On the Decline of Internet Trolls and Rise of Bad Politicians

Being an internet troll is a Soviet sort of minder activity. When I started posting on the internet in 1999 there was a Universe of wild trolls that have mostly been culled through technical programming structured progress.Writers need to be free to express their opinions without minders attacking them personally and publicly. Ill-educated louts simply attacked writers ad nauseum to snuff opinions they didn't like, and free people hate that. 

 Flunkies are always seeking ways to brown-nose an establishment and that can go too far. Ingratiating themselves to an establishment by attacking writers with different political ideas antipathetic to some of the advantaged is a usual behavior.

A balance need be made between free speech and those that simply prevent others from expressing speech freely with direct personal attacks- negative conditioning, using free speech. Some of the worst trolls are international and still work on international sites-the battle to defend against trolls is much easier than it was yet it still exists. 

Opportunity costs created by trolls to others can be high. I am working on editing down a 575,000 word ebook presently. After cuts it will be perhaps 175,000 words. Trolls present opportunity cost to writers who just wanted to write briefly, a small comment, and let it go at that, Trolls waste time-for-others. 

I have never been a Lisa Murkowski fan. In my opinion she exemplifies what is wrong in DC with the nation's political class. Since her father appointed her to the job she has failed on numerous fronts. Collectively people regard the Senate just a little higher than the House and neither much worth anything. The 23 trillion of public debt, the illegal immigration (that Lisa Murkowski helped enable with opposition to the border wall) problem, the destruction of the world ecosphere, lack of creativity in economic reform, there are dozens of reasons why she is a bad politician to me yet with uneducated people in support of bad ideas the concatenation in DC is the blind leading the blind. She might at least have not exacerbated the impeachment conundrum and further divided the nation injecting psp paralytic poisoning into the political ecosystem so more time is wasted and less gets done.

I believe that tens of millions of illegal aliens are part of the homeless causality problem and that Lisa Murkowski is clueless about how to address those issues politically. Social anomie; chaos and social adversity too high reinforces crime and crimes on persons- not all souls that are missing simply had Alzheimers or were klutzes in the woods on or off trails without a sense of direction, up or down. 

It is important to establish social order and sober, drug-free pervasive security. There are too many comfortable people in the political world just letting the establishment economic vectors run on with a sense of urgency to solve problems somewhat less than Marie Antoinette's 'let them eat cake' paradigm. 

California Should Consider Getting Bus/Rail Passes for Its Homeless Population

California may have as many as 150,000 homeless people in the state; it is difficult to get an accurate count, and its politicians don't seem to know how to help with that. A lack of transportation is usually one of the largest problems homeless people face. Getting to a job at point A from point B in a timely way for an interview can be challenging. So get the poor local bus and light rail passes.

Governor Newsome seems to want to get apartment vouchers for the poor paid for at federal expense. That would be a socialist approach and add billions and billions to the U.S. public debt. It is the sort of idea well to do politicians that don't spend a lot of free time thinking about social issues and finding creative solutions would have. The comfortable sometimes have a hard time understanding how the uncomfortable live.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/26/trump-sends-christmas-tweet-attacking-california-governor-over-homeless-crisis/

Apartments in California are very expensive as are homes. Subsidizing apartments in slums wouldn't be too effective in getting people to good jobs or educational facilities. It would hide them out of the way perhaps training them to graduate unto jails. Apartments in good locations are quite costly. Maybe a homeless guy moving into a good apartment could walk to work right away. I am skeptical about the likelihood of that fortuitous circumstance occurring. Homeless people given transportation passes could travel county wide to look for work and desert spaces to sleep in. They could commute to homeless facilities. The costs are known and easier to afford than housing. If safe quality regional camping facilities designed for the homeless and well supervised were also made it is possible that the homeless could find work and participate in the job market as commuters.

Keeping the homeless out of jail and providing bus and light rail passes that might keep some clunkers from putting more exhaust along the freeways could reduce the homeless problem in California a little at a time. Because California is California Governor Newsome would soon want all of the illegal aliens without housing or living in overcrowded interiors to be given free federal cash for housing too. Usually the United States has a million or so people that are homeless for various reasons (not all bad) that like to travel about in search of a way to better themselves. It is not always easy to front-load all of the cash needed to get a good job, laundry, phone, transportation, housing and food all at the same time from the position of being broke on the street. I road a bicycle 35,000 miles around the U.S.A. looking for homes to paint. It was probably more difficult than it should be because of all of the illegal aliens saturating the construction industry. Some homeless people would not be able to ride a loaded bike 75 to 100 miles a day across the south or from Mexico to Canada to search for work. yet neither do they have sedentary lifestyles- they may have a hard time with the immobility of Obamacare that basically was designed for sedentary middle class people, rather than the poor stricken with pneumonia that need to find a job or a few homes to paint even so.

The United States is a free country blessed not to be to much like old Europe, though challenged by illegal immigration and chaos for the lowest economic class. People journey to live in California because of the mild year around climate and lack of fire ants under a leftist, nominally sympathetic upper class of spoilt politicians. That trend is likely to continue until the lowest class has positive reinforcement structures in place that return the downtrodden to a productive and humane earning and living environment. For example, hiring those unemployed for the greatest time first via positive employer tax incentives would be one simple legal measure to make.

The Green Party Should Be Plain to Add Voter Support

The Green Party of America is a pathetically weak, socialist doper partisan party regarded as something like the dregs of Democrats. That positioning to the left in support of all of the evil and divisive socialist-homosexual-abortionist-anti-Christian agenda dooms it to failure a priori so far as becoming a relevant political force in the United States during the next decade goes. The sole hope of the Green Party to get a large share of voters is that the Democrat Party continues to become viewed as a lunatic, obsessive do-nothing haters. What can the Green Party do to become a real factor in U.S. politics and not remain on the bottom with 1% of the Presidential vote?

Removing the divisive, socialist hate agenda to become a party of pure devotion to ecological economics with dozens of clear, articulate opinions about how to transition the nation to a sustainable ecologically synergistic economy is the sole avenue for improvement. Stating over and over the principles of ecological economics; educating the voters, should be the one focused task of the American Green Party. Transition to sustainable ecological economics with liberty and justice for all is probably the main reason for a Green Party to exist; it need be the leader in facing the greatest challenge to U.S. and global economics of the age. It can't do that with all of the hoary clap trap of socialism and divisive social issues that alienate at least half of the electorate.

https://www.amazon.com/Ecological-Economics-Second-Principles-Applications/dp/1597266817/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

There is a Universe of shrill and polemical opinion of divisive social issues that voters can listen to, watch or read on the media every day of the year. What is absent is articulate opinion explaining how to use free enterprise and clever, innovative regulation to seamlessly transition toe entire U.S. economy to a new foundation of ecological economics. Joining the mesmerizing and tiresome Indian cobra piper show without meaningful ecological economics will not serve the public well. Advance would be far simpler from the basis of a center-conservative social position with the large exception of solid ecological economics as a progressive, oars in the water way to naturally select free enterprise business and zoning that promotes quality over quantity while leaving the deranged social issues that aren't economic and tired ideas in advocacy of bureaucratic socialism to those spending their lives with recreational drug over-use.

Merry Christmas; Free E-books

Merry Christmas! Here are a few free ebooks of mine with ideas about the Lord Jesus Christ.

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The (Space) Force is with President Trump

President Trump has officially signed the Space Force into law. Finally an organized military presence will be established to defend against threats to world existence from space and the Universe of things that could go wrong.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2019/12/23/space-force-official-change-coming-patrick-air-force-base/2732133001/

A military space force that has a few true space ships and space soldiers able to travel to combat asteroids, aliens solar flares, world conquering Dicatures seeking to intimidate Earth dwellers with particle beams, lasers, accelerated rocks, boulders etc, redirected meteors and whatever else including hidden extra-terrestrial bio-weapons labs might be met with warriors kicking in the doors instead of school teachers, scientists, politicians or billionaires able to purchase tickets.

Some fear a space force; perhaps Democrats as well as Communist Chinese politicians that would seek a world domination unconcerned with independent space force personnel not willing to go quietly into the evil empire as would Democrats. Policing the high frontier is necessary as human space ventures and projects independent of Earth ramp up.


Space combat and civil engineers will have a lot of work digging in extra-terrestrial planets and moons to build underground bases able to withstand cosmic raises, the adverse vacuum and food scarcity under a military chain of command.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-military/2019/12/23/china-attacks-us-space-force-as-threat-to-peace/

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/16/retired_us_air_force_general_warns_china_is_building_a_navy_in_space_with_space-based_equivalents_of_battleships_and_destroyers.html

Pres. Trump is the Most Christian-Friendly Candidate Possible Today

When the editor of the magazine Christianity Today wrote that President Trump should be impeached he made a blatantly political entry into the pig pen of indolent ignorant swine that is the American political swamp. President Trump is the sole candidate whom is friendly toward Christian interests in comparison to the godless, abortionist, homosexual, communist Democrat Party flunkies that are anti-American globalists promoting national amoeba blob-hood for all citizens with ample dope for all. Sectarian Christian editors should try to stay out of the swamp and not make themselves servants of evil even if unintentionally.

President Trump is squaring away several issues that need be done if the United States is to continue as a sovereign nation. He is working on securing the national borders against the incursion of illegal aliens; he has appointed better conservative judges than President G.W. Bush, rectification of trade and defense of intellectual properties against Chinese predation and so forth. Democrats are entirely spaced out in an alternative financial Universe where socialism will pay for tens of trillions of dollars of new public debt.

Christian evangelicals are theologically ill-informed and wreak great havoc upon American conservatives and the environment because of their wrong belief that Armageddon is ahead and they will be raptured out into thin air before the worst. That wrong opinion of pre-tribulation is shared by the Muslim world. The correct opinion is that the tribulation occurred in the first century a.d. and this is the time of building up the kingdom of God. Christian writers should read the works of Dr. Kenneth Gentry if they are so woefully ill-informed about the book of the Revelation.

Democrats are in effect the party of the anti-Christ. Wrong theology in support of homosexual marriage and political globalism that reinforces concentrated wealth while degrading nationalism lead to innumerable dystopian scenarios wherein silly man-bun wearing Christian editors can descry with a lispy croak the evil of the anti-Christ approaching and the doom of everyone to plead for increased contributions and rapture. That is an incorrect political approach to addressing the real world challenges to the U.S.A.

Democrats are far more interested in dividing the nation to get a replacement agenda accomplished with demographic party qualified members replacing the 20th century establishment class than fixing the environment. Democrats exploit the world environmental crisis in order to benefit their socialist-homo-economic empowerment-corporatist-socialist agenda. If they were serious about transitioning quickly to ecological economics they would leave out the socialist homo atheist agenda and work rationally.

With the very real concerns about global warming and planetary ecospheric decay with a mass extinction in progress there is no Green Party in the U.S.A. that is not entirely corrupted with the poison pill of atheism, homosexuality and abortion. There is no plain fix-the-environment, no-guile leadership factor in existence at all. Therefore many moral Americans choose to just let free enterprise and capitalism respond to the needs of the market and environment together instead of taking the known socialist-atheist-homosexual course of front-loaded doom with the pretense of being environmentally responsible. 

Democrats seek after wealth and are a new age immoral party coated with Teflon of the Beyond Good and Evil ethos of the 19th century philosopher Nietzsche. Donald Trump is the right Republican leader to address them; he understands what they are and can get in the mud with them and win a fight. Christian leaders that inexpertly hope for some sort of ascension of the honorable V.P. Mike Pence would divide the Republican Party at a critical time and find a way to reinforce the Democrat homo-atheist-socialist agenda. That isn't a Christian work at all.

Where to Start with Philosophy

The pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus started with cosmology; considering the evident and extrapolating from that. Alethea was the first name Attic philosophers called their activity- truth. Finding the truth, or accurate agreement in logical propositions, between words and objects was a basic activity. Pre-Socratics were fortunate to live in a lower-carbon atmosphere before some became dumb and dumber. As method and knowledge became formalized philosophers renamed their activity-for-others. Today their are many fields of accumulated knowledge to start with. One doesn't need to reinvent the Wright Brothers first 1903 aircraft to learn to fly today (the Boeing 737 and Starliner failures aside). There is just a lot of great material to start with to learn, new material to add, and the opportunity to consider all of the old and new data for-oneself, possibly adding new synthetic insights or investigating new topics. There may not be a perfect order of assembly.

One can make a curriculum for learning philosophy. Yet I liked learning philosophy, science and Christianity together. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Confucius, The New Testament, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Watson and Crick, Gregory Mendel, Kopernicus etc. Individuals all the way to the present day, including Darwin and Barth, Luther and W.V.O. Quine etc. Reading the works of excellent individuals is a good way to go. One should read the major works of all of the well known classical philosophers and in the process one learns about metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and etc. I like the philosophy of logic quite a lot. It is worthwhile reading a few books on the history of math and language. The history of Algebra is a great reading thread.

 Philosophy 101 is a great course. I read the works of Kant, Sartre, Plato, Husserl and numerous others before I took it, as well as Berkeley, Hume etc, so my opinion is a bit skewed on it. It is important to get college credit for coursework, yet if not in school one must just go ahead and read primary sources- they are more interesting. Plato and the Socratic discourses are wonderful compositions. Many of those guys were first-rate writers-not just thinkers. Primary sources of history are good too-like philosophy. Caesar wrote a history of the civil war that is very good. Cicero (On Natural Law) was a good writer as were so many others. There is a natural development of complexity in concepts that makes reading the older material easier in many cases, and with the added benefit of later writers referring to the earlier.

 I believe that beside the issue of grace and God leading one to learn particular things, there is an issue of faith leading one to make connections that would not be made otherwise. The results of the analysis and interpretation of literature (including social sciences and humanities, science etc.) may differ in accord with one's outlook to start with. I am not inclined to mystic or occluded knowledge concerning salvation though. The Bible is fairly plain about that. One does find more and more in it over time though, unlike any other book I have read-especially in philosophy. To develop such subtlety and complex constructions in meaning one needs to compare and contrast several dozen philosophy books into a synthetic viewpoint and even that the comparison isn't terribly good for the add together Kant, Hegel, Sartre etc side. Apparently how one uses the brain can change the brain's structure. There is a recent yet shallow report without much of a concluding account of the research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-mindfulness-video-game-areas-brain.html