The Advocate's social democracy a failing

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening when people share experiences and observations. The comment box below invites readers to write.

Note 1:  I often dash words in phrases in order to express and preserve an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth despite possible error. In other words, a person expresses his “belief,” knowing he or she could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.
 
 Note 2: It is important to note "civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for the people more than for the city.
 
A personal paraphrase of the preamble by & for Phil Beaver:  Willing people in our state routinely, voluntarily collaborate for comprehensive safety and security: continuity (for self, children, grandchildren & beyond), integrity (both fidelity and wholeness),  justice (freedom-from oppression), defense (prevent or constrain harm), prosperity (acquire the liberty-to pursue choices), privacy (responsibly discover & pursue personal goals), lawfulness (obey the law and reform injustices); and to preserve and cultivate the rule of law for the USA’s service to the people in their states.
 
Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward the preamble.  

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_9f2d481a-8da0-11e7-87aa-afc747d29dca.html)

Just as I receive The Advocate’s letter announcing that next quarter’s draw on my subscription payments will increase 17% to offset their business-plan failure! And no recognition that I called a couple years ago about retirement income not keeping pace with free-loading. They lamely said: yeah, we’re reconsidering our decision to terminate the seniors’ rate. I invite you, The Advocate, to think again.

And there’s the lesson they taught me regarding captions on letters-to-the-editor: It’s freedom of the press rather than freedom of the letter writer! But blogs provide freedom of expression. Perhaps its time for The Advocate to allow letter writers to label their own letters, given a limit on characters used.

The Advocate is so far out the collective-democracy rotten-limb they won’t know what to do when eliminating my subscription comes to the top of my options for managing retirement expenses.

In my morning face, The Advocate bitterly publishes the lying-media-notion that President Donald J. Trump is being tested. The contest is over: Trump is the president. It is "we, the people" that is being tested: After 229 years of neglect, will willing people collaborate to achieve the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA?

This is not secular Europe with its accord against the American republic! Willing citizens in America operate under a civic accord that is stated in the preamble.

Get it straight: candidate Trump won both the GOP primary and the presidential popular vote in 84% of US counties; pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trending-story-clinton-won-just-57-counties-untrue/. Thereby, voters in America’s republic elected candidate Trump and booted both the Obama past and the Clinton hopes. That’s because the bill-payers live in the counties and the free-loaders live in the cities. When will you, The Advocate, come to understand that liberal-democracy means collectivist-democracy means nanny-state free-loaders means fruitless dreams of ending the American republic? Then stop rebuking me each morning when I sip my coffee?

If you call this a rant, I’d say you got the emotions I had as I cooled my morning coffee on the way to my lips. MWW demanded, “Stop slurping!”

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 1:4-6, CJB)

“Not so the wicked, who are like chaff driven by the wind. For this reason the wicked won't stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous. For ADONAI watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed.”

Dean says “Don’t perish. Turn to the Lord and be saved.”

David and Dean bemuse us with mysteries constructed on imagination.

I glean from David’s musings that it is foolish to deny integrity by being influenced by one error then another. With integrity, the-objective-truth may be discovered and used in fidelity --- never wavering. As far as I can tell, every human is constrained to fidelity and may responsibly conform to the-objective-truth or suffer the consequence of dissidence.

This is a principle that cannot be taught. The human being is too psychologically powerful to accept another human’s heartfelt ideas. Fidelity to the-objective-truth can only be learned by personal experience and observations of loss and misery in people’s lives around us. As reality unfolds, observations from the past serve only as evidence of what to avoid but must yield to the ever changing discovery of the-objective-truth.

Letters

Liberal democrats (Gowland) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_00f0ce00-8d97-11e7-af20-a3f720d2bd97.html)

Liberal democrats do not admit to their mirrors personal egocentricity. “My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant, and we’ve been grateful to know my insurance was guaranteed to cover maternity care and associated hospital stay. Unfortunately, I ended up using my maternal coverage for the care I needed during an early miscarriage.”

Dr.-Senator Cassidy knows that human biology corrects genealogical errors by natural abortion, a term that would be distasteful to women, but not to their ova. Ova, one of the two cells needed to conceive a human cell, need protection from natural abortion --- so called miscarriage. However, fertility entrepreneurs have little regard for fetus-welfare and less concern for ova-welfare. 

In our prime, MWW and I did not fall for religious thoughts about human reproduction. Our personal choices kept us from negotiating “having sex,” despite the delights when both brutal hormone-driven appetites kicked in. We made love for bond-building and trusted human psychology with timing for conception. From the outset, we were prepared for monogamous bonding --- bonding for life --- with or without children.

Technology that would defeat human biology’s triggers for natural abortion challenges the public for responsibility for the life the fetus will face. Certainly, an egocentric parent wants their fetus to live. But what if the fetus would not want that life? What if that life is, in fact not feasible for the fetus, the parents, the community, the nation, and humankind? Who is to constrain technology’s claims to making life possible despite the constraints of human biology? Who is to check arrogant technologies that could care less about consequences?

 I think Dr.-Senator Cassidy is qualified to, with good manners, guide the public to civic morality in this very emotional conundrum. Cassidy envisions the possibility for a better future than the cruelty humans face due to the ACA.

 Columns. (The fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)

  

Using racism (Froma Harrop) creators.com/read/froma-harrop/08/17/democrats-must-sign-on-to-a-more-coherent-immigration-policy

I nominate this column for writer’s integrity failure, 2017. Harrop has no personal constraints: “Democrats must also make no mistake that immigration rules will be followed. And their politicians need not fear accusations of racism . . . . They can thank Trump for giving them space.”

Racialism (Walter Williams) townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2017/08/30/racial-lies-and-racism-n2374122

Williams deserves a second nomination for column of the year. And he's an economist!

He takes a bold step against self-labeled journalism: “The New York Times ran an article [that] says that President Donald Trump's Justice Department's civil rights division is going to investigate and sue universities whose affirmative action admissions policies discriminate against white applicants. This is an out-and-out lie.”

It’s too bad career writers for the press, like George Will, Rich Lowry, and countless others have not the integrity to write for the people in the US who want comprehensive safety and security.

Noteworthy is Williams comment, “Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz . . . goes astray when he argues that investigating discrimination against whites raises a different set of questions. He says, "Generically, whites have not been the subject of historic discrimination." Dershowitz's vision fails to see people as humans, because what human is deserving of racial discrimination?”

More importantly, every American has “been the subject of historic discrimination” as a consequence of the Church canonizing a Bible that condones slavery and the Church inventing the Doctrine of Discovery with monopolies on African slave trade.

 

Novice columnist (George Will) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-a-novice-protectionist/2017/08/25/8bf26392-89b4-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.037b5cce3c0a)

After signing a 2016 manifesto opposing the election of Donald Trump it seems Will has gone further out on his limb against the American republic. See originalistsagainsttrump.wordpress.com. We do not think the signers of the preamble to the constitution for the USA intended originalism; the intended willing people to collaborate for mutual, comprehensive safety and security during every decade of their lives. Willing people were expected to amend the articles of the constitution so that they conform to the purpose and goals stated in the preamble as the requirements for civic justice unfold with the march of time.

In today’s column, Will mentions great writers in favor of trade. I am especially impressed with Matt Ridley’s free-wheeling opinions. Ridley opines that traders are self-governing. However, I don’t think he accounts for the wisdom in Raphael Patai’s book, “The Arab Mind.” Perhaps the art is in getting the other side to believe he negotiated a deal. I’d say Israel would attest to such Arab wisdom.

Anyhow, it’s like Will is name dropping and then without any original thought delivers his cute claim: that President “Trump is a novice protectionist.”

I think Will is a novice writer after all these years. And he joins a long list of volunteers for journalism that never discovered public integrity. The First Amendment did writers and the willing people of the US a disservice when it did not specify for the USA a free and responsible press. It is not too late.

News

  

Ten months with her team’s head in the sand (Mayor Broome) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_f548562c-8dbe-11e7-95e3-b33e5f96a45e.html

Much as the-objective-truth does not respond to political power, Civil Service, by design, resists political power. The idea is to attract the best service for the people rather than to please public servants.

Mayor Broome and her dream team fails the people who elected her. After Carl Dabadie Jr.’s choice to retire, Broome’s failure to pursue the best possible candidate does not reflect integrity.

James Baker of the International Association of Chiefs of Police represents a special interest group, not the citizens of Baton Rouge. Fear of the civil service system by Baker’s group only distinguishes them as people unwilling to meet the challenge. State Rep. Ted James’s fears of Civil Service as well as the Serpas’ opinion do not serve the promise of the best possible chief of police for the citizens of Baton Rouge.

When the people look to theism and political power for civic justice, they lose. Willing people collaborate for justice. Willing people’s neglect of the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA has failed civic justice since the USA was established on June 21, 1788, when nine states ratified the draft constitution. The opportunity for reform is ours.

Just as the person who does not earn his or her living enslaves himself or herself to others, the people who do not collaborate for civic justice during every decade of their lives lose and suffer. In other words, borrowing from Sartre, people are condemned to be either free and responsible or slaves in loss and misery.

I hope I wrote just enough to inspire the readers. I have no hope for the mayor’s team --- church and racialism.

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Sorry. I just now (8/31/17, 7:27 CST) read Sporer's question, "What do you mean with 'better'?" It refers to humankind's tendency to lessen loss and misery. However, not every human has this tendency. Some people defy the-objective-truth.

  

First, we may consider the-objective-truth, most of which I do not know. It is discoverable reality, which humankind works to know and use. The individual who denies the-objective-truth is out of time and out of space with reality. For example in physics, there was a time when seafarers perceived that the earth is like a globe but landlubbers argued the earth is flat. In 2017, flat-earth believers either have obsolete opinions or perceive in dimensions not yet discovered by humankind. While I do not know, I doubt the latter possibility.

 

The-objective-truth is not normally thought to prevail in psychology as it does in physics, but it does. For example, civic people do not lie to each other so that no one is challenged to respond to a lie. This principle comes not from some rule of civilization, but from the human tendency to avoid loss and misery. In other words, we don't lie so that we may preserve civic morality.

 

Liars distinguish themselves as dissidents to civic morality, where "civic" refers to persons who willingly collaborate for mutual comprehensive safety and security during every decade of every person's life. Thereby, each individual may responsibly pursue the private preferences they discover as their life unfolds.

 

For a heartfelt yet social example, if I were hosting a wedding reception, my preference would be to know the local market for chocolates: white, milk, and dark, so as to offer guests excesses of chocolates in proportion to normal tastes.

  

Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.