Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth,
which can only be discovered. 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. 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 June 21, 1788 preamble: We the civic citizens of nine of the
thirteen United States commit-to and trust-in the purpose and goals stated
herein --- integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity, liberty, and
perpetuity --- and to cultivate limited services by the USA. Composing
their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive
whether they are willing or dissident toward its principles.
On October 26,
2017, at the LSU School of Mass Communications with moderator Martin Johnson,
we learned that political parties, in today’s apathetic civic culture, use polls
to study their audience before an event. They pitch their message to keep
loyalists, attract sympathetic moderates, inform opposing moderates, and not
offend the opposition. The outstanding point of the evening was that the
distribution of political interest has changed from a bell curve to bipolar
statistics; right vs left due to poll manipulation by political scientists and
the press.
That being the
case, it seems strange to praise 38% of registered voters for a vote 49.9%
Democrat vs 50.1% Republican rather than simply congratulate the winning
political manipulators. It seems more accurate to state that once again the
GOP’s internal divisions, with a 1.7% write-in vote, cost the GOP, perhaps in a
civic people’s favor. Moore was always a Bible-thumping dissident to civic
morality.
To put it
another way, the GOP needs reform. However, Vitter is no analog to Moore.
Vitter weathered his sexual reputation for decades but met his termination when
it was reported that he neglected a Senate vote---did not fulfill his duty to
the people. Next time, I’ll write in, because Gov. Edwards consistently does
the wrong thing.
To me, the
vital story is the repeated blows against the far-right faction of both the GOP
and the American people. Steve Bannon lost in Alabama and the Louisiana Family
Forum lost here. See
independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/roy-moore-loses-alabama-republicans-turn-on-steve-bannon-election-a8106831.html
and
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_7a2489b6-dc56-11e7-9013-f7c62bc11f50.html
.
It is alright
for Christians to know they will have a favorable afterdeath. However, it is
immoral for them to try impose on the people of the USA the fear of human,
responsible civic freedom---in other words, justice.
Civic injustice
has been American Christianity’s handiwork by way of legislative prayer ever
since May, 1789, when Congress hired ministers to re-institute the English
commonality that government is ordained by God, but in America it’s a
factional-Protestant God. It’s been that way ever since, but the transition
began in 1996 when Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act based solely on
Judeo-Christian tradition. A K-12 civics class would have known that basis was
unconstitutional. (Yet the nine supreme-opinionators erroneously decided Greece
vs Galloway on the tradition of legislative prayer---not the people’s concern!)
I trust a civic
people to continue the ineluctable march toward justice and expect acceleration
when the idea that only the person has the energy to effect responsible freedom
becomes widely known and the widespread development of fidelity to
the-objective-truth is evident. I hope The Advocate will tune-in, because the
idea emerged from EBRP library meetings and related discussions.
I wish every
Christian success during their afterdeath but want them to collaborate during
life to discover civic justice rather than conflict for dominant opinion.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Exodus 20:8 CJB)
“Remember the
day, Shabbat, to set it apart for God.”
Dean says, “God has a reason for this. Honor Him by honoring
the Sabbath. You will be blessed if you do.”
Thank goodness for the quiet some of us enjoy one day of the
week. Humans are too psychologically powerful to not practice responsible
freedom every day of the week, so civic individuals, including Christians,
pursue their private happiness rather than what someone else wants from them.
Letters
Calling congressmen (Smith) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_d483fe2c-db85-11e7-a9e0-1f9e755df022.html)
Anyone who tries
to contact a congressman deserves a fellow-citizen’s gratitude for the civic
interest. I have found some relief in using the email forms and persistent
humility.
However, I doubt
anyone but a tax CPA could estimate impacts of possibilities for the final tax
bill if it happens. To expect a powerless intern stay on the phone is too much.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Hate (Cal Thomas) (townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2017/12/07/memo-to-jared-kushner-n2418985)
One way to deal
with hate is to practice responsible civic freedom always alert and prepared to
rebuke an offensive move by the hater.
For example, if
he or she pulls a gun, have a more powerful gun aimed before he or she can take
aim, and, with one more aggression, annihilate the hate. That’s a view of
history.
Tax bill (Michael Barone)
dispatch.com/opinion/20171209/michael-barone-gop-tax-plan-would-rein-in-feds-eds-and-meds
With promise to reign in three
bloated expenditures, I’d think moderate democrats would support the tax
plan---call it a Congressional tax plan.
Other forums
I agree with you, Mr. Lewis.
Moreover, I have had it with propaganda for democracy and want
to do my part to end it. George Bush II spoke of the 21st century as the
century of democracy; I think he meant the right to vote. I think Wallach is
writing about how to control the vote of the masses.
No matter who is writing phrases like our democracy, democratic
norms, liberal democracy, or other popular phrases, I question their 1)
understanding of America and 2) acceptance of the American promise.
The American promise has yet to be discovered, these 229 years
since it was established by nine states on June 21, 1788 and 228 years since
the First Congress, representing ten states, re-instituted governance under a
factional, Protestant God. Then, 5% could vote and 99% were factional Protestant:
today, 100% in good standing may vote and 14% are traditional factional
Protestants. The American promise could have progressed during this time, but
seems to have regressed.
Identification of the promise of republicanism could restore the
promise that was clear for some seven months in 1788, was obfuscated, and has
been neglected since. I think the promise is necessary governance under civic
justice in both law and law enforcement. By “civic” I mean public conduct for
mutual justice between the acting parties more than conformity to a
municipality or doctrine.
The intention of the American promise is offered in the preamble
to the constitution for the USA, and those who do not accept it, for whatever
reasons, are dissidents to the promise. I am not prepared today to make a case
against the right of dissidents to vote but imagine a future serious debate. My
argument originates from writing about how political scientists propose to
control the vote, like this post by Wallach.
However, I think the American promise is a civic culture,
wherein the individual has the opportunity to develop responsible civic freedom
so as to privately pursue personal happiness. I include the word “privately” so
as to assert that the individual need not explain to anyone the happiness he or
she is pursuing. In other words, there is not happiness police that purports to
define how it is obtained.
Responsible civic freedom obviously is not chaos. Each civic
citizen develops fidelity to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered.
Trust and commitment to the preamble assures that the culture progresses with
discovery rather than languishes in the civilization of the past.
A civic people live on the leading edge of civic morality, and
religious believers among them never compromise possible hopes for the
hereafter.
libertylawsite.org/2017/12/12/is-liberty-natural
To nobody.really: I
appreciate the introduction to Forster and want to read his book, with Bradley,
on Rawls.
In my earlier comment, I wrote, “. . . evolution informed humankind
that of all the species, one species, the human being, is, both physically and
psychologically, potentially, energized for responsible freedom.”
The individual who practices responsible freedom “might
[discover the human] way . . . through enormous efforts.”
I thought the paragraph containing the quote was interesting.
To John Schmeeckle: The
signers of the draft constitution wrote a revolutionary sentence, the preamble,
which offered an agreement to improve the laws and institutions that were stipulated
in the articles. Thus, the signers created a federal government to serve the
people who trusted and committed to the agreement unto posterity—not just for
their children and grandchildren but beyond—into a future the signers knew they
could not imagine.
John Marshall spoke of Americanism as providing for the
individual to pursue his own happiness. The Civil War informed us that neither
God nor government could provide the mutually comprehensive safety and security
that allows each individual to pursue personal happiness: justice comes from
the people. (From Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address.)
None of the literature available to the Founders wrote of
responsible liberty, responsibility and liberty but not responsible liberty. We
are in 2017 proposing a future culture that advocates responsible civic
liberty, where “civic” refers to mutually just behavior in public connections.
That is, each citizen neither imposes nor brooks force. Meanwhile, dissidents
to civic behavior are constrained by just statutory law and its enforcement.
This concept is not new—was expressed, as the fourth pillar of a
nation that might survive, by General George Washington on June 8, 1783, “The
prevalence of that pacific and friendly Disposition, among the People of the United
States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies,
to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity,
and in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest
of the Community.” Washington finished the farewell that contained the four
pillars with a prayer of hope, expressing that by no measure does personal
collaboration for civic prosperity require doubt in personal comfort and hope.
However, what seems fresh here, is articulation of
actual-reality as the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered—cannot be
constructed by reason or any other human authority. Human, responsible liberty
requires fidelity to the-objective-truth.
For example, pornography lessens responsible liberty and
therefore, a civic people discourages its use.
Phil Beaver does not “know”
the-indisputable-facts, or actual-reality. 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.
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