Nothing happens in politics by accident, but it can only capitalize on the spread of ideas -- good or bad.

ewv; Excellent post! I also appreciate the analogy of thermodynamics of heat and energy distribution with political mindsets. Entropy, entropy, all winds down.

I would add that the large scale national power politics entities also do their homework into the demographics of the individual states. In the case of my Nevada home state, they are seeing meat on the bone in the horrendous distortion of state wide demographics due to the influx of "outside" people into Las Vegas and the Reno area that have not a clue as to what the rest of Nevada is all about; i.e.; resource production.

With this in mind, they targeted huge funds and human time specifically into the Nevada political campaigns targeting the new populations of goon outsiders that haven't a clue about any political history or leanings of the history of this incredibly unique State.

So we have is what was once a wonderfully free and libertarian State attitude of "I don't care what you do, so long as it does not affect me" heading fast towards another "liberal" disaster zone of globally oriented centralized control.

I deliberately moved here over 30 years ago for what it was then, and it is so disheartening to watch where it is going.

It is not just because of the outsiders arriving here and spreading their bad ideas, it is also because the larger influences see what is going on and smell opportunity to take more control via more seats in Congress and the State legislatures. We in the rurals are near helpless against this global onslaught.

But, ultimately you are absolutely correct, the only solution is through thought and ideas. Everything is at stake.

It’s not Russia Russia Russian who has compromised our election process.

It explains the "pollutant in the waters" metaphor I used in another post.

Edited a grammatical.

I suspect you are correct, Dobrien, and wish it could be easily proved. I also suspect the Communist (Democrat) Party is honing its election fraud skills. I believe it was Stalin that said "It isn't who casts the votes that count, it's who counts them", but here I think we have fraudulent casting and counting skills in play.

Perhaps I should start a new thread on the steps from conceptualization to CAD drawing to fabrication.

I understand. Yet you and I have never heard a President who has given a speech like this.
https://youtu.be/G2qIXXafxCQ

It isn't, at least after learning better after some of what we were improperly taught by implication. A lot of education is and was infused with rationalism.

A major distinction in Ayn Rand's philosophy and thinking is a radical fact-based approach in all aspects. She repeatedly looked at the meaning and implications in reality of general statements, and insisted on validating concepts and definitions in terms of the fact that give rise to them. You can see that reality-based approach to thinking even in her personal letters published in Letters of Ayn Rand.

Shall We Play a Game?
Where are they now?
[Ref: public optics: ‘retired’’left’ refers to ‘fired/forced’]
FEDERAL BUREAU OF "INVESTIGATION"
James Comey, Director – FIRED
Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director - FIRED
Jim Rybicki, Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor – FIRED
James Baker, General Counsel – FIRED
Bill Priestap, Director of Counterintelligence (Strzok’s boss) – FIRED
Peter Strzok, Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence – FIRED
Lisa Page, Office of General Counsel – FIRED
Mike Kortan, Assistant Director for Public Affairs – FIRED
Josh Campbell, Special Assistant to Comey – FIRED
Michael Steinbach - Head of NAT SEC Div - FIRED
John Glacalone – (Predecessor to Steinbach) – Head of NAT SEC Div - FIRED
James Turgal – Assistant Director - FIRED
Greg Bower – Top Congressional Liaison - FIRED
Trisha Anderson – Principle Deputy General Counsel - FIRED
Randy Coleman - Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Div – REMOVED
Coleman Authored:
(1) Anthony Wiener [sic]
(2) [Unrelated]
(3) Wiener [sic] – texting 15 yo – Sexually Explicit
9/26 – Federal SW – IPhone/IPAD/Laptop
Initial analysis of laptop – thousands emails
Hillary Clinton & Foundation
Crime Against Children
Kevin Clinesmith – track & follow
Tashina Gauhar – track & follow
Sally Moyer – track & follow
Jason V. Herring – track & follow
Nothing being done?
FAKE NEWS?
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I'm not optimistic because of the historical record and the forces driving it.

That is your opinion. Mine is that justice will be served. We will have to wait and see.

If it is released it will be spun and ignored in the usual way. Some will know it; most will not know or care, and little can be done to tell them.

Don’t think Trump is taking all this abuse and not going to tear them a new A...hole. With Barr’s confirmation and RBG pronounced DOA .We will have a lock on the SC. Virtually all of the top officials in the DOJ And FBI have been cleared out. The snowball is rolling. Panic in DC.

Which does not sound like the critical thinking that you and I were taught.

Gates is mostly incoherent, but doesn't seem to have any objection to more progressive taxes. He seems to be mostly concerned with those avoiding higher taxes by moving money around the world to minimize taxes and the fact that the "rich" are paying lower capital gains tax rates, not the ordinary income rate Ock wants a lot higher.

Pure voter fraud. No question about it.

Can you say voter fraud. It is the ONLY way Sinema won. I suspect the voter fraud in Orange county Ca was also rampant.

One can hope...

There is a lot of "critical thinking", but it's academic rationalism with no checking of fundamental premises.

I believe the Democratic Party will be destroyed by the Declassification of the FISA. I expect it wii be released after the Special Councils investigation wraps up. It is not wishful thinking. Many crimes of treason and sedition will be prosecuted. When the cancerous corruption is radiated and eliminated
We may have a chance at bringing reform to the education system.
So much work to do.

That is one of my many complaints about today's system of education: critical thinking is no longer desired by our liberal (socialist?) educators.

And for the creative process before it can be conceptualized. But the conceptualization is necessary for all of it.

Even some NY politicians in NYC are influenced by established financial interests. But acdording to the article, "Ocasio-Cortez could just run, and probably win, in any nearby New York City district the party may try to draw for her. She noted that when it comes to future redistricting, she’s in a unique situation because her name recognition is so strong".

Whatever happens to Ock in two years the significance isn't her loony proposals, it's the way she has been popularly embraced for her 'moral vision' which they're all after one way or another.

Analogies are a critical part of both the dissemination and the learning processes.

She was "open minded" in school, which is how her open mind was filled with garbage when the lid was off. But she isn't "open" to anything now. She is a militant collectivist. Her biggest ignorance is accepting altruism and collectivism as a principle for human life.

Every refutation of ridiculous assertions easily refuted is dismissed as insignificant in comparison with her overall "plan". The Democrats are acting in unison accepting and promoting it as is a moral ideal and vision for the country, repeatedly dismissing "details" as only something to be worked out later.

One common sound bite heard over and over is that it's only a "conversation starter" so don't worry about contradictions that they agree "don't work" -- they'll do it another way. The Republicans go along with it, falling right into the "conversation", and what we get are arguments over which policies to put in place first and in what form on the way to the "ideal".