**************the reason why i am a democratic structuralist***************

As an aside. It is against my personal philosophy to "be" anything. Like Bruce Lee I think that having a style, a form, an ideology will always result with the adherent being locked in an untenable position with only two possible outcomes: (1) Arguing stupidly against what is right; or (2) abandoning the ideology .

******* is that i believe that it is possible to structure situations for successful outcomes.************

Yah, sounds great. What do you do when the opponents (and there are always opponents) don't work to your game plan and are every bit as smart as you? Were does the "structure " help when you are being dragged off course?


**********smart people do it all the time.**************

They try, is I think the better expression. Sometimes they succeed most the time, they do not.

********** it is a matter of effective designs. the founders were brilliant in designing the constitution, but things have changed. . .thus we deteriorate.*********

The only thing that changed Lorenzo, is that people developed agenda issues that they believe supercede the value of the Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees. Mind you the most prominent and frequent agenda item is power.
If you take the whole demand for power out of the equation you can usually get the supporting cast of agenda items done rather easily.

Which is to say Lorenzo, you can feed the hungry without placing a gun at my head - without abrogating the Constitution and imposing forced servitude upon me.


********as i have said before i am a nationalist. . .a passionate nationalist. . .and i want the US to be the best at everything. The best educated, the best health, the best athletes, the best military, the best peacemakers, the riches and the most talented. . .this is not a joke.*********

Well then you may have to make some choices.
You can't do all the things on the "to do" list and still have money and energy left over to run the soccer team.
Education is a fine and admirable thing. Maybe it is all you really need to do - so long as you take the effort and funds to do it well.
But what if the parents of the children you are educating refuse to man up and take responsibility as parents?
What do you do when daddy is just a fairly tale and mommy can't get her head turned away from the TV? No one is minding the children for whom you have built this excellent educational system so the kids are not interested. They have other priorities? And then your wonderful schools are taken over by political hacks as superintendents and principals who don't care about anything but the most superficial sort of crap that translates well into photo ops and resume stuffing?
My wife taught elementary school in such an urban system. When the Hacks too over the whole thing went to hell.


*********we aren't any more. we are slipping badly and it is going to get worse.**********
YEs and no. A lot if it depends on where you focus you eyes.
It's like one of those table top books of beautiful photos of NJ.
Yes there's lots of them and lots of beautiful pictures of beautiful abundant nature in NJ.
So long as you focus closely enough from the right angles.
I'd accuse you of focusing on the negative 'cause there's lots of which to be proud.


**********Things can be designed for success. I agree that we shouldn't pamper people, but we can devise more effective social solutions than what we have presently which is pathetic. Just about everything in the country has fallen badly. And it is getting damned time to do something about it.****************

Words words words.
Pick something dammit~!!
Seriously Lorenzo, pick a thing that you know enough about and you be the solution.
Have the courage of your own convictions.

If you are doing it on your small one man scale you will find others who like that thing, like what you are doing, and will throw in with you.
Eventually some years later you may have a statewide initiative to get that one issue addressed which might infect other states.
Your error (and it is error) is the all or nothing mentality that the House Dems have been infected by.

That's the Problem with the left today. They think that if they can just enslave everybody and fool them with chicken little horror stories of catastrophe so that they can do everything all at once. And the hell of it is that their idea of how to do it involves abrogating the Constitution and imposing upon me forced servitude. This is only because they are intellectually slothful, selfish, and power mad.



**********All the failures in our system pull us down as a whole. The greater the gulf the greater the misery. And we will all pay for it.***************

I think you are focusing too narrowly on too negative a sub set of issues.

Find a thing in all that mess you are waving your huge assed stick at. Find a thing that you are expert at ( or expert enough) and tackle it.
Forget the rest. You are not big enough tp tackle "everything" and it'll only tear your heart out.

*****************the reason why i am a democratic structuralist is**********************


Were not the founders "Democratic Structuralists?

I mean did they not believe in Democracy and did they not hold a firm conviction which they acted upon to frame a structure in the Constitution that was intended to provide all persons the freedom to pursue liberty and happiness on their own steam free from excess government intervention?

What could you possibly offer that is superior to what the Founders did?
Think about the manifold, enormous, and continual assaults on freedom that have run long and hard to dismantle the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. It's been more than 200 years and the Constitution has suffered terrible assaults weathering many of them intact.
Freedoms and Rights we have lost include all manner of privacy rights, the Second Amendment is a sham, Freedom of the press is abused on every hand, Trial by jury is slowly disappearing, freedom of movement is abridged in more ways than you can imagine, Even freedom to peacefully assemble to petition the Congress has been stripped away.

And you want to join that gang of despots and slavers who want nothing more than to pack the Constitution away in a box and bury it for good?

Why Lorenzo, why?