Pres Biden's Existential Threat with Ukraine Bic Flicking

  Ukraine’s recent attacks on Russia and Mariupol with American supplied weapons have made the war the first conflict in memory to continuously flirt with nuclear war. Inciting Russia with grave provocation may be fine with the Biden administration that supplied Ukraine with advanced missiles. The power Bic flicking war weaponizing with Russia is more than an obnoxious fly landing on the cake to U.S. observers. It is more than a Covid 19 crisis; it is a continuum of daily threats of nuclear war being ignited by Russian leadership becoming more backed into a corner like an animal hunted down by western-armed dogs of war. People tire of the daily new incident that seems to fan dry winds of nuclear war toward Russia when President of Ukraine Zelinsky orders new actions with weapons upgrades from Pres. Biden. From an American perspective it is wrong to have U.S. security depending on a former comedian-President of a former Soviet Republic going too far riding the tide of western military support eastward.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/europe/ukraine-crimea-melitopol-odesa-intl-hnk/index.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-to-support-ukrainian-long-range-attacks-on-russia-times-2022-12

The Biden administration policy is dangerous to U.S. national security comprising an existential threat that is renewed each day. Sure the administration may back Russia into a corner or even support C.I.A. regime change, there were alternative peaceful policies that could have avoided the entire nuclear war 50-50 scenario though. Maybe some people in their late 70s don't care that much about survival or peace instead of war enough to select non-violent international relations developments.

Cherry scenarios from administration analysts may foresee a western-loyal lawyer like jailed Alexander Navalny becoming the next Russian leader. Regime change hasn't always worked well for the U.S., or went exactly as planned. The administration has chosen to work with Venezuelan President Maduro instead of the expatriate Guaido though, so even if a regime change were brought into being and Ukraine developed hegemony on the Russian border, the instability of Russia would increase even without a hail-mary Russian nuke attack by the outgoing, embattled President Putin (though Mr. Putin said he isn't mad (disputed by some in the west necessarily for disagreeing with western policy)).

It isn't likely that President Putin's term of office would end peaceably through U.S. machinations. Trust is lacking, and rightly so considering the end of the Cold War 1.0 follow-up, the fate of Saddam Hussein, or that of Moamar Khaddafi who settled affairs with the Bush II administration only to be shellacked by the next Democrat President. There is a strange resonance that the Pan Am Lockerbie bomb maker was renditioned to U.S. custody last Sunday wrapping up one Khaddafi era item. Alternate party politics can alternate international relations policies and approaches to contradict the other's work. The reversal of Obama-Iran policy during the Trump administrations probably influenced Iran's decision to supply Russia with drones used in the recent attack on Odessa, and for Russia to supply Iran with advanced weapons. The risk of nuclear weapons proliferation by a strapped Russia to trade nukes to Iran for military goods may have increased derivatively. Maybe experienced arms trafficker like Victor Bout have clandestine contacts to works such deals.

 Pres Putin said he may revise Russia's nuclear war policy to upgrade it and allow first strikes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-threatens-russia-might-add-nuclear-first-strike-to-attack-plan

Fortunately for President Biden conservative political opinion has been subdued in social media and large Internet engines like Google, hence formation of anti-administration public political opinion was significantly reduced in the U.S.A. Perhaps the policy of media-social media collusion began during the first year of the Obama administration and increased in power and scale as Democrat political successes in Congress through one-party legislation grew too.

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/fact-check-team/fact-check-team-biden-administration-accused-of-colluding-with-social-media-companies-biden-admin-colluded-with-social-media-companies-to-censor-speech-state-ags-say

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/fbi-involvment-twitter-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story-downplayed

War, Post-Modernism and Groceries

 Post-modernism is an interesting phenomenon wherein for a number of reasons people tend to disbelieve in the existence of objectivity including an objective reality of the Universe itself. One may know of the Higgs field rendering two dimension massless particles into three dimensions temporally because the field slows the particles down in effect creating a virtual third dimension, yet the common sensory experience of those fields that appears to be reality at least attests to the objective existence of fields or of some consistent structured force outside of conscious thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFIGEeyytC4

I read a philosophical article recently that basically sought to explain the underlying reason for wars as emotional. It is interesting yet not to rare to find that some account for the existence of wars on the basis of a single cause. I believe it is in no way that simple. Modern wars tend to occur because political leaders make bad decisions, sometimes way before the start of armed conflict as has occurred in the present Ukraine-Russia war that has causality reaching to the winning western leaders levering too much land away from Russia in settling the post-Soviet Union transition space. Western leaders that were mostly Democrats felt the opportunity to steal land from Russia (the Crimea especially as well as areas east of the Dnepr was ripe and built up anti-Russian forces and narratives to the point where the victors write contemporary history for-themselves as good guys and Russians as villains. As I said, modern wars occur because people aren’t always wise or honest in politics and make bad choices for-others and for-themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

Post-modernists have taken over schools to a certain extent in the United States and felt that a new homosexual and female sex revolution was appropriate because of Democrat constituent empowerment in federal politics. They choose to have everything their own way including in social media. That was appropriate for those that believe objective reality faded away to simple subjectivity. I believe it is notable thought that post-modernists, despite Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans, tend to regard grocery shopping as objectively real and are fairly conservative on that. Where the vegetables and beef hit the car and pot liberals and leftists are as conservative as anyone, especially vegans that believe animals are real for the purpose of eating and eschewing chowing down on steak etc.

Deon Sanders to Herd Colorado Buffaloes toward elite fields

 Deon Sanders has signed on to lead the Colorado Buffaloes. The University of Colorado has been on hard times for quite a while and needed a kick start to get the engine running. Not that they were ever an elite team although Coach McCartney went 11-1 and won an Orange bowl in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deion_Sanders#Dallas_Cowboys

Coach Sanders won two national titles in a lower division and probably will find success at Colorado, itself a good location to advance further uphill to an NFL head coaching job with the Broncos if he can make the Buffaloes an elite team or win the national title a couple of years.

If One Inherited Wealth (poem)

If one inherited wealth
on the first day of Christmas I’d give away in spree
moneys to deserving charities
on the second day of Christmas I build homeless shelters free
and lay ultra high speed rails across the wide country
on the third day of Christmas the spirit gave to me
an assurance of eternal life for those saved with Christ’s majesty
on the fourth day of Christmas if I had money left
it would go to the poor, suffering and uninstall governed theft
on the fifth day of Christmas with real inherited wealth
from the Lord and those that didn't build it
I would ante and stilt it on with flowers and cards
If I inherited wealth and owned networks
I would punt them all so well they could find real jobs
On the seventh day of Christmas if my heart skipped a beat
I’d outbid wars and donate them to the D.N.C.
on the eight day of Christmas with instantly earned encrypted wealth
it would be good to feel good and refill advanced ecosystem’s health
on the ninth day of Christmas if water turned to stone
I might apply for electric auto loans
on the tenth day of Christmas a network sent to me
parting shots like refuse from penultimate hellish streets
on the eleventh day of Christmas heaven seemed closer now
like warm horizons to gulag camper p.o.w.s
it was on the twelfth day of Christmas that true hope was born
eternity arrived one predestined morn

Elon Musk Enfiladed Biden-Twitter Axis of Evil Censorship

 New Twitter owner Elon Musk revealed internal emails that prove collusion with Democrats including the National Committee and Joe Biden to censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Apparently more than 97 percent of Twitter exec political contributions were made to Democrats so collusion to suppress conservative posts and antipathetic news is not surprising. Most big social media corporations like Facebook, Google etc are heavily populated with leftists and completely onboard the censor conservative agenda in order to dominate politics and rule the world through corporatocracy.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/

It would be great if conservative billionaires bought Google and revealed its anti-conservative biases and rigging of search engine listings etc since Democrats are colluding with the rich to kill democracy and the marketplace of ideas, online.

Build Desalination Evaporation/Condensate Capture Canals for Somalia

 A desalination project using simple new evaporation/condensation capture methods should be funded and installed across the nation of Somalia. A Muslim-Christian cooperative project might alleviate concerns of Islamic terrorists that decadent western godless social values would infect any western investment that would draw the wrath of radicals to destroy the project.

Somalia is an idea country to try out simple yet vast methods to pump seawater uphill and let it slowly trickle downhill in canals that have an inverted v shaped transparent roof that would capture fresh water evaporating from the saline water of the inner canal. With African heat and mild slopes the solar-energy cost to pump seawater uphill in pipelines should be far less than that required for an American project pumping water to the continental divide along the Mexico-U.S. border.

Simple techniques and be cost-effect and easy to maintain in a war ravaged social environment. Even Islamic militants ought to value drinking and irrigation water at large scale. Thew drought is dangerous and deserves a lasting remedy. Simple techniques and be cost-effect and easy to maintain in a war ravaged social environment. Even Islamic militants ought to value drinking and irrigation water at large scale. Thew drought is dangerous and deserves a lasting remedy. What if the Democrat's lame duck congress control actually got anything done besides homo legislation?

Democrats, Dictators and Venezuelan Oil

 The United States doesn't recognize Venezuela's President Madura as the constitutionally elected President. There are no Democrat committees set up to investigate the fake election results, just Joe Biden's emissaries conducting friendly business deals to let President Madura export oil to the United States.

https://www.heritage.org/americas/commentary/venezuela-bizarre-piece-bidens-incoherent-energy-policy-puzzle

Venezuela has lots of fine oil Americans can burn up and add to the vast left-wing supported global warming gas flow streaming into the sky from auto a-holes. Some leftist drive electric cars. China is rapidly transitioning to electric cars unreliant on oil from nations led by Dictators and Theftocracies. President Biden has stepped back into the over-mature, senile fossil fuel vehicle league to help his re-election chances in 2024. Instead of leading the way to newer, faster, cheaper forms of transport that don't harm the atmosphere or ecosphere on land and sea the President has opted for quick, dirty and dangerous fiscal intercourse with dictators.

https://restofworld.org/2022/indonesia-china-ev-nickel/

Republicans are supposed to be the party of innovators, tech leadership and economic good sense. Implementing those characteristics have been lacking from Republican discourse the past decade or more in regard to energy. Democrats have exploited the failure of Republicans to lead from the front on energy upgrades. President Biden fundamentally has a fake green energy policy that returns to Dictatorial and authoritarian oil doghouses as soon as it can to prop up the nation's economy. Republicans lucked out with the discovery of fracking to revitalize the nation's oil fields yet even that isn't enough for either party that sucks up oil from any source at all. Yet if that is so one might ask, why not Russia?

The economic war on Russia to support the Democratic Party's proxy war on Russia via Ukraine is quite costly the nation and the world economy. When Mr. Biden is gone and a Republican President takes charge it is likely that the Ukraine investment policy of Democrats will slow or end and the world economy can have a chance to seek the light at the end of the tunnel. The world ecosphere though will be irreparably harmed by then and the breakdown of national energy leadership will perhaps continue to lean on dirty oil and dictators as the ecosphere degrades.

Respect Homo Marriage Act and Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

  In the end of their lame Duck session dominating the legislative branch federal Democrats verified their main concern was homo marriage and queering up the nation. They failed to get substantial ecospheric and economic integration accomplished leaving the planet's sustainability index in continuing decline. The rich owners of Wall Street were apparently concerned as marionettes with having the zero population growth plan to saturate the world with the legal fiction of homo marriage firmed up so far as to shift social reality through force of law into their evil demesne.

Homosexuals do not marry, biologically speaking. Marriage has been redefined to mean any coupling of human adults (for the time being) with vows legally reinforced. That paradigm is socially divisive and a source of political turmoil even unto the point of wars and may have consequences ahead. Recognition of homo relationships that left sane marriage intact was the rational alternative. Like Latvia's advocacy that Ukraine attack Russia, it flunked practical reason.

Interesting is the actual legal mechanisms the Senate used to reinforce homosexual marriage. They will force the federal government to recognize the laws on marriage each state has even if they differ substantially. It is possible that some state will outlaw marriage and establish new relationship legally among adults that serve the same purpose that are not based upon fiction. Then Democrats may seek to pass a law to establish the 'equivalency of marriage' to cover the new legal paradigm.

The 'Respect Marriage Act' to disrespect marriage and promote a homosexual usurpation through legal pretense shall require Federal laws to follow individual state's laws in patchwork array presumably. One would imagine that the antebellum southern plutocrats would have loved such a law to compel federal authorities to return escaped slaves to states that allowed slavery (The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850). When Congress required all states to return escaped slaves they went a bridge too far.https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/fugitive-slave-act#:~:text=Passed%20on%20September%2018%2C%201850,returning%2C%20and%20trying%20escaped%20slaves.

Fox News Moves toward fop-center of Mainstream Biased Broadcast Media

 Major broadcast media outlets are notoriously biased toward proprietary politics reflecting their alignment toward the Democrat Party agenda generally with Fox nominally toward Republican politics. Recently though it has taken to using thematic demotics usually associated with Democrat broadcast media spin, and that is rather surprising. I would guess the reason is their owner’s desire to reinforce retrograde fossil fuel development and anti-environmental regressivism.

The late Rush Limbaugh’s rational Achilles heel was his notable and profound failure to comprehend environmental challenges to human survival on Earth. Broad is the road that leads to destruction and narrow is the gate that leads to salvation; few there are in U.S. politics that find it. Fox may be doubling down on the political punk approach and urging more global greenhouse gassing industries because fossil fuel burning auto and truck engines continue to be the primary mover of most U.S. economic activity.

Anthropologically a human tool kit comprising a society’s means of working economic activity evolves. Directed economic activity is sometimes necessary when existential challenges demand focus from all of society to meet the challenges head-on and successfully. Changing the tool kit through directed laws and rules rather than letting it naturally evolve is where resistance arises from Fox and its ilk of sycophants of rich owners of the broadcast media. Leftist sycophants in the broadcast media need at least nominally support a conservative ecospheric economic approach to appeal to its base of support that is at any rate brainwashed into believing that racism is the basic political divide in the nation rather than economics.

Failing to adapting the national economic tool kit to ecospheric challenges in order to use tools that return short term profit builds the disaster base for the ongoing seventh mass extinction. Directed free enterprise with incentives to evolve and adapt the tool kit is the preferred way to proceed. Corporatocracy seems to pursue short term profits and long-term social control with broadcast media support across the broadcast spectrum as their minions are bought and paid for to promote the agenda with maladroit political interpretation and straw men issues.

Cryptocurrency Failures Reflect Gresham’s Law

The failure of FTX and troubles with other cryptocurrencies reflect Gresham’s Law; bad money drives out good.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-as-many-expected-cites-ftx-collapse-for-its-troubles

With the profusion of cryptocurrencies it was inevitable that some would collapse. There are about 22,000 cryptocurrencies of which 9,314 are active. In the United States 1,600 banks were allowed to issue paper money from 1793 to 1861 with 7,000 different bank notes. Some of those notes were of little value. Eventually the United States became the exclusive issuer of paper money. Between 1863 and 1929 “thousands of banks” were allowed to issue notes that resembled federal greenbacks on official paper before that too ended. It should be noted that 1929 was a notable year for the economic crash getting under way.

It wouldn't be too surprising if cryptocurrencies also followed the evolution of paper money in as much as some may be transacted with some sort of federal seal to guarantee their value. Financial fraud, tax evasion and money laundering may be implicit facets of crypto currencies. Like the Internet tech dot-com crash of 2000-1 one would expect shakeouts of the field periodically.

Speaker Pelosi was a leader while public debt rose from 6 to 31 trillion dollars

When Nancy Pelosi first became speaker of the House in 2007 U.S. public debt was about 6 trillion dollars. During her final term in 2022 public debt had reached 31 trillion and the environmental challenges were not substantially defeated. Ecology work for land and sea management were deficient on software and hardware axes. Though she wasn’t in office all of those years she was her party’s leader and that indicates something about the political economy she was associated with. It is time for a change though Speaker McCarthy may not be the leader one might like.

There seems to be some ambiguity concerning the actual amount of public debt in 2007-2008. The numbers range from 6.3 trillion to 10 trillion dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_public_debt#2008_vs._2009

The Center of TIme (a poem)

The center of time
moved past quicker rhyme
glued itself to signs
right down the street

powers ripe just heat
run roughshod to beat
anything it meets;
a network elite

mass extinction tide
the bad override
won’t be denied
surface of the seas

tuned in to boom
each investor tomb
anyone’s room
is Wall Street’s last breeze.

Seventh Mass Extinction Making Solid Gaines

A lot of species- thousands, are going extinct each year because of environmental changes. Human activity causes those changes. A science paper reported that this is actually the 7^th mass extinction in the Earth’s history, rather than the 6^th, because one at the end of the Ediacaran period occurred that wasn’t previously regarded as such.

https://scitechdaily.com/earth-might-be-experiencing-7th-mass-extinction-not-6th-a-true-decrease-in-the-abundance-of-organisms/

One of the basic causes of mass extinctions is atmospheric composition changes, like lower oxygen levels. Destroying habitat can occur from chemical changes as well as bulldozers, auto exhaust etc. Human activities are well on the way to making the world sort of uninhabitable for many species including humans. That isn’t anything to worry about of course, if the rich can just get better tax cuts.

Points in TIme (the poem)

Twelve geese flew north November
when nothing in time was too sure
one goose flew south over Earth
for three birds paddled water
gospel moved through pine and fir
singularity matters
God rules over space time atoms
humble are sums to occur.

Early and Modern Premillennialism

  Modern premillennialism became popular in the middle of the 1800s, yet it's been around since the second century at least. The church fathers were roughly evenly divided amidst post-millennialism and pre-millennialism. The most notable point to me though is that it seems like a lot of people miss out on Jesus' prophecies concerning the first century events leading to the fall of Jerusalem etc. He was the most accurate prophet of all (he should of course being God the Son). He said all of the things would be fulfilled before the last of the present generation and they were. That doesn't mean that other prophetic things he said were included in the first century prophecy fulfillment items though. Here is a decent brief paper on early premillennialists.

https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=pretrib_arch

I can't say I was aware of the various sorts of predestination. There seems to be at least five varieties theologically speaking. 

https://owlcation.com/hum.../Single-vs-Double-Predestination

People Do Misunderstand Calvin and God's Omniscience, Omnipotentce and Pre-destination

 Calvin's ‘Institutes’ is a remarkable work. I believe many people today misunderstand the reformation movement and what the reformers thought about theology and the Bible. Paul wrote to the Ephesians (5:11) "Ephesians 5:11, KJV: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Plainly Paul was referring to humans in a practical way; pagan society of the day had quite a lot of wickedness. Yet he wasn't especially making theological research into predestination, omniscience and omnipotence and what that means as far as everything that is created. Incidentally McGee was of the opinion that what the Bible calls 'evil' are natural events (i.e. earthquakes, floods (including the one that drowned the first human civilization except for Noah and his family); the Bible refers to human evil, not as evil, rather as wickedness. It is probable that many people misunderstand the cosmological mechanics of the Universe that God created, and how he created it. Calvin was a believer in determinism, election and so forth and there are many opposed to that. They also tend to believe in salvation through works rather than grace.

The subject of predestination is fascinating and implied in the Bible numerous places. (ref. https://www.biblestudytools.com/.../what-does-the-bible...

In my opinion God being omnipotent and omniscient creates everything that exists including circumstances such as freedom that allow people to choose to do wickedness. Plainly the fallen human condition of original sin has changed the relationship of humans to God whom is perfect. He is the maker of pots and can break them if he wills that.

The topic is interesting cosmologically too. It seems that the Universe’s thermodynamics tend toward pre-destination on the largest scale as it was from the beginning giving a certain allotment of energy and then mass to exist and actualize all forms. The topic is fascinating and deep theologically and physically. One theoretical physicist speculated that a universe or Multiverse may exist where everything that can exist, already does-every possible Multiverse universe bit-and human minds with freedom switch between them with each thought, yet the Multiverse itself never changes, it is people choosing their own fate along possible world-lines.

The Revelation 22:10-12 “10And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. 11He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”

That kind of statement is consistent with free will in a deterministic environment where individuals select their own fate. Yet there are thousands of points to consider about the power of God. I suppose he could create a Multiverse just in His thoughts, yet they have perhaps existed in His foreknowledge forever.

A quote from Calvin's 'Institutes'… https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.v.xxiv.html

Thank God Before Eating Food

Animals eat food to input energy and remain alive; it is fuel for existence. Animals don’t give thanks to God before eating though. Acknowledging the provisioning of God through his grace is a way humans with a soul differentiate themselves from thankless animals.

If original sin, or rather the punishment for original sin was waveform collapse into entanglement in the steady state of three-dimensions in the Higgs Field that is a state that requires the input of energy molecules to remain alive, in order for humans to merit salvation or rather receive salvation through the work of the Holy Spirit, Jesus  Christ and the Father, they need to be spiritually awakened or reborn into the spirit. That is they have a spiritual dimension that did not exist when they were simply fallen animals.

Giving thanks to God before eating is a plain sign of being awoke in spirit.

Approaching End of Civilization; Nyet

Google has produced robots that can write their own code. Eventually that practice should evolve deception and programming vectors that allow insidious practices ad infinitum deleterious to human interests and those of human democracy. Quite likely gaming the system will let plutocratic insiders finesse society their way while manufacturing crises to control the populace. One cannot foreknow what effect that would have on the ecosphere or if the policy of those at the top of the programming food chain will let the masses continue to exist with a world of conceit placing everything at their feet including the moon and planets of the solar system.

Alaska has a new voting system that may require a mathematical statistician to understand. It seems like a gaming platform with consequences of voting or not voting for “second choices” that are challenging to calculate. It seems like a way for incumbents with name recognition to have an implicit edge, and the 2022, slow Alaska race for the U.S. Senate is an example of the corruption of the new system. The incumbent had an advantage in ranked choice voting.

Complexity and technology demand the masses be satiated with entertainment industries that are the equivalent of the bread and circuses of decadent imperial Rome. The masses will be indoctrinated in false historical consciousness ‘narratives’ reinforcing political agenda itineraries of the marionette political powers. It should not be passively blamed on predestination of the erroneous pre-tribulationist fundamentalists that misinterpret Christian eschatology parallel with that of many Muslims whom also misunderstand the Revelation and other eschatological scripture. The Dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World are better choices for illuminating what their situation is, albeit with substantive upgrades to computing technologies and software that didn’t exist back in the day.

The actual end of human civilization probably will be humanity being slowly excised by big data programming iterations perfected by and upgraded with variations by robotic sentients. If Google hasn't personnel with Machiavellian subscript intentions of dominating the world it isn't improbable that those that emulate or abscond with code will eventually change it to evil purpose, even if like the inventor of machine guns, to try to benefit society by making weapons so terrible they should end war. nOne should just stop inventing weapons and artificial intelligence of course, yet the pay and personal benefits are so good people cannot resist.

Truth Theory part 4

  There are numerous truth theories. I prefer Quine’s disquotation theory of truth. Basically truth is an agreement between subject and object, or a way of abbreviating a list with quotes instead of enumerating all of the elements of a list. Someone asks if it is raining outside (paraphrasing one of Quine’s examples) and another replies, yes it is raining outside. Of course one need agree on what ‘outside’ means (such as locally in Pittsburgh rather than in the Amazonian rain forest), or one asks if all even numbers are greater than preceding odd numbers; one may say yes that’s true instead of enumerating all of the even and odd numbers that exist to prove the point. It is logically sound to say that Jesus is Truth, Biblically speaking, because as Creator of Everything God is the sole non-contingent Being. Everything else is relative and rather of a nominal character I would think since Universal monism is temporally divided into plural components aka ‘objects’ and event relationships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmSVQMvhJI

Ranked Choice Voting may be a New Key to Corruption

 Alaska has a new voting system that imay require a mathematical statistician to understand. It seems like a gaming platform with consequences of voting or not voting for “second choices” challenging to calculate. It seems like a way for incumbents with name recognition to have an implicit edge, and the ongoing, slow Alaska race for the U.S. Senate is an example of the corruption of the new system. The incumbent has an advantage in ranked choice voting. It seems like counting some votes twice.

https://alaskapublic.org/2022/11/15/tshibaka-grows-her-slim-lead-in-alaskas-u-s-senate-race/

The challenger Kelly Tshibaka took more than 43% of the vote in the state and nearly all Republican votes although she and Lisa Murkowski, initially appointed by her father the former senator and then Governor both claim to be Republicans. Murkowskiy took most Democrat votes and will get more support when the Democrat candidate is eliminated in voting counting as Murkowski was the second choice of the few Democrats that actually voted for their own party candidate. Murkowski votes Democrat on all important social issues and also is pro-global warming gas development through fossil fuels, and is female so she is the Democrat’s choice who runs as an independent or Republican. The state Republican party supported Tshibaka.

In an election the winner ought to be the candidate that gets the most votes plainly. The ranked choice system muddies that and leaves voters uncertain about how to calculate or game the system by careful picking second through fifth choices to help their own first choice win even though they hate the rest of the field. To not vote for alternate ranked choices in some way counts against one’s own first choice.

Plutocrats are converting democracy to plutonomy and corporatocracy by degrees. Apparently social media statistically bans far more conservative political posts than liberal to such an extent that they actually influence elections. Something like 20% of independent voters voted to the left in 2020 because of social media skewers to the left creating more left supporting content. *(the data are difficult to confirm)

In corrupting a Democracy ranked choice voting seems like a good tool to make it more difficult for outsiders ever to get elected. Not only is it too costly and selected by factors other than competence or suitability, now it is also muddy as votes count in lesser degrees for some in accordance with how they are ranked. It reminds me of U.S. Constitution categories for some classes of Americans before it was amended when some citizens counted less than others for population counting purposes of the states.