1) Psycheocracy (Selection of Leaders
Based on Personality)
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2) The Holy Bible Decrees Psycheocracy
.
3) For the Fright of Your Life, Surf:
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4) The New Conservatism
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5) The Scientific Selection of
Candidates
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6) Elect more Carolyn McCarthys
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7) Elect Honest Capable Union Leaders
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8) Rules of Colloquy
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9) Characteristics of Child Mind
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10) Some Characteristics of the Mature Intellect
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11) Some Criteria for Credibility
12) New Effective Activism
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13) Constituency Loyal Members of Parliament
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14) The Very High Cost of Joining the EU and the Euro
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15) The Collapse of the World Trade Center
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16) The Divided Brain
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17) Iron Law of Charity
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18) Proposed Voting System
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19) Better Health
.
20) The New Green Direction
.
21) The Dark history of the New World Order and the EU
22) End Free Speech on WBAI
.
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Psycheocracy (Selection of Leaders based on personality)
.
Large scale democracy has not worked. Democracy in small groups of,
say, one hundred or so, can work because every member of the group
knows everyone else and can elect an honest leader. However,
each
member of a group consisting of thousands of persons can only know
of about one hundred other members, the rest, a large majority, being
unknown to him. Any potential leader will be known only to a few per-
sons, thus a large group cannot select an honest an honest leader with
with any certainty. In practice, special interest groups promote one of
their own, loyal, members , spending much money to con
the public
into believing in his honesty. This problem can be solved by
the use
by the use of psychological evaluation.
.
Form a local political club, then advertise for one hundred or one thou-
sand applicants for the position of primary candidate. The club should
use rigorous tests, including psychological evaluation, to select the best
applicant for the club for the position of primary candidate. The club
should then run its candidate against the machine primary candidate and
win, then run its candidate against opposition party candidate and win.
.
The club's candidate will be able to say that he was selected in an open
forum, from a large selection of applicants, using rigorous, objective
tests.
The candidate could, further more, say that his competitor was selected
from two or three party hacks, through some murky process and selected
one the basis of the competitor's loyalty to corporate PACs and the party
machine, not to the voters.
.
The voters will then have a Congressman who is honest, capable, loyal to
his constituency, not to PACs. The political club will, most likely, be
able
to control state and municipal elections.
.
The greatest difference, by far, is between the PAC controlled candidates
and the PAC free candidates, rather than between Democrat and Republican
candidates, often called Republicrats.
.
Large institutions of all kinds use rigorous tests and psychological evalu-
ation almost all the time for the selection of important personnel with
great success. This method of selection could also be successfully used
in politics.
.
Psycheocratic selection would completely eliminate the problem of PAC
control, so much discussed at present. The PAC candidate requires such
an enormous amount of money (on average, 700,000 Dollars) to convince
very skeptical voters that they are free from PAC control. The psycheo-
cratic candidate, of course, will require much less campaign contributions,
which he will be able to raise from individuals. Representative Carolyn
McCarthy (of the Long Island Railroad) raised 1.3 million Dollars from
ind-
ividual contibutors.
.
Three quarters of elected representatives are well regarded by their constit-
uencies: yet the country is going down hill at high speed. The reason for
this
contradiction is that our political representatives are all very personable
(as
are, or were, all politicians since Attilla the Hun) and assiduously help
their
constituents with many minor problems with the respective governments.
The real damage that the politicians do to us and our country is done by
voting for outrageous bills that are little noticed, or not reported at
all. Bills
that take away our civil rights; that support the waste of billions of
Dollars
by the military; that allows our food to contaminated by herbicides and
herbicides; that gives billions of Dollars to millionaire farmers and none
to
poor farmers; that gives tax breaks only to the rich, even rebates; and
much
much more.
.
As noted in Walter Karp`s book, "Indispensible Enemies", in a huge number
of political districts the leaders of the majority party collusively agree
with
with minority leaders that the minority party will put up a weak, token
can-
didate to oppose the majority candidate for a few favors. These reasons
are
why there are so few changes of parties. The minority leaders live off
these
few favors. The minority party leaders will bitterly fight any reform move-
ment, even enlisting the help of the majority party, for they have everthing
to lose. An individual leader in an organisation will have much invested
in
the organisation: his position, prestige, contacts, ambitions etc. Thus
the
higher up an individual is in an organisation, the more he will be affected
by change and the more he will resist change.
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The Holy Bible Decrees
Psycheocracy
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"But select capable men from all the people--men who
fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain--
and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds,
fifties ands tens."
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Exodus,18:21
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The Conservative MP is selected by the local activists. They may
choose their own candidate or a candidate who is on the approved
list of the National Conservative Office. With few exceptions
the
local activists choose somebody from the list of persons approved
by the National Conservative Office. The persons on the approved
list are chosen by the National Conservative Office primarily because
they are loyal to the National Office, which
is controlled by the
Establishment, which runs the conservative party for their own benefit,
not for the benefit of the conservative voters. A more
professional
system for the selection of conservative candidates who
would be
more loyal to their voters, not the National Conservative Office, and
ultimately to the establishment is suggested.The local activists should
advertise locally for perhaps 100 or 1000 applicants for the
position
of candidate. The applicants should then be subjected
to rigorous
investigation and tests, including psychological evaluation, to select
the
best applicant for the position of candidate.
.
Members of the activists group should be disqualified from becoming
the candidate to discourage opportunists from joining
the group to
manipulate it. The activists group should be prejudiced
against any
applicants for the position of candidate with connections to any member
.
of the activist group.Those familiar with the workings of the Establish-
ment would agree that the Establishment would most likely
control
local groups by encouraging local people who could be
subjected to
their pressure, e.g. Borrowers and contractors to large companies, to
become activists and then, pressure or reward them to act in the inter-
ests of the Establishment. It is suggested that the local conservatives
groups disqualify from any membership in the local group
all those
who are subject to pressure by or rewards from the
Establishment.
This method of candidate selection has been used in the United States
for two hundred years by local political clubs
and machines, which
select all local candidates and vote in the national conventions for their
leaders. Elections in the United States are very expensive and the
local
political machines must select someone who can obtain
contributions
from the Establishment. The Establishment controls the
selection of
candidates in this manner.
.
Campaigning in the United Kingdom is far less costly.Should there be
two Conservative candidates, one put up by the group
loyal to the
National Conservative Office and the other by an independent group,
the two groups could hold a primary election, as is done in the United
States, to select one candidate.
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The Scientific Selection of Candidates
.
The weakest link in a democracy -- and it is a very weak link -- is
that almost all members of a large group of people cannot determine
the true personality of any one individual. The political aspirant
will
hide any character defect and will go to great pains
to develop a
credible image. Politicians are now selected by their
ability to sell
their vote to special interests, using the donated
money to generate
and advertise an instant artificial personality that will wi n the credibility
of the electorate. Here is how activists could work to cause the selection
of honest politicians: they should go into promising
electoral area and
organize the electorate into "Psycheocratic" (selection of leadership based
on personality) local political clubs. The main purpose of "Psycheocratic"
local political clubs would be to select their candidates based
in part on
personality, for the primary election, collect the requisite number
of sign-
atures for them to become a party primary candidate,
then canvass for
them. The party members would then vote in the
primary elections to
determine which primary candidate is to become the party
candidate, to
run against the candidate of the opposite party. The winner would
become
the elected representative of the electoral district.
.
1) Members of the group forming the club shall be disqualified
from being club members.
2) Club members shall be disqualified from becoming primary
candidates. This will discourage opportunists from joining
the club.
3) The club members should be prejudiced against applicants
for positions of primary candidate who are connected to club
members. This will discourage opportunists from sending their
4) The club should advertise widely to attract as many
applicants
for the position of primary candidate as possible.
5) The applicants shall be carefully screened and evaluated,
including
the use of psychological evaluation.
6) The club members will then vote for their primary
candidate, basing
their votes, one assumes, on the applicant's personality, education, back
ground, age, health, experience. etc.
7) The club officers should be selected in the same manner
as described.
.
The idea is not new - it has been used for decades by large organizations
- with apparent success. All that these organizations require of
an applicant
is that they send a resume and perhaps take a few tests. If the organ-
izations were to require applicants to go through the same obstacle course
as in politics, all the better applicants would go elsewhere.
.
Supporters of psycheocratic primary candidates will be able to tell the
electorate that nothing is known about the opposing primary candidate's
honesty or capability and that he was chosen by some murky process
in a smoke-filled back room from a base of only two or three party
regulars. In addition, the opposing candidate will raise many thousands
of dollars, (which will cost the taxpayer, generally, twenty times the
amount, to repay the contributors), to generate an instant, arbitrary
and artificial personality. The character of the psycheocratic candidate
would be well and reliably known. He would be selected from a large
base by a large group of people (the club) using a reliable means of selection.
.
The psycheocratic candidate, being much more credible, will need much
less money than a non psycheocratic candidate to achieve the confidence
of the voters. He will not be able to raise as much money from large
contributors, but will be able to raise more money from smaller cont-
ributors. A psycheocratic candidate will attract many more volunteers.
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Elect more Carolyn
McCarthys
.
Carolyn McCarthy's husband was killed by a deranged man on
the Long Island Railroad in 1993. In 1996 her congressman, Dan
Frisa, voted against an assault weapon ban. Mrs. McCarthy was
so angered that she decided to run for Congress against Dan Frisa.
Starting with nothing, she recruited over one thousand volunteers
and received over one million dollars in contributions, almost all in
small amounts. Mrs. McCarthy won the election for Congress by
57%. Mrs. McCarthy has proven a very important point: a single
person with no organization, resources or PAC support can win a
seat in Congress.
.
But one is not enough. One would have to wait a long time for another
Carolyn McCarthy to drop out of a tree. Why not, instead, proactively,
find an equivalent to her? As Rep. McCarthy depends on the goodwill
of fellow congressmen for trading votes, her support for the campaigning
for other congressional seats cannot be expected, as such support
would be interpreted, quite correctly, as a stab in the back. So we will
have to proceed alone.
.
The problem of finding someone credible to become the candidate can
be solved as described: Those interested should form local political
clubs with ideal constitutions to which the following is added:
.
1) Members of the group forming the club shall be disqualified
from
being club members.
2) Club members shall be disqualified from becoming primary
candidates.
This will discourage opportunists from joining the club.
3) The club members should be prejudiced against applicants
for
positions of primary candidate who are connected to club members.
This will discourage opportunists from sending their friends into the club.
4) The club should advertise widely to attract as many
applicants for the
position of primary candidate as possible.
5) The applicants shall be carefully screened and evaluated,
including
the use of psychological evaluation.
6) The club members should then vote for their primary
candidate,
basing their votes, one assumes, on the applicant's personality,
education, background, age, health, experience. etc.
7) The club officers should be selected in the same manner
as described.
.
Large corporations and institutions have used more or less the same
method for selecting their leaders, including astronauts, for decades
with apparent success.
.
Why not join and recruit people to new groups, Democratic or Rep-
ublican, to elect honest, capable to political office.
.
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Elect honest, capable Union Leaders
.
Members in a small group of people know each other intimately
and could determine which of them would make a good leader.
In large groups, each member will be known by only a few other
members and will be unknown to the rest. Thus, a large group of
people, as a whole, cannot know which of them would make good
leaders. In practice, in large organizations, leadership falls to
those
who have the organization, resources, energy and time to generate
instant, artificial personalities for the large group to reluctantly
choose from.
.
Those who choose to become leaders are driven by some greater
inner misery or by greed to desperate and time-consuming efforts to
deceive to become leaders. They show little interest in the welfare
of
their fellows. Those who would make the best leaders are well
adjusted and do not have the inner misery to propel them to the great
efforts needed to become leaders. They cannot be easily identified.
.
In order to overcome the above problems and elect honest, capable
union leaders, it is suggested that a committee be formed that would
function as follows:
.
1) The committee would accept applications and nominations
for
positions of candidate
for leadership positions.
2) Disqualify committee members from becoming candidates.
3) Evaluate the nominees' qualifications and personality
using psychological tests.
4) Vote for the best nominee.
5) Register the nominee and canvass for him.
.
Union members are not hired for their general knowledge nor for
their honesty nor administrative abilities, only for their specific skills.
As a result, union leaders will have inferior administrative abilities
and could be dishonest. It is suggested that non-union people such
as lawyers, MBAs be selected as union leaders. One expects and
gets reliable service from experts such as doctors, lawyers, etc., so
why should these experts give inferior service as union leaders, part-
icularly when evaluated for honesty, by psychologists?
.
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Rules of Colloquy
.
1) The purpose of allowing participants to speak is to inform the
audience, not to benefit the speaker.
2) Speakers are to fully consider their ideas before they express
them, then fully express them in
good, clear, logical, and concise English. The ideas are to be
expressed without emotion, declamation or emphasis.
3) All information is to have an objective origin even if that origin
is forgotten.
4) A warrant of credibility is the acceptance of retribution (usually
loss of credibility) should the corresponding information be shown
to be false. Emotional warrants of credibility are forbidden
as well as emotional manipulation of the audience. If a speaker
wishes to warrant his credibility he should do so explicitly.
For
example: "I warrant my credibility that . . .", or "As a
professional, I would like to say . . . ." Speakers who warrant their
credibility are to identify themselves.
5) Innuendo, sarcasm, suggestion, insinuation, vernacular, disingen-
uousness, obloquy, mockery, contempt, condescension, irony,
ridicule, satire, derision, misinterpretation, words that are
vague or have negative connotation, and formal and informal
fallacies are forbidden. Violations of the above are to be inter-
preted as (dishonest) warrants of credibility.
6) Aspects of the topic under discussion are to be discussed in order
of importance. Discussion of a lesser aspect implies acceptance
of greater aspects.
7) Scholarly discourse shall be the paradigm.
8) Speakers are not to prove how clever, cute, dumb, righteous,
witty or humorous they are.
9) To call a speaker ignorant or naive is a warrant of credibility.
10) Definitions, words, standards of proof, reliability of information
and references are to be those implied by the context.
11) Willful violators of the rules of colloquy may be asked to identify
themselves.
12) Repetition and the obvious are to be avoided.
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Characteristics
of Childmind
.
Childmind does not understand and ignores the meaning of abstract
statements, he only understands the concomitant emotion, in which
he is solely interested; and understands statements as a means of
conveying emotion.
.
Childmind ascribes a degree of credibility to an abstract statement
that is proportional to the degree of emotion with which the statement
is expressed.
.
Childmind takes generalizations and figures of speech literally.
.
Childmind believes that abstract reality can be changed by emotion.
Childmind is fascinated by symmetry.
.
Childmind believes that reality is like a Disney cartoon; all characters
and phenomena being very simple, extreme and absolute and cannot
understand anything more complex.
.
Childmind is sensitive to criticism, believes criticism to be arbitrary
and will hurl criticism back.
.
Childmind loves besting adults and will gleefully draw attention to
perceived errors even if trivial or nonexistent.
.
When childmind accepts a rule, it is very upset when the rule is
broken, even in trivial or irrelevant circumstances.
.
Childmind is very upset by hypocrisy, even in trivial or irrelevant
circumstances.
.
Childmind assumes all members of a set of objects to be identical.
.
Childmind is very quick to make a hasty generalization.
.
When childmind takes a side in a controversy he will be intensely
loyal to that side irrespective of contrary evidence.
.
Childmind will give credibility to the side in a controversy which is
supported by the most experts, weighted by their rank.
.
Childmind will answer a question with a question.
.
Childmind will disbelieve any argument made by a disliked authority.
.
Childmind will believe an argument to be ridiculous simply because it
is ridiculed.
.
Childmind argues only in sound bites.
.
Childmind will refuse to say "I do not know"
.
Childmind will ignore all anomalies, contradictions and discrepancies.
.
Childmind has an attention span of fifteen seconds, after which he
assumes a right to loudly interrupt.
.
When childmind perceives that it is losing an argument it will withdraw
from the argument citing one of the following reasons:
1) Your (effective) argument is an insult to me (or others)
2) Your argument is ridiculous (meaning undefined of
course) absurd,
ludicrous, etc.
3) Your argument is farfetched
4) I do not have time to respond to weak arguments
5) Your arguments are disloyal or unpatriotic
6) You are not an expert
7) Of course I know that you are just joking
8) The argument is from a vanity press
9) There is no scientific proof for your argument.
If presented with a
requested standard of proof, he will raise the required
standard
10) Your argument hurts people's feelings.
11) You are undermining my authority.
12) I am not going to fall for that trick (i.e. debating).
13) Your argument was completely discredited years ago.
.
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Some Characteristics
of the Mature Intellect
.
1) Asks questions
2) Answers questions
3) Does not emote nor use emotional nor colloquial terms
4) Does not interrupt
5) Uses clear, concise, logical, formal and complete
English
6) Listens and learns
7) Analyses rationality of thoughts before expressing
them
8) Is willing to say "I do not know"
9) Has no emotional attachment to ideas, positions, dogmas,
judgments etc.
10) Understands the meaning of words used.
11) Understands some of the principles of informal and formal
reasoning
12) Understands some of the informal and formal fallacies
13) Understands some of the basic principles of science
14) Gives serious consideration to everything said
15) Denies nothing without reason
16) Obeys the rules of colloquy
17) Welcomes constructive criticism
18) pays acute attention to discrepancies,anomalies andcontradictions.
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Some Criteria for
Credibility
.
Nine-nine percent of experts become experts for financial compen-
sation, ego expansion and power. They are almost all
paid well.
Only corporations and well funded organisations can afford to pay
the experts. Corporation that employ the experts have
only two
moral obligations: the first is to obey the law and the second is
to
maximize the returns on investment without reference to any
other
morals. Any public good that costs money reduces the stockholders'
return and is thus necessarily immoral. The obligations
of corpora-
tions are consistent with the attitudes of those who become corporate
officers and officers of other institutions. In pursuance of their
oblig-
ations the officers will punish any experts in their employment or
in
their direct or indirect control who might communicate negative infor-
mation about the corporations. The treatment of
whisle-blowers
illustrates the above point. All well funded organisations
are cont-
rolled by corporations.
.
The expert himself will, after spending much time,
money and
trauma in acquiring his expertise, will be hostile to negative
infor-
mation, which would make his expertise less valuable. Since corp-
orations control the curricula of most institutes of learning, the expert
will not be taught any negative information about any aspect of
the
corporations. Thus no expert can be expected to articulate,
admit
or even know about negative information about his field.
.
Almost all publications are either owned by or depend on the adver
-tising revenue of corporations, which are required to, and do, prevent
publication of negative information about their advertisers and their allies.
.
Each discipline produces information with its own specific degree of
.
reliability. The degree of reliability is a compromise between insufficient
information output that would result from too high reliability require-
ments and much information of too low value, resulting from too low
reliability requirements.
.
Due to the simplicity and absolute consistency of the subject of study,
physics has the highest reliability of all disciplines, being perhaps 99.9999%.
At the other end is psychiatry, having a reliability of, perhaps, 90%,
due to variability and the difficulty of measuring subjects. The
reliability
of other disciplines lies in between.
.
The reliability of any information that is not used, ultimately, for a
decision is irrelevant. The probable benefit of a decision
is equal
to minus the cost (fees, travel costs, etc.) plus the benefit times the
probability of the benefit minus the liability times the probability of
the
liability. Or:
.
B (net) = - C (gross cost) + B (benefit) x P (benefit) - L (liability)
x P (liability).
.
Thus even information of low reliability can be of value. For example,
if a drunken derelict were to inform someone that a robber, located in
a certain street, would murder, individual would not use that street, even
though the reliability of the derelict would be very small.
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For practical purposes a high degree of reliability for information is
not
required. For multimillion-dollar projects, a high degree of reliability
for
information is desirable.
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Common sense is only of value in situations where relevant factors are
very familiar, otherwise rational evaluation must be used.
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A negative statement, i.e., the nonexistence of something, can only be
proven if the context of the statement is thoroughly searched by a reliable
agent.
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Emotion and thinking are mutually exclusive. Thought may be delib-
erately frustrated by the generation of emotion.
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New Effective Activism
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Activism can be divided into two parts: political pressure
and charity.
The standard of living and the state of misery is determined by the Est-
ablishment as a compromise between their political security
and corp-
orate profits. Should the misery increase, their profits might
rise, but
their security will fall below below an acceptable level. Should the level
of misery drop, say, due to better weather or to new discoveries,
the
Establishment will increase its profits until the
minimum acceptable
level of security is reached. Thus should the aggregate of activists
rel-
ieve a perceptable amount of misery, the Establishment will increase
its
profits until the level of misery reaches the same maximum
safe level.
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The other part of activism is political pressure on elected representatives
to effect legal change. To get elected, or re-elected,
a candidate must
convince the thousands of voters of his credibility. This takes
a lot of
money, which is supplied by political action committees
or "PACs",
for which many services must be performed. In practice
PAC money
is much more powerful than activist pressure and always predominates.
Since the 1970s social conditions have declined,
despite decades of
work by activist lobbyists across America. Congress does vote crumbs
for not-for-profits because they tie up thousands of activists who, other-
wise, would do serious damage to the Establishment by
electioneering.
The activists, very usefully, mitigate social problems,
embarrassing to
The Establishment.
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PAC control of politicians is the only real
flaw of the United States
polity. Only the removal of the politicians
will have any real effect.
There is a "flaw" in the political structure that will allow activists
to cause
honest persons to be elected to political office. The "flaw" is the
relative
ease by which a primary candidate can be selected. Activists should form
independent political clubs, Democratic or Republican,
with or without
activists as members. The clubs should then advertise for one hundred or
one thousand applicants for the position of primary candidate.
Then the
club should use rigorous tests, including psychological evaluation,
to sel-
ect the best applicant for the club for the position of
primary candidate.
The club should then petition for their selected applicant
to become a
primary candidate, then beat the machine primary
candidate, then beat
the opposite machine candidate in the general election. The
voters will
then have, at last, a Congressman, or other elected representative,
who
is honest, capable, loyal to his constituents and free from
PAC control.
The idea is a marriage of independent political clubs, which have
existed
since the Revolution and psychological evaluation which has been
used
for many decades by corporations, many
governments, the military,
NASA, Churches, etc.
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Some money will be needed to run a club and elections, though much less
than that required by a machine club. Representative Carolyn
McMarthy
(whose husband was shot on the Long Island Railroad) raised 1.3 million
Dollars from individual contributors, much more than the 700
thousand
Dollars spent on the average Congressional campaign.
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In response to the continuing political crisis,
several inadequate, if not
useless, responses have developed. They are:
1) Term limits
2) Instant run off voting
3) Campaign finance reform
4) Proportion representation
5) Voter registration
6) Electoral College reform
7) Voter education
8) Third parties
9) Ratification
All of the responses, except for no. 3), do
not address the crucial
problem: the control of elected representatives
by PACS. Even if
put fully into effect, the responses will make little difference to the
legis-
lative votes of our elected representatives. Term limits will only result
in
unskilled representatives who will be even more dependent on PACs be-
cause they are unknown. Neither voter registration nor
voter education
will replace the PAC controlled candidates. Campaign
finance reform
might, conceivably, make for improvements, but as reforms will affect both
Democratic and Republican representatives, they could hardly be expected
to cut their own throats nor damage the interests of their PACs and
politi-
cal machines on whom they will depend on for jobs contracts etc. Voters
are now acutely aware of the spoiler effect of third parties. Now if 33%
of
the increasingly infuriated voters decide to vote for a third party, there
will
be one hundred third parties, not the 22 at present. Third parties will
soon
be dependent on PAC money. Why do they waste so much energy?
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Unfortunately first solutions have a habit of over-riding any later and
superior solutions. Some reasons are:
1) The users of the first solutions become comfortable and used to the
routine. That is, they fall into a psychic trap
2) The first solution becomes a source of socializing and contacts
3) The first solution will look good on a resume
4) The first solution becomes involved in the ego of those involved
5) The solution results in remuneration. The money trap