A Year for Pastel Poetry (poem)

 A Year for Pastel Poetry

 

  A continuing battle of colors

allocated across the Earth

better pastel orange red rocks

seven primary compositions

and fifty shades of gray

hollow stoned cities farmed electron tweets

echoes of plastic green forests

written on the streets

evolved regurgitated lumpiness

breaking non-Euclidean patterns

angstrom geometries

gutters of darkness

claimed canyons of convergence

packing accelerating motion

blurring the sense of super-realism

where untheism was a wall paint poster

meaningless chords sup data

silence on deaf ears, optics

instruments interpreting signal’s

sounds from air guitar conjunctions

inauguries effortless packaged virtues

biting down on common sense

barriers to light and dark

colors warm and red

dead land-blink sifts

surging flood of non-sense spin drift

primary colors transitioning through time

wind arisen from light

fading away to rhyme

above the clouds

beyond troubles of dirt

where waves of colors freak

pastel poetry abounds

from shadows’ work

like bodies crashing from a Taosian bridge

littering bits, pieces and shards of bones

flesh mass freshly splattered

smashed down below the fence

for deputies to climb to

specimen collecting bags

strange dead things in the night

special interest approaches to civil rights

picking up the pieces

 

  The why of procedures

policing policy plays politics

skull and crossbone antifahas

plantrixs silver black hoods gather

burning atheist crosses

golden orange flames

not really pastel, yet passably so

actors write their scripts in motion

on stage, through a door entry left

no-knock worst searches without systems analysis

fool- proofing methods

wit the Euro communist party

on American streets

bricks and Molotov cocktails

cattle cars to nowhere

       red caboose fading to darkness

       long ago before spring and fall

       hate motifs for capitalisms red

       white and blue unreformed year

       writing pastel poetry

the cadaverous covid kavorkian terminality

drums unsustainable all-go-rythms

clouds of dopey haze

shots through felon’s windows

no-knock searches

warrant drone battering rams in flight

captured images of observers

through windows

       bed and bullet

dregs of resistance

shagged carpets of careful calculation

square footage of business phenomenality

fast flush evidence

sky scrapers of barnacles

cling to existence over an acid ocean

wild rainbows of artificial intelligence

superficial censorship a mile wide

and a thought deep

the Tongass forest old growth tree cut down

inchoiring salmon management policy of extermination

      slavery of technology

exerts control of spirit and substance

being and nothingness

emptied, fishless Yukon River basin

recovers millions with seven years moratorium

to crash again slowly at ten percent

commercial catch annually

clear water, blue water, brown water, white foam, yellow sun, red moon

green and orange shades disappearing

cheating survival and swimmel rights

no marches demanding special legal protection

for golden-eyed spelunkers

anywhere on the western front

where writers satisfy with equal justice for all

quoting one that said;

 

“Death is the natural barrier preventing increase of infinite evil on Earth. If not for death, humanity would evolve hell for-themselves. Given infinite time human nature would evolve hell if it did not exist suitably manufactured for the conduct of absolute evil.”

 

That was an historic day

unlike all others that were not part of history

a day with rich full colors

and odors strong enough to wake the dead

 

If colors and death are equally meaningless

one may construct meaning for oneself

or find meaning with God

yet if meaninglessness prompts a response

it may be the choice between stupid and intelligent conduct-

so one may ask oneself;

what is the smarter choice

super-positioned entanglement

symmetry breaking

along two dimensions

or the reversal of time.

 

 

The Founder's Greatness Created a Practical Utopian Foundation

 The founders of the United States had a special greatness creating and setting the governing paradigm of the present and future United States. It is a Utopian doctrine permitting free people to develop their own interests with an egalitarian, classless social structure; that is without legally superior social classes. Today the founder’s paradigm has taken a lot of heat from the left who misunderstand and/or hate many works of the past.

 The Declaration and Constitution were the greatest secular governing articles ever constructed by man. The founders were a philosophically enlightened group working in freedom with high regard for God who is no respecter of persons; they knew free people need to be equal before the law. The founders created from nothing, in a new nation, a utopian doctrine supporting individual self-determination without coercion from authorities. It was a practical doctrine in several respects, as well utopian.

 The founders knew that the history of mankind is wicked regarding oppression, war, exploitation and crime. As Christians they understood that mankind has a problem of original sin undermining the best intentions the better elements of humanity may work for. Therefore the founders created a tri-partite government designed to police itself and prevent corruption and takeover of government by cliques, tyrants or malevolent turkeys. The constitution was a forward-looking document that allowed room for the new nation to grow into, when it grew up.

  Human society including that of founders’ day wasn’t perfect. Slavery around the world and was rich business; some of the citizens did not have full right to vote, or a right to vote at all, and might have been at war with the U.S. government in some cases. That is why the constitution was something of a Utopian doctrine that set a paradigm that would allow growth over time into a better and more perfect union with liberty and justice for all. The fulfillment of a utopian constitutional paradigm actualized by and for all of the people of the United States could not realistically occur in the founder’s day. It could though be practically founded and allowed to progress in the future toward the day when all of the people would be free and unexploited, all of the time. The genius of the founders of the United States in creating a practical governing utopian paradigm that could actualize over time could not foresee all of the challenges that would arise in the future of the nation; they did however create constitutional tools that would allow enlightened citizens to respond to those challenges

 A free society tends to exist easily in wild and sparsely populated lands compared to lands that are densely populated. A free civil society may become increasingly regulated and oppressive as population density requires more political management for smooth social flow, human health and security. There may be an inverse ratio relationship between population and human freedom. Free ranging cattle have more freedom than those packed into a feed lot. With too dense of a human population density civil liberties tend to erode or collapse though people have a right to watch society stall in grid lock.

  Today the United States needs reform of governing regulations in order to maintain the march toward development of the best possible governing paradigm keeping in the tradition and will of the founders of the United States. The U.S.A. need favor business beneficial to ecospheric restoration.

  Fundamentally three paradigm adjustments or reforms should be prioritized to continue development of the founder’s paradigm. The first is ecospheric defense and recovery with adaptation of economic practices to conform to criteria that support improvement/recovery of health of the national ecosphere.

  The second is defense of national borders to allow a slow, measured increase of population through immigration without illegal entry. Egalitarian economics and quality mass education require a stable, secure population dynamic. Some have said that America has always had immigration therefore it is always good. That is a problem of quantification and increase invariably being correct all time. Consider quantity management problems arising from such blindness in simpler physical systems such as water management behind a dam (it has always been saved therefore it must always have water added to it), adding weight to a ship or an aircraft, sending convicts to a particular prison (over-crowding), reducing food consumption to lose weight, etc.

  The third paradigm includes the first two paradigms. It is ecological economic reform that will support the social roles of government in a densely populous nation to support the most freedom, health and education for all possible. Egalitarianism economically is equal to political egalitarianism these days and requires progressive taxation on capital, income and inheritance to forestall increase of an ignorant, wealthy aristocracy of elitists reinforcing classical, ecospherically harmful economic policy.

Public debt of vast scale usually results in cuts to social activities of government of benefit to the poor and middle class. Elimination of public debt with progressive taxes is highly desirable. That is problematic for some. George Luis Borges descried a situation comparable to select attitudes about public debt in ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Turtius’-“The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definite. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlon an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.” (Exemplifying the challenge of mind over matter; if you don’t mind it don’t matter.)

 One of the paradigmatic challenges of the future the founders could not foresee was that of the abortion of human embryos and fetuses as casually as booger picking by doctors and patients searching for a way to power through callous means. That savage practice brought to the United States by an all-male court in 1971 should be reversed. The U.S. Government would have a necessary role in ending human abortion.

 Fundamentally ubiquitous birth control will reduce to a low rate the problem, yet the Government will need to act to outlaw abortion entirely yet allow removal of embryos and fetuses for the first four months of pregnancy if the woman chooses, with the embryos and fetuses transferred alive to a federal live storage vault for indefinite suspension (at some future time perhaps to a cold planet like Pluto) as soon as technologically possible. The U.S. Government created a vast national petroleum reserve; it should be able to do as much to rescue developing humans from the ash heap of history. Human embryos shouldn’t be killed and discarded by doctors and patients as indifferently as nose picking. An actually civilized society would not abort human life.

   The founders could not foresee all of the challenges ahead, yet they set a great paradigm to build on and grow through. The paradigm need be modified only slightly with several liberating intelligent regulations paradoxically to adapt it to great challenges of the modern times concerning population regarding over-use and abuse of a deteriorating global and national ecospheric health and concentration of wealth because of irrationally exuberant tax cuts gutting progressive taxation required to prevent the ascendance of a royal class of one-percenters a sedulously allegiant to global plutonomy. 

 

God and Morality (ideas)

God is Spirit. The Universe of three dimensions exists because energy in two dimension slows down from light speed when encountering the Higgs Field picking up a third dimension along the direction of travel. No one knows much about what energy is in two dimensions. point 'particles' have zero dimensions and strings one I believe. Spirit that is omniscient and omnipotent flexes His Intelligence and all things exist as He willed, yet it always was-even a Multiverse-fully actualized in a portion of His thought. Leibniz believed in spiritual monads (like a zero-point virtual energy bubble-dot), and Plotinus interpreted Plato in a way that makes the realm of forms and the Intelligence resemble the Apostle John's paradigm of "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

On 'what is morality'- 

Morality, some have said, is a description of what people actually do socially to set rules of conduct. Thus some morality could be viewed as good or bad by others not in a particular society. There are numerous ways to find, get, construct, learn or inherit moral norms, yet because people are free and ultimately responsible for their own moral conduct in light of what they believe, different opinions arise regarding what is or isn't moral.

Why the Novichok- Isn't that Somewhat Klutzy Spycraft??

 In most spy movies malevolent agents seeking to poison some political victim use somewhat untraceable drugs that resemble a heart attack or look natural. One movie had a tiny cyanide pellet that could be injected by a passerby, kill the target and fade out of the bloodstream too quickly to be traced, so why I wonder would the Kremlin order a killing of a political opponent of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin with the worst possible means to point at Kremlin involvement? Maybe poisoning planner thought investigators would think the Novichok appeared through normal levels of nerve agent in the atmosphere to which Mr. Navalny was especially sensitive.

If Russia's spy service are so expert these days at influencing U.S. voters with cleverly constructed and placed Facebook advertising and fake news articles, how is it that they have become regressive from the era of From Russia with Love with the poisoned steel shoe blades?

Novichok might be the world's most powerful nerve agent; better even than the traditional G.A., G.B. and V.X. Keeping even a little of it about is very dangerous to the spook handling it as well as the victim. Only four or five governments are known to have some of the stuff, and besides that, maybe just a few unknown agencies acquired some during the chaos and breakdown of military supply control in the post-Cold War era. Actually former Soviet nerve agents and Biopreparat materials could be about anywhere along with a few cold nukes. That may add some spice and excitement to government planning for many of course, yet it shouldn't encourage President Putin to use a nerve agents developed by Soviets to reduce political opposition- it gets bad PR the Kremlin might not want.

Vladimir Putin was supposed to have had training by the K.G.B. as a spook; is Novichok killings and other blunt instruments the sort of training they put out back Leningrad circa 1980? What is even more remarkable is the fact that Alexi Navalny was given just enough Novichok to get very ill yet not enough to kill. That must be a very, very fine line regarding dosage. Straight shooter days of Ronald Reagan seem long gone indeed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/14/alexei-navalny-continues-to-improve-say-german-doctors

https://nypost.com/2020/09/14/french-swedish-labs-confirm-alexei-navalny-poisoned-with-novichok/

President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize recently for bring the Middle East Peace closer to being normalized with an Arab nation or three willing to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel and for getting the Taliban and the normal Afghans together to discuss bring peace to that nation after so many decades of interminable wars. President Trump also is one of the few recent U.S. Presidents not to start a war of his own- not even a little one. One would hope that he might be able to restore real normalized relations with Russia if he has a second term; one that would allow the west to fully interact with Russia socially and economically without all of the adversity as the Democrat Party has brought to bear when ever they get a chance to do so. I the world's environmental and demographic challenges are to be met by future Presidents that will require partnership with Russia across many fronts.

An Hour of Essays (read from my 2020 book 'For the Love of Wisdom) video

 

Quantum and/or Virtual Relativity (essay and video) and other Essays

I wanted to comment about virtual particles and virtual mass, dimensions and relativity. This year I got around to reading the 2018 book named ‘Mass’. The primary point I discovered in the book is that mass is a secondary quality of energy. In the basic Universe there are two-dimensions for energy (perhaps) and there is the Higgs Field. The Higgs Field slows down massless energy from two dimensional light-speed to three-dimensional sub-light speed –particles acquire a third dimension in the direction of travel. That phenomenon allows a three-dimensional Universe to exist with mass. It brings a host of questions too. One question concerns the two dimensional field that allows virtual particles to appear in three dimensions briefly before disappearing. What is that general field from two dimensions letting virtual particles appear in the vacuum of a three dimensional Universe? Is it one-in-the-same as the Higgs Field?

People are fairly familiar with the effects of Einstein’s relativity paradigm upon 3-dimensional mass. What about the general relativistic effects upon quantum particles that have slowed down to sub-light speed. Perhaps there is a class of virtual general relativity acting on energy (particles) that helps form orbits and fields in the quantum world. If sub-atomic particles are subject to relativity, I wonder how each particle and mass might interact with variegated degrees in relation to particle mass.

Virtual particles are fluctuations of a field. General relativistic effects may act upon particles with sub-light speed in relation to an otherwise two-dimensional Universe for energy. It is easy to speculate that gravity could be an effect of concatenated relativity acting on sub-light three-dimensional particles existing within or upon a two-dimensional Universe. I am sure there would be a lot more to it than that. The idea of sub-atomic virtual general relativity is interesting, at least for me, to consider. So I thought I would make a note about the possibility.

Lawless, Misguided Democrat Electorate a Concern for Conservatives

  The Democrat Party has made lawlessness and racism campaign platform devices in 2020. Everyone should want transparent and equal legal justice for all in the United States. Portland Oregon’s summer of protests and rioting over the George Floyd killing in Minnesota was a fair example of somewhat unreasoned rioting; pursuing economic justice for all of the poor including white people would be more effective than blatant pursuit of special laws for different races.

Former Vice President Bite-me hasn’t said anything to discourage Portland protests and rioting during the pandemic with protesters and rioters failing to maintain social distancing. He had zero concern for the fear and harm leftists brought to tourists, businesses and residents during the three months of daily protests and riots. Citizens have a constitutional right for peaceful free assembly of course yet don’t have the right to riot, threaten and use violence wherever they want, break traffic laws and halt free flow of vehicular traffic, intimidate or close businesses along the streets, harass law enforcement and judicial centers or bring chaos to quiet neighborhoods and homes. Protesters have a right to assemble someplace, perhaps a cow pasture at the edge of town such as at Woodstock or in pro basketball and football stadiums with the help of millionaire players and billionaire owners, to have vigils and demonstrations with Democrat mayors supplying concessions of beer, dope, hot dogs and veggie burgers to protesters attending; they do not have a right to form a mob wherever they wish and simply take over neighborhoods or even loot or kill.

In the 1960s with legal segregation, few protest methods for communication were locally available in the south, unlike the present. Democrat party and Antifah supported mob gatherings in major American cities are harmful financially to many innocent people and disrupt and degrade the civil condition of the nation. Alternatively, hundreds of thousands or millions of protesting twits could have been sent to Twitter, posted at Facebook and other social media to express dismay and outrage, unlike in the 1960s. There are numerous black and leftist politicians at every level able to change whatever laws would usefully upgrade the quality, efficiency and transparency of police and legal justice methods. Numerous websites, blogs, cell phones and so forth exist to insist upon fair legal justice for all; there is just no reason for lawless Democrat Party mob preferences for quasi-anarchistic and senseless harmful protests to occur instead of using the full and available spectrum of civil means of political expression for mass opinions  commonly available. The only practical reason for the intifada of Portland and elsewhere is to agitate more Democrats to vote.

In my opinion there is no good choice for President this year. The Vice-Presidential candidates are o.k. though. Maybe government-privileged-insider-for-life Joe Bite-Me and make-the-rich-royal Don Trump should step aside and let their running mates go forward.

Neither Party intends to make a tax on progressive tax on capital, inheritance or income a priority. Most of the real problems of blacks in America are caused by poverty instead of law enforcement inequality. Poverty can only be ended through non-racist tax and income laws that regard poor people of any race as equal simply for being poor; living on a couple of thousand dollars annually is tough in the U.S.A. for anyone of any race. One percent of the people of the U.S.A. are well on their way to having 90% of annual income of the nation. Though 20 people killed unjustly each year in the U.S.A. is reprehensible, so are the 190,000 people killed by Covid 19 in the U.S.A. so far along with encroaching dangers of national and world ecosystem decay.

The Election in Nov 2020 seems a choice between Charybdis and Scylla (in modern lingo a choice between mud and slugs ice cream and cardboard and waste treatment product casserole). Focusing on rational economic issues and how to reform capital to return a national egalitarianism to economics to make America great again (like it would be after Roosevelt and after M.L.K. in a modern synthesis) would be more useful for the poor, working class and somewhat prosperous professionals. The affirmative action class of Democrats tend to follow special interest (of their own class constituencies) political goals instead of laws that work well for all citizens regardless of race, gender or perversion. While intelligent political ideas and goals selection may not one of their traits it could be if their leadership had good ideas and were intelligent (that died in the mid 1980s).

Covid era developments threaten so many Americans with eviction while they are going broke (and Wall Street capital returns record highs) reminds me a bit of the dream-like movies ‘Evictus’ and sequel ‘Convictus’ that were international box office hits that is something like the film ‘Children of Men’. The plot has 30 or 40 million Americans evicted from their homes, rounded up and shipped on friendly freight trains to Los Angeles to live on streets converted into homeless refuges. 

The one-percent have the great idea of importing 120 million illegal aliens from Mexico and China to live in those empty homes (being more efficient and productive with a higher population density in the formerly spoilt homes) on the East Coast and Midwest to restart the economy like gangbusters. 

Disgruntled homeless Americans that haven’t fled north to live in New Bohemiatopia (formerly named Portland) Oregon to beat the heat and join in nightly big juju in the wooded park outside the Federal Courthouse tire of the risk of using the steep slopes of the Los Angeles river for a public privy, agitate for better policing without (Fearless Fodsick seven-shots-in-the-back to be safe) brutality to African-Americans. The richest Americans, disgusted with the ingratitude of the homeless after all of the free Twinkies they have allocated to them, decide to adopt-a-nation and find South Sudan willing to become sons of the most rich.

 Thirty million homeless Americans directly are relocated on rented Panamax vessels a thousand feet long to Somalia and furthered on to South Sudan over a new railroad they build contributing free supply side gandy-dancing labor. In South Sudan they are further rehabilitated and trained to learn useful semi-skills like advanced digging part 2.0 in order to make South Sudan great again. As a U.S. territory South Sudan catalyzes good jobs for the region while illegal aliens in America with a pathway to citizenship working in America clean up the mess in Los Angeles when they aren’t working on PhDs or doing volunteer work at leprosariums hospices and soup kitchens.

Strange Quantum Effects and Structure

 There are a number of unusual quantum effects that are not observed in the macro-three-dimensional world of ordinary experience such as quantum entanglement and quantum uncertainty. One wonders why such effects occur and what might be inferred about the quantum world for-itself.

 The Higgs field seems to be the main illuminator for finding explanations of quantum effects and cosmology at a deeper level. The Higgs Boson is the force carrying particle of the Higgs Field, yet what is the cause of the Higgs Field one wonders, for all fields such as electro-magnetism usually have a causal explanation.

   I have read that the Higgs Field slows down about all quantum particles travelling at the speed of light in 2-dimensions to sub-light speeds, and that in so doing the quantum particles add an extra dimension- a third dimension along the line of travel. For that reason three dimensional particles and mass appear to exist, and actually might be said to exist as a secondary effect of energy. Mass particles fundamentally are energy particles slowed down into three dimensional and clustered together with combinations of other forces like the color force and strong nuclear force.

  If the basic Universal condition is just two-dimensional until the energy of it encounter the Higgs field, then mass of three dimensions still interacts with the two-dimensional, non-locked into a steady state decohered from two dimensions and masslessness. That two dimensional phase of the Universe may have short quantum lines to travel than those of three dimensions and account for some of the strange quantum effects observed in three dimensions without adequate explanations, yet what is the Higgs Field; is it a basic aspect of a second dimension presentation of energy? And what is the two dimensional Universe like in-itself before it is observed through the complicated three dimensional structure and filter? Wouldn’t its time component be at least entirely different than that of three dimensional mass that is besides subject to relativistic laws regarding the motion of three-dimensional mass?

Interestingly this sort of speculation about two dimensional energy underpinning the three dimensional mass of the Universe gives one material to speculate regarding pre-existing structure before any mass of the Universe formed or evolved in three dimensions. Evolution often entertains a presupposition that everything arose from nothing (as the book of Genesis says it did with the Universe being void and without form), perhaps virtual particles or vacuum energy. If there is two-dimensional energy prior to that, possible with unknown yet actual structures, one finds antipathetic inferences regarding structure.  While that might be a problem for evolutionists that prefer an absolute void at time equal zero (T=0) it isn’t a problem theologically; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.  Spirit preceded three-dimensional mass and two-dimensional energy at some point.

 Those searching for absolute nothingness to reinforce atheist beliefs in nothing might obviously reference one-dimensional points from nothing being the primordial substance-energy appearing from nothing as virtual particles. Virtual particles are statistical fluctuations of an energy field however, so one would guess that a fundamental power need exist in order for virtual particles to appear from ‘nothing’. One-dimensional particles make me wonder what came first; the particle or the dimension? At any rate at some juncture something existed prior to nothing, even if it was the absolute energy clump in zero dimensions sufficient for all possible Universes and their virtual vacuum energy spanning an infinite Multiverse; structure before nothing and a single dimension.

Concerning Differences between Religion and Philosophy

 These days I tend to examine the etymology of the word 'religion' and recognize the core meaning of allegiance and liege or feudal vassal. In feudal times meanings were not so specialized as today and there were fewer words with more general meanings used from one context to another. Someone allegiant to a feudal lord that had taken up Christianity for example and sought to have his subjects become Christian might have found the subjects duplicating some of the circumstantial labels from his political paradigm and describing their relation to Jesus Christ in similar terms. Words for Christian organization in an empirical paradigm perhaps developed in parallel to the empirical political paradigm. Outside of old English and continental re-legiance there are other traditions without the word 'religion'  used for them natively. Buddhism for instance was a practice for dealing with the challenges of existence. It is possible that translators have transferred words and general ideas with a little inaccuracy over history, and given them a kind of realism linguistically that wasn't merited. Philosophy is just the love of wisdom. One might find wisdom in many ways or areas including religion, the study of religion, weather, cosmology or whatever. Wisdom might bring one to religion, or rather to Jesus Christ and eternal life with God.

"1-1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."

Kierkegaard liked to criticize Hegel's and Hegelian's use of the term 'absolute' truth. he believed absolute was superfluous adding nothing to 'truth. Maybe people mean 'final truth'. The true, authorized Creator of the Universe for himself might be regarded as providing absolute truth, if absolute means something like 'the source of all things that exist with no challenger to the title'. Truth theories just say that A = A, actually and verify that in some way. Is 1 = 1 an absolute truth, or just an ordinary truth? Truth is a reference to objects or states of affairs etc. maybe, rather than the objects, material, atoms and so forth themselves.

Select Essays (video)

                              I read a few essays selected from my book 'For the Love of Wisdom'.

The presidential election is rather tough this year. One candidate is working to enrich Wal-Street and the one-percent that are well on their way to owning 90% of the nation's wealth, believes Covid 19 is in his rear view mirror, doesn't take global warming seriously nor ecosphere decline, thinks that any kind of progressive taxation is socialist, probably would eliminate health care for the poor if he could and so forth and considers 26 trillion dollars of public debt 'great'. The other candidate might flood the nation with illegal aliens to help reduce wages, would let the aged that can't afford plan Medicare part B go without medical coverage, supports abortion, homosexuality and hasn't said anything about restoring progressive taxes on income and inheritance nor anything about taxing capital.

 When a Hobson's choice is the way it is I guess one must let God sort them out and hope He develops some kind of policy that U.S. political parties can't.