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The problem with politics in America is the back room. Donation and ads from masked entities are the political ninjas of hidden warlords. Without open and transparent debate out system devolves from a democratic-republic into a Byzantine oligarchy.

Reform requires openness to the point of being painful. Good debate within a healthy democratic-republic is messy and contentious. It is public sausage making; it may not be pretty, but when done in public every can see if the meat has maggots.

If I were to assign an ideology to my view on government, it would be that the primary goal of government must be the sustainable advancement of its people.  Roughly we can call this goal civilization, and the culture it produces as a civil society.

Advancement is measurable and quantifiable.

CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

Plaintiffs challenge Proposition 8 under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Each challenge is independently meritorious, as Proposition 8 both unconstitutionally burdens the exercise of the fundamental right to marry and creates an irrational classification on the basis of sexual orientation.

DUE PROCESS

Counties, political parties, and peoples, become dysfunction when taken over by factions, particularly when those factions demand some form of “purity” or litmus test.  Both fascism in its variety of forms and nationalist forms of Marxist-Leninism exemplify this behavior, and are pretty much the extreme opposite of both social democracy and classical liberal democratic-republics.  The Tea Party is representational of a social and political divide in America, in part the result of an overdose of Reagan era propaganda.

The 2^nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

So, one may ask, if we establish the legal criteria for “well regulated Militia,” would we then establish the criteria for the “not to be infringed” keeping of Arms to be born.

Say, for example, the City of Milwaukee establishes the “Municipal Militia Act.”   

Then we establish:

In the PBS I, Claudius series, Caligula consumes his unborn child so that it may not become greater than him. The truth is most likely that the story was part of a propaganda campaign by opponents to discredit Caligula, though in reading his history, one may not dismiss the story as completely unbelievable.

From the people at 1forall.us.