HOW DO YOU CHOOSE?

On this Christmas Eve I was thinking about how we make choices? The one choice that is important for this post is "how do you choose who you vote for ?". Here is my gift to you this Christmas season and it comes in the form of a suggestion. But I believe this gift, if accepted and used wisely will change everything. 

My gift suggestion is this; instead of deciding who to vote for because of their name recognition, the party they belong to, their gender or age, let's do it a different way. Let ask ourselves the question what kind of a person do we want the next President of the United States to be like? In as far as we could know: What kind of values do they represent? Are they honest in all their dealings? Are they fair in both their business, political and personal lives? Are they the kind of person that if I had to entrust my life to someone, would they qualify as someone we would choose? Can I trust them in all other things to do what is best for our country? Can I trust them to protect me, my family and my country from all enemies, both foreign and domestic?

You may be asking, "how can I know all those things?" By doing whatever it takes to learn about them and the kind of person they are. There is no easy answer. You can't trust any information that comes to you or at you that you haven't independently verified on your own. Not from the news broadcasts, not from a particular party, not even from friends unless you have verified what they are telling you on your own. If you are married, how did you verify and decide that this is the person I should marry? Why would you put in any less effort, though different methods, than you did in choosing a spouse?

If we are not willing to do that we are letting someone else decide who is going to be the next President of the United States. He or she who has the power of life and death over our children or grandchildren if they serve in our military. He or she who by most world standards is the most powerful person, by the job they hold, on the planet. How far are you willing to go to vet the people who could have that much power over you life, the life of your family and over much of the world's population? There are no lengths to which we should not go. 

If all of us who recognize that this is what we should do, do it, then and only then have we done enough. If we are not, but are willing to let others make that decision for us by how they manipulate the system, then what we get is either from our actions or from our in-actions. The outcome is up to us if we take control of our own future, if we don't we have relinquished the outcome to others. So we have a choice to make, for the future of our families, country and world depends on it. What are you going to do? May God bless you in your decision and may God bless the United States of America!

The cartoon published by the Washington Post about Ted Cruz and his family depicting his children as monkeys, gives us glimpse into the depravity that some will go to when someone is not in line with their line of reasoning. The Post finally pulled the cartoon and I would guess not because they wanted to or thought it inappropriate but because even they got the message from the public that they had gone way to far. Now here is my question if you just heard about this or if for whatever reason you had heard about it before you got this message. How did you react? Did you say, "well that's the Post for you what do you expect". Or "well that's politics for you". Or " cancel my subscription" Or, "I guess it's time for me to get involved so I can help get rid of people who would do this kind of thing". I hope you said the latter.

There is a lot wrong in our country right now and we are the only ones that can fix it. We, you say, are you talking about you and me? Yes, I am talking about you and me. Those that have the power right now on both sides of the aisle want to keep it. They really don't care what we think or remember that they work for us.A lot of us still don't get the idea that they work for us either, because we keep letting them get away with things and don't fire them as we should. This isn't about party, this is about an elite mindset where those who get elected are so in love with the life they live that the only thing they really care about is getting re-elected. You and I can stop that.

Now it is true that as one or two etc, it's going to be a hard job. But there are enough of us to get the job done if we will just organize ourselves a bit. One or two can turn into thousands and tens of thousands if we are willing to do this. The revolution that started us so many years ago, needs to happen again and re-start us on the path that I believe many of our smart ancestors put us on hundreds of years ago.

I will not beg you to join us, you need to do this on your own. There is a saying that I have used for many years in my seminars and keynotes and that is: "Pain drives change"! What I am inviting you to do is help me raise the pain level on those who are trying to discourage and destroy what this country once was, still is to some degree, and desperately needs to be again. But I know that the only way to do that is to raise the pain level on those who are destroying what America has been about and was designed to be in and for the world, to such a level that they have no choice but to stop. We need to make the pain to high, the price to high for them to find the pain and price unbearable.

I know what I have just asked you to do, I do not fool myself or try to fool you into thinking that this is not probably the biggest task we will ever undertake. I have decided for me the "price" to let what is now happening continue to happen has become to high, the pain to much. I am not asking you to make any sacrifice or pay any price to fix this that I am not willing to pay myself. We may have to pay the ultimate price to fix this, but as for me, I am willing to pay it.

Welcome to the 2016 version of the "Civil War"! But this is not North against South. It is about you and I, mainstream America versus anybody and whoever wants to try and stop us from re-establishing this country to the way our founders, signers of the Declaration of Independence and signers of the Constitution saw that we needed to be. We are the guardian of that legacy and if we fail to do this our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and beyond will someday be asking the question about why we didn't do something to stop this destruction while we were here and could do something, because they will have been left with a way of life unthinkable to us now.

My first request of you is to find out the name of your congressman and Senators, their Washington and home office addresses, the name of his or her Chief of Staff. Post this information somewhere that you will see it every day and have it close when things need to get done. Get all the contact information you want but I know the ADDRESS is the most important piece to get.

This is a lot to think about and for some not an easy decision. For some it is just what they were waiting for to happen. It will happen at the pace it is supposed to happen but with your help, it will happen sooner rather than later. Don't ever forget this, "Pain drives change" and as of the moment you read this you are in the pain management business. Welcome!

Jim

Which makes the least sense to you. An openly gay NFL lineman and his team suing the team they just lost to and the NFL because the other teams players called him names OR the fact that when an actor is asked on a late night talk show about what he has learned about foreign policy for the United States when his only credentials are that of "playing" a CIA agent on a hit show Homeland and all his lines and acting instruction are given to him by somebody else?

Those are two true and recent incidents that lead me to believe that you and I are living in one great big "reality show" ourselves and/or there so many uniformed, ill equipped celebrity worshipers out there who just don't have any idea what's going on. It would be hillariously funny if it were not so pathetic. 

We live in a day and time and the polling in America substantiates it that the people of American hardly trusts anyone anymore. Who can blame them Why Donald Trump is so popular is not a mystery to me. Why Hillary Clinton gets away with commiting crimes and not get prosecuted is not a mystery to me either. 

We live in a day and time and circumstance that this writer could never have imagined. I won't in 2016 spend any time on talking about where we are or how we got there unless it helps us better understand how do we get out of this mess. 

I hope you will send the blog or the blog address to everyone on your email list. Fixing this is up to you and I an we, you and I, getting enough peoples attention and belief in the fact that things can and will change because they have to if we as a nation are going to survive. 

So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and all the other holiday greeting to all of you and let's us together make it a Happy New Year.

Jim