Some political women beg woe

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.

Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “We willing citizens of the United States collaborate for civic, civil, and legal self-discipline to provide integrity, justice, goodwill, defense, prosperity, liberty, for ourselves and for the nation’s grandchildren and beyond and by this amendable constitution authorize and limit the U.S.’s service to the people in their states.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs. I would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equality in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.

Selected theme from this week

Some women’s divergence from civic integrity is shining through. 

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From Oct 14, 2018 on BRPD (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_638a747a-d00e-11e8-8d30-23a5c0f4d82b.html)

To WJoe Hicks: I am following your advice.

For example, please read and comment on my essay, “Non-religious Conservative College Women? Really?” on my blog, promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

Columns

History in the documents (David Shribman) (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/david/shribman123118.php3)

I think biographies are useful but less informative than reading documents in order to form individual opinion about them.

For example, I think the Declaration of Independence became obsolete when the French navy and army with the Continental army, at Yorktown, VA, defeated the British army and navy. The 1783 Treaty of Paris is between England and thirteen free and independent states on the eastern seaboard. The 1787 preamble made it possible for willing people in nine states to establish the USA, and they did so on June 21, 1788. USA operations began on March 4, 1789 with eleven states, two remaining dissidents.

I have studied the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (U.S. preamble) for about two decades, and a paraphrase for my use improves each time I revise it. In other words, I continually paraphrase so as to know what I trust-in and commit-to for the purpose of collaborating for an achievable, better U.S. future. It seems “a more perfect Union” exists by military force that keeps states from seceding. Therefore, I want to collaborate for civic integrity, both as wholeness (most fellow citizens involved) and as reliability: the people’s fidelity to the-objective-truth. Also, “our Posterity” includes grandchildren and beyond, who are being saddled with huge debt for extant adult satisfactions.

I work to persuade fellow citizens to use the U.S. preamble to collaborate for civic integrity. The U.S. preamble tacitly offers individual happiness with civic integrity. If most fellow citizens thought so, American history might inspire reform to the civic discipline that is needed for survival as a people.

Parents for black education (Walter Williams) (https://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/01/19/black-education-a-glimmer-of-hope)

"The (school) district has shown they just can't do it. ... Now it's time for the community to step in."

That statement misses the point.

We are at the leading edge of 230 years neglect if not repression of the U.S. preamble; that is, the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It offers each fellow citizen the opportunity to collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity. Each fellow citizen is free to ignore the opportunity as long as he or she does not cause actually-real harm that is noticed. If so, he or she faces statutory law and its enforcement.

Humankind has learned but not articulated that each person has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (IPEA) to develop either infidelity or integrity. Few people choose integrity, and those who do contend with the unknown. That is, the standard against which integrity is judged, fixed as it may be, is not always known. For example, the possibility that there is no God has not yet been proved, and therefore, individuals are free to adopt or construct any god that appeals to them. Thus, some people claim God looks like them: God is red, yellow, black, or white. That is, God’s people may be characterized first by skin color. I don’t know. When the-objective-truth seems obvious yet is undiscovered, the individual is best served by admitting to self: I do not know.

Additionally, we are at the leading edge of perhaps 10,000 years of psychological evolution that may be ineluctably developing statutory justice, unlikely as its perfection may be. In other words, the law does not always reflect statuary justice. Although murder, even mass murder, is still practiced, genocide seems to approach extinction. Everyone seems to know that slavery is never alright, yet millions enslave people. Civic integrity persists only where most fellow citizens discipline themselves.

We are at the leading edge of humankind’s development of language and grammar by which to collaborate for statutory justice. But many nations, let alone, individuals have not developed collaboration for statutory justice. Therefore, confusion is the only idea the community can offer.

It is time for the individual to step in. Individual adults may accept IPEA and use it to develop civic integrity rather than crime. They may behave with the discipline that does not buy adult satisfactions through borrowing from grandchildren and beyond (the U.S. preamble’s “our Posterity”). Families may discipline themselves so that there may be an achievable better future for posterity. Parents may encourage and coach their children to develop IPEA for integrity rather than for infidelity and crime. Children may develop collaboration to discover the-objective-truth rather than conflict for dominant opinion and thereby have early success as young adults.

Just as some black leaders argue that the U.S. preamble was not intended for them, some leaders may argue that individual happiness with civic integrity is not intended for blacks. Most scholars reject the phrase “the-objective-truth,” many substitution the fungible the “objective truth.” I’d like to meet with conflicting opinion-builders to collaborate for reform, especially if it’s my view that needs to change.

I appreciate Dr. Williams’ work.

Other fora

https://www.quora.com/Does-anyone-think-some-people-are-just-totally-incompatible-with-others?

I think there are people who are totally incompatible in a moment of time, but as both parties progress in psychological maturity, if their paths cross again the may be compatible. By compatible I do not mean intimate.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-American-civic-values?

The Athenian Greeks, 2400 years ago, suggested controversial equity under statutory justice. Controversial, because some people think crime pays. Equity because equality is not possible among human beings, each one of whom is unique yet has IPEA. IPEA is the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority to develop either infidelity or integrity. Statutory justice is written justice or perfect law and its enforcement, which seems impossible but is a worthy goal. There are many variations on the Greek idea, and a popular error is that government is responsible for fairness to every person.

In the U.S., the agreement to collaborate for statutory justice, the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, hereafter the U.S. preamble, is a civic, civil, and legal commitment. Fellow citizens may agree to discipline themselves according to written law as they collaborate for statutory justice. The tacit proposal in the U.S. preamble is individual happiness with civic integrity---a uniquely American dream.

Americans seem to conflict for the dominant opinion according to political regimes. But in a fundamental dichotomy fellow U.S. citizens divide on whether they value the purpose and goals of the U.S. preamble or not. A growing faction could not care less. So far, it seems cycling, divergent dominance comes from 50% plus one vote.
 
When at least 2/3 of fellow citizens value the purpose and goals of the U.S. preamble, an achievable better future may emerge. Chaos may drive fellow citizens to civic integrity, and the reform may be underway.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-so-many-people-opposed-to-globalization-is-it-not-nice-if-countries-grow-together-and-there-is-more-equality-and-justice-in-the-world-and-less-separation?

There are 195 countries in the world. I know of no country that pursues statutory justice. By that I mean ultimate justice in writing, a perhaps impossible achievement yet a necessary purpose and goal.

The U.S. Supreme Court claims to pursue equal justice under law; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_justice_under_law. However, the court is divided between a living U.S. Constitution and one of the forms of originalism. What is needed is deliberate amendment to fulfill the goals that are stated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, hereafter, the U.S. preamble. However, there will always be dissidents to the goals. For example, there will always be people who think crime pays.

People who are willing to pursue civic discipline according to the purpose and goals of the U.S. preamble observe statutory law and may ultimately discover statutory justice. However, no one expresses enthusiasm for this achievable, better future. It seems impossible, because it has not been tried before.

If fellow citizens, especially Supreme Court Justices and their trickle-down, in the nation that advertises equal justice under law are not enthusiastic to discipline themselves according to the U.S. preamble, how much less will cosmopolitans collaborate for statutory justice?

https://www.quora.com/Does-increasing-population-numbers-make-democracy-unworkable

Democracy is unworkable. The right to vote is ultimately contingent on an agreement to collaborate for statutory justice.

What may work is individuals transitioning from feral infant to young adult in less than 3 decades and during that time acquiring the personal understanding and intent to live a human life rather than egocentrically pursue banal appetites.

Human beings have the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (IPEA) to develop either infidelity or integrity. The mature human has acquired freedom from ignorance, arbitrary constraint, and fear. The individual who recognizes this human dichotomy and chooses to develop crime is more subject to constraint than the one who chooses integrity.  He or she collaborates to discover and benefit from the-objective-truth. That is, actual reality or the actually indisputable facts rather than someone’s reasonable construct which they promote as the truth, for example, “crime pays.” Civic collaboration pursues statutory justice, an “impossible dream,” which in the meantime is served by written law and its enforcement.

 

Law enforcement is needed because most people, aware or not, use IPEA to develop or at least tolerate infidelity and crime within their culture. The world’s cultures may be likened to feral infants in various paths toward maturity except that the opportunity to learn is not limited to some 120 years or less. Physical evolution over the recent 13.8 billion years, biped evolution over a few million years, language evolution over a couple hundred thousand years, cultural evolution over a few thousand years, and technological evolution over a few decades have created religious diversity that obfuscates the quest for civic integrity. In other words, instead of collaborating to benefit from discovery of statutory justice, societies cluster under their dominant psychological construct. The individual assumes that he or she need not use IPEA to develop civic integrity because their god or their government will force the societies to adopt his or her opinions, at least the major ones.

The Athenian Greeks, about 2400 years ago, cruel masters of slaves, informed humankind there may be equity under the law. Cultures debate the application, but I perceive equity when most fellow citizens consider and observe written law and its enforcement as they collaborate to discover and practice statutory justice. In other words, just as an individual works to pay for the lifestyle he or she wants, he or she collaborates for civic integrity.

The U.S. Constitution authorizes a federal government under a disciplined people. The discipline is specified in the preamble, which I refer to as “the U.S. preamble.” A paraphrase in this context is: We agree to use IPEA to pursue individual happiness with civic integrity and authorize a limited central government to serve us in our states. The articles that follow provide the states a representative republic. Thus, the U.S. preamble is the civic agreement developed some 2200 years after the cruel Greeks thought of “equal justice under law.”

If a majority of fellow citizens become attentive to three considerations: IPEA, the U.S. preamble, and collaboration to discover the-objective-truth rather than conflict for dominant opinion, more infants and children will be coached and encouraged to develop civic integrity. With a supermajority, say 2/3 of fellow citizens choosing discipline according to the-objective-truth, the right to vote will work to elect representatives who uphold the U.S. preamble. Otherwise, an expanding population will continue to cause chaos.

Either way, democracy, or the rule of the majority is ruinous for the person who pursues individual happiness with civic integrity; for example, in a country that is too traditional to accommodate statutory justice. In the U.S., a person may serve in a government capacity without compromising lawful religious practices, yet some fellow citizens think religions other than their own should be restricted. Collaboration for the-objective-truth rather than conflict for dominant opinion may relieve this tension. Specifically metaphysical ideas like “soul” are served by various constructs, like reincarnation, and may serve some individuals and not others, whereas, mutual, comprehensive safety and security is critical to every fellow citizen.

I think under the present chaos increasing population is unworkable---economically divergent, and the pressure for social democracy is the chief villain. The past 230 years’ repression of the U.S. preamble has made the U.S. vulnerable to democracy’s attack. The preamble’s neglect has happened partially because political regimes wanted to repress it, but primarily because too many people attempt to avoid IPEA.  I work to restore the representative republic.

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Congress has been dysfunctional on protecting U.S. fellow-citizens (and foreign victims of criminal and philanthropic organizations) at our southern border during the five decades I have followed the issue.

I want to see what congressional-neglect stops in the Trump/Pence second term. I speculate that the First Amendment's British influences will be questioned and reforms proposed. I'm thinking of opportunity to pursue integrity rather than freedom of factional theism, currently Judeo-Christianity (check the religious affiliation of the group of nine Supreme Court justices). Also, I'm thinking of the opportunity for a responsible press rather than the extant, unbelievably-irresponsible, free press. But that's just a tip of the iceberg of British influences that need reform.

By 2020, the U.S. Constitution's preamble, the U.S. fellow-citizen's agreement to collaborate for statutory justice rather than conflict for dominant opinion may be promoted by a super majority; I imagine 2/3 of fellow citizens pursuing individual happiness with civic integrity---the U.S. preamble's tacit dream.

The interest is growing, and people who trust-in and commit-to the U.S. preamble may recall the power of acceleration.

https://www.quora.com/What-small-thing-does-your-spouse-do-that-sets-your-teeth-on-edge?

We’ve just begun or 50^th of years during which I constantly woo her.

I’m a geek and she is witty. I’m emotional and she’s practical. I’m searching and she’s serene. I call her MWWW: my wonderful, witty, wife. By witty I mean psychologically quick.

I was born and reared E. Tennessee So. Baptist, and she was born a couple years earlier Louisiana French Catholic. For the first quarter century, I worshiped with her, then with her and our three children at the parish closest to our home but also was active in my local Baptist church---having eight job functions there when I quit. Then, she frustrated me by answering a question before I completed its expression (in my opinion).

After one Sunday school, wherein we discussed the difference between the Father and the Son I recall using John 6:36-40, I cheerfully asked her view. She responded, “There is no difference.”

I responded, “How would you explain that to my class, who just discussed Jesus’ fidelity to God?”

She said, “I do not need to explain it. It is a mystery. However, God is one: Jesus and God are the same.”

My knees buckled and I said, “We have had wonderful religious discussions all these years and I don’t think I ever really listened to you. I hoped to convert you to my faith. I fell in love with my diamond and then always dreamed of changing you. Forgive me. I will make it up to you.”

Now, I write at least once a month that I trust-in and am committed-to the-objective-truth; in other words, I have “faith-in” the-objective-truth. My faith does not exclude Cynthia’s faith, she tells me.

I am convinced that Phil Beaver began to choose faith in the-objective-truth at about ten years old. However, I would never have articulated it if I had not fallen-in-love-with Cynthia and committed to monogamy for life with her. Without Cynthia I would never have discovered Phil.

I could not have articulated monogamy for life on our wedding day. The Church does not explicitly state that spouses share monogamy for life with any children they beget so that the family may prepare for an achievable better future by the grandchildren.

Cynthia’s serene wit set me on edge until the day I embrace it.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-think-that-equality-is-the-central-theme-of-democracy?

Human individuals come from ova, and ova are in the same situation. Most ova do not survive for conception, much less gestation, less delivery as a person, less survival to maturity, and only a few to psychological maturity.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-most-American-citizens-today-are-too-lazy-and-selfish-when-it-comes-to-shouldering-the-responsibilities-of-citizenship?

The question: “Do you think most American citizens today are too lazy and selfish when it comes to shouldering the responsibilities of citizenship?”

Not lazy and selfish in the traditional sense, but woefully ignorant. By woefully I mean that the fruits of fellow citizens’ errant behavior will come to their grandchildren and beyond.

An achievable, better future is being made possible by attention to both the agreement that is offered by the preamble to the U.S. Constitution and collaboration to discover the-objective-truth rather than conflict for dominant opinion.

Two understand these comments better, please see my essay at https://www.quora.com/In-what-scenarios-do-you-believe-government-paternalism-is-a-good-thing? It is copied below:

https://www.quora.com/In-what-scenarios-do-you-believe-government-paternalism-is-a-good-thing?

The question: “In what scenarios do you believe government paternalism is a good thing?”

I envision only one scenario: The majority of people, at least 2/3 of fellow citizens, finally accept that civic integrity is the individual’s opportunity and responsibility; neither government nor gods will surrogate for a civic people. A civic people collaborate for mutual, comprehensive, safety and security more than for social acceptance.

When the majority of fellow citizens adopt the (controversially Greek) principle that the individual who during cognizant life continuously collaborates for statutory justice may enjoy equity in life, both government and gods will have served their purposes: to show that individual happiness with civic integrity comes only from the people. This is a very packed paragraph, so ask about any terms you want to, but I would prefer your thoughts from the words and phrases I used.

Ultimate justice (is that civic perfection?) is not a new idea. The historical precedence was falsely/erroneously stated by Abraham Lincoln during the years 1857, 1861, and 1863.

Especially in 1857, Lincoln used the Declaration of Independence to express that all men were created equal, when he would argue that black-skinned inhabitants should be returned to Africa and there should be no sexual relations between blacks and whites.

In 1861, Lincoln expressed my premise literally, but in phrases that contemporaries could not possibly comprehend. Addressing the Confederate States of America’s threat of war, Lincoln spoke:

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.

My paraphrase is:  The military power of the Union will prevail in the dispute over emancipating the slaves. Lincoln was aware that the slave-states ratio had changed from 8:5 in 1787 to 15:17 in 1858. In 1861, the CSA’s 7 states faced 27 other states with less than 8 candidates to join the CSA.

In 1863, Lincoln misrepresented the purpose and goals of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution when he said, “. . . that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” (My emphasis.) The U.S. preamble offers individuals the opportunity to practice the civic discipline by which statutory justice (ultimate justice) may be discovered. Furthermore, the U.S. preamble (that is, willing people in their states) established and authorized U.S. Article IV Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

The conforming government is representative under the rule of statutory law, the articles that are authorized in the U.S. preamble. In other words, the U.S. preamble authorized governance by the people’s representatives under the rule of statutory law.

Among U.S. fellow citizens, We the People of the United States, as defined by the U.S. preamble, has never emerged. Not caring to comprehend the U.S. preamble, most people do not realize that “and our Posterity” includes their grandchildren, so 2019 families happily load grandchildren with debt so as to satisfy adult, banal appetites. The primary reason for this unfortunate 230-year-development is that the people are too busy “living” to do the work to assure individual happiness with civic integrity for themselves and their grandchildren and beyond.

Most individuals look to their personal god to deliver them from the U.S. government, never realizing that no two fellow citizens have the same personal god. All the talk of God is babel---confused noise. This too, is not novel, as it was expressed by Nicolo Machiavelli in “The Prince,” Chapter XI, 1513.

An achievable better future seems beginning with this view of the U.S. preamble plus discovery of statutory justice by collaborating under the-objective-truth rather than conflicting for dominant opinion.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.