A constitutionally potent, minority of Americans went to the schoolyard and chose a peacock of a bully to preside over us. That group of citizens, who had become disillusioned because of a changing economy and a host of subliminal, socio-historical hangers-on -- which they would be hard-pressed to detect or analyze -- poured their frustration into the selection of this nasty, impudent kid with the destructive mallet, who promised to drive all of the adults out of their minds. Voila, folks; here we are! The mallet is doing its work, with the schoolyard bully personality riding shotgun.

The pity and danger embodied in this historical improbability is that Peck’s Bad Boy possesses an inordinate influence over the world’s politics and economy. He could cause famine or calamity in disparate parts of the globe.

Apart from this terrible tyro’s unfitness to fill such a demanding position, he brings to a revered public office a certain undesirable business and show business deportment. Along with ignoring the Constitution’s prohibition against emoluments, he promotes nepotism in-house and glaringly refuses to disencourage the same in foreign affairs. Additionally, to the detriment of more serious items on his plate, he seems unable to break his hypnotic attraction to the television screen and the Twitter world. This weird, daily activity on the part of the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is the cause of his latest dust-up with two cable TV personalities.

What began with a tweet against the duo -- including a particularly nasty dig at the female – has now resulted in an unbecoming, back and forth, headline war between a cable network channel and the White House. It turns out that the personal relationships and insults could possibly brush against charges that the president’s association with a scandalmongering publication may result in his abuse of authority.

Again, the pity and danger of bringing the playground into the Oval Office is that none of the kids around the bully dare confront him!

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In Gotham Town, a snotty kid
Ne’er ‘gainst the world his contempt hid.
Ergo, ‘twas, one day,
Shy kids came to play:
“Please, do not bully us!” – He did...

Not so long ago it seamed that there was a pretty general divide. One side believed that winning was the only goal and no method was out of bounds to achieve that win..In doing so the abandoned any honor or reason, and made corruption an ideology. The other side, believing in honor and reason, frequently got rolled and beat up,not understanding the power that was available to them. Not always cleanly defined and values slipped from time to time, and of course mixed victories and defeats.

Now there seems a third group not in fantasy world, but in an effort to fight the constant attacks against them have adopted the methods of their attacker, not understanding that like Sauron's Ring those methods cannot be used to achieve good results. The clues of how to achieve good results are all about, but as the saying goes “the clue-train pulled into the station five times a day but they never got on”. So I have tried to put together a list of clues, about how to become a team, a tribe,or an enterprise, without becoming a Cult.

#1 Democracy is a conversation among Humans. Those who demand a megaphone based on power oppose Democracy

#2 The Conversation is among all Humans not the Demographic groups, those who pander to one group only in public circumstances hurt the validity of all the others, and thus their own.

#3 Humans sound like humans pretend humans sound like robots

#4 Real Humans are unique, no two have the same data sets, or the same opinion about everything

#5 Humans recognize each other by those differences. Propaganda like mass produced "art" may look pretty the first time but the repetition destroys that illusion. The same thing seen twice is not repetition, many different things that look the same is.

#6 No thing you can say will not be heard by someone with a lot more knowledge of the subject than you. Your failure to recognize a fraudulent claim will be called out and injure your credibility.

#7 Google makes instant experts in the middle of a conversation but only those with a working baloney detection kit, will not embarrass themselves. However such awareness is not owned by you any more than any other observation that anyone else can see, even if you were the first to notice it.

#8 Data is not opinion dependent on POV to be true. Opinions can be formed based on data but they cannot create it Just because they have an opinion does not prove the falsity of the data.

#9 Humans form tribes based on shared goals and data sets Where the data is contrived they form cults and sound like robots Tribes are usually led by popular acclimation, Cults are run by an elite not to be questioned by their own members.

#10 A tribe wants data from everywhere to add to their shared goal. A cult cannot allow data from non Cult approved sources,lest their illusion be destroyed

#11 A Tribe will call out specific cult propaganda organs that any data should be tested. A Cult will have a list of what they approve, and generically reject those not on the approved list, insisting that all are in collusion against the Cult.

#12 There are no secrets. The Cult may prevent its members from knowing, but everyone else will be laughing at them. A Tribe does not benefit from secrets, and they are not sought,

#13 Where there are positive values tribes will speak honestly. The goals will be popular and therefore nothing to hide. Honesty and rich communication in the open will be the best policy.

#14 Cults are run with two sets of data, one for the elite, one for the sheep, the first self delusional to justify their fraud, the second calculated to elicit behavior among followers. If the goals of the elite were known they would be extremely unpopular, so every aspect of reality needs to be distorted hidden, secret, as clouded and twisted as possible no matter who is looking. Even that they are doing that needs to be denied.

#15 The Tribe's goals will be shared goals. To achieve them all must prosper. Anyone benefiting at the expense of others will be seen as embezzlement, and thrown off or punished. For this reason there is no slush funds, superpacs, elite string pullers or zombie bots. Financial power is always limited, Expenses are concentrated while return on investment is spread among all. For this reason small donations are sought endlessly and hated by fundraiser and members a lot.

#16 The Cult will only exist for the benefit of that elite, those beyond the Cult and even the lesser members will only be robbed and exploited. For this reason slush funds, fronts, subversion and hijacking of legitimate institutions is common. Many costs are spread to others but return on investment will be concentrated,so any Cult will be self funding, and extremely profitable for the elite.

#17 A Cult's propaganda will only be silly or annoying to those not in the Cult. By contrast a single fact or bit of reason can undo massive amounts of propaganda For this reason the Cult will demand its own speech, but consider even physical attack on those who speak otherwise as defense of that speech

#18 For the Cult winning everything is the only thing. The logic does not matter, promises are only good as leverage on others, no principle need survive any change of circumstance, and the opposite position can be arrived in an instant. Honor is just leverage on others, Empathy is weakness, Compromise is losing, even if the outcome of compromise is superior results. See promise.

#19 For Normal Humans Principles are Static, They get nuanced as one ages but rarely changed. Your honor is how you see yourself, and how you have held your principles. Empathy is the measure. Only you can injure your honor, and only by personal sacrifice can you heal it, but the scar will remain. Recognized or not Real Religion is little else.

#20 For Psychopaths, Empathy is unknown, recognized in others as weakness they do not possess and a tool to prove their superiority. Recognizing that such ego is unpopular, most will create an image projected to others that they will call honor, but is totally different than normal honor With no empathy or guilt, normal honor cannot exist, so there is only the image, and that will be protected vigorously, lest they be found out.

#21 Normal people working together form tribes, as social groups or enterprises as combined effort for a common result they can share. Psychopaths are constantly assaulting such efforts for personal gain, with no concern for any damage caused. Like the European Cuckoo, they pretend to be the very best as what they portray themselves, and some fools will be blinded by the pretense.

#22 Cults are formed by psychopaths that become the elites, and the manner which fools are recruited to the lower ranks is called brainwashing. However both fool an brainwashing are far more subtle than the words would suggest. Normal tribes and enterprises are also subverted and hijacked and become Cults many times without the members understanding all that is done in their name.

# 23 If someone or a group is very dramatic about any insult damaging their honor, that is a clue. If someone or a group takes opposite principles depending on the situation that is a clue. If their position is promoted everywhere but they freak out at a single contrary voice, all the while complaining that they are so treated, then that is a clue. If the facts finally get up and put their shoes on only to find that the lie has devastated the countryside and no longer discussed, then that is also a clue.

Hello, Mr. Trumpster,
Your feelings are bare.
They come from the dumpster;
You don’t really care.
 
You’re his’try reveals you;
Your ugly thoughts stain.
They’re not red, white and blue;
They infect your brain.
 
Your poppa was Klan-bait;
Redlines did he draw.
He taught you the word, “Hate”;
It became your law.
 
With this training begun --
A fact you would hide –
You were Satan’s stepson,
Marched on, side by side.
 
You redlined apartments --
Paid court costs instead –
“Let the Niggers pitch tens,”
You seemed to have said.
 
Central Park Five haunts you;
You know you were wrong.
You followed the wrong clue;
You sing the same song.
 
Once, in your casino,
You said with chagrin:
“Get rid of that Negro;
How else can I win?”
 
You lied and you cheated;
You’d take ‘em to court.
Cold cash, overheated,
You had the case bought.
 
You hired without papers;
Grossly underpaid’
Then feigned the old vapors;
And, “Who me?” signs made.
 
Respect for the distaff,
You never possessed.
Your manners were pure chaff,
And quite sex-obsessed.
 
Your predecessor’s birth

You doubted, you say.
Was it his color earth –
Perhaps, new-mown hay?
 
With all of this baggage,
You made your big run,
Ignoring the adage,
“It ain’t all just fun.”
 
You purchased your first crowd
And slid down the stair;
Announced to all, out loud:
“Mex rapists, beware!’
 
You said to the Muslims,
“Enough! Y’all stay home.
“Your presence, the sun dims;
“Go, ‘Rock’ that big ‘Dome’.”
 
A judge, quite the Yankee
You dubbed, “Latin man.”
He forwent the hanky;
You darkened your tan.
 
A Senator heroA Senator hero,
You saw fit to trash.
A draft-dodger zero,
You dared him to bash.
 
All of your opponents
You sought to demean.
Be they ladies or gents,
Your jibes were not clean.
 
When Nazis-Klans night-marched,
The fact fazed you not.
You became a well starched,
Poor, racist robot.
 
Some athletes take one knee,
Not against the flag.
Their protest you don’t see;
You curse them, you nag.
 
The pity, dear Prez, is
You us uplift not.
You see, this ain’t showbiz;
You ain’t smokin’ pot.
 
Those of us here, earthbound,
Are naught but mere folks.
Our origins redound
To all but crass jokes.
 
You put down dark nations –
Outhouse refuse they.
Norwegians, not Haitians,
Best for USA.
 
Pols, shameless, seek cover,
Thinking of the polls.
One day, they’ll discover
They have lost their souls
 
America, right now,
Despite its rough past,
To each one does allow
Redemption, at last.
 
Come, Donald, get aboard,
dragging your foot.
This ride, all can afford:
Freedom, free of soot.
 
Come, jettison your hate.
Let’s all raise the flag;
Let’s make us truly great –
Redemption’s in the bag!

When Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel invited Ivanka Trump to a women’s world conference in Berlin, she was unaware that she was getting a two-fer: 1) Revenge, and exposure on a world stage of a dangerous, social monster; and 2) the possible salvation of a bright and engaging – but otherwise brainwashed – “poor little rich girl.” So conditioned was Ivanka, that when she publicly was excoriated by women at the conference for attempts to sanctify a father whose sins are legion in every nook and cranny of the globe, she could ignorantly and unperturbedly assign blame to, “The Media.”

What does this have to do with women, the N-word and Ms. Kushner? Along with African Americans, women as a class are the next largest group who, for centuries, have been cruelly deprived of their full rights as citizens. This is magnified by its continuance – despite Abigail Adams’ gentile admonition -- before and after both wars supposedly fought to sustain the proposition of human equality. In our society, it has been proven that the tendency to suppress women as a class is stronger than it is for men of African origin.

Frederick Douglass escaped bondage and became a second-class leader in the Abolitionist Movement. He was very supportive when free White women met at Seneca Falls in 1848, to declare their independence. However, when the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was being drafted, he went along with the notion that freed, “men” should receive the franchise to vote, even before it was granted to White -- and freed -- women. (Native Americans were not even in the conversation.) This outraged those who convened at Seneca Falls and the myriad similar gatherings it had spawned. Douglass was apologetic, of course, weaseling out with the supposition that, once freedmen could vote (Hah!) they could then support women’s franchise at the poles. There was a certain logic to that, but even for a person who had been enslaved, male supremacy seems to have dominated his thoughts. Jump ahead 100 years: For all of his vaunted efforts to uplift those who had been depressed by our society over the centuries, Martin Luther King, Jr. was criticized for his failure to promote female leadership.Women had to wait until the beginning of the Flapper Age to be able to vote – and they were still second-class citizens in most other aspects of public and private life.

Needless to say, even with her failings – which pale against those of the current POTUS -- the Hillary tale is awash with intrigue about Black and White male supremacy, and how – even among a wide swath of the female population – this society still harbors a deep and immutable opposition to the equality of women. What more proof do we need than the fact that a Constitutional Amendment stating just that simple fact, to this date, is still stuck in the craw of the American Eagle!

It was no contest: Naïve Ivanka pitted against a consortium of world-wise women, well aware of history as stated above – and even longer and wider on a global scale. Of course, she was first disadvantaged by being given an office in the West Wing. To turn such innocence loose in the Realpolitik world is unconscionable. To expect her to defend her flawed father before such an astute and critical gathering is nothing less than daughter-abuse. It is one thing for a group of voters – “deplorables” or otherwise – to overlook the obvious negative personal qualities and mental disqualification of a candidate, but to expect the world, in silence, to be bamboozled by a be-flowered description of that same person is beyond the pale. His true reputation will precede our president around the world. He may be afforded diplomatic treatment by officials, but he can expect the same treatment from the hoi-polloi as was dished out to his damaged daughter in Germany.

Yeah, “You’ve come a long way, baby,” but you still got a bit of a way to go, mah sweet li’l Niggah gal!

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He sent his daughter to Berlin,
Expecting flowers there within.
The poor girl was trashed;
Her confidence dashed –
One hopes he’ll not do that again.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono said it back in 1972