Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth,
which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I am willing
to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and
would always preserve the original text.
The Advocate
regales, or would bemuse, citizens with “pious hope.” How cute!
The Advocate
could be referring to Gov. John Bel Edwards’ public Vatican-Edwards partnership
in competition with Together Baton Rouge, or "pious" as devout
religion. I doubt it.
Perhaps they’re
referencing Edwards “making a hypocritical display of virtue” or Edwards’s
hope; “sincere but unlikely to be fulfilled.”
Looking at
Edwards's tactic as a threat, perhaps The Advocate freely and irresponsibly
obfuscates pious hate for people who prefer to keep their money rather than
allow Gov. John Bel Edwards to take it and redistribute it. For reasons the
people who work for The Advocate tolerate, The Advocate does all it can to hurt
No. 1 in Louisiana: the people---all inhabitants, not just taxpayers.
I encourage
Gov. Edwards to reform from apparent redistribution piety: HATE for fiscal
responsibility and HOPE he can further tax the people. It would not hurt for
people of The Advocate to start influencing actual help for the people of
Louisiana.
Today’s thought, G.E.
Dean (Psalms 34:8 CJB), The Advocate, January 2, 2018, page 5B.
“Taste, and see that ADONAI is good. How
blessed are those who take refuge in him!”
Dean says, “This is my testimony.
God is good. Follow him and his will for life.”
There’s a cure for Dean’s hubris,
pride and gullibility to private wisdom: personal humility. With humility, the
human person can tune in to fidelity to the-objective-truth, which can only be
discovered.
Along with human persons, humankind
is populated by dissidents. Civic citizens may beware dissidents.
Letters
Civic justice
springs from economic viability (Bittner) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a1715b70-f664-11e7-9116-3f339f16d430.html)
Humankind either contends-with or benefits-from
the way things are---the-objective-truth.
Each individual has the physical and
psychological power---one human power---to expend his or her energy in order to
establish and maintain responsible freedom. In other words, each individual has
the authority to behave personal freedom. Some individuals do not have a complete
human-power and a civic people must help them. Other people possess one
human-power but choose to enslave themselves to providers. They are dissidents
to the way things are. Once their desire to freeload is understood, the
providers withdraw support.
There are among us, people who are willingly
to serve the market as providers. They take on the infrastructural necessities,
such as sales prices or fees that cover all expenses, including infrastructure,
such as helping individuals who need help. As an obligation to a civic people, responsible
providers discourage free-loaders.
The preamble to the constitution for the USA
offers a civic agreement which divides civic citizens from dissidents.
Dissidents range from people who are any of: ignorant through youth, stubbornness, or
arrogance; cunning manipulators of a civic people; people who believe crime
pays; evil people; and monsters.
Federalist 10 explains the reasons the constitution
establish the American republic. Civic people would serve their state with
integrity and on excellence, rise into national leadership. None of the
majority, a minority, or a coalition of minorities would be able to establish
democracy, which is well known as rule of the mob.
About seven decades ago, the confluence of
discrimination based on skin color, liberation theology, black power, and
Marxism expressed as self-proclaimed-victim justifying violence against
oppressor, produced Saul Alinsky’s AMO: Alinsky-Marxist organizing. It has been
effective during the last five decades in the attempt to replace American
republicanism, the rule of statutory justice, with liberal-democracy, the rule
of chaos.
A civic people of the United States tolerated
the DNC’s use of minority-coalition to increase their share of votes, hoping
most people would consider the evidence and understand that a vote for the DNC
is a vote for personal enslavement to the welfare state. The GOP was
ineffective in their resistance to liberal-democracy. In the interest of
political correctness and beltway-civilization, and subjecting themselves to a
free and irresponsible press, the GOP exacerbated a civic people’s dilemma.
Donald Trump offered to serve, and threw off
not only modern political correctness, but obsolete ideas like: a noble person
does not boast of his or her accomplishments or qualifications; highlighting
the opponent’s lies can neither be done immediately nor tainted by error; the
demand for integrity cannot be expressed by counter-lies; when it seems
everyone is against you, accept their opinion and withdraw; when the polls say
you lost, no need to visit eight cities on the last day before elections. A
civic people voted twice for Donald Trump, and the DNC may accept that American
republicanism cannot be replaced by liberal-democracy. In fact there is no need
for a party system when most individuals accept the personal authority to
collaborate for responsible freedom, the American dream.
Behavior for responsible freedom begins with
personal economic viability.
To Thomas Winn: I hope middle and lower class people will convince themselves
that financial security comes from 1) living on 85% of net income and investing
the rest and 2) the individual may be smart enough but is not brave enough to
manage his or her own investments. For example, losing 50% of what you deemed a
sound investment can repress financial decisions thereafter.
Sayings from the
past (Deshautelle)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_24630d02-f666-11e7-9a0c-0fd2767e7f24.html)
Deshautelle's
comical wisdom reminds me of an extreme, judgmental egocentricity: “There but
for the grace of God go I.”
I did not emerge
from the womb with such a thought, heard it often in my youth, but don’t recall
ever expressing it either in privacy or in public: Recall it? Yes. Express it?
No.
Lost in the lurk (Porter) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_9c5cb6e0-f662-11e7-926e-03a271fbc1fc.html)
Porter asks readers to find his objections to
Fagan’s opinions by plunging in the lurk “down in the body.” Wow! Porter needs
more than a dictionary.
Congress stop
Trump? (Mondello)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_b665c29c-f663-11e7-b12c-2b39fd17064a.html)
Talk about out of touch with reality. I hope
the comments help.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Honesty fails integrity (Stephanie Grace)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/stephanie_grace/article_0addb2c0-f6f6-11e7-a3d9-4793f65780f4.html)
I agree with
Clark, Spears and Smith, earlier commenters.
Grace honestly
expresses no regard for rules of order and thereby her failure in integrity.
A school board
meeting is structured with public comments proceeding a vote if allowed.
(Sometimes, public comment was closed in an earlier meeting.) The board goes
into discussion that may or may not lead to a motion, second, and vote. After
that, the next agenda item comes up.
I don’t know
how the teacher came to speak after the vote, but at some point she needed to
yield. She had no plan to yield. If I had been there, I would have felt she was
abusing my civic collaboration: I’d heard her views and would want to expedite
the meeting so that I could return to family life.
Grace honestly supports
chaos rather than the rule of order. She expresses her failure in public
integrity.
I hope she misused
Gov. Edwards’ concern. He may have been dismayed with the consequences of the
teacher’s uncivil behavior. His job is to uphold the rule of law rather than
public emotionalism. I don’t trust him but mistrust Grace even more.
Madness against a civic people (Cal Thomas)
http://tucson.com/opinion/national/cal-thomas-are-trump-s-accusers-mad/article_eebd15a5-7423-52f3-be0e-51a332637703.html
The loss of the presidential
election was a significant blow to liberal-democrats, who wish to ruin the
American republic---replace it with chaos. Viewed that way, their desperation seems
more sinister than mad.
Reversing Obama anarchy (Dana Milbank)
theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/dan_fagan/article_c3c61ac8-ebef-11e7-b82b-a3ecf5b18659.html
Mr. Milbank, your writing is so brilliantly cute! I admit: we civic citizens may yield to you. (I probably won't.)
There’s no need for journalists when you have Milbanks.
Erroneous objections (George Will)
washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-merit-based-college-admissions-became-so-unfair/2018/01/10/45a3007e-f569-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.65ddc16de822
“A meritocratic assignment of
opportunity by impersonal processes and measurements might seem democratic, but
it can feel ruthless and can be embittering: By using ostensibly objective
standards to give individuals momentum toward places high in society’s
inevitable hierarchies, those who do not flourish are scientifically stigmatized.”
I think this paragraph give a clue
to Will’s misdirection: coming to a fork in the road, the-objective-truth turn
left or liberal-democracy turn right, Will did.
SAT testing is non democratic. It
provides the evidence of accomplishment: the student comprehends the
information he or she received and is prepared for the next level of
understanding. Failure need not carry stigmatism, but it does inform the
student to work for comprehension.
It’s shocking to me that Will has
trouble with evidence. Evidence does not respond to emotions.
Phil Beaver does not “know” the
actual-reality. He
trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered.
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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