One of our resident Gold Star Mothers, Denise Williams sends another guest post.

What The People Want

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Everyday, every single day, there is another howler monkey on the mainstream media screeching how “this”, whatever the manufactured outrage du jour is, “will bring down the Trump Presidency”. How in all that is good, sane and rational anyone would be joyful about bringing down the sitting President is beyond comprehension. I’ve heard it said, and I agree, that is akin to hoping the pilot of the plane we are all on crashes. But, I digress.

The latest is a piece of work called, “Fear” by Bob Woodward. We all remember him, one of the duo who cultivated “Deep Throat” which led to Watergate and ultimately Nixon’s resignation. While that was a dark time in our Nation’s history, for a lot of reasons, the parallels to what is going on today seem much darker.

In 1973, we were a Nation at war, an unpopular war to be sure. We had lost too many, far too many sons and daughters who were fighting in a land with place names most Americans never heard of, nor could they pronounce. The country was divided, politically and socially, divisions that seem quaint in comparisons to what is going on today. That is, if the mainstream media and political pundits are to be believed.
Part of the pablum we are currently being fed is the idea that this President is the locus of all the division. He is the cause, that he tapped into some deep, savage, and unbridled hate for all that is good and right and fair and just that has long lurked just beneath the surface of the uncivilized masses. Those who know better due to their superior education, intellect, breeding and awoken social conscience are doing all they can to reign in the base and backward impulses of those masses, primarily by telling us what the masses really do think. One of their proofs is the fact Bob Woodard’s book, “Fear” has reached Best Seller status. Here, proof, that millions want to read and know the truth, millions support ending this national tragedy that is this Presidency. Bob Woodward is a hero.
The problem is reality. As in, they have lost touch with it, if they ever even knew what it was. They still can’t accept their evolved, progressive and utopian world view is not being joyously embraced and triumphantly implemented. They seem to be operating under the assumption that they didn’t get their message out, they didn’t properly convey that only the worst sorts, and a small minority of the worst sorts, would other than wholeheartedly embrace their view.

Hence, the daily outrage du jour. Hence, the daily howler monkey carnival act screeching about the latest horror from this administration. The fault of course lies squarely and wholly on the shoulders of those savages whose basest instincts were ignited by the hateful rhetoric of this mistake, this national disgrace, this President. Sure, maybe there is a smidgen of blame for them to own in that they didn’t sufficiently get the message out, but how can it be the fault of a lion tamer when the lion decides to bite the whip, or the arm wielding it, instead of sitting pretty?
It is not their fault the lion is a wild animal, only acting on it’s nature. The proof there is, the lions that have been hand-raised since birth, that have had their natures wholly suppressed, don’t ever bite. In other words, lions that are no longer lions. They are some domesticated quasi-pet that can’t ever be fully trusted and therefore must always be constrained, caged and managed, but displaying them and making them dance to the whip is proof their methods are right.

Today, however, something happened that none of them could have anticipated. Today, the masses spoke in a way none could have predicted. “Fear” has been knocked from the top spot of Barnes & Noble’s Best Seller list. The Amazon site has been crashed by the influx of orders for another tome. What is this book? Is it another scathing, scatological, scintillating tell-all, exposing the heinousness of this President or this administration?

Actually, no. The book that has taken the number one, most purchased spot on Barnes & Noble, that has caused the Amazon link to crash under the weight of interest, won’t be released until November 13, 2018. The book is the author’s first offering, though part of her ability to become published is because of a famous relative. The author is Peggy Rowe, mother of blue collar hero Mike Rowe, of “Dirty Jobs”, “MikeRoweWorks Foundation” and “Returning The Favor” fame.

The book is a memoir, “About My Mother – True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother”. It is a collection of stories about Peggy Rowe’s mother. And about life. It is a book about love. Family. Hope. Laughter. All set in a uniquely American landscape, a landscape we are told by our betters that is not better. A less evolved landscape, according to those who are more evolved. And yet. Fully two months before it is released, it has replaced “Fear” as the most purchased book on the sites of the two biggest sellers of books in the land.

There is a lesson here for those who are more evolved, more enlightened, more progressive, that only you can see from your elevated perch. That lesson is simply, the brightness of the future you are hurtling towards, the journey on which you insist we all join is the reflection of the sun off the macadam you are plunging towards, hopefully at breakneck – literally – speed.

For those who do the Book of Faces, I highly recommend checking out the following link.
https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMikeRowe/videos/924465271079780/

I’ll also recommend finding out more about “Returning The Favor”,
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7311010/ as well as “Returning The Favor Effect”, http://mikerowe.com/2018/05/well-be-back-post-ideas-to-returning-the-favor-effect/, as well as on the Book of Faces for your daily antidote to the meanness andvileness flooding the internet. Here, Americans post links and stories about “Bloody Do-Gooders” in Mike Rowe’s words, who are making the world a better place, all across the land.

While on MikeRowe.com, be sure to check out Peggy’s blogs. Reading those shows his apple didn’t fall far from his tree. Who’d a thunk it? The character of a family influences that of its progeny more than the cultural milieu, or in some cases, in spite of it. Maybe it does take a village, but the people in that village are what counts.

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