Engulfed by media and Democrat Party lies

 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 appreciation:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows We the People of the United States proffer & practice 5 public disciplines —- integrity, justice, safety, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage & facilitate responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and 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. Equity 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.

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The world is engulfed by media and Democrat Party lies

I stopped subscribing to the local AP-subscribing newspaper, The Advocate, and my world got brighter. When their agents call with low-cost deals, I say I hope they go out of business. Now, I get the news that is important to me in conversations wherever I go. And I try to go to many public places and talk to anyone who wants to talk.

This is a fantastic world and a wonderful land. Perhaps we should shut down the media altogether. Just don’t subscribe.

I have to admit, I do pay The Epoch Times weekly and think I should open it more. I still read every article in National Affairs quarterly. But I’m busy!

News

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The Democrat show convinces me U.S. civic-citizens will empower my opportunity to vote for Trump a fifth time. We'll see how it turns out.

Quora

quora.com/Are-many-people-out-there-who-say-that-they-are-tolerant-only-tolerant-when-everyone-else-agrees-with-them? by Stef Lynn

Maybe so.

But I think “intolerance” is a good word and “tolerance” is not.

Consider tolerance in four applications about a stranger: the truth, their opinion, their choice, and human-being. In order to be tolerant, I must assume higher ground. Since I know nothing about the stranger, I can only accept them. Also, since I am a stranger, I cannot influence them.

quora.com/In-your-opinion-what-is-dividing-society-currently? by Lawrence

Q: In your opinion, what is dividing society currently?

A: Most individuals behave in fear of the unknowns that inspire& motivate them. For example, the destitute fear for the next meal, and the ultra-rich fear someone possesses the watch they desire. No one is willing to facilitate& encourage reform to either errant party.

The laws of physics make it plain that each human-being can& may, in self-interest, reject fear and appreciate their opportunity to responsibly develop a happy lifetime. During their first quarter-century, they can& may develop the comprehension& intention to live a complete human lifetime. By complete, I mean both the lifespan their body can sustain and also psychological independence from both external and internal constraints.

To constrain government, they obey the law and pay their taxes. To constrain fear, they appreciate life and everything in it and behave so as to constrain chaos in their way of living. If they are theistic, they accept their-God’s love. If Christian, they accept Jesus’ peace. Regardless, they are civic-citizens, where “civic” means reliable in all human connections& transactions. Civic-integrity empowers responsible-human-independence (RHI) to pursue safety& security on earth. Reliability includes constraining dependent fellow-citizens, in order to encourage their reform. Dependencies include religion, laziness, crime, and tyranny. The human-being duty is to practice, facilitate, and encourage safety& security.

No culture on earth inculcates these principles in their youth. Most parents teach their children as they were taught -- already obsolete tradition. Most government-elites train the workers they think they need. Clergy promote doctrine long-since proven doubtable. Gullible people accommodate the status quo, entreating utopia rather than pursuing RHI.

The Machiavellian elites of the world observe human gullibility and construct cultures to benefit from the fears of the majority in a community or nation. For example, Chapter-XI-Machiavellian-elites partner with the national church. State& church live high on the hog. The people neither emigrate nor rebel, continuously teaching their youth to pray that their-God will eventually save them; in the U.S., “ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the preamble, accommodate tyranny rather than develop RHI. The culture “keeps the faith”, unintentionally gifting their lives’ works to the elites.

The Internet has made it possible for many people to ignore propaganda and lies, in order to discern the past and forge an attainable better future. For example, one 24-hour study of the first well-recorded civilization, Sumer, suggests that year-2022 improvement of their 4,000-year-old political philosophy could produce RHI-culture.

Between 10,000 years ago and 4,000 years ago, the Sumerians invented writing, 60-based mathematics such as 360 degree circle and 60 second minute, astronomy records, accounting, law, and many other wonders for that era. An improvement on their collaborative hierarchy is: worker, artisan& guardian, entrepreneur, and administrator, in increasing responsibility& remuneration, all to pursue necessity& justice. Capitalism seems essential, and equitable distribution of both domestic production and windfall revenue can& may be specified& administered.

The dominance of religion in most people’s lives makes focus on beneficial political philosophy almost impossible, and the Internet has made the civic-division religion causes plain to many people. However, most of them are too busy living to escape the tyranny their cultures have accommodated for millennia. The perception of futility in religion leaves many people with no hope for a future.

There is a bright achievement in history since Sumer, and that is the amendable 1787 U.S. Constitution. Its preamble proposes development of RHI and assigns religion to the privacy of the individual mind& heart. The preamble’s intentions-sentence expresses this:  We civic-citizens pursue five public disciplines – integrity, justice, safety, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Posterity includes legal immigrants. There are no standards, so posterity is bound to reliability more than tradition.

In summary, I think human-kind is currently divided by internal confrontation with gullibility. Most people perceive that neither their-God nor their-governments can provide safety& security on earth. Articulating the cause of the divide does not come easy, so its expression in 2022 is divergent chaos. However, 2022 may be the year that reform of a 5,000 year-old political philosophy, already improved by a 235 year-old-constitution, marks widespread attention to an achievable better future.

quora.com/Whats-the-most-serious-social-problem-in-the-world? by Charles Raisor or Raj Nathan

No culture on earth practices, facilitates, and encourages responsible-human-independence (RHI).

RHI requires civic-integrity to ourselves and our posterity. “Civic” expresses reliable human-connections& transactions more than civilization or rule observance.

The newborn human-being does not possess RHI and transitions during their first quarter century to either young adult with comprehension and intention to develop RHI or with satisfaction to remain dependent. Dependencies include religion, indolence, crime, and tyranny.

Dependency invites constraint, and civic-citizens fund the systems of constraint.

RHI is not a new concept. It’s rudimentary political philosophy was practiced by the sequence of kings in the Sumer civilization that existed from 11,000 years ago to about 4,000 years ago, when Babylonians moved in.

The Sumer hierarchy I express as, workers, artisans, entrepreneurs, and administrators seems constrained by necessity& justice. Equity in both GDP distribution and windfall-fortune sharing could improve capitalism. The consequence would be more focus on the self-interest of RHI.

quora.com/What-has-been-the-most-relevant-idea-good-or-bad-in-the-past-few-decades? by Pinesthi Mukti Rizky Wibowo

Q: What has been the most relevant idea . . . in the past few decades?

A: Amend the U.S. First Amendment religion clauses to:  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or [promoting] the free exercise thereof.

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Without objection to anyone's civic hopes, I celebrate safety& security, appreciating both this life and the people who share their paths rather than wait for the mystery of afterdeath.

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.