From Whence Cometh This Wisdom?

Greatest Function of Democratic Dialog Is Wisdom Shared - Founders Discovered Principles Which Make It So.

Courtesy: Virginia Education Dept.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - This weekend in 2012 sees our nation shoulder-deep in contradiction and conflict over the basic functions of our democracy.

The brute fact is that much of the murderous muddle comes from lack of wisdom rather than the containing status of "a campaign year":

The demands of that strange time illuminating mostly the mildly-insane machinations within the remaining wreckage of a once-major group.

Yet our Founders discovered/invented a system which can, has and will continue to contain and guide whatever storms of sense and sensibility may come and despite the distortions, perversions and impure iimpoverishment of common sense committed by so many, for so long --and for such trivial reasons.

The GOPster-gang is violently violating commonsense cooperation to come up with a viable candidate --forcibly elevated to candidate/stature despite desperate defalcations (not only of campaign dollars !) and deep-dividing faulty-ideation and politicizing patterns more permissible within a withering theocracy.

Let's get right to the basics:

Among their very first actions there are many --spread throughout the entire colonial enterprise-- which authoritative historians and social scientists agree were foundations fitted to produce the needed citizen-characteristics. In large part, now, our successes reflect how closely we have followed their definitive actions --and our failures, likewise, where and how far we have departed.

Did their massive experiment work out as they had hoped ?

Terms involved here are so often misapplied and misused in much modern text as to demand definition of just what is meant for clarity here. We simply recognize that ANY statement or action MAY actually seem precisely as-described by its maker, while seeming wildly divergent --indeed, distorted/perverted-- to many, if not most, others; so here is what we mean when we use these terms in Salem-News: By "change" we refer to any substantial difference in direction, impact, or definition detectable by the common reader. "Distortion" is any difference from common understandings involved, as used in general media work,  as brought about by the action described, detectable by the average reader with college-level IQ, "Perversion" is any difference from the basic foundation-meaning of the fact, process or product here discussed; the alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was originally intended.

Those of us enjoying the many benefits today developed from precisely the work and characteristics of our predecessor citizens sometimes forget the truly  forbidding and formidable task faced by our Founders, led by Alexander Hamilton, to establish our economy and financial system and to form, shape and put into action our markets, at every level and of every kind.

Allowing speculators to profit from their junk-debt acquisitions, facing the furious trade and banking wars with the rest of the world, and establishing the American traditions for free and open trade and fair competition occupied Hamilton and leading Americans then as they do now --and for some of the same contentious policies, too.

But nowhere else in this world has there been such a stunning success from anything similar to "the American way" --which is why for a century we were the dream destination for millions of hard-press migrants from all nations, seeking the opportunities and advances we have come to take for granted.

As we face up to some of the negative developments --and there are many, many very serious and sequentially challenging-- it is clear that most of our current difficulties arise as consequences for departing from the clear paths designated for us by our Founders.

The current legislative session --forced into dealing with many/such by just such departures-- must deal with strong delusions, deliberate distortions, and some very pervasive and perverse past and planned actions, all too many tying directly to a process and program termed ALEC:

Trusted by too many for too long albeit known from scratch to be corporate-conceived, Koch Brothers-funded, and lavishly managed by laid-on corporate behavior at pseudo-democratic dialog pay/outs to put the corporate brand firmly on too many so-called "legislative models".

ALEC has been well and firmly and broadly Exposed nationally, by direct action of authoritative investigators, with its embarrassing parts plainly placed on public view.

For the legislative session now in action, concerned citizens acting mutually to analyze draft-law "with the smell of ALEC" is being detailed in summary of questionable points, with the results delivered to every legislator.

Perhaps proper action on such carefully-produced summary sections can assist this session of our Oregon Legislature to make sure that every new law set on the record here-and-later is truly developed by that old Oregon guiding-direction:

"She flies with her own wings !!"

"We the people" expect no less, with each and every new action by this and following Legislatures driven, shaped, guided, worded, developed, dialoged and decided by our elected representatives alone...with no hidden subsidy, none of that mollycoddle over misused campaign cash, and direct return to what our Founding Fathers so clearly intended, invented and developed for us.

At 21, Henry Clay Ruark was Aroostook Editor for the Bangor, Maine DAILY NEWS, covering the upper 1/4 of the state. In the ‘40s, he was Staff Correspondent, then New England Wires Editor at United Press-Boston; later Editor for the Burlington, Vermont 3-daily group owned by Wm. Loeb, later notorious at Manchester, New Hampshire UNION LEADER for attacks on Democratic Presidential candidates.

Hank returned to Oregon to complete M. Ed. degree at OSU, went on to Indiana University for Ed.D. (abd) and special other course-work; was selected as first Information Director for NAVA in Washington, D.C.; helped write sections of NDEA, first Act to supply math, science, foreign language consultants to state depts. of education; joined Oregon Dept. of Education, where he served as NDEA administrator/Learning Media Consultant for ten years.

He joined Dr. Amo DeBernardis at PCC, helping establish, extend programs, facilities, Oregon/national public relations; moved to Chicago as Editor/Publisher of oldest educational-AV journal, reformed as AV GUIDE Magazine; then established and operated Learning Media Associates as general communications consultant group. Due to wife’s illness, he returned to Oregon in 1981, semi-retired, and has continued writing intermittently ever since, joining S-N in 2004. His Op Eds now total over 650 written since then.

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