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Good Morning, Walker According to your posting, the aimless cogs are: "economics, ideologies, President Trump, or any of the material that inspires news commentary." However without these, what moves the machinery? So far, the machinery does not exist. As I said, my interest is in "he...

I have no interest in discussing economics, ideologies, President Trump, or any of the material that inspires news commentary. My sole interest is in helping create the machinery needed to realize what President Lincoln called, " Government of the people, by the people, for the people ." ...

Good Afternoon, creativesoul As close as I can tell, your excellent start on this thread degraded into an unhealthy exchange of caustic remarks reminiscent of Shakespeare's, tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. If that was your intent, then I apologize for intruding. Ho...

Good Afternoon, Walker "Land ownership would give everyone an interest and a say ..." I understand your point, but disagree with it. Society is made up of people, not land-owners. There is, among us, no shortage of competent, principled individuals with the ability to advocate the public i...

Good Morning, Gustav "As I said before I am not sure I can be of much use in the project of 'improving public participation in the political process'." I understood it the first time, but I can dream, can't I? "If I cannot be of use in that, then in what can I be useful?" Your co...

Fred: No wonder you admire Gustav so much --- you are both science deniers. Evolution is a fact. Since you are in denial over this basic fact of science, there is no way that you are in a position to tell anyone else what they should or should not believe about science. You don't even know what sci...

Good Morning, vegetariantaxidermy Please critique the points made in the post to Science Fan (above) and offer additional thoughts on improving public participation in the political process. If you do not think this line of thought worth your time, ignore it and accept my apology for bothering you. ...

Good Morning, Harbal

Please critique the points made in the post to Science Fan (above) and offer additional thoughts on improving public participation in the political process. If you do not think this line of thought worth your time, ignore it and accept my apology for bothering you.

Fred Gohlke

Good Morning, Gustav

Please critique the points made in the post to Science Fan (above) and offer additional thoughts on improving public participation in the political process. If you do not think this line of thought worth your time, ignore it and accept my apology for bothering you.

Fred Gohlke

Fred: No wonder you admire Gustav so much --- you are both science deniers. Evolution is a fact. Since you are in denial over this basic fact of science, there is no way that you are in a position to tell anyone else what they should or should not believe about science. You don't even know what sci...

The danger of democracy is tyranny of the majority, made even more possible these days by technology. In actuality, a million guesses at the number of jelly-beans in the big jar, averaged together, will most times be the correct count. Does this translate into the proper course for a nation? Before...

Thank you for the explanation, Gustav. I haven't looked at the link you provided because I've been busy and because the issue is, at best, tangential to my primary concern. I'm an old man, 88 this past April, and I have only one interest in politics: Helping to design machinery for getting governmen...

Good Morning, Science Fan I would not agree that "once we enter into the world of value judgments, then science is worthless". Nor would I accept it in regard to logic, mathematics, and philosophy. I cannot say with certainty that what we call humans evolved from animals - I've only been h...

[This was written before I saw the most recent posts by Science Fan and Gustav Bjornstrand. I do all my work off-line and may not be able to respond to those posts until tomorrow because I have to take my wife to the doctor.] Good Morning, Gustav Thank you for your excellent comments. You are right....

Good Morning, Science Fan Thanks for the description. I understand exactly what you mean. The problem is that our political system does not encourage us to engage in the methods scientists employ. On the contrary, it thrives on the Divide and Conquer theory of government. If we are to base our polit...