Pragmatic Secularism - A Golden Mean. Law over Revelation

Isms. Pragmatic Secularism 
A golden mean.

Primacy of law over revelation: process of enactment
One group's revelation cannot bind another.

Western Ethnic Violence Timeline
Aggressive religionism has produced disastrous results.  Aggressive secularism is equally combative. Apply pragmatic secularism to public life, interactions between people and groups; and religion remains the purview of the individual within his or her own life.

Politics: Accountability, Abuse of Conscience, Poll Abuse, Uses, Abuses, Courses of Change-Seeking, Change-Opposing

By Dint:

1. Political Accountability

Candidate Accountability Requirement: Show Up Unassisted for regularly scheduled News Conferences The Palin Plank.

Primacy of Law over Revelation. Religious revelation to some shall not ground laws for the public. Propose pragmatic secularism for interaction areas among humans and groups; religion and dogma fine for the individual's own life, if he or she chooses.


2. Abuse of Conscience

Conscience vs. Constituency. Lieberman's Law. No legislator shall apply values of his or her own conscience in opposition to the desires of constituents absent full opportunity for discourse and vetting of such in his or her home state or district.


3. Politics and Poll abuse. Polling abuse.

Voter Alienation Syndrome: Discounting the Polls Polls only get the landlined, the willing to talk - small portion of total possible voters.

4. Propaganda techniques

Traditional Scapegoat Hunts - Economic Downturns Find the nearest minority, aim and fire.
New Political Parties

Qualities of Wisdom: Global Wisdom Party Global Wisdom Party. The Qualities of their candidate. There is indeed a collection of attributes that many cultures name as comprising a wise leader.

5. Special interests. Abuse by Cash. Money

The Piggle-Wiggle Congress Cure: Let Consequences Happen; Negotiated Agreements Not Always Best
Let the deal speak for itself, the person remain accountable for language, use of persuasion techniques needed where there is merit, because merit alone speaks softly.

Healthcare Legislative Recusal Time. Financial Interest? De-Weight the Vote
Reduce weight of the legislator's vote depending on what money he/she got from the interested parties. Dangers of secrecy.

Explore Election Finance: Humans Only. Qualified to Vote? You Can Contribute
No more corporate contributions, as "legal persons". For accountability, identification, individuals only. They may name the corporation's interest, but funds are out of individuals' pockets. Raise the issue again. Distinguish Citizens United. Keep at it.

6. Disruptions. Force as abuse of process
Political Disruptive Behavior Disorder Tantrums? Apply the DSM-IV conduct disorder diagnoses, usually applicable to children and teens, to adults.

7. Transparency
C Street. When Congressmen Combine to Espouse Secret Religious Allegiances Superseding the Constitution. Keeping real allegiances secret. Do our beloved politicians do that in order to get and stay elected? Do they? What recourse for voters? Ouster? Transparency alert.

8. Abuse by Privilege
Privilege maintainers vs. Risers up
Sotomajority - Escape from the SO Yessir Corral Privilege Maintainers vs. Secondary Others. Long-corralled Majority for Sotomayor leaps the fence. Reject the new PM pledge.

Table-turning
Spigots in Politics: Waterloos. When the Waterloo-er Predictor becomes the Waterloo-ed. Health reform. Obama as new lion of Waterloo. Heart vs. cold.
Can it last?

Justice; Law Enforcement; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice

By Dint:

Promoting decorum in debate
Debatus Interruptus, Khalid's Law. Guantamee's behavior at their trials, if disruptive, shall only be criticized by those who did not condone such behavior by our own Tea and other residents, reference Summer of 2009.

Religious views to be excluded from reasons for proposed legislation

JC (Jesus Christ for those who prefer full names) Tradition of Autonomy for All, Voluntary Compliance. Let Those leave who want to,  Peeps in Pulpit and Pew  Autonomy in personal life over rules, so long as the personal or property rights of individual other residents are not impinged.  Try pragmatic secularism in matters affecting others, the community.

Civil Justice and procedure

Parking Lot Attack Light Property Tax Abatement.
Public area design should not sabotage the ordinary user.  

Jurisprurience and Strip Searches of Girls. 
School days, school daze, fantasize with ghouls days.

No Senate Filibuster Unless Supreme Court Enacts Similar Provision for Its Proceedings
Criminal Justice and procedure

Police Reports: Criteria for Taint.  The Cambridge police arrest of the Harvard professor for in-home lippiness against the police officer.

Oaths. Worth Anything? What Else?

Religious and other oaths; Holocausts, Bad Actors. Oaths are a hoax. Do Oaths alter behavior; or does self-interest, institutional interest, prevail.