The Advocate for social democracy

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 want to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet would always preserve the original, 1787, text.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_a99e84cc-278c-11e8-8e1f-4f9ff7993156.html)

Thank goodness I voted for candidate Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence, because the others seemed weak. I knew Trump was a celebrity and therefore the object of some ambitious women---#metoo dreamers rather than real women. I had no opportunity to vote on reliable sexual fidelity, unless Pence-appearances and a better Trump are true. And thank goodness so many people voted against Hillary Clinton and her running mate.

One of the tragic consequences is that The Advocate personnel make it clear they favor the chaos of social democracy in America, where a republican form of government is promised by its constitution.

Today, The Advocate personnel passed up President Trump’s dramatic speech on solving the opioid-deaths plague, choosing to harp on New Orleans street art and the town’s reaction to it.

The people of Louisiana deserve better than a hometown newspaper that competes with the National Enquirer. And writers for The Advocate deserve the opportunity to develop personal civic morality.

I encourage The Advocate employees to realize: every person has the authority to spend his or energy to behave according to civic morality. Thus, each person may develop the personal commitment: in every thought, every word, and every action, neither initiate nor tolerate harm.

Why do The Advocate personnel promote “what Neal Morris thinks”? I could not care less about Morris talk, but I want a responsible hometown newspaper.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 33:12 CJB), The Advocate, March 20, 2018, 5B.

“How blessed is the nation whose God is ADONAI, the people he chose as his heritage!”

Dean says, “When a nation walks with God, it will be blessed.”

Dean shares with the public the reason the USA hopes it is at a civic nadir. After 229 years “under God,” we’re in a hell of a mess.
 
Apparently, The Advocate personnel like folly, but goodness knows a little civic balance would be welcomed.

  

Columns

The civic immorality of social democracy (George Will) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/crisis-pregnancy-centers-have-the-right-to-remain-silent/2018/03/16/38de599e-28a7-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.258bfee0c5c9)

The right to remain silent is a cute juxtaposition to the right to speak. However, Will did not practice his sermon.

And I do not think he should. Every human individual has the opportunity to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. Those who do, may mature to a civic commitment:  In every thought, every word, and every action, neither initiate nor tolerate harm.

Will sometimes reflects that commitment.

News

Avoid erroneous religious beliefs (Jeff Adelson) (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_4bcbcb2e-2bf7-11e8-b6a4-fb129283016b.html)

   

". . . when people who are poor and live in Appalachia . . . feel left out and . . . cause the rise of" Donald Trump.

Landrieu expresses himself as a shameless alien to civic morality. Every human individual may develop the authority to avoid erroneous religious beliefs.

What would inspire the people of seven agrarian states to fire on the people of twenty-seven industrial states? What would inspire people in Missouri to cross into Kansas and slay men, women, and children who demanded freedom for everyone?

Quoting the people of the seven states, in their declaration of secession, “Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanction of more erroneous religious belief.” avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp

People who erroneously believed that abolition of slavery was defiance of God’s plan felt God’s favor would give them the victory in war. Therefore, they attacked a “more erroneous religious belief.”

Today, many blacks in America believe that God will help them fulfill their dreams. Some think the only way a white person can save his or her soul is to help black Americans reign supreme.

God leaves it to humans to exercise personal authority to behave. Erroneous beliefs and wayward prayer begs woe. That is the conversation that could establish the integrity Americans need . . . and want, I hope.

Discipline (Tyler Bridges) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_50cac340-2bcb-11e8-9e54-d3ab4d96e8b5.html)

   

Lawmakers who improve gambling businesses in Louisiana are acting against the people of Louisiana.

For every $1 mined from the people of Louisiana, $0.22 goes to the state general fund. It’s a sinister arrangement: the people (the state) picking individual’s pockets.

During this critical time, The Advocate personnel could be researching and reporting gambling’s impacts on crime, poverty, drug dependency, psychological problems and emotional break-downs, and medical-care costs. The Advocate personnel, like every other citizen, have the individual authority to first neither enact nor tolerate harm, and subscribers pay them to do such research so that the people have the information to manage civic morality.

I wrote to my state representatives and asked them to keep legislation for gambling from passing.

I also want to see new legislation that keeps elected officials' families and extended families from serving the gambling industry for profit beyond direct wages. In other words, legislator’s extended families can be neither vendors to the gambling businesses nor gambling-business owners.

Family disturbance (Charles Lussier, 3/19) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_7f14074c-2951-11e8-8c9b-47f9ed22cbaa.html)

Sandra Jackson McCrea To understand my posts, perhaps understand the civic agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

If you like, paraphrase it to represent the civic goals you would commit-to and trust-in for 2018 and beyond.

My current paraphrase is: We the civic citizens of each of the fifty 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 in our state by the USA.

I want to collaborate with you and other civic citizens on a mutually useful paraphrase, yet would always preserve the original, 1787, text.

  

Other forums

quora.com/What-should-a-22-year-old-do-when-he-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-his-life

Age 22 is at the edge of life’s best opportunity to establish balance for living a full life.

We articulate four authorities which every human individual may discover and develop in proper balance. The authorities are: the individual, actual reality, humankind, and the American dream. Let me explain each authority and power.

Each newborn has the authority to develop his or her energy during every moment of life. This individual authority and power cannot be taught: must be experienced and observed. However, some parents who individually balance the four powers coach their children to develop autonomy early and fast. Some children are coachable.

With optimum education, coaching, and autonomy, the child may discover and develop fidelity. Later, the mature adult may develop the practice: in every thought, in every word, in every action, first neither do harm nor tolerate harm. If dissident parents think, for example, crime pays, the child may develop infidelity, but some rebel to develop fidelity. A civic culture emerges when most people pursue fidelity.

The prime fidelity is to actual reality, in other words, the-objective-truth, the second power, second because it would have no impact if the person had not been born. It is a comprehensive fidelity that, both respectively and collectively, extends to self, to immediate family, to extended family and friends, to the people (nation), to all people (the world), and to the universe.

The third authority is humankind’s civil order. There are two civil nuances: civilization (coercion) and legalization (force), both inferior to civic morality (responsibility). In civic morality, individuals inform civil order and develop statutory justice rather than conflict for dominant legal opinion. Regardless of injustice that may be forced on the individual, the balanced individual remains in control of personal behavior.

The fourth authority is the American dream; in other words, private liberty with civic morality. Most of the world is unaware of this dream, because Americans have not created a civic culture. Europeans today cannot grasp America’s freedom-from oppression with liberty-to responsibly pursue individual happiness rather than social democracy or other imposition.

Happy is the person who discovers these four powers and balances them during most of his or her brief lifetime, hopefully more than 80 happy years. Tragically, many cultures inculcate fear of responsible individual authority. Cultures impose a quest for a higher power to coerce or force morality that the person cannot deny except by immorality. When a chosen higher power fails, the individual seeks another, and the cycle of failure extends.

I hope this helps.

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.