“THE PEOPLE” don’t exist

Do, “The People”, exist ? For some years I have avoided using the term “people”; and use “persons” or “populations” instead. What motivated me was the overly frequent misuse of the phrase, and its variations such as “The American People”, by politicians and media pundits. Unconsciously, they deceptively imply that the whole of a group…

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Election Campaigns MUST be primarily EDUCATIONAL

ALL election campaigns are primarily PROPAGANDA, designed to influence poorly informed voters. There is almost zero effort to uplift the competencies of the electorate. On reason to keep the electorate poorly informed and stupid (unable to reason) , is that all parties and mostly all candidates wouldn’t survive scrutiny by a properly knowledgeable electorate. Study…

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What did NOT happen, on November 8, 2016

The American people did NOT democratically select a strategy for POTUS and the USA for the next four years. What they did (with little knowledge of what they were doing) was participate in a complex process (with many hidden components) that determined a specific human person who will (probably) assume the office of POTUS in…

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TOLERATING INADEQUACY: re Trump

Why do Americans tolerate a severely flawed electoral process and democracy? This must be a query, not a question, as there are no short and concise answers. Most persons only grok the inadequacy and usually accept a simplistic faux reason or unproven (or proven invalid) solutions. Even I, only now, sit down to collect all…

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Nuet on Trump – The Phenomenon

Donald Trump as POTUS may, in the longterm, be better for Humankind/Gaia than a Hillary Clinton POTUS. All along the campaign, this was my speculation. I voted for Hillary because I was lazy. The near future under a Trump POTUS will not be pleasant for many, and my own life and efforts re UPLIFT may…

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