug use which has been promoted by just about everyone from law enforcement to our entertainment culture. Public schools instead of tackling this issue the way they used to with slogans and marketing against drug behavior has taken a more progressive approach which has exploded the use—so they caused the problem and the only way to fix it is to reverse the trend–not to fund the net result—which is drug addiction. Giving money to addicts isn’t compassionate, it’s equitable to flushing money right down the toilet—because next year there will be more people dying of addiction—and the year after, even more. It will continue until our society stops promoting drug use and weak mental behavior.
The answer to the problem isn’t more money to deal with the back of the problem; we have to deal with the front. When the train blows its whistle, a cop should be there to bust the exchange, not sit up on RT 4 browsing the internet and talking to people on their phone waiting to bust somebody for speeding. The Sheriff’s department should do a bust of the entire county and scoop up everyone known as a drug dealer. Of course they’ll say that there isn’t room in their jails for all those people—which is why they’d say that they haven’t done the job up to now. From their perspective the 3.5 mill levy that the MHARS board is requesting is a small cost compared to the cost of incarceration. But, right is right—I’d be more prone to support increases in a police budget if they could actually arrest people and put them in jail. If people commit crimes—and drug dealing is a crime—then they should be in jail.
I have no sympathy for drug use or their dealings—I hate both the supplier and the customers. I see no benefit to drugs, and I am certainly not a libertarian on this issue. I don’t even like the look of people who might do drugs. I may be the most conservative person in America on this issue and I understand that my views alone do not rule the world. I watch the pick-up trucks with disdain as they hull their goods up from the railroad tracks secretly hoping that they will make some move against me that would allow me to confront them on a public road. But so long as they keep their eyes forward and mind their own business, they can escape that wrath—and they do every week. I know I am very outnumbered on this issue—and I respect the decisions of the people within my community. We have a representative republic and decisions have been made at the ballot box to allow for our present circumstances, so I bite my tongue for the benefit of everyone. But let me tell you this dear reader—DON’T ASK ME FOR ANY DAMN MONEY TO PAY FOR THIS SHIT! If you want to fix the trouble—FIX IT. If the Sheriff’s department wants my help in solving the problem—I will volunteer in a heartbeat. But don’t fund more of the problem—fix it at its source. That is the only way forward. And if you want to know where to start, listen for the train whistles around the countryside of Butler County and watch which cars leave those areas about 15 minutes later. That’s when you will have an easy drug bust. Prosecuting them and putting them in a crowded jail is another matter. But at least the paper trail of bad behavior can be established to begin to solve the massive problem that drugs in Butler County truly is.
Three things happened within a year of each other which really sent me philosophically into a direction which requires a change of focus. Five to six years ago I had identified that socialists were running our education system in America and that private sector influence needed to be introduced to root them out from dominating the minds of our children. It took half a decade but now those discussions are becoming mainstream—they are discussed openly when prior they were considered conspiracy. We are now on a path within 15 years to correcting the behavior. It won’t be fast enough to help all the poor children raised currently, but it may be to help the next generation. Nothing happens fast when so many people are involved, but first you have to properly identify the problem. That is what I do; I identify problems then use dynamic resources to repair static patterns. CLICK TO REVIEW. I have done that all of my adult life—so I am always on the lookout for the next needed priority. I found it actually while traveling around Japan on business.
For a culture that had been plucked clean of the right to defend themselves first through a dominating emperor than under occupied presence—the Japanese were still very much in love with their ancient samurai culture and it made me ask myself why America had allowed itself to step away from its own cowboy culture so willingly—because I see cowboys and samurai as being symbolically similar to our respective cultures. Japan was conducting its society very well with some basic foundations of philosophy established during the feudal period of their history rooted in Shinto Buddhism. The other thing that happened to me was that my two daughters were both pregnant within a few months of each other and I have this nagging feeling that the world needs to be fixed so that those grandchildren can have a shot at a good life—and I’m not going to let them down. It is my mission in life—from a position of philosophy. Then I saw this old Mattel commercial for a cap gun that the toy maker made for our society supplied to me by some friends within a group that I adore and belong to, the Cowboy Fast Draw Association. This little commercial really says everything.
I didn’t worry about it too much when I was raising my daughters. My wife and I grew up under the optimism of Ronald Reagan and had our children at the end of his presidency and as George Bush took over in 1988. The world was in pretty good shape, communism had fallen in the Soviet Union, and Clint Eastwood was the top box office star in Hollywood. Then Bill Clinton became president and we watched our country fall to all the socialist hippies left over from the 1960s protests. By then it was too late. In our family we stayed very traditional as the world around us fell to progressivism and by the time our two children were married, I had committed myself to healing my nation through philosophy with this blog site—volumes of writing that I provide for free not for any hope of financial gain, but to actually help our country stay solvent by bringing up topics for discussion that nobody wants to talk about. It is a commitment to a survivable human philosophy for living in an emerging century where we either survive, or destroy ourselves following the Vico cycle.
Watching that little video about the Mattel .45 cap gun reinforced in me that an important ingredient to our American philosophy has been purposely destroyed by progressive propaganda and that we must renew it in our culture—perhaps for the first time. I’m not suggesting that America return to a time when women and people of color couldn’t vote—but that the chivalry that was introduced through mythology within the American western needs to be a staple that holds our society together. In Japan, the samurai culture goes a long way to assisting them in just about every aspect of their society. Our counterpart is the American Cowboy and I intend to make it my mission in life to restore it to its rightful place—with gradual infusion of my brand of philosophy. The first time through I don’t think we understood the magic that made America exceptional. But now we have a much clearer idea through the benefit of hindsight. We have seen what the progressives in our society intended for us—and that is the enemy of capitalism. As much as I liked the Teddy Roosevelt “Rough Rider” presidential persona, he was a progressive that established the anti-trust elements of an over-extended government and the roots of that failure need to be reversed all the way back to the period of 1870 to 1890, legally and morally.
It was in those years—after the Civil War was out-of-the-way and mankind was free for the first time in its long history—that giant steps toward human endeavor took place. No nation on earth was superior to America and finally the philosophy of the American Way had taken root to free the slaves. Not everyone was on board yet, but the laws of the land dictated the social evolution. There was still war among the collectivist cultures of the Indian against the frontiersmen—and that victory went to the individually based cowboys who settled westward expansion with great emphasis on personal freedom. While some may look to what the Indian lost and their reverence toward nature as tragedies what a nation gained was the type of society that could be built under capitalism—and it was in those years when railroads connected the nation and cities rose on the wealth created under Adam Smith’s capitalism that the most opportunities known to humankind showed itself for the first time truly.
Progressives have put an emphasis on the destruction of the Indians—(which they call Native Americans) because the nomads living in North America at the time of Columbus’s arrival reflected many of the mystical elements of a progressive culture—a Kantian philosophy rooted in blind trust in spirits, nature, and the individual’s insignificance among the heavens. While the Navaho sand paintings of the North American southwest were nearly identical to the practices of Tibetan monks in eastern China it never seemed to raise an eyebrow—whereas it should have—the many hours of delicate work that went into making such paintings were routinely and ceremoniously destroyed to reflect the point of the art in the first place. Once created into beautiful and complex pictures they were then mixed up into a collective powder to return to the earth as “one” element. The ritual is of course to emphasize that we are all just grains of sand that make up a beautiful life together but a reminder that at the end of our days we return to the earth to become part of the greater cosmos. It’s the old question, are we the light bulb or the light—from which do we associate? Does light come from the light bulb or does it come from the energy that flows through it? The collectivist says it’s the energy that flows through the bulb. The individualist says that without the bulb, there is no way for the energy to emerge into this world as a captured element. This is the philosophy of the modern progressive who hates the light but loves the light that comes from it and is why they love gay sex, abortion, orgies, broken families, dysfunctional relationships and other diabolical practices—because they don’t associate themselves as individuals (light bulbs), but as part of the “greater” universe.
Young boys who grew up on those westerns and the women who fell in love with them, married and had children, found that within the values established by the American western the foundation concepts of a thriving nation. When a young boy could wear one of those Mattel six shooting cap guns on their hip and play at being a western hero like they saw in the movies and on television they grew up to be good husbands, hard workers, and generally good neighbors. There were imperfections of course, but the basics were foundations which helped create the strongest economy in the world with the greatest GDP of any nation. Ronald Reagan essentially restored some love for the American western during his presidency and Clint Eastwood made a lot of money producing and directing them, mainly the great Pale Rider and Unforgiven.
Pale Rider has always haunted me; it is about two ways of looking the same problem. There isn’t an Indian in the entire story—it’s all about land rights and who has a claim to them—which is a rather strong premise for a typical western—the protection of private property. The film is about the argument of two aspects of capitalism—settlers looking for gold so they can get rich and live a fresh life on the frontier. The villains are crony capitalists who have industrialized the gold mining process with strip mining and the heroes are the little village of gold miners working the creeks panning for gold in a very traditional and non evasive way. Of course the industrialists are trying to force the underdogs off their land so they can mine it in the stripping process they are utilizing upstream. Clint Eastwood as a hired gun is brought on to protect the underdogs from the vicious strip miners. Both villains and heroes in the story are capitalists—certainly not collectivists. It was the perfect western to see at the end of the Reagan presidency which gave rise to people like Donald Trump. The movie was essentially about “responsible” laissez-faire capitalism and that brand of economic method is only possible with a culture that can defend itself from the natural greed that sometimes overtakes the overly ambitious.
The Indians and other mystics of the “East” have decided that material acquisition in this life is not important—which is essentially what their sand paintings were all about—the futility of achievement. What they were able to do was beautiful, but that nobody should fall in love with the products of their imagination—that at some point we all return to the dust and become of the earth. Progressives to this day still believe such things and their philosophy have virtually destroyed our human species. That needs to stop and the only way is to return to a period before their incursion of faulty philosophy.
That Mattel commercial spoke of a time when young boys walked a bit taller, strived to be a bit better, and desired to be a good guy with a gun fighting bad guys who use force and collective might to incite tyranny upon the world. The cowboy and their six guns spoke of justice that anybody who practiced with it could utilize to keep peace and order in the universe. It was a philosophy that evolved under the guidance of American Old West mythology but instilled more than just history into inquiring minds. The six-gun brought value to our society and kids couldn’t wait to use them so they could learn to grow up and be the kind of man who people wanted to hire, and the type of man women wanted to marry—and the type of man who their children wanted to grow up to become. Progressives have attacked that premise, and it’s time to reverse the damage.
So that will be the focus of this new stage, which I’ve said before will put a light on the aspects of our culture known as the American Gunfighter. If it takes five years to start changing minds toward guns and the American West, my new little granddaughter will just be entering her first year of kindergarten. 15 years after that, she’ll likely be starting to look to start a family of her own—and when she arrives at that time I want her to have a lot better options than she has right now. She doesn’t need to deal with “he/she girly men, lazy losers, and drug addicts. She deserves a real man, and obviously in our culture that starts with establishing respect for a gun and the people who properly teach young minds how to use them. The tradition of passing down a gun from father to son or cinematic hero to a hungry audience is important. And the use of the gun to protect capitalism from collective enterprise is a key to understanding America. For that reason, we were a better country in 1870 than we are in 2016—and to return to that level of awareness; we need to make the gun, especially the single action six-gun, more a part of our national mythology.
It is in that very simple symbol a major key to solving many of our contemporary problems, and it is time to express it in a way that makes philosophic sense to a society that has been flamboyantly lied to by progressives. To me, the heart of America is in that Mattel commercial. And it’s time that we properly defend it from enemies foreign and domestic. Japan has been through a whole lot more than we have as a country and they have held to their traditions. We have a lot more to be proud of, and there is no reason we shouldn’t hold our traditions dear to our hearts. That was the question and answer I had while leaving Tokyo recently, and the samurai culture that I had observed. I learned all about the West by traveling the East—and the clarity for me couldn’t be more profound.
You might have heard the show live, but if you didn’t, you can catch it again by clicking the video below–Matt Clark had me on his WAAM radio show in Ann Arbor, Michigan essentially to defend Donald Trump’s statements about the three functions of government. As far as I’m concerned, Milton Friedman was the advocate who last did the best work of clarifying such things for our Constitutional Republic and he defined it like this; “Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. And it should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government– in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.” I explained to Matt that I thought Donald Trump was trying to get to this definition under pressure, but could only manage to say “security, security, security.” He went on to say that health care and housing were functions of government which of course erupted a controversy from the #NEVERTRUMP people. Of course those #NEVERTRUMPs think they are the gatekeepers of conservatism, so they lashed out against Trump. After the radio show a listener sent Matt and I a tweet reminding us that the three responsibilities of government are the duty of the Fed Gov and its officers to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the USA.” So obviously there was no answer Trump could have uttered which would have pleased everyone. Listen to that broadcast here:https://soundcloud.com/clarkcast/trumps-top-three-functions-of-the-federal-government-4-2-2016-podcast
I personally don’t care if Trump understands Milton Friedman’s philosophy on the role of government. As I have said previously, I don’t look for a leader in a president. I don’t need anybody to lead me around; I just need someone to manage things in the government. Trump I know will hire someone like Friedman to guide him once he’s in office—that’s how Trump is able to do all the things he does. He doesn’t sit around studying constitutional law and all the details of number crunching—he hires that stuff out in his companies. Trump relies on gut instinct after others present him with information to navigate through tribulations and his potential presidency will be unlike any other in American history—and I’m fine with that. I see Trump as the anti-Teddy Roosevelt—as a means to undo all the trouble that the original “Rough Rider” unleashed so many years ago from the White House.
Roosevelt and his descendent Franklin brought the emerging stages of communism to America through progressivism, a movement that ironically started in Wisconsin through the labor unions. Roosevelt didn’t understand how money was made as he was born into a wealthy family and was a second-hander who was a sickly kid. He fought through his limits and empowered himself to be a larger than life personality who ended up on Mt. Rushmore. His achievements were unparalleled and he turned out to be one of the great presidents. His contributions didn’t fall neatly into conservative and liberal, but he managed to get a lot done that was both good and bad for our nation. Teddy really started the whole trampling all over the Constitution thing showing all future presidents how to by-pass congress and do whatever they wanted without the natural checks and balances that are present for a reason. Of course Barack Obama is the latest rendition of that original corruption over 100 years later—it’s the kind of stuff that has made the Netflix show House of Cards so compelling—because it provides insight into the kind of thinking our modern presidents utilize when dealing with Capitol Hill. Frank Underwood is a combination of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and even George W. Bush—but all this precedent was essentially started by Teddy Roosevelt—the path to hell is always paved with good intentions—from the point of view of whoever is doing the paving.
Watching Trump over the years he has been very successful at taking failed government projects and returning them to private sector influence—cutting costs, and shortening delivery times in the process. He has done this kind of thing many times actually, and it is obvious to me when hearing him speak, such as the night of the CNN Town Hall talked about in the WAAM discussion, that Trump intends to return many of the tasks of government currently to the private sector. When talking about health care—which is out of control—our national debt, our jobs, our infrastructure—just about everything really, it started with Teddy Roosevelt and his war against monopolies. Government has stuck its nose into virtually everything since dramatically paralyzing our economic growth and overall national effectiveness. For instance, I have said many times that the executive order that Kennedy signed making public sector jobs able to unionize is one of the largest drivers of cost that is out there consuming our national resources. A simple recantation of that one executive order would save billions of dollars in potential financial loses and performance effectiveness. Of course Trump can’t talk about anything like that on the campaign trail and when people try to extract specifics out of him, he certainly can’t say things like “I’d like to rescind Executive Order 11491.” Right now, some labor unions are actually backing Trump, and they really need to—for their own good. But when it comes time to make the hard cuts and do the job the correct way—undoing over a century of mistakes effectively by the executive branch and the congress which has eaten out of its hand like royalty, there will be a lot of angry people.
Whoever the president is in 2016 will have to make major cuts to the way business is done in Washington while hoping that a crack team of Carl Icahn types can renegotiate trade deals around the world to keep programs like Social Security floating into a new America growth period—where the United States has GDP growth between 7% to 15%. That is what Trump has in mind, but he certainly can’t say it to anybody—because somebody in the world will be severely pissed off at him. There is no way to make everyone happy. So it’s best to be obscure and to let the chips fall where they fall. Whoever is president will face criticism that is unparalleled and I’ve only ever seen a personality like Donald Trump who could endure the pain of it. That’s why I think only he can do the job.
But it will take a leap of faith from the American electorate to get there. Trump is a unique opportunity that we should not pass up. He requires us to think differently about what the POTUS means to us. Trump I don’t think cares one bit about the pomp and circumstance of White House life. He’s been there and done it. I really don’t think he’ll waste time entertaining European and Canadian socialists posing for pictures to maintain an executive branch image. Trump has all that now, he doesn’t need the White House to give it to him—and that makes me trust him even more. I think a Trump White House will be the hardest working in history. Everyone can say what they want about Trump’s conservatism, but prior to Wisconsin, being down ten points to Ted Cruz, Trump did seven rallies over three days there trying to win. The guy works his ass off, and I’m certain that he will put in 12 to 15 hour days in the Oval Office seven days a week. I really don’t think we’ve ever seen anybody like Trump even trying to get into the White House. He will work hard and he’ll hire the best people that’s out there to fill the details of what he needs. So as I said on Matt’s show, I don’t care if Trump knew by definition the three functions of government. He was close enough—it’s all about security of individuals and their property—from either foreign or domestic enemies. He passes my test—everything else is a formality. I’m ready for a Trump White House because I don’t think we can afford anything less. The next POTUS has to have the courage and personality to undo all these progressive mistakes and it has to happen now. We are beyond second chances. Really, it’s already too late. Trump is the only hope we have. Argue with me now—that’s fine. But I really don’t want everyone to tell me twenty years from now that they should have listened to me. Because by then it will be too late—and I will have been right—of course. Listen now, save your nation, tell me later that I was right—cry at your country’s funeral. Watch the videos above for full context.
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