The Effect of a Hypothetical Global Economic Collapse on an Administration

A collapse of the world ecosystem would be worse than the collapse of the U.S. and world economy. One might wonder how a Neanderthal or Denisovan would have regarded a question about the ecospheric decline. Probably he or she would have denied the possibility as a hoax.

Business interestingly is developing some carbon dioxide absorbing technology.

Cost plunges for capturing carbon dioxide from the air

A government might invest in that as well as big oil. That is an irony; big oil is investing in technology to correct the greenhouse gassing issue; a problem it has played a large part in creating. Profit going in and profit going out for oil.

https://www.thisisinsider.com/ray-dalio-says-the-economy-poses-an-existential-threat-for-the-us-2019-4

Actually if the economy were to collapse few would care much about the administration that let it occur. They would be turned out in the next election unless already a lame duck with meager consolation of going home and investing their winnings. Business goes on regardless of the overall state of things. People have sold bread made from wheat horded before a general famine occurred. Politicians often exacerbate problems because they aren’t often good at business and rely on some academic ‘experts’ of one school that wouldn’t find agreement with others. They would deny eternal judgment and hell as an ‘externality’ that extremists are concerned about.

Apparently whatever best benefits the most rich is the policy that government will follow and train the public to accept as the best of all possible economic management.

More Than a Million Illegal Entries to U.S.A. Annually Would Change Things

People may have forgotten about 9-11 that view illegal entrants to the U.S.A. through rose-colored glasses. With the present illegal entry rate at more than one-hundred thousand monthly the border security people are maxed out, and many Democrats call for abandoning border security altogether and to make it an open border.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/04/02/trump-mexican-border-threatened-shutdown-would-raise-avocado-prices/3344041002/

With an open border the population of the U.S.A. probably would rise to one-billion within a decade. A semblance of democracy and ecospheric restoration in the nation would be lost. Taxation to create new infrastructure would take a great leap forward. The overall intellect of the boy politic would decrease amidst the chaos, confusion, crime and a myriad of stresses to the system and individuals.

Democrats may be living in a 19th century though paradigm on borders such that they should be open and open ranges able to absorb the teaming masses are unlimited. There is something unrealistic in their desire that makes some wonder if they are disingenuous in referencing anti-global warming measures as a Democrat legislative goal, since the New Green Deal had a minimum income and medicare for all measure that would attract maybe two billion people to utilize that opportunity.

President Trump should use the military to secure the border until a good security barrier using solar-pumped up saltwater can be desalinated in a security canal with berms and fence. The canals would have thin-film lids that would capture evaporation and condense it making millions of gallons of fresh water for local agriculture on both sides of the border.

Direct Gov Health Care for the Poor Eliminates Fraud, Overruns

A US Gov direct provisioning of health care for the poor and uninsurable would eliminate the fraud and superfluous charges permeating Obamacare and Medicaid. When a dull, insipid government imagine that corporate insurance for all is an efficient or cost effective way to provide health insurance to the poor and uninsurable they are quite spaced.

President Trump should take seriously the idea of a constellation of V.A. and poor person's community clinics as well as volunteer hospitals networked and connected by Musk hypertubes from rural areas (those getting a V.A. sticker validated would ride free) as a replacement for Obamacare. A pure government non-profit treating patients screened by a government status verification and referral agency is simply the best way to cover people realistically. It would also create a large networked system for emergency mass disaster services.

Double and triple billing, addition of unneeded services, hypochondria; there are many ways the middleman private insurance to hospitals and physicians runs up the cost of Obamacare and Medicaid. The idea may be that socialism is avoided by using inefficient means of delivering healthcare, and that is not correct. In fact even the Congress fails to understand the economic philosophy of Adam Smith or capitalism very well, and neither do they understand democracy well enough to know that it is perfectly fine to set reasonable tax rates upon the very rich to prevent them from owning everything through shared financial networks and stocks.

The Congress is remarkably daft these days, although that's the fault of Democrats principally. People are concerned about them.

Create a Sex Accusations 2020 Campaign Review Structure

Former VP Biden's recent accusations of inappropriate sex contacts by two women show the need for a formal review process for sex accusations made during a Presidential campaign--a standing board for investigation, that can be applied whenever those things arise should be established. The committee should wrap up its work two months before the election.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437107-harris-i-believe-biden-accusers

The Investigations group could have a scoreboard for each candidate to keep track of the number and kind of incidents that are reported. Actually it might serve as a way to compare candidates in various ways, including false accusations.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-pelosi-joe-biden-behavior-not-disqualifying-for-for-2020-election-says-biden-should-pretend-you-have-a-cold/

Accusations true and false and fake news are credited with influencing elections. With the regards so great the temptations arise. Ad hoc processing of accusations are sometimes slow or untimely and are feed for media frenzy that sways elections even when candidates are completely innocent. Accusations that Russians are taking out too many Facebook ads reinforcing trends favorable to there interests, or believed to be favorable are another issue that has been used to influence elections even if they are unimportant instances of influence. The elections investigation committee should perhaps look at that sort of thing too, although not exclusively, simply to determine if it has substance to it in a timely manner.
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Combine College Logic and Scientifc Engineering Intro Course

Colleges and Universities might benefit from establishing critical reasoning and applications of ideas courses that combine logic, scientific method and engineering within an introductory course intended to provide college graduates a realistic way of evaluating their own ideas including political ideas before applying them, or trying to apply them to the real world.

The recent Green New Deal fiasco is an example of a half-baked idea that may have had good intentions (or not if it was a Trojan horse for establishing authoritarian socialism). It should have been written up in a book (there are numerous free publishing methods on line) and peer and publicly reviewed, criticized, improved and of course examined to determine its effects upon society; before ever becoming legislation in Congress. A logic and scientific method course for macro-engineering social projects might be useful.

Something does need to be done to rectify capitalism to the ecospheric degradation challenges of the contemporary planetary condition. Modular, synergetic improvement and upgrades using free enterprise are a preferred course for that. Those seeking to repair the world ecosphere also need to find ways to adapt capitalism and free enterprise to democracy better; that is democracy in-itself irrespective of the ecospheric degradation traditionally has problem with over-concentration of wealth, despotism, oligarchy and so forth. Aristotle wrote about that nearly 2500 years ago. People forget history. Adam Smith's ideas about capitalism were liberating in their day, reducing the royal monopoly on trade, today preventing global corporatism and plutocracy that degrades individual democratic power in nations is one challenge. The other challenge is preventing the rise of a global socialist autocratic power of an ostensible egalitarian political environment that in fact is nothing more than authoritarianism by and for an elite inner circle.

Mueller Report Should be Published as a Book

The Trump Administration should try to defrappe the cost of the Mueller Report by selling the report as a paperback for $11.95 and as an ebook for $1.99.  The government cannot continue to just pile up debt for everything the Democrat Party or others want to add on as if there were no tomorrow.

Avocado Party May Be Required to Overthrow Illegal Immigration

Like the Boston Tea Party, Americans may need to throw their foreign sourced avocados overboard when the boarder is shut down with Mexico to stop the emergency level illegal entry into the United States. Mexico is supplying most American avocados this time of year.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/america-would-run-out-of-avocados-in-weeks-if-trump-shuts-border-with-mexico-grower-warns

The avocado party will require austerity from Americans during the harsh spring time of year. Burritos will suffer. Yet Americans will persevere like the revolutionaries did long ago.

https://wkow.com/news/top-stories/2019/03/29/senator-ron-johnson-sides-with-trump-calls-border-out-of-control/

If the border closure goes on for several months F.E.M.A. may enter the dragon's lair and input South American avocados for emergency relief to afflicted communities. National guard units could be activated to help distribute avocados during the national crisis. President Trump will guide the ship of state through troubled waters and avoid a public panic.

Like F.D.R. the President may stimulate the nearly untapped power of American industry to grow the domestic avocado industry several times. Not only California avocados available in May, synthetic guacamole created from soy beans may appear during the crisis.

Image credit; U.S.D.A.

https://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ConstituentUpdates/

Converting to Christ

I haven't encountered much discourse with metaphor or analogy for converting to Christ in terms of electricity. Voltage, amps, current, quantity, quality are familiar ideas. God is omnipotent and omniscient. He has created people. Say they are small electrical units or technology that runs on electricity. God is eternal and people aren't. Like tiny mp3 or mp4 players they run down or die, the electrical power exhausted.

So people need a recharge, yet the entire Universe and hardware in it is temporal. It doesn't last and the people have original sin making them implicitly prone to breaking down. To live eternally, and the only acceptable way to do so, is with God. God has a much higher power rating though- infinite in fact. For human salvation a conversion is required for people to be acceptable to God. Jesus Christ is the converter and adapter for humanity.

Through the Lord Jesus Christ human beings have a relationship to God. God in the Lord Jesus is able to scale to human voltage and amp requirements without burning them up.

One may step up 12 volt battery power with an 18 volt converter adapter to recharge a laptop computer. Human beings have no sustainable energy for-themselves and require that God through the Lord and Holy Spirit provides their own being, the energy of it, and the conversion and adaption to the Lord in order to experience eternal life with God.

European Origins of the American Left

Classical liberalism as it is known to the west differs from and is prior to the rise of the left. The left is Marxist while classical liberalism followed Jesus Christ, Adam Smith and free enterprise capitalism for individuals.

Individual freedom and self-directed independence within a nation of free individuals without a legally superior class over them required millenia to develop. The left, and Karl Marx, saw only the hard side of English industrial capitalism with workers thrown off rural farmland and into dirty, dank, polluted factories with long hours, low pay and a vast difference between the poor and rich company owners. The urban struggle for a humane standard of living and work conditions required a couple of centuries to develop in the west. Marxist philosophy and the communist manifesto developed during that period. It was entirely unAmerican and neo-Hegelian.

Karl Marx formalized a theoretical account for human social evolution that was based on conflict and dialectical progress or evolution. Over the 19th and 20th centuries the left added whatever new idea they could to their platform, such as atheism and evolution, as a hardening of their front against capitalism.

Anti-capitalists of the Marxist variety had little experience of the United States and its foundation upon classical liberalism with properties of rights for individuals to be free from adverse interference by the state. Instead they viewed history through the neo-Hegelian evolutionary dialectical lens of class conflict. For quite a lengthy period the United States was made mostly of rural farming people. With industrialization and the rise of a consumer culture people quite farm labor and moved to cities. The American south after the civil war saw quite a number of free former slaves moving north for their own new deal (before FDR’s).

The integration movements in American 20th century culture were piggybacked with anti-capitalist socialist agitators. People like Bernie Sanders were first arrested for protesting against negro discriminatory policies not uncommonly, before any socialist agitation. Anti-war policies in the 1960s and the new left were existential-dialectical neo-utopians disinterested in the military industrial complex. Following TImothy Leary’s maxim they turned on, tuned, in and dropped out. The new left had pacific sentiments without much regard for classical liberalism which they had lost sight of in the midst of white collar conservative, big business, IBM computer, capitalist, big banked urbanism.

With the development of fast transistor chips society and communications went through several economic qualitative technological upgrades. The left were as drawn to computers as formerly were the management corp. The left saw capitalism and big business rather than free enterprise and individualism. The left regarded themselves as individualists and the urban blue collar and white collar workers as tools for the machine, the matrix etc.

Presently the left is without a solid understanding of capitalism, free enterprise or history. As an identity movement of women, homosexuals, and internal proletariats such as Hispanics, the left simply wishes to move in and take over. Socializing business from the top down. Ossifying business at a level of Marxist synthesis for a Corporatism political philosophy including the left, brings the dictatorship of the proletariat into being and eliminates individual sovereignty as the foundation of the United States of America.

Fundamentally the left as an opposition party is incompetent and unable to reform capitalism and free enterprise without socialism (or with it either). The left has no ability to comprehend ecological economics and merge it into free market practices. The left has largely killed the Democrat Party as an opposition party to Republican who are oriented toward allowing the concentration of wealth.

The left cannot bring itself to shed its Marxist orientation and simply study how to make a democracy work effectively for the well-being of all citizens. Leaving no one behind, a contemporary democracy would not hinder individuals from inventing and upgrading personal, private and public sectors investments.

Democracy has all of the tools it needs to reform economic methods and to make them consistent with a healthy ecosystem. There is no need of socialism or communist dictatorship to rectify Adam Smith’s outlook with modern reality. If the left are the Democrat Party and they have abandoned capitalism and finding its limits and capacities for making ordinary life better and survivable ecospherically, they are displacing new party formations with time consuming spoilt political philosophy. If Donald Trump was knowledgeable about ecological economics he would get 25% more votes in the next election. He is not all bad.

Air Force Bungles Base Location Planning

The Air Force wants $5 billion for flood and hurricane damage to bases. Global warming has been well known to science for decades, why can't Air Force base and runway planners factor in reasonable scientific analysis and plan ahead a little. They should build runways in places not prone to global warming or flood damage at least 100 feet above potential flood level.

Superfluous sorts of build in a flood plain federal project financing needs to stop. Global warming is a fact. Look ahead a half century at least and put private sector thinking caps on. Unnecessary financial loss by the military is a military defeat for national security.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/03/us-air-force-we-need-5-billion-fix-weather-damaged-bases/155863/

Hopefully the dummies won't build a dike around previously flooded runways. They should reopen closed bases that are above flood and hurricane surge levels, and reduce flooded bases to temporary landing pads.

First Win vs 1800 Player in 3m Blitz

My first win vs an 1800 player in 3 minute blitz was sloppy and lucky. Even so it was enjoyable.

I played black in this game.

If Demos Promote a Pawn to Queen, Who Wins in 2020?

The Democratic Party is running at minimum five female candidates that hope to be promoted from pawns to Queen in winning the 2020 Presidential election. The question arises; who wins if promoting a pawn is the end-in-itself?

Democrats are a party of identity these days without any solid ideas that are worth taking up four years of the public's time. Not that Republicans have so many, although President Trump has a few solid ideas like getting a moon base going and a man on the moon within five years (via VP Pence). President Trump would deal with the southern border emergency better than a Queen, yet what else has he got?

Democrats have some front ideas about global warming concerns that aren't well formed or packaged. President Trump believes global warming will save on winter building heating costs if it does occur, of which he is doubtful. Neither party can be relied on for good ideas about transitioning to ecological economics. Democratic candidates are vacuous though they would like to pass major ineffective and expensive legislation of great symbolic value.

Democrats have a brave new world platform of identity politics that has all government workers being safe and secure and the public dependent upon them. It is a kind of softer, gentler, feminist communist party utopia united with Mussolini'Hitler business corporatism. It's all bad.

Obamacare is bad, invasive and expensive, yet everyone needs health care sometime. Getting rid of it is good, though Republican replacements would be bad ineffective and leave out the poor. My policy of tripling the V.A. system and uniting it with the nation's homeless clinics to provide free walk-in health care for the poor that are registered and screened by government screening agencies, is actually the least costly and most effective way to deliver health care to those that need it. My policy would require Musk hypertubes connecting cities and homeless clinics nationally so everyone could get to them for free with validated hospital or clinic visit.

It is a fact that non-profit clinic and hospital structures with quality staff (maybe free Medical School for those willing to work ten years in the V.A. system) are the best delivery systems for millions and millions of poor and uninsurable people. Democratic candidates hate a practical idea like it.

Democrats don't really want to reform the patent system so anyone can afford a patent or manufacture patented inventions after three years of inventor exclusivity (and pay the inventor 10% royalties). Democrats don't really want to provide incentives to hire those out of work longest, first. Democrats posture much and work for identity politics where qualification for politics is largely no more than being female, queer, transgender or daughter of immigrants. Democratic President candidates reflect the party's lack of ideas. 

Another Theoretical Paradigm of the Universe

Scientists have exploited Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity to develop a theory of expansion of the Universe from a singularity. Lemaitre developed that theory before quantum mechanics was developed very far. Later after Gamow, and then Guth expanded the paradigm adding inflation unto it, Tegmark decided that the entire big bang, inflation, expansion paradigm might be based in pure mathematics. Mathematics led to a theory of mind at the heart of everything with the steady state of matter decohered from the quantum realm with symmetry-breaking enabled with mind.

Sure one may postulate a universal mind that coagulates or precipitates mass in a phenomenal spot that becomes a singularity with clusters of mass and energy forming around it decohered from the perfect ocean of mind. There is a simpler way to approach the subject of how or where mass and energy appear in the Universe from virtually nowhere. One may use the General Theory parameters to describe mechanics of expansion of mass in a gravitational field given a certain endowment of initial energy poshing outward. One may also hypothesize that the quantum realm hasn't a necessary delimitation restricting it to the singularity position 1 contiguous field of being. Instead it may decohere outside the contiguous field with any topographic geometry (such as a circular) to interact with the initial Universe singularity field mass-energy.

If the all-possible world lines positions of quanta arisen from Universal Mind may enter a Universe mass-energy field at any place according to the designer’s will or intent, it would be understandable that gravity from locations beyond the known mass energy field of Universe1 could draw Universe 1 content toward it at an accelerating pace. Virtual particles decohered from any place might appear like rain soaking through a porous membrane.

Time doesn't exist in the quantum realm supporting the steady state of decohered mass Universe-clump at all, or if it does, in a one to one relative equivalence. It may enter the Universe forward or backward in the Universe 1 time without concern except for the designer’s, with it’s non-temporal super-positions.

Quantitative meta-structure super-positioned effects interacting from beyond the contiguous, physical Universe may have natural explanations too, though they arise from a mind field or field from an undefined source. It may be possible that quantitative super-positioning may displace 

The quantum realm in its own time/timeless way of change, creating temporary voids. Past Universe 1 expansion events may cause 'dark energy events' elsewhen indirectly, because of the voids created in the realm of all possible super-positioning decoherence. Virtual gravity may temporarily present.

It is interesting to think about.

All-Female Identity Politics in Space

N.A.S.A. has delayed a spacewalk by an all-female team- no transgenders there apparently, putting on hold the start of identity politics in space. It was a clever idea bringing identity politics to space. After an all-female team an all-negro team of space-walkers followed by all-Hispanic could bring in more voters to continue the program.

An all-queer team perhaps is some way down the space-out program for N.A.S.A.

https://www.khou.com/article/features/nasa-clarifies-why-it-put-all-female-spacewalk-on-hold/285-a1856344-1330-40fa-94cc-6866dae7a6d0

If 50% of astronauts have herpes virus, the thrills of space-walking may be tempered with the sober realism of disease.

It could be that Democrat Presidential candidates have tricks up their sleeves such as all-godless atheist spacewalking synchronization teams, all new green deal spacewalking teams while Donald Trump may field an all-Christian space-walking team. What about sending lotto winners to moon-walk in space?

Fallout of the Mueller Investigation

The Mueller Investigation was a partisan effort to overturn the 2016 election results. The Obama cult followers felt entitled to continue the line of Obama programs that had been forced through congress. Hillary Clinton’s followers represented a brave new world order of x chromosomes and homosexuality that was supposed to become the dominating American way of life. It was a major split in the nation’s social fabric that will likely be lasting.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/28/robert-mueller-justice-department-1241100

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andy-puzder-how-muellers-report-cleared-trump-and-exposed-the-deep-state

The Democrat Party became a party of identity rather than of ideas. That entailed permanent opposition to people for being straight and male, white and American by the left. Without a competent Democratic Party of ideas; good ideas, Republicans haven’t substantial competition except in the realm of identity politics. That is a bad result of the Mueller Investigation and the cult media hate-Trumpestry woven into the Democrat Party narrative.

Therefore de facto, bi-partisan policies to concentrate wealth continue unopposed except for occasional Democratic symbolic gestures. Spoiling socialism is levered with appeals to high taxation so even responsible tax rates seem socialist and undesirable. Ecospheric and ecological restoration economics are poisoned with homosexuality, socialism and globalism. In short; nothing gets done in the U.S. Congress of a scale that would address real issues. Democrat Party politics are polarizing. They show no capacity for empirical reason these days. The Mueller Report is another tool to provide political content for identity politics.

The Oldest English Poem- Caedmon's Hymn

Written between 650-680 A.D.

Nu sculon herigean     heofonrices WeardMeotodes meahte     and his modgepanc,weorc Wuldor-Fæder,     swa he wundra gehwæsece Drihten     or onstealdeHe ærest sceop     ielda bearnumHeofon to hrofe     halig Scyppendða middangeard     moncynnes Weard,ece Drihten     æfter teodefirum foldan     Frea ælmihtig

Now we must praise     the protector of the heavenly kingdom
the might of the measurer     and his mind’s purpose,
the work of the father of glory,     as he for each of his wonders,
the eternal Lord,     established a beginning.
He shaped first     for the sons of the earth
heaven as a roof,     the holy maker;
then the middle-world,     mankind’s guardian,
the eternal Lord,     made afterwards,
solid ground for men,     the almighty Lord.

https://imagejournal.org/article/caedmons-hymn-the-first-english-poet/

Mueller Report Flop Flips Democrats/Ecosphere Recovery Requisites

The Mueller Report was a flop at proving Democrat Party McCarthists that President Trump was colluding with Russians. The report indicated there was no collusion between the President and Russian agents. After years of media accusations and smears with accelerant thrown on by the untrue blue Democrat party politicians they are left with only the hope of more phony investigations through the 2020 election.

Democratic Presidential candidates are the worst in several generations. They are air-heads with brain contents full of non-sense and hatred of President Trump as if that was all that is required for leadership, It would be shocking to find a single Democrat candidate that could articulate 15 excellent political ideas that are good for the nation and would have bi-partisan support.

Electing leaders in a democracy should be about promoting those with good ideas to execute those good ideas. It isn't about a swell with a microphone or good college gang credentials (Ivy League). The Democrat Party is brain dead and vacuous intellectually. I am not implying that Republicans are excellent here. I am simply describing democratic candidates that should be advancing the quality of American politics instead of degrading it. 

A green new deal should be created with as much attention to detail as a complex computer program. In the way 70 scholarly translators made a Greek version of the old testament from  Hebrew language )the Septuagint), a team of engineers, ecological economists and scientist under engineering management should discover and compose algorithms that would correct identified point sources of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse pollution. Free enterprise theorists, constitutional attorneys and political scholars should design modularized programming scenarios that could correct ecospheric deficiencies. When the work is done and compiled in a publishable format, then it might be possible to select elements of the program to enact in accord with the political will. Economic analysis to discovery the most cost effective means of bring economic and human habilis phenomena into compliance might be legislated or promulgated through voluntary means.

Good works require work. Simply trying to disqualify political opposition in order to promote those most motivated with a personal egoist ethics and political philosophy doesn't get it done.

F.Y.I. The late historian Arnold Toynbee in his Study of History noted that civilizations have internal and external challenges. Revising or changing internal economic and political forms that are obsolete or inappropriate evolutions, Toynbee commented, are one of the most difficult challenges for a civilization to meet. Ancient Greece could not unify its city states, imperial Rome could not get good political leadership and its business people expanded to much abroad letting Roman Italy become comparatively neglected and vulnerable. Today the United States has an economic capitalist structure unsuitable for the national and global ecosystem without substantial revision. The nation that first completes transition to a new capitalism and free enterprise founded in ecological economics will be a world leader while the others will lag behind trying to emulate it.

What the Soul Is

The soul is what anyone is. It is the identity of the individual. The soul is what God would recreate from nothing to recover an individual from nothing or death. Therefor one might say the soul is information. God has numbered the hairs on everyone's head. It would be fine to use quantum mechanics to describe a soul. The trouble is that all quanta exist in an unknown, deeper field even than the Higgs. It could be the mind of God. Time exists just in decohered mass; alternatively the quantum realm in-itself is without time. 

Matter is decohered quanta from the realm of all possible locations of quanta. Matter has had its quantum symmetry broken and is stuck together as atoms and molecules in a given form. The form is unstable and changes. Human beings exist in that space-time field in what is called the Universe. Souls aka sentient beings exist in it embedded in the entire mass and energy field of the Universe. God knows what that information is that is a person. He knows when and where it is amidst the infinite number of all possible Universes. Fortunately he is omniscient and knows where and when everything is; since he willed it so.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/physics-is-pointing-inexorably-to-mind/

Liberalism, Fascism.Conservative are Non-Rigid Designators

Like Confucius one should begin with a rectification of names. Politically the terms liberal and conservative are variables that take on given meanings in different historical times and circumstances. They are not rigid designators to use Kripke’s terminology. The end justifies the means political rationale become the end-in-themselves occasionally.

Imperialists may be regarded as conservatives by supporters of the crown. Those for free trade may be regarded as liberals. Nazi political philosophy was founded on national socialism. The Storm Troopers mostly were made of former socialists and communists who believed mistakenly that Hitler would lead toward a national socialist state after getting rid of the remaining aristocrats that were deposed in a social revolution after the loss/armistice of the first world war.

Fascism is more of a means of taking political power than a stable political condition. Like Marxism it works best as a revolutionary ideology rather than a stable economic system. Aristotle preferred particulars over universals. Applied to politics that might mean than functioning egalitarian economic and political structures can be arrived at through intelligent, particular measures rather than grandiose, King Canute declarations of a topical form as the Utopian state with bureaucratic loyalists filling in the details.

There isn’t a way that stupid, corrupt politicians and legislators will bring into actuality a smartly designed governing structure nor policies that are optimal. democracy fails because of stupid corrupt leadership and collapses into tyranny (or dictatorship in the modern world). At that point liberals seeking liberty from the junta, tyrant etc. Liberal and conservative are more like verbs than nouns.

Dr Dre Donates $70 Million to Southern Cal

For a 70 million dollar donation to a University Dr Dre should get a building named for him. Even if he doesn't the donation was remarkable for someone from the music business. It wasn't spent on building Neverland II.

I took Bachelor's degree from Albany's Excelsior College for five easy payments of $19.95 (actually it was a little more) and was quite happy about it. Actually I only wanted an Associate Degree and got railroaded into getting a B.A. because I was having a hard time getting a couple of classes I needed to finish that program in Alaska, so I got the B.A. and the A.A. at the same time eventually.

In my opinion college education ought to be free. It could be structured like the Excelsior programs with passing grades counting and non-passing not. A college needn't provide all the courses itself. College courses that are accredited can be transferred in to complete the program slots that are required for graduation. The other way is a result of somewhat old program structures that arose when a college had to provide everything itself. It could not afford, nor could most students, to continue in programs in which they were failing. Those structures were unwieldy, inefficient and yet possibly necessary in order to pay educator salaries and physical plants costs (buildings and lights; not staff).

Dr. Dre's daughter was admitted to the college. Some controversy followed the Dr's tweet about her deservingness in comparison to those in the cheating scandal. College exclusivity and cost are a function of unnecessary and anachronistic, persistant college structures designed to be exclusive rather than inclusive. I got a year of college credits with CLEP tests. Any poor yet bright math student should be able to get credits by examination too-on line and transfer them about.

College costs could be drastically reduced and reformed, and exclusive colleges with deep pockets like Harvard might lose some of their gang turf status relationship to government jobs such as the Supreme Court of the United States. Law school costs could be made very low on-line for those willing to spend three years in pursuit of a traditional Cambridge civil and canon law LLD, Society could be made more efficient and egalitarian in many ways rather than dominated by corrupting cliques and exclusive gangs. If people were as publicly spirited to contribute to the betterment of society as Dr. Dre was in his donation to U.S.C. it might be possible to evolve a balanced economic edge of progress.