November 2020: Our Number 1 National Security Issue.
In our private lives and in our republic, journalists, reporters and news networks who hide facts and evidence from our citizens are negligent in their responsibility to fully inform our citizens. Our citizens cannot make fully informed decisions if they do not have all of the available facts and evidence from our world. If journalists and reporters are not going to question and investigate events, statements, utterances, decisions, policy initiatives, policy results, theories, conjectures and the actions of actors or leaders, then they are not necessary for the proper functioning of a democracy or a republic. Our citizens do not require journalists to tell us merely what someone says. Our citizens require journalists question what is said and tell us if it is truthful and adds to our knowledge about our world. Our citizens do not need journalists to tell us merely what someone does. Our citizens require journalists question why it is done and tell us if it is helpful for individuals and our society. Our citizens do not need journalists to tell us what someone’s ideology suggests. Our citizens require journalists question why and whether that ideology will lead to more private individual freedom, prosperity and dignity. Our citizens should be free to make their own decisions regarding truth and knowledge by evaluating all of the available facts, evidence, investigations, questions, answers and knowledge. Our journalists and reporters should do what journalists and reporters have always done — ask the tough questions, investigate and report the reasons why.
Logical fallacies: Just because an authority says something is true does not mean there is evidence to support their statement or make their statement true. Deflection and projection should always be questioned and investigated. If officials and leaders cannot provide evidence or support that what they are doing is right or good then they are not good officials or leaders. Leading questions in surveys are an indication of bad surveys. Idealism and ideology are neither evidence nor support regarding what is right or good or best for an individual. Ideology and idealism are not evidence of truth.
We citizens do not have an opportunity to ask the tough questions of the players on the stage. We citizens do not have an opportunity to ask the real questions that concern us. We are taking care of ourselves and our families and our jobs. Please do your job so we can make good decisions regarding our private realm and our public sector.
October 2020: Our overall private realm economy, social and civil experience is under some stress from the viral pandemic we are experiencing. Individualism, competitive free markets, choice and character are still prevalent in our country.
2020: Our private realm GDP is good – currently about $21 Trillion. Jobs and job participation rates are somewhat lower from the heights reached in 2019, because of the viral pandemic and our efforts to control the virus via closing portions of our private realm economy. The U.S. economy and the jobs outlook will improve when the various states permit the economy to rebound.
January to October 2020: The various states are battling a virus that is new. Each state is applying various tactics to combat this virus. Some states are more successful than others. We continue to learn more about who is vulnerable to this virus and how best to proceed.
September to November 2020: We are in the midst of state elections to determine various local and national governmental representatives, including president of the United State.
2008 to 2020: Some U.S. media networks continue to make production choices that divide our citizens. Some U.S. media networks continue to spin news and facts, and apply innuendo to facts, in order to mislead our citizens.
Our republic (as set forth in our founding documents and in our State and U.S. Constitutions) creates a system of private realm initiatives and government that assures individual sovereignty within limited state and national governments. We, The People, apply many controls upon government, including shared sovereignty, local controls, distinct small republics, state voting districts, subsidiarity, elected representation in our legislatures at every level, majority rule, rule of law, separation of powers within the governments, checks and balances, our Bill of Rights, enumerated powers, Amendments 5, 9, 10 and 14 to the U.S. Constitution and an independent judiciary, among other controls on the power of government. Essentially, individuals in the private realm try to control government.
We understand the need for protecting our private realm via deliberation, legislation by the people, our common law and government. Each of us wants to protect our lives, our character, free markets, our choices and our faculties.
We individuals form and establish our system of government, with the above checks and balances, so we may apply our values and identity, and choose and form our society so as to us shall seem most likely to effect our private safety and happiness. This is exactly what we explained to King George III in our Declaration of Independence.
So, how are we doing? The answer is complicated. We are doing well, but our republics, and increasingly our politics, are deteriorating under the stress of our cultural war. The people are increasingly stymied by our political process and by our republican legislative process. Moderates are stymied in their search for balance – by the two major political parties, activist judges and executives, the misinterpretation of Amendments 5 and 14, the administrative and regulatory state and the elimination of subsidiarity.
Our republics increasingly no longer apply majority rule – where we have a discussion, we vote, the majority chooses our values and the loyal minority continues to seek to persuade the majority. The only way a republic works is if the people believe that the reasonable majority rules and that minority political rights are protected (so they may continue the deliberations and continue to persuade our citizens).
Instead, our legislatures seem to be under greater control by our courts. The courts accept the role of legislature and no longer limit their judgement to applying the law. For these and other reasons (such as the state’s regulatory power) our republics are failing to live up to the process we created to save us from ourselves.
AIMI seeks to protect our republics from the forces that prevent us from legislating and building a society that, as to us, shall seem to be most likely to effect our safety and happiness.
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