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The Centrist Party Platform

Policy Perspectives & Positions

July 4, 1776: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” ––– September 17, 1787: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare…” ––– March 4, 1789: “…to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government…”

The Centrist Party (CP)

Defining Terms

Usage of these terms is based on root meanings, less rhetorical notions.

Centrist means: Evidence/substance based well reasoned policy
Conservative means: Conserve/Preserve, do not waste
Liberal means: given or provided in a generous and openhanded way
Libertarian means: Personal liberties for the good of community
Progressive means: Addressing change factors and needs

The CP is:

Libertarian on individual rights
Conservative on economy, energy, environment
Liberal on health, education and security

That means the CP fully supports our nations security and the health and education of our citizens. On the conservative side, CP supports protecting our home, the United States of America, meaning our economy, our clean energy capacity and our environment. And when it comes to your rights as a citizen, the CP supports protection from government oppression and control of your rights as a citizen.

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Centrist Party Platform Framework

Economy:

Protect capitalism and the ‘American Dream’ by ensuring anti-monopoly structuring enabling fair competition in Americas markets. Protect intellectual property rights. Competition does two things: 1. It drives quality up and 2. It drives prices down. Create full transparency in the marketplace via SEC & regulatory requirements. [More]

Education

A stronger Public Education system is needed to enable access to the American Dream. Studies already demonstrate that the negatives of Charter School implementation far outweigh any positives that are promoted. Current technology/methodology can greatly improve public education as the primary source of American education. [More]

Energy

Driving toward safe sustainable energy is the best way to keep America Strong. Moving away from fossil fuels and moving to fuel cells, small scale nuclear, wind, solar and hydro becoming increasingly adoptable and thus market available. [More]

Environment

Address Global Warming threats. Reduce fossil fuels, increase air, water and soil safety. Direct policy to increase economic safety short and long term. Clean up plastic issues and regulate for the safety and security of America’s health and the prosperity of our citizens. [More]

Healthcare

Equitable health system regulation is required. Unhealthy people means an unhealthy nation. Americas agriculture and food needs to be safe to protect our nation, people, and our economy. The dis-ease care system also needs to address our medical needs in a just and affordable manner. Affordability and quality are key issues. [More]

Political Reform

Separation of powers and influence. The purpose of government is to serve the needs of the nation and the people. Getting the money out of politics is of primary concern. Until we can change the rules, we must work with them to achieve greater honor and integrity of the American System. The CP supports America and Americans, not demagogues. [More]

Security

National security means local and international efforts to increase security. That means America’s government of, for, and by the people needs to be involved around the world, and at home, to ensure we protect “the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. The CP supports our ‘Republican Democracy’. [More]

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Fixing the soil & eliminating the root rot.

The Centrist Party (CP) Platform is designed to aim at the roots of a problem. CP is not about putting bandaids on cancers unless in an emergency situation. Repairing the root causes of a problem will likely net the best and least expensive solution for taxpayers. This in turn will reduce the costs and risks caused by swamp rat cancers.

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Evidence & Reason

CP recognizes it is not possible for everyone to agree on everything. It is important that Centrists don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater though. Regardless of our individual beliefs, we need to support policies that support the rights of individuals, regions, states in accordance with the spirit and intentions of our founders.

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution outlined our ideals and the purpose of government. The CP respects and reflects that spirit. Thus, The Centrist Party Platform is designed to support the protection of the individual rights of people under law, AND justice for those that act against the law and the nation.

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Protecting America Now & in the Future

Importantly/Additionally: The platform considers primarily the safety of the United States of America and its citizens. To do this well we apply systems science (Living Systems Theory) and the socratic method. This includes but is not limited to our platform principle methods:

Short and long term considerations (weighted accordingly)
Impact of changes in policy
The law of unintended consequences
The Precautionary Principle
The Peter Principle
The Dunning/Kruger Effect
The Tragedy of the Commons
Voltaire: ‘The perfect is the enemy of the good’
Living Systems Theory
Facts out of context are not/least/less likely to represent reality

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Objective Analysis

This platform is based on current perspectives and evidence. As needs change and evidence improves adjustments will be made. Changes will always be made based on the strength of evidence and reason inline with the principles of teh Centrist Party. These principles are outlined in line the ‘The Centrist Manifesto’, the mission statement and our platform goals. More issues may be added and/or adjusted as needed based on the needs of the United States and our citizens in accord with the tenets and principles of the Centrist Party.

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The CP position in the ideological perspective expressed in the following two venn diagrams:

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Centrist Party Platform Foundation

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Economics: The Balance of Systems & Methods

Market economy and market regulation based on objective value limiting artificial market capacity. People and American principles and values are what made America great. Our industrious work, performance and productivity got us here.

Our evolving civil rights increased the common good through equality of opportunity based on ability. Checks and balances are needed to ensure that competition and innovation are not squeezed out of the American Dream. We need to protect and allow for potential to be achieved by the virtue of individual will, rather than over reliance on subsidy without performance agreements.

Key Points:

Reduce/eliminate externalized costs
Corporations can not force taxpayers to cover their mistakes
Corporations can not force taxpayers to pay for lack of regulation
Personal accountability for misdeeds is paramount
Distributed responsibility must be reduced/eliminated
Bankruptcy laws must be designed to encourage responsibility.

The Keynesian Problem

The Keynesian economic model in a liberal economic system and has inherent flaws that work against long term economic sustainability. We need a sustainable economic system. If we don’t have one, then we may or will likely destroy the carrying capacity of the system we have. Consider this, having no sustainable economic system means bad days for everyone.

The Work of the Hand & The Mind

Working as a part of society is how we contribute to our own well being and that of our local communities and States. If we want better communities we need to do three things.

Be Educated: Use evidence and reason more than opinion.

Participate: Be invovled in your community as able.

Vote/Support: An informed vote is a smarter vote.

Education and knowledge must be based in reality not opinoins about reality. That is alwayse where we run into our greatest problems. How we view reality is often not realistic, because of bias and opinion. We thus need to focus on objective analsyis of evidenve and how to reasonably interpret that evidence.

Secure – Stable – Sustainable:

Well reasoned economics, free markets through market transparency, with market regulation structured to achieve the common good. Enable equality of opportunity and fair competition, based on performance and productivity. Checks and balances to ensure that competition and innovation are not squeezed out of the American Dream. Protect and allow for potential to be achieved by the virtue of individual will, rather than subsidy without performance agreements, or due consideration to cost/benefit relationships. Balance between boutique economic systems and national/international systems. Efficient government and debt reduction are primary missions.

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We Should Never Stop Learning

Knowledge is growing as we learn more and more about our wolrd and ourselves. Our societies are constandly in flux and our resource and security is tied to our understanding. Or, our lack of understanding.

Performance based systems to motivate the achievement of higher potentials. We need to begin dealing with the multitude of factors that impede our children’s education and transition out of the industrial model of education to foster innovation and critical thinking. Examining what works and what is needed will net greater progress and defined policy direction. We need to adapt our educational methods to catch up with the progress we have made.

Quality Public Education
The TLC/PATH Approach (learn more)
Performance Based Structuring

Skill – Innovation – Performance:

We need to empower our educational system with better tools and methods and structure that by design meets individual learning needs and streamlines performance administration. We need performance based systems to motivate and enable the achievement of higher potentials. We need to address the multitude of factors that impede maximizing potential and transition out of the industrial model of education to foster innovation, critical thinking and problem solving. We need to enable self paced learning through individuated methods that are easier to manage. The TLC/PATH system is designed to achieve this.[/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Energy: Conservative/Progressive” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]

Energy is the Engine of Life

Clean, Safe, Sustainable systems and rapid transitions based on needs and technology to achieve energy independence and a healthier future. Enabling transitions to protect the health of the environment and provide sufficient energy is key to a stable healthy transition. Transitioning the energy economy will increase our productivity.

Sustainable, Clean, Safe Resource Usage
Fusion, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Wind, Solar, Hydro,
New Generation Technology in Nuclear Plants
There is no reason for taxpayers to be paying fossil fuel companies through subsidies, so they can make even more money, while we pay for their products, and they are some of the most profitable companies in the world. That’s just weird.

Clean – Safe – Sustainable:

Economically sound systems and rapid transition strategies based on needs and available technology to achieve energy independence and a healthier future. Enabling transitions to protect the health of the environment and provide sufficient energy is key to a stable healthy transition. Conservative regulation to reduce energy usage will enhance our energy security. A structural transition is already begun, yet we must explore methods to speed this transition to reduce dependency on foreign oil as well as address energy needs and concerns.

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Cleaning House

We keep our house clean because it protects our health and well being. Our environment is an extension of our house. The only difference is it is ALL our responsibility to keep it clean.
Global warming and climate change will be one of the main issues in the current and foreseeable future. It’s impact will affect our economy and security with new challenges affecting our food and water supply as well as global stability issues and resource capacity. The more rapidly we address these challenges the more affordable and feasible will be the solutions.

Sustainable, Clean, Safe Energy & Resource Utilization
Integrate climate policy with capitalism mechanisms

Clean – Safe – Sustainable:

Policy based on realistic assessment of available resources and common sense usage of those resources regarding system capacity and regulation considerate of these ends. Any lack of consideration in this area directly impacts our economy and security. Rapidly addressing needed policy directives will yield more affordable solutions and a healthier future. It is now a well established fact that global warming is occurring and the change in climate forcing is human caused.[/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=” Healthcare: Conservative/Liberal/Progressive/Libertarian” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]

Health & Well Being

Empower the FDA and fight the special interests that may be contributing to the erosion of health in America. Unhealthy food and lifestyles are a major cause of increased cost of healthcare. We need to get back towards where we were in around the 1950’s to achieve this goal.

Basic healthcare coverage for all
A healthcare tax is required
Price equality needs research and policy enhancement
Food that have an externalized cost over and above that of natural foods and can cause disease/disorders require regulation and taxation to cover their costs.
CP will examine food industry practices and food content for costs and propose policy based on validated assessments.

Health – Food – Lifestyle:

Real health-care is promoting and increasing health, not concentrating on disease-care after the fact. Lack of attention regarding systemic influence in our health system may have caused us to focus in areas that are not to our advantage. Such influences need to be considered in order to address areas that may be eroding the health of America. We need to empower the FDA to perform this mission and remove or reduce impediments that are counter to this mission. Health should be our primary concern. here in that health will reduce the cost of healthcare. Unhealthy food and lifestyles are a major cause of increased healthcare costs and the antidote is health. Being healthy reduces healthcare costs.

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Get the Money Out of Politics

Get the special interests out of the electoral and legislative process. We need to work hard to reduce big money influence in politics. It will take leadership and courage to fix our electoral process. The people will need to lead on this issue until sufficient political will and centrist leaders can gain enough influence to bring about needed reform.

Support Federal Republican Democracy
Support for independent council filters
Ensure protections from demagoguery and tyranny of the masses
Electoral College reform w/Hamilton Amendment or revised amendment
Get Big Money and Dark Money out of politics.

Integrity – Honor – Humility:

We must reduce special interest influence over politicians due to the inherent conflict of interest between corporate interests and the common good which have infiltrated the electoral and legislative process. We need leadership that is strong enough to stand and fight for what needs to be done, and oppose populist influenced corporate and media driven messaging. We need to address the fundamental basis of the erosion of the system, including supreme court decisions that may be at odds with reason and common sense regarding the integrity and security of our nation.

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Stability Equals Security

The world is more dangerous for many reasons, partly because we are not paying attention to the global system, cultural psychology and system dynamics. Mistakes due to ‘too’ narrow a view can agitate already challenging situations. Leadership, nationally and globally, requires paying attention and working with partners around the world so we can protect freedom and democracy and the republic for which it stands. We need to respect what it means to be American with healthy governance as intended by the founders of this great nation with the spirit and intentions that inspired our independence and the American spirit.

Key Points:

Isolate IC networks.
International Trade Balance in accord with security needs.
Build checks and balances to ensure allies can trust us again.
Stepwise unilateral push for global removal of strategic nuclear weapons
State Department needs to reinvigorate support for democracy
Use levers of government to support republican democracy globally
We are one nation but the planet is one world, we need to find ways to enhance global stability be it by negotiation, sanction, trade and mutual goals or force, we must learn to work better together.
CP supports influence campaigns/methods to ensure our security, by ensuring security elsewhere. There are multiple paths here: economic, trade, sanction and negotiation. But our goal is to find the safest path for America, for our allies, and for those that may become our allies.
CP supports a strong military and supporting those who serve and those who have served. We recognize the challenges and must work with the debt that has been handed us by previous administrations, but we need to work it out so things are better for our vets.

Honor – Integrity – Strength:

To be a beacon of freedom and democracy we must practice and enforce the protection of these ideals at home and abroad. We need to enhance state department communications capacity and continue relationship building worldwide; recognize actions have short and long term consequences; support and empower the military rather than outsource. Our military is a force for peace and stability. Any other view is a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of our military force. Our military is a sword, often sheathed, yet at the ready. Our brave men and women who serve to this end need our support.

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Key Parameters of the Basis of the Centrist Party Platform:

1. Evidence
2. Reason
3. Logic

Last but not least, all of the above must be weighed with the values and principles of what ‘The Founding Fathers’ and ‘We The People’ can most easily agree are the the values and principles we all should strive for to make and keep America a great country. This includes Jeffersonian ideals: Self-sufficiency, self-government and individual responsibility as well as the assertion of equality. Liberty under the umbrella of a Republic while rejecting aristocracy. Thus forming a balance between individual liberty and the rules of law and justice within the ‘United States’.

All of these are important:

1. Honor
2. Duty
3. Morality
4. Ethics
5. Fairness
6. Justice
7. Pragmatism

NOTE:

The following platform planks are subject to improvement based on the above parameters. Our goal is to weigh the Socratic method with the above principles. That is the basis for the Centrist Platform as it stands and as it develops. Fiscal and social responsibility are primary concerns combined with national security.

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CP Platform Policy Issues/Position Planks

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Article 2, Section 4

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

When a president, or elected officials of the Nation and States foment, support, encourage insurrection against the United States and its Constitution, or any State of the Union: The CP supports removing seditious and treasonous politicians from office.

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“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

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‘High Crimes & Misdemeanors’ is a legal term established in British Law that our founding fathers adopted because its precedent is ‘breach of public trust’. The indicated intention was to have a term that was ambiguous in order to ensure that it can be applied to a politician, even when there was no clear or actual crime. Its use in British Law and the adoption of the Founders into the U.S. Constitution clearly supports the idea our Founders wanted to make sure we can remove politicians that are disingenuous and show demonstrable bad intent toward the Constitutional protections of the nation and of the People.

In other words, and CP supports:
- Removal from office for breaches of the public trust that are demonstrable in evidence, intent & purpose.

1st Amendment: Conservative/Progressive

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

When a president sends unidentified police forces to randomly arrest individuals and attack and arrest members of the press we need to remind ourselves. The CP supports the 1st Amendment:

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

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In other words, and CP supports:
- Citizens rights to free and peacefully petition the Government
- Freedom of the Press
- No Law respecting the establishment of religion
Think about it. DO YOU want someone to tell you which church you ‘must’ go to, or what to believe? Or even if you have to go to church or not? What if you’re a Protestant and the government determines the only valid Christian church is Catholic, or ANY other religion. Is that what you want?

Now think about what the 1st Amendment is NOT. It is not a free license to foment violence. Nor is it a free license to say anything you want to anyone. It is not a free license to lie, cheat, mislead, or commit fraud. It definitely IS NOT a right to attack the capital of the United States. It’s not even a free license to walk into a retail store and throw a bunch of medical masks on the floor just because you don’t understand epidemiology and the risks of deadly or dangerous aerosolized pathogens. Generally speaking it is not a free license to say or do anything you want just because you want to.

Now, think about it again. The 1st Amendment is a guideline to enable you to peacefully address concerns and not be prevented from doing so by your State or the Federal government. It is also designed to help ensure the Republic by enabling and protecting freedom of the press. That’s a good thing.

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The 2nd Amendment: Conservative/Progressive

WARNING: CONTROVERSIAL

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

In accordance with the Constitution of the United States, all states should empower an official State Militia licensing system in order to ensure legal and safe gun ownership in their respective States. The Constitution does not support unregulated non-State sanctioned militias.

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“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.”

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“A well regulated Militia”
“security of a free State”
“right of the people to keep and bear Arms”

Let’s add this up. In order to secure the freedom of the States, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, and each State shall have a “well regulated Militia” “necessary to the security of a free State”.

The 2nd Amendment…

…was clearly designed by the founders with the aim to form a ‘balance of power’ between the States and the Federal Republic. This was to protect the States from federal republican dominance and authoritarian rule. It was clearly NOT intended to empower ‘individuals’, or ‘private groups’, to rebel against the Federal government, nor was it designed to support group or private ownership of “Arms”.

Simply put: State regulated militias would be much safer than armed random citizens that might be having a bad day; or private militias that rely on lack of regulation to operate in secret or underground, and act as if they are above the law.

It is important to understand that the focus of the 2nd Amendment is to protect the States from Federal overreach. Private militias are not State approved or regulated and thus are not entitled to the protection of the 2nd Amendment.

To reiterate:

The 2nd Amendment is NOT an empowerment for individuals or private groups to attack the Federal Republican government or State governments; that is the job of the States. Citizen protests against the federal government are what the 1st Amendment is for.

The 1st Amendment protects the rights of the press and citizens: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” That is a right to ‘peacefully’ protest, to and about the government without the Federal government silencing you.

The 2nd Amendment is designed to support a ‘balance of power’ between the states and the national government to prevent takeover or infringement of States by the Federal Republic. Basic civics: We the people live in States, and the States have a contract with the United States of America. It’s called the Constitution. American citizens need to respect and abide that contract.

Making it work for all Americans

CP embraces the 2nd Amendment in FULL, as it is written and clearly intended by the founders and as read in order to protect the people from unnecessary violence:
Federal shall support the States’ right to enable and regulate a State Militia
States must utilize military grade code regulation for weapon ownership
In accordance with the 2nd Amendment: No Private Militias will be allowed
All State Militia members must undergo background checks
All State Militia members must report for regular training
All State Militia members are subject to the law of the land
It shall be illegal for any private militia, group or individual to invade or threaten State government
All States should examine the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for regulatory guidance
States shall have the right to set age requirements in accord with regional context
The sale, purchase, distribution, ownership or possession of functional automatic weapons, or weapons that can easily be made functional, is prohibited with the exception of active duty police officers
The sale, purchase, possession, or distribution of conversion kits that enable automatic function shall be illegal
It shall be illegal to impersonate state licensed Militia members
Individuals must be a member of the State Militia to purchase or own firearms

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This platform plank outlines the general foundation and reasoning for a common sense solution that adheres to the Constitution and enables States to properly regulate the ownership of “Arms”. Since there is no perfect solution this plank is subject to being updated if The Centrist Party finds a better way to ensure citizen safety and States rights in relation to Federal rights.

14th Amendment: Section 3.

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

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In other words, and CP supports:
- Citizens rights to free and peacefully petition the Government
- Freedom of the Press
- No Law respecting the establishment of religion
Think about it. DO YOU want someone to tell you which church you ‘must’ go to, or what to believe? Or even if you have to go to church or not? What if you’re a Protestant and the government determines the only valid Christian church is Catholic, or ANY other religion. Is that what you want?

Now think about what the 1st Amendment is NOT. It is not a free license to foment violence. Nor is it a free license to say anything you want to anyone. It is not a free license to lie, cheat, mislead, or commit fraud. It definitely IS NOT a right to attack the capital of the United States. It’s not even a free license to walk into a retail store and throw a bunch of medical masks on the floor just because you don’t understand epidemiology and the risks of deadly or dangerous aerosolized pathogens. Generally speaking it is not a free license to say or do anything you want just because you want to.

Now, think about it again. The 1st Amendment is a guideline to enable you to peacefully address concerns and not be prevented from doing so by your State or the Federal government. It is also designed to help ensure the Republic by enabling and protecting freedom of the press. That’s a good thing.

25th Amendment: Section 1.

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

The Constitution of the United States says the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged. Abridged means shortened. In the context of English this means to not be cut off short. That means the government needs to make it easier and safer to vote. It does not mean make it harder.

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“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–”

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In light of the fact that American voters very rarely commit any form of intentional voter fraud, one has to wonder about the logic of making it harder to vote.. Point of fact voter fraud in relation to the voting population is only a tiny fraction of the voting public. You can safely say it is infinitesimally small.

A conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation examined Fraud in recent elections in America. They found 1,340 Proven instances of voter fraud. For that their were 1,152 criminal convictions.

There were 158 million votes in the 2020 election. That means that the voter fraud was 0.00085%

There was no significant voter fraud. 1 person out ov every 117,910 is not ‘massive’ it’s a relatively tiny amount.

AP: Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds
PNAS: No evidence for systematic voter fraud
Brennen Center For Justice: Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth
Heritage Foundation: Recent Election Fraud Cases from Across the United States

Abortion: Pro Life & Pro Choice Rights

Pro-Respect, Life, Liberty

WARNING: CONTROVERSIAL

Libertarian/Progressive

Note: This plank is still in development as arguments are examined. We have published it early due as this issue has been highlighted by the SCOTUS decision. We present arguments regarding the CP’s perspective to give readers a good sense on the Centrist Party position on this important issue.

For too long, the Democrats and Republicans have tried to force us to be either pro-life or pro-choice and vote as a single issue voter. But many Americans are both pro-life and pro-choice. As a member of the Centrist Party, you do not have to choose, you have the freedom to be both pro-life and pro-choice.

Let’s look at this more closely:

Considerations for thought:

While many consider the issue black and white there are so very many issues to consider.

The right of a woman to control her body and her destiny.
The right of an unborn baby that has reached viability.
1. Viability requires greater understanding. Minimum viability dramatically increases the odds of severe handicaps and medical issues.
2. It is far to easy for anti-abortion advocates to say all babies must be saved. But a pro-life stance must also include wisdom and discernment of the risks invovled.
3. Thus, viability needs to be considered in theses contexts and the medical research on the subject can give us guidence as to safe and healthy viability.
Rape and incest.
1. In such cases the individual needs greater power and leeway in decision processing.
2. The favor must go to victim of such crimes.
Family realities and capabilities to manage existence.
1. Just as a thought exercise: consider a poor woman in Africa that has to make a choice about which children to feed and whom to ignore in order for the others to survive. While this is an extreme example, these are still important considerations in the matrix of individual, and/or family decisions.
Accidental/unexpected/unintended pregnancy (consider consequences and capability to manage)

No person, and no court of law, should control a woman’s, or a mans body; or the decisions an individual makes regarding their life choices. If you are personally anti-abortion, don’t get an abortion. It’s your choice. If you are not pregnant, then it’s not an issue for you personally. Respect others as you would have them respect your choices in life. Now, if you like having your government make choices for you, you can always write your elected officials and ask them to tell you what to do everyday.

Think about this: Men, would you like it if the Supreme Court said all men had to have a vasectomy? Or, no one can have a vasectomy. It’s okay to be pro-life, but no person or law should remove control of such personal choices as vasectomies, pregnancy, or other choices relating to any citizens personal rights. These are life changing decisions and should be kept at the individual level.

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Anyone that is paying attention can see THE GOP IS NOT PRO-LIFE. The GOP does not support healthcare, education, or citizen rights against government oppression; and has thwarted our constitutionally protected right to vote at every opportunity. The GOP is on record consistently voting against laws designed to protect and enhance life after a baby is born. Make no mistake, the GOP’s efforts are not about protecting children, it is about the GOP’s ‘Big Government agenda to control the liberty of more than 50% of the American people. The Centrist Party supports a womans choice and independence to make the best decisions for themselves and their families.

Note: It is hypocrisy to call oneself ‘pro-life’ and not support pro-life efforts in the care and welfare of all human beings. Voting to remove equality in care of children, education, and the welfare of our citizens is NOT PRO-LIFE. The GOP is on record for not caring about life once a child is born.

Pro-life by definition means the right to life is for all people:

Not everything is affordable because the corporations take most of the profits while not paying their fair share of taxes (while simultaneously dumping the debt and burden on those that are not wealthy). That said, pro-life means pushing for policy that makes life better for people that are in fact alive.

Protecting the lives health and well being of adults and children.
Protecting the rights of humans to control one’s own destiny.
Providing equal access to educational opportunities and careers for all Americans.
Caring for the elderly.
Loving thy Being pro-love thy neighbor.
Ensuring equal rights and justice for all.
Ensuring affordable, quality healthcare.
Protecting children from being gunned down in their classrooms.
Ensuring the long-term viability of government benefit programs.
Ensuring all humans have a sustainable planet.
- Being pro-love thy neighbor is pro-life
- Being pro-equal application of rights is pro-life
- Being pro-civil rights is pro-life
- Being pro-equality in law and justice is pro-life
- Being pro-human rights is pro-life
- Being fair and just is pro-life
- Being pro-considerate of others is pro-life

And it shouldn’t have to be said but being pro-life means respecting a women’s right to manage her life just as much as each every American citizen has the right to mange and guide their own life toward a better, more caring and considerate life for ourselves in the communities in which we live.

Another thing to consider:

An unborn child is not a citizen yet. A developing fetus is not registered with a social security number and is not declared and registered as a citizen of the America until birth.

That said the unborn also need rights, throughout gestation and birth. And those rights need to grow with the fetal development and even human development after birth. As fetal viability becomes stronger the babies rights increase as well.

Pro-life means no late term abortions unless the mother is in danger
- This relates to the balance between legal status arguements of the unborn child, the rights of the mother, and the health of the child. CP considers the medical perspective as well.
Pro-life means rape and incest are important considerations
- This argument leans more to the rights of the mother and the heinous nature of the crimes of rape and incest. Strong rights must be ensured for the mother in these cases.

As is the norm in such considerations as abortion, a medical team needs to consult with the mother in relation to her circumstance. The Supreme Court should keep their personal perspectives out of a woman’s right to determine her own fate.

This country was founded on independence and individual liberty. The ability to make family planning decisions should not be subject to government control. If you are personally anti-abortion, do not get an abortion. If you are not pregnant, then it’s not an issue for you personally. Most Americans would not appreciate someone coming into their home and telling them how to live their lives. Members of the Centrist Party are not okay with the government coming into our homes, putting its feet up on ours coffee table and telling us how to plan our families, live our lives. Our members know that allowing the government to have a say in our family planning is just the slippery slope leading it to have a say in every party of our lives. And that is not freedom.

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Lets look at this more closely:

Every human being has the natural right to bodily autonomy. Bodily autonomy is the absolute essence of freedom. No one should even touch another person without their consent. No person , and no court of law , should control a human being’s body.

The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is enshrined in our Constitution, yet the United States Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade, has robbed women of their right to make decisions about whether to have a child, a decision that is life altering.

The GOP has used inflammatory rhetoric since the mid-1970s. Terms like partial birth abortion or late term abortion and baby killer or murderer are designed to provoke an emotional response and divide the electorate.

The Centrist Party applies evidence and logic to the abortion debate. It is important to look at the facts.

Fact #1: Sex education in the United States has been under attack for decades. Children and teenagers do not know how their bodies work. They are not being taught about menstruation, sexual intercourse, sexual diseases, pregnancy, and birth control in an appropraitely meaningful manner.

It is safe to say the majority of men do not know how a woman’s menstruation cycle works or how a pregnancy develops from conception to birth. To protect the rights of mothers, wives, girlfriends, daughters, granddaughters and even fathers and sons, it is imperative to take the time to educate onesself on the facts.

[[[ (Education link here) ]]]

Fact #2: Pregnancy is broken down into three trimesters consisting of twelve weeks each. When calculating how far along a pregnancy is, obstetricians calculate from the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period and not the date of conception. The date of conception can often be difficult to calculate but typically occurs a week and a half to two weeks into a woman’s menstrual cycle. A baby born at 38 weeks is considered a full-term pregnancy. This is generally 36 weeks from the date of conception, approximately nine months.

Experience throughout neonatal intensive care units across the nation has shown that the survival rate for babies born at 22 weeks of gestation and under have little chance of survival. They simply cannot survive outside of the mother’s womb. There is nothing that can be done for them medically that will allow them to survive. They have no chance at life. They are not viable. Viability was the current standard in the United States until Roe was overturned. Under Roe, a woman had a constitutional right to end her pregnancy any time before a baby became viable.

Babies born before 22 weeks have little chance of survival. If these miracle babies happen to survive, they often have lifelong disabilities and impairments.

Understanding why women seek abortions in the US

64% of respondents have multiple reasons:
40% answered financial reasons
36% answered timing
31% answered partner related reasons
29% answered need to focus on other children

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729671/

Data indicate that in 2016, 100% of abortions performed in the United States occurred before viability; the abortions occurred before a baby can live outside of its mother’s womb and actually survive.

Fact #3: A medication abortion is safe and effective up to 11 weeks. A medication abortion is induced by taking two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. Based upon the above 2016 statistics, 80% of abortions could be induced by these medications. A medication abortion can be performed in the privacy of a woman’s home. An abortion after 11 weeks needs to performed in a clinical setting.

Fact #4: Partial birth abortions or late term abortions are not medical terms, they are political terms. These terms were created by the National Right to Life in 1995 (https://www.npr.org/2006/02/21/5168163/partial-birth-abortion-separating-fact-from-spin) to describe the actual medical procedure dilation and evacuation or D&E, which is commonly used for abortions occurring in the second-trimester. In 2007, the US Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on D&E abortions Gonzales v. Carhart. Many states have enacted similar bans. States may allow an exception to the D&E abortion ban for the health of the mother. You can read more information about D&E abortions here.

Fact #5: In 2014, 59% of women who had abortions had at least one previous birth. 59% of women who had abortions were already mothers. Forcing a women to carry an unwanted pregnancy could force a mother to choose between her living child and an unborn one.

Fact #6: Many states outlaw abortion for any reason including for the health of the mother, incest and rape. Politicians who advocate for these positions do not care about women and girls. There are many women for whom pregnancy is dangerous and potentially life-threatening. A pregnancy could end the mother’s life, make her spouse a widow, and her children orphans. How is forcing a women who has been raped to have the baby of her rapist not cruel and unusual punishment? How is forcing a child raped by her uncle not enabling pedophiles to rape children? The no-exceptions laws have real consequences that affect real people, people that we care about.

Fact #7: An unborn child is not a citizen. A developing fetus does not have an official name or a social security number. A child is not registered as an American citizen until birth. Keep in mind this fact is a legal status issue. Our goal is to bring focus to the moral and imoral implications regarding the complex of factors a girl or woman is subject to regading her right to choice in determining the course of her life.

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Think about this, if your social security is not protected, you will not have a good end to your life. Therefore GOP policies designed to give away more money to corporations and remove social security are not pro-life, they are anti-life. More specifically they are against ‘your’ life quality. In other words if you’re not crazy rich, the GOP is not going to help you have a better life as you approach your death. They are pushing policies that are reducing the wealth of most American citizens, by putting more money into the pockets of oligarchs and corporations.

Said another way they are trying to make America into an authoritarian State that more resembles Russia. As the GOP bankrupts America, and yes even the democrats have ideas that contribute to this end, they are taking money away from America and its citizens. And yes, they are weakening America by doing so.

Remember this: the GOP is NOT conservative. They are extreme liberals. They rely on passionate appeal to emotion arguments rather than reason a logic. And lately the GOP has fully embraced lying to their gullible followers in order to maintain power. It is a fact that the Democrats are less liberal than the GOP. The GOP wants all the money going to their corporations and they are using passionate arguments regarding abortion, gun rights and authoritarian power to demolish the fairness doctrines America was founded on and continued to develop over our history.

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The GOP: Most extreme liberal giving all the money and power to themselves and the corporations they serve.
The Democrats: Are liberal but less liberal than the GOP. They also have liberal views on healthcare and education. But in some cases those liberal views are too liberal and they may also be unaffordable. That said, they are not as liberal as the Republicans.

The worlds richest country should be able to take care of its people. The Centrist Party is formulated as a more conservative than the GOP and the Democrats. We need to resctructure policies in order to support life and the welfare of American citizens.

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The CP is:

Libertarian on individual rights
Conservative on economy, energy, environment
Liberal on health, education and security

That means the CP fully supports our nations security and the health and education of our citizens. On the conservative side, CP supports protection our home, the United States of America, meaning our economy, our clean energy capacity and our environment. And when it comes to your rights as a citizen, the CP supports protection from government oppression.

To do otherwise would be to not support American citizens.The GOP does support suppression of 1st amendment rights and is against free speech in its constitutionally supported form. THE GOP does not support American citizens health and well being therefore they are not pro-life. The GOP does support their own power and corporatism to the extent they are bought and paid for by corporations lobbyists and special interests. And, to the extent they are able to deceive their more gullible followers. The GOP is most certainly THE SWAMP.

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Being ‘Pro-Life’ means protecting life as best we can at all stages and aspects of living. That includes healthcare, education, disaster assistance.

In recent decades the GOP has been mostly anti-life. They do not support education and healthcare. This in turn leads to more people living in poverty and higher healthcare costs.

Coincidentally this can lead to less independence which has been shown to lead to more unwanted pregnancies. Thus it certainly can be argued the GOP is causing, at least in part, the very problem they are complaining about.

it’s okay to protect women’s rights and still be pro-life. What? How does that work? It’s simple If you are pro-life you have a right not to have an abortion. You also have a right to talk to your friends if you know someone considering an abortion. But you don’t have the right to tell others how to live their lives. If we care at all about individual liberty, this is the area we need to care about.

It’s not my business and it is not your business if someone on the other side of the country wants to have an abortion. It is in fact their own business. It is not up to others to decides another persons fate. It is up to those directly involved, their friends and families, or even communities. It is not our right to dictate the choices of others. So, yes, you can be pro-life AND you can respect women’s rights. That is allowed. For that reason CP supports the tenet and tenor of Roe v. Wade.

A Centrist can be pro-life and promote that position. But it is not civil or appropriate to assume such a god like judgement as to control the life or choice of another person. To each of us the right to determine our own fate within the scope of our lives.

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Research Perspectives

Anti-Corruption:

The Centrist Party is anti-corruption. There is a difference between saying we are against corruption and actually being against corruption. Our goal is to not only be against illegal means of corruption but to root out legalized corruption that has infiltrated our legislation. All policy must be directed to the purpose of the U.S. Constitution, that is to protect the United States and the American People.

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Corruption has infiltrated our governance at the legislative level. Undue influence from special interests and politicians beholden to those interests have allowed corruption to be legalized. This is unacceptable.

A corrupt system of governance results in a weaker nation. A less great nation. Separation of business and government is required. It is not governments job to protect the businesses with the most money; especially when money is made by buying politicians through influence campaigns. The CP will work toward reducing these corrupt influences so that business can get back to capitalism and government can get back to governing the interests of the people and the nation.

Where corruption has infiltrated the rules of governance in opposition to the needs of the nation and the people it is up to all of us to oppose said corruption. There are many cases that demonstrate how such corruption can erode or degrade the short and long term interests of the people and the nation. Anti-trust violation on scale weakens the capital system to favor a ‘corporate’ system.

The Centrist Party is Pro-Captalism. We are NOT anti-corporation. However, the Party is Anti-Corruption in order to reduce undue corporate influence, and strenghten the American Dream.

There is nothing in the Constitution about protecting corporations; and corporations are NOT people. That is an example of a corruption that has been allowed to become law. The Centrist Party will work to undue corruption that interferes with the purpose and intent of the Constitutional responsibility of our government to protect the nation and the people.

When corporate influence campaigns are against the needs of the nation and the people considered together, then governance needs to support the Constitutional obligation of protecting the needs of the people and the nation. In such instances the Constitutional interest must supersede that of the corporate interest.

There are also times when government needs to support corporate interest if such interest positively effects the Constitutional obligation in the short and/or long run. As always, applying the Socratic method carefully and deliberately in consideration of evidence and potential outcomes shall remain the guiding principle of the Centrist Party.

Anti-Fascist:

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

The Centrist Party is anti-fascist. That means: just like we have stood against authoritarian governments and dictators the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Franco and Mussolini in the past, so must we stand against such authoritarianism now.

fas·cism | ˈfaSHˌiz(ə)m | (also Fascism)
noun
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
• derogatory extremely authoritarian, intolerant, or oppressive ideas or behavior: an outright ban is just fascism.

The GOP is systematically attacking the rule of law and our justice system. This is Anti-American. Simultaneously they are attacking our justice and intelligence systems, our electoral systems, and they are attacking the foundational principles of fairness, equality and even capitalism. We can’t pretend it isn’t happening. The signs are clear and present and most certainly a danger to the United States of America and all it has traditionally stood for.

To be clear: The GOP’s goal is NOT to make America great, but rather to destroy the very foundations of our American Federal Republican Democracy. This is in order to replace Traditional America with a Fascist Authoritarian Oligarchy, run by swamp rats.

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Authoritarianism historically ends badly for countries and people. What is important to consider is why people choose to vote for authoritarian leaders and governments. Typically it’s because authoritarian leaders use populist appeals to emotions and always blame others for problems so they can rile up the crowds to vote for them or take action on their behalf.

Ironically, the result of putting such leaders in place is a less stable government that is typically very repressive in nature.

A story, post WWII:

After the war, a German girl asked her grandfather why he supported Hitler. He said because he gave us jobs.

Well that was coming out of the Weimar and the struggles Germany had after the sanctions imposed post WWI. The restrictions were so limiting that they could not rebuild their economy. Part of Hitlers plan was to ignore the restrictions and start building a war machine. Yes, that did provide jobs. But that’s only part of the story. Hitler used damning derogatory speech about immigrants and Jews and basically anyone that was not part of the master race as he saw it.Sound familiar? This is typical of demagogues like Kim Jong Un, Erdogan, Lukashenko, Trump and other authoritarians. By riling up the masses, you can get them on your side. But in truth, Hitler, like all the others mostly cared about his own personal agenda.

Truth be told, he not only helped people get jobs he helped rebuild the German economy. But then came the repression…, the violence…, then came the killing. Probably one of the most profoundly descriptive writings about how it went down ended with “Then they came for me”.

Martin Niemöller

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

The key point here is that whether it is the indifference that allows people to cook like a frog in the pot until their rights are also taken away, or those that hope for a better future because they have an authoritarian leader, history repeats itself again and again and the end result is less freedoms, less rights, less advancement, less progress and more violence and disorder.

Anti-Legalized Corruption: Conservative

Corporations have for years influenced legislation by lobbying politicians to favor their profits over fairness to capital markets. This has resulted in a lack of fairness in society and even adds risk to the ability to accordingly govern. In other words, corporate goals have by design bypassed fair trade and and the practice of capitalism to give corporations unfair advantage. This means they have more price control and monopoly potential than is healthy for our markets. Of course that is a tax on America. Without a healthy competitive market everyone pays more. The CP supports unwinding structural corruption of our capital markets to enable and strengthen the American Dream.

There should be no question about this. The future of the United States depends on how far we can distance our country, our economy, and our justice system from corruptive influence: past, present and future.

Our modern version of corruption seems laregely tied to the influence of corporations on our supreme court and decisiosn related to corporate and the influence of oligarchs in our laws. The chain of cases surrouding and consequent of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad are key to understanding how bad it has become.

Therefore the Centrist Party’s goal is to seek out how those corruptive influences have diminished the ability of our economy to operate in a fair, just, and equitable manner. To seek and destroy legislation that is, and has been, pushed into law to enable corruption that degrades society and the national interest. Especially when it favors corporate profits over human rights, equity in life and where it has damaged transparency in our markets.

In other words, making America great means eliminating corruption as much as possible in order to ensure and restore our traditional place as a shining beacon in the world. The idea of America as the shining city on the hill has been tarnished by corruption and corporations and oligarchs continue to attempt to replace America with a facade image so they can pretend we are still that shining city while they replace America with oligarchy, corporatism and authoritarianism.

Excessive corporatism has altered the balance of law in its own favor which is arguably against the needs of the people and the nation. This is manifest in a corporations ability to evade responsibility by externalizing its costs to the people by using the government as a shield to protect it from its own irresponsibility. That is the swamp that we need to get rid of.

CP supports unwinding corruptive laws that help corporations, businesses, executives and owners of business to evade responsibility for actions they ‘approved’ in the course of business.
Responsibility for our actions is a core principle that we must support.

Example: At it stands, the corporate veil allows officers of corporations to evade responsibility when their profits are held as more important than the well being of the people and the nation. Thus: business, society and government must work together in a more balanced fashion to ensure profits are not extracted at the expense of the people and the nation.

A fair business is one that takes responsibility for its mistakes. Unfortunately special interest lobbying has made unfair business the rule of the day, especially when it comes to larger corporations.

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Anti-Racism:

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

The Centrist Party is absolutely against racisim. Systemic racism needs to be weeded out of our legislative system and our American society. If you don’t think systemic racism exists, then you need to learn more about what systemic racism is. If there is one thing we all need to agree on, it is that no matter our creed, color, or status an American is an American by citizenship.

At all levels of development and place in society:

Equal access to opportunity
Equal access to education
Equal access to healthcare
Equal protections of law
Equal application of justice

Note: This plank is under development still regarding details and historical context However, the mainstay is clear equal treatment in society, in education, under the law and regarding justice is the goal.

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It is a sad testament to the maturity of the human race that racism is still a problem, especially in America. Each citizen should enjoy equal access to opportunity in relation to ones abilities. Equal treatment in law and justice. Equal support in education. Equal rights in the enjoyment of capital opportunity without prejudice. Such access includes but is not limited to education, employment, opportunity in the market place, and in the application of law and justice. We are all different people, but none of us should be limited to enjoyment of that opportunity due to race.

Thus, for all citizens the Centrist Party supports equality in application of citizens rights.

Abraham Lincoln fought to free the slaves and uphold the ‘United States’ of America by preventing secession.

But since then we have let slip the purpose and outcome of the American Civil War. It was the influence of racists that created a modern version of slavery through indenturement in the 14th Amendment.

This led to more blacks ending up in jail than whites, and often on trumped up charges of circumstance including developmental repression and blocking advancement, that created an environment that supported crime over and above equal opportunity for all.

It was after the civil war that the KKK reared its ugly hooded head. It was after the civil war that both opportunity and repression was increased to push down entire segments of the American population.

If you extend the logic of saying birthright citizenship is flat out wrong all the way to the original habitants of America, then ONLY Native Americans should be allowed to call themselves citizens. In other words, we have a civil right that we like. We are Americans one and all. Regardless of creed, color or caste. If you want to end birthright citizenship, then for most of us, you are voting that we are not Americans. In logic that is known as argumetum ad absurdum. And yes, it is false logic.

So here’s a thought: Let all try to get along better and treat each other fairly.

It is ridiculous this is still an issue in America. To all those that don’t like it when someone else’s skin color does not match their own try not to have a spaz attack if you see someone that might have spent some time on the beach or at the pool getting a tan. We all descend from Africans as indicated by studies of mitochondrial DNA. Thus we are all descendent of the diaspora from Africa. Thus we are all immigrants if we are not living in Africa.

Remember this, if you’re not Native American, you and/or your ancestors are not originally from America, You are either an immigrant, or descended from immigrants.

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It should be noted that there is no such thing as a black person. The term is a generalization of those of darker complexion. The term is used here as a generally historical descriptive for the purpose of identifying those racially targeted. The same goes for red and yellow descriptives, which typically connote Native America or Asian descent.

1790: From 1790 only free white people could be citizens, excluding Native Americans, slaves, free Blacks, indentured servants, and Asians were added to the list later.
1792: The second Militia Act of 1792 provided conscription of every “free able-bodied white male citizen”.
1865: When the slaves were freed the KKK, which promoted white-supremecy’ came into existence using terrorism (assault and murder) against politically active blacks and their allies. D. W. Griffifths film ‘The Birth of a Nation” (1915) solidified the KKK as iconic in American history. The results of such promotion are evident in events such as the Tulsa race massacre (1921) and resonate throughout legislative and political endeavors as well as social attitudes about race.

Historians point out that the KKK aimed to: Curb the education, economic advancement, voting rights, and right to keep and bear arms of blacks.

And took action toward their goals: “In the spring of 1867, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest and his dragoons launched a campaign of midnight parades; ‘ghost’ masquerades; and ‘whipping’ and even ‘killing Negro voters and white Republicans, to scare blacks off voting and running for office’”

1870: The Naturalization Act of 1870 extended naturalization to Black persons, but not to other non-white persons, while revoking the citizenship of naturalized Chinese Americans.

Generally speaking sytemic racism against the black community persists at differing levels in different social and political arenas. The rise of Donald Trump brought racism to a higher pitch in recent times.

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The kings of old…Oligarchs, regions, slavery, indenturement throughout history up to our modern age.

This section will examine more historical context as we continue to examine and present the context of racism through the ages.

Generally, keep in mind, slavery occurs when a more powerful ruler or ruling system decides to take advantage of those it can exert power over and upon. Slaves throughout history have been of all colors, even white. It’s almost always about money and power.

The modern/current focus on blacks, or immigrants in general, goes to group-think and the continuation of old prejudices in society, often propagated by those that ‘think’ they are superior for any number of reasons.

The truth is, the data examined in our DNA indicates we all pretty much came from Africa. Those that stayed in northern climes longer lost melatonin in their skin tone. Social grouping and varied styles of existence may explain changed in human structure but honestly this is all still being examined. So new information will come as that understanding develops.

In the mean time, we are pretty much all Africans in origin. The diaspora has been going on for a long time, so it has many branches in its development based on current understanding.

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The pushback from the GOP saying/inferring it is racist to hire a ‘black’ person to the supreme court.

The case of Ketanji Brown Jackson:

Racism: adjective;

characterized by or showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized:

The point of ‘racism’ connotes marginalization by those who would antagonize. To marginalize in this sense is to exclude, not include.

Some points to consider:

I find it silly that people differentiate black, white, brown, yellow, etc. in skin color. People are people.
Yes, anyone nominated to the Supreme Court should be qualifiable without prejudice of skin color.
If one were to judge performance, fairness, justice and adherence to the principles of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, then one might find reason for prejudice against white supreme court justices. Thus, the argument on its face is moot, and kinda silly.

Thus, when the GOP decided to push out the message it is racist to select a ‘black’ person for the Supreme court, they were using sophistry to demonstrate their racism. It is not racist to select a qualified person of any skin color. It is racist to argue against such selection because you don’t like the choice. Ketanji Brown Jackson is fully qualified for the position. MUCH more-so that those Trump appointed and pushed onto the court.

That said, it is selective to choose a person who is qualified, and happens to be black just because you want that racial color represented on the court. But being selective is a good thing in this case as Ketanji Brown Jackson’s qualifications are exceptional.

Anti-Sophistry:

Conservative/Progressive/Democratic/Libertarian

The Centrist Party is fully against sophist lies, evasions, and distractions designed to fool the American public. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth needs to be our standard to get America back on track to being that shining city on the hill.

soph·ist·ry | ˈsäfəstrē, ˈsōfəstrē |
noun (plural sophistries)
the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving
• a fallacious argument.

While sophistry can come from both sides of the aisle, the GOP has fully embraced sophist lies and their foundational principle. If they succeed, America and all that it has traditionally stood for dies. It is up to every American to stand up and say no to lies and deceit.

Sophistry: a concept described from Socratic thought via Plato 2,500 years ago. Generally it is a sophisticated form of lying and deception. Mostly used by politicians, it is considered by scholars to be one of the ten key reasons for the fall of Rome.

Therefore it is important to be able to recognize sophistry when listening to someone speak. Here are some types of sophistry to be on guard from.

Spinning a message resulting in avoiding reality/truth is sophist
Distraction resulting in avoiding/evading truth is sophist
Accusation others to evade admission of guilt is sophist
Obfuscation of facts is sophist
Using facts out of context is sophist

The CP stands wholly against any manner of sophistry that works against the Federal Democratic Republic of the United States.

To prevent the tyranny of the masses it is critical to stand and defend against sophistry of all kinds. Especially when that sophistry undermines the principles unto which America has traditionally aspired.

The CP holds this truth to be self evident. Populist demagoguery is as dangerous to the Republic as is foreign influence. We must be on guard and be able to rectify such direct assaults on our democracy.

Be aware, in America’s history, those that have used such demagoguery have often been acting upon the interests of foreign powers. In some cases indirectly and in some cases directly and in some cases both. Recognizing sophistry is one of teh most important talents anyone can have when trying to decipher the truth of the words used by populists that focus on appeal to emotion arguments.

Note: We will work on clarifying this plank further, but for now, we want our members to understand sophistry is one of the most dangerous aspects of political and social evasive speech. We must all be on guard. Remember, if we want to know the truth, we have to examine what we might be missing in an argument and be open to evidence based substantive facts combined with careful consideration.

Allies

What happened during the Trump Administration was inexcusable and unforgivable. America, via Trump abandoned our allies both in a theater of war and in peace. What Trump accomplished here is a break in trust from/with our allies on multiple fronts. The direct result is that America is a weaker nation. The further result is that America has lost a great amount of respect and trust in the world.

CP supports our allies on and off the field of battle.

It will be much more difficult for us to get help in the future from those countries that in the past considered us strong allies. At best we have proven to be weak allies, all thanks to Donald Trump. But it’s worse than that. Political breaks are difficult to mend, but break trust with an ally on the field of battle and you can be assured your trust level is in the toilet. Yeah, Trump did that.

Anti-Trust Issues

Competition in business is a critical component of Capitalism as a method of achieving better products and services at a fair market price. CP also recognizes that certain mergers can have benefits as well as market risk impacts. These contra-effects, should be considered initially as well as retrospectively on consideration of overall market health and benefits in relation to cost and impact.

CP supports:

reviewing market competition capacity in relation to market efficiency and efficacy.
antitrust examination regarding quality and innovation impacts.
antitrust retrospective impact reviews.
examination of markets in relation to economic sustainability.
examination of markets in relation to environmental sustainability.
examination of markets in relation to reasonable market access.
examination of markets in relation to economic sustainability.
examination of markets in relation to resource capacity short and long term.
examination of markets based on relation to societal impact and governance.
regulating markets in acordance with environmental and societal need.

Banking & Investment

For those of us old enough, we remember when local banks still existed. The marriage of banking savings and loans and investment firms created some quite apparently contra productive structuring that led to strengthening the rise of national and international banking and investment firms. This has demonstrated the ‘law of unintended consequences’ in a negative manner with regard to community service and community support. The simple fact that the risk value is completely impersonal now and relegated to accounting tables and credit risk products has depersonalized banking in a way that has demonstrated a negative impact in our communities.

CP supports separating banking and investment products and reinstating Glass–Steagall
CP supports the strengthening of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
CP supports local banking, yup, just like in the old days

Business Contracts

This is simple. If someone promises something verbally then it’s a promise, right? Well, it turns out people promise all kinds of things verbally and then renege on that promise later. Thus, a great way to at least reduce lawsuit abuse is to require all aspects of a deal to be put in writing. Just write it down. If someone says under such and such conditions, you can back out and I’ll give you your money back; then write it the agreement.

CP supports a Federal law that requires business deal criterial to be written in detail sufficient to clarify the obligations discussed.

And let’s also be clear. A dog will always run to the end of the leash. So if you don’t have a good leash, or no leash, don’t expect the dog to stay in the yard forever. If someone is willing to make a promise of commitment in a business deal, and especially when that someone claims honor and integrity is their middle name, and especially when they say oh but I’m a (name of his religion) so you can trust me…. Well, if it’s true that person ins trustworthy, then that person will have no problem whatsoever writing down what they say, promise, or commit to.

Campaign Finance Reform

One of the swampiest problems we have in America. The simple fact that politicians can be bought with undue and highly inappropriate influence and the mechanisms that allow this are legal is a direct threat to the Republic. It doesn’t matter left or right here. Think about how Mitch McConnell ended up being called Moscow Mitch. That’s because lobbyists, tied to Russia were allowed through legal American political funding be influenced into allowing Russian connected projects in Kentucky.

CP supports removing big money form campaign influence as soon as feasible.

We need to remove the legality of such lobbying at all levels. Super pacs really shouldn’t even be allowed to exist but since they do, to compete everyone is using them. This is a terrible idea and it needs to be fixed. In our view an empowered Centrist Party can fix this so let’s all aim at this goal and fix this swamp bog from hell.

Cancel Culture

We can not and should not erase or cancel our history. Neither should we go to extremes to create folk devils to attack to prove our point when in fact what is really happening is that often, left or right, groups make mountains out of molehills to overdramatize a point or a risk consideration.

CP supports putting history in museums
CP supports not taking every damn argument to the n’th degree of stupid
CP supports people being more considerate of each other

As the bible says, if eating meat offends your brother, don’t eat meat. So all we’re saying here is be considerate of each other. Be kind. Be open. Listen to each other and think about how to be more supportive of a better society rather than whining about how your liberty has been trampled by the fact that you live in a community of people that have varying needs to be considered.

Please people moderate your extremism so we can have sane conversations and reasonable discussions.

Pro-Capitalism

Capitalism without corruption is the most efficient market means to balance price to supply and demand. However, it is a mistake to believe capitalism must be without regulation. Markets exist to serve needs and wants. Over exploitation of markets creates market imbalances and can even destroy markets. Markets exist to serve customers from distributors of ‘goods and services’. Thus, supporting properly regulated resources and market mechanisms also supports fair, sustainable markets and healthy competition.

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Capitalism

Webster defines capitalism as:

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state: an era of free-market capitalism | private ownership is a key feature of capitalism.

Many confuse capitalism with corruption. Remember capitalism has to do with private ownership and honest business between people and companies. Corruption is about ‘dishonesty and illegal behavior’ (trickery fraud and manipulation). The Centrist Party is Pro-Capitalism and Anti-Corruption. Capitalism enables fair competition under the umbrella of law and regulation. Capitalism also is much faster than government at adjusting to market changes.

Vital resources must be protected from resource depletion in order to sustain such markets.
Regulation in emergency and disasters is required to prevent price gouging.
Market sustainability is required to prevent the collapse of markets.
Capital markets operate best when transparent.
SEC regulation must strongly support
Fraud and corruption weakens markets are does not serve the purpose of the fair trade of goods and services.

Capitalism often gets a bad rap because of the misbehavior of corporations and liberal rhetoric. Corporatism, which refers to the notion of holding the good of the corporation above that of the nation or the people and even above the rationality of capitalism. That can do serious harm. The enabling of corporate lobbying enhances that risk. Damage to markets, damage to resource capacity, damage to the environment to the detriment of the nation and the people can all result form inappropriate management of corporate wishes and desires.

However, capitalism without appropriate regulation risks a tragedy of the commons. Capitalism without any restraints also risks antitrust issues that have short and long term risk factors. A market with no restraints of any kind feeds oligarchy and plutocracy and corporatism. Balance is the goal to produce healthy sustainable markets.

CP supports regulation to reduce antitrust issues
CP supports regulation to reduce anticompetitive issues
CP supports appropriately regulated sustainable capitalism
CP supports sustainable transparent markets structures

CP is against market imbalances that lead to corporate hegemony. Keep in mind that capitalism is the best system to help react to market changes. Unchecked (unregulated) capitalism however can lead to market imbalances and market resource destruction, which can contribute to unhealthy market systems in relation to their surrounding systems. Sustainability in markets is important, and thus the policy recommendations above seem to be the most reasonable in context to the problems we all face.

Also note, that in emergency events, such as earthquakes and pandemics. Price controls are required. THIS is not anti-capitalism, it is anti-opportunism. In the event of an emergency in America, it is traditional for us all to work tougher to get through the situation. It is unfair if not immoral to take advantage of those that are thrust into an emergency to profit and prey upon the misfortune of others. Thus the CP supports the relative health and safety of The People of the United States of America.

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We all buy products. Sometimes we sell products. People go to work to provide capital services. People hopefully get paid appropriately for their work. It’s important to know what capital is with regard to capitalism.

capital

noun (1)

Definition of capital (Entry 2 of 3)

1a(1): a stock (see STOCK entry 1 sense 1a) of accumulated goods especially at a specified time and in contrast to income received during a specified periodalso : the value of these accumulated goods

(2): accumulated goods devoted to the production of other goods

(3): accumulated possessions calculated to bring in incomeset capital and land and labor to work— G. B. Shaw— see also VENTURE CAPITAL

b(1): net worth : excess of assets over liabilities

(2): STOCK sense 2a— see also CAPITAL GAIN, CAPITAL STOCK, EQUITY CAPITAL

c: persons holding capital : capitalists considered as a group

d: ADVANTAGE, GAINmake capital of the situation

e: a store or supply of useful assets or advantages wasted their political capital on an unpopular causewrote from the capital of his emotionally desolate boyhood— E. L. Doctorow— see also HUMAN CAPITAL

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So, we can see that capital has to do with the goods. But look at definition ‘(3) e:‘. This references ‘Human Capital’. This is actually a very important point that somehow ended up at the end of the list.

Also, it’s important to point out that in the definition of Capitalism, we see that private ownership is prominent. This is the factor that increases and inspires motivation to compete in order to profit. It is that competition, that in non corrupt, or less corrupt markets, enables market efficiency.

What we see since Buckley v. Valeo, is the continued corruption of markets via political and monopolistic means.

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History of Economics

Economy

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Citizen Rights = Civil Rights

Every American is granted and supposedly guaranteed equal opportunity, protections, and equal treatment in law, justice, education and generally in life in America. And yet, certain groups and in line with many GOP politicians still use sophist arguments to support racism and division regardin the application of our rights as Americans. This can of course lead to authoritarian governance and that is an outcome the Centrist Party asks all Americans to guard against.

CP supports civil rights and policy that helps America grow up and stop being so damed racist.
CP supports equal application and support regarding access to education, opportunity, protections, justice, and law for all American citizens.

It really is time for ALL of us to grow up and stop playing to predjudices that are in direct contravention of the purpose, power, and principles of the United States of America.

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The right wing of American politics has for decades painted a picture of civil rights as something special for black people. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to read dictionaries. You see, civil rights are citizens rights. The rights that every citizen can be protected by, equally, in application and in the intention of law and justice.

Civil Rights

adjective
1 [attributive] relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, as distinct from military or ecclesiastical matters: civil aviation.
• (of disorder or conflict) occurring between citizens of the same country: civil strife.
• Law relating to private relations between members of a community; noncriminal: a civil action.
• Law relating to civil law.

This should not even be an issue in America. The very notion that a political party would not support in any way, shape, or form, the idea that citizens rights are the civil rights that we all are given by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is absurd.

It is ridiculous that we still have not achieved equal application of law and justice in America. Those that are in the way continue to support a country of racism and undue prejudice. America in spirit and in our declaration of independence strove for an ideal where all men were equal under the law and in the application of justice. It is an ideal that has driven the American Dream. It is an ideal that has drawn admiration from around the world.

And yet, here we are 250 years later, still harboring the immature attitudes that foster racism and prejudice. It is long past due but we must wake up on the issue of equal rights, and stay awake. I know. That’s an idealistic statement. But America was founded on ideals; just ask Thomas Jefferson (well, read the Declaration of Independence).

Then, after the declaration of independence we created a constitution, and then after that we amended it to try to make it more fair, and then after that we passed the civil rights amendment. And things were going ‘relatively’ well (meaning still slowly improving), until around the year 2000. Then things started going the other way, because our leaders were leaning more and more toward our aging white population and appealing to their emotions. That fostered greater prejudicial racism in certain populations around the country. We need to grow up and stay grown up on this issue.

Thus,

CP supports civil rights and policy that helps America grow up and stop being so damed racist.
CP supports the equal application and protections of the law for all American citizens.

It really is time for ALL of us to grow up and stop playing to predjudices that are in direct contravention of the purpose and power of the United States of America.

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History.com: Civil Rights Movement

Cryptocurrency

Private (non-government) cryptocurrency increases crime and fraud, and can destabilize national monetary systems. Utilization of crypto must be established and regulated via the Federal Reserve and Treasury of the United States of America. Ensuring a relatively safe, stable medium of exchange that reduces fraud and criminal behavior is the goal. Global Central Banks are already discussing a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency).

Alternative to Cryptocurrency

Simply apply blockchain security technology to existing monetary transactions.

In other words, as of now, it might not be advantagious, or it might be premature to developing/adopting cryptocurrency as a key medium of exchange. At this time there is no ‘significant’ advantage to creating an entirely new medium of exchange but downsides are visible and manifested.

There may be a possible advantage if all transactions are tracable but loss risk to individuals would remain high if said currency is not registered properly in financial institutions. Thus, the central banks need to strongly consider accoutability and integrity of the currency in order to ensure viable use as a medium of exchange. Risks need to be carefully assessed.

Note: It is possible at CBDC currency, if robust enough, can reduce crime by ensuring tracibility of transactions.

NGC = Non-Governmental Currency
CBDC = Central Bank Digital Currency

Cryptocurrency

NGC cryptocurrency is privately owned and controlled/uncontrolled intermediate fiat with multiple risk factors. It undermines national currencies. It enables individual, and criminal organizations to rapidly transfer funds, and it enables bad actor States to do large scale disruption through multiple types of influence.

It’s risk factors include: It is an unprotected currency unsupported by nation state financial guaranties; if you lose your password to your currency, you lose your money; If your hard drive becomes corrupted, you lose your money; If someone robs your house and takes your drive, you lose your money; If you have a fire and your drive is destroyed, you lose your money; If your drive accidentally gets erased, you lose your money; If a natural phenomena occurs that disrupts drive function, you lose your money; If your drives experiences an unrecoverable file allocation error you lose your money.

Analysis of crypto NGC shows it is mostly used for criminals and as a trading instrument.
- Thus, crypto NGC mainly extracts/limits economic flow of currency.
- NGC crypto on scale does not add to the economy.
- NGC crypto mainly extracts real dollars from economic flow.
Cryptocurrency is a fiat that is not backed by Nation States.
If countries adopt cryptocurrency, there is a large risk to their national currencies.
As a median exchange unit it can easily be used to add yet another surcharge to transactions thus making it inflationary.

NGC Crypto Issues:

For individuals: to lose a bitcoin wallet simply means to lose all your money. For example, let’s say you ‘lose’ your hard drive where your bitcoin wallet is…, or let’s say the drive just becomes corrupted, which happens…, well, you just lost your money.
Generally bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is a dangerous proposition. It is a way however to hand more power and money over to criminals and corporations. In other words, it’s really just a way to support the swamp rather than secure our monetary system.
NGC crypto currency is not State guarantied.
Essentially NGC crypto is pure fantasy. It represents no hard value other than it’s ‘assumed’ value.
The NGC crypto bubble is more dangerous than the Tulip bubble (boom/bust potential).
Even a CBDC can increase currency destabilization if not established in a secure manner to value.
- Example: Let’s say you can put CBDC money on a thumb drive. Imagine you’re a CEO and need to bring 100 million over to another company. You crash your car on the way. The car catches fire. You and your crypto wallet burn up in the fire. What board of Directors would approve such an action/transaction?
- Already millions upon millions of NCG crypto dollars have been lost, destroyed or hacked. IT is a very dangerous way to move/store value.
- Thus, even with CBDC, combined with bankruptcy laws, the costs of such an apparently foolish endeavor would be externalized to the State, and thus to the taxpayers.
The ONLY area of ‘non-risk’ for NGC cryptocurrencies are the brokers of currency who continually extract profit from the system via transactions. In other words, the banks and investment trading firms. Such monetary accumulation is minimally productive and largely extractive. In this sense it is a negative for an economy overall. Removes capital from productive economic flow where only brokers benefit (Remember, trickle down economics has already proven to be mythic in nature and thus insufficiently helpful to economic function).

Generally speaking, the rhetoric about how great NGC cryptocurrency is ignores how risky an idea it is. From increased crime and fraud to the ability to fund terrorism or secretly fund a coup. The risks are many. And the very idea that it consumes massive amounts of energy to mine bitcoin should tell you more than you need to know. NGC crypto risks are many while proclaimed benefits can be achieved my other means. Some claims are based on a fantasy and NGC cyrpto is a highly unstable form on monetary exchange as demonstrated in volatile market fluctuations.

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Reference Material:
BIS: Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype
BIS: CBDCs: an opportunity for the monetary system

Death Penalty

The CP has no national position on this issue. CP members, via discussions, are both for an against; and the arguments for and against are diverse and sometimes complex containing multiple biases. There is no clarity on this issue from a party perspective. Weighing the horrific nature of a crime against the lives taken while trying to consider human values, let alone religious values is complex in itself. But our membership comes from many perspectives on this issue and thus far it would be difficult to determine where a line should be drawn.

The CP currently leaves this up to the States.

Depoliticizing Our Military

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

Our stance, forged by common sense and the intent of our forefathers, relies upon the military’s focus on the non-political mission: Protect the Nation and its People by defending ‘The Constitution’. The military must never be used for political or self-serving purposes; this is below the dignity of our armed forces. With this in mind, the Centrist Party actively supports the role of our service-members and their self-sacrifice outside the boundaries of our political system. America is best served when politics are left behind when the uniform of the day is worn.

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“I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

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The purpose of the US military is to support the State mission; meaning the mission of the United States of America.

That mission is defined in the US Constitution. Protect America by defending the Constitution. The deeper meaning of this mission is to protect American Citizens and American Interests. That also means protecting the ‘United’ States.

Other aspects of that mission include projecting power so as to maintain power balance and promote stability in the geopolitical sphere.

This is by design to maintain peace and stability. When conflict does occur and America becomes involved, the purpose is the same. The goal is to return to peace and stability. Deterring authoritarian States is essential to that mission and can be done by diplomatic means as well as sanctions. The use of military force should always be a last resort measure.

In the age or terrorism and cyber-terrorism, a new dynamic has been introduced to balance of power and warfare. This is a threat matrix that needs its own attention sphere and our government has developed new force structures to identify and deal with such treats.

No matter how you see this personally, please know that our military has a job to do and our military service members are critical to that mission. Our thanks and our support for that mission remains to honor those that honor us, and our country, with their commitment to duty and country.

Education

The CP supports public education. Studies show that in most cases there is no significant advantage to Charters Schools and many negative outcomes/results/impacts. Generally the operation of Charter Schools is used to hide data that should be public. This is a disservice to the public and the country. They tend to use sophisticated methods to hide their expenses and in doing so tend to hide the amount of money and support students receive. Specifically, the CP supports continued development and deployment of the TLC/PATH system in education.

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Criticism of Charter Schools: “Charter schools are not public schools.”

Claim by Charter Schools: “As defined in federal and state law, charter schools are public schools.”

Most charter schools are privately owned by a private company or private trust. Also, private Education Management Organizations (EMO) are often involved. It is also common that teachers are ‘private employees’ of the EMO that are leased to the school.
In charter schools managed by EMO’s many key decisions are made out of State. Public schools are subject to transparency laws. Charter schools and their private operators generally resist/refuse to share information and data regarding public requests.
In other words, charter schools generally claim to be public schools but use layers of corporate and private veils to mask and hide data, while utilizing public taxpayer money to fund their operations while masking or hiding profits.

This is only one argument regarding charter school propaganda, out of 21 arguments charter schools use that are not supported by objective evidence.

Reference Links:

Election Voting Rights Reform

Even in the 2020 election where the only large scale voting fraud issues were from Donald Trump and his administration included placing a postmaster in place that removed high speed mailings systems in order to slow main inviting during a deadly pandemic. Despite all Trumps efforts to create/commit fraud in our election including his effort to inspire his followers to attack our capital and our election system and our democracy; and despite his clear efforts to prevent the national guard form protect the Capital of the United Stated; there was no significant fraud found on behalf of democrats. Of those that were found to have actually committed voter fraud, they all were committing crimes on behalf of votes for Donald Trump.

CP supports voting rights reform that increases and ensures voter engagement
CP supports strong mail in voting systems that have demonstrated to to have little to no fraud (multiple states have already demonstrated feasibility)

Voter fraud is negligible and mail in voting is proven largely safe and secure. Even Trump, his wife, his family, voted by mail. And even though it looks like Trump committed mail in voter fraud by claiming he lived in Florida while he had his resident in the White House, other than Donald and some republicans, there was very little voter fraud. So yes, mail in voting is a good idea.

Electoral College Reform

The Electoral College was a compromise at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 ensuring the Federal and State Governments did not have too much power over each other.
It was also designed to prevent tyranny of the masses.
It was also designed to ensure no president could be elected that was under foreign influence, demagogic, of relied on populist argumentation.
It was also designed to provide an independent careful thoughtful vote to represent the people of each state and good common sense.
The system was broken by the states and no longer can fulfill its intended purpose.
Alexander Hamilton proposed an amendment but that also needs to be revisited.
It is feasible to restore the Electoral college to its original purpose, that of protecting American and its citizens from a demagogue populist under foreign influence.
Thus protecting America and its presidential elections while ensuring balance between the Federal andState components of the US election system.

Energy: Conservative

Conserving energy helps America do more with less. So anything we can do to reduce our energy needs and consumption makes America stronger. As we transition to safer and more sustainable energy systems we should always remember that conservation of energy is a traditional conservative value. CP supports:

Energy conservation
Renewable/sustainable energy infrastructure development
Safer new and next generation nuclear energy
Conservative lighting sources: LED’s do more with less

The future of our economy depends on how economical we are with our resources. Liberal waste of energy hurts America more and more in the short and long run. So be conservative and vote to conserve energy in the most reasonable way.

Equal Rights: Conservative/Liberal/Progressive

Equal rights means equal access to opportunity
Equal rights means equal pay for equal work
Equal rights means equal justice
Equal rights means equal education

Equal rights and civil rights go hand in hand. Consider the meaning of civil, that is the concerns of the citizens of the nation. Our constitution supports equality in civil rights. Translated that means everyone should have equal access to opportunity.

In other words each citizen should have the right to a good basic public education system. Law and justice must be applied equally, no matter race, creed, color, sexuality, or caste. We must work continually to ensure equality of opportunity and justice to fulfill our obligation as citizens that elect a government to ensure said equality.

Equality – Gender, race, marital, elderly, caste: Progressive

The Centrist Party ideal is simple, that we are all human. But since gender inequality and prejudices exist, just like racial prejudice, we must deal with such things.

When considering the alphabet soup of human diversity we, or, the Centrist Party ideology, considers people as H for human. Of course everyone wants their own letter it seems. This produces interesting problems like creating folk devils that never existed before.

Equal rights is/are equal rights. It doesn’t matter if it’s caste, race, gender, elderly, or marital. That said prejudices on these lines exist and so must be addressed. Complications as well. For example, one way to fix the bathroom issue would be to just make them all bathrooms unisex with stalls…but can’t you hear the different groups screaming at each other just from reading that sentence.

Society is an evolving reality with which we must contend. So let us not shy away from the argument and maybe we will come to a better understanding and figure out how to all get along better.

CP supports working harder on equal rights.

Executive Pay: Conservative

It is notable that executive pay has become exceedingly liberal since 1976. This shift in pay that occurred over decades since then coincides with the passing of Buckley vs. Valeo (BvV). In other words as soon as it became easier to buy politicians, it became easier for executives to get rich. This implicates BvV as an extremely liberal law that was passed using hypocritical rhetorical propaganda generated by corporate lobbyists in an effort to instill in law a corruption of the political system that can be in no small way called swampy. This in fact was one of the swampiest supreme court rulings to occur (related to political influence) until Citizens United was passed.

CP supports a reexamination of Buckley vs. Valeo and Citizens United in contrast to the obligation of US government to reduce corruption and protect the nation and its people.

Note: CP supports capitalism, not the corruption of capitalism by laws that enable increasingly larger scales of corruption of the overall system.

We ask ourselves these questions: Do American companies support America? Or are they evading America? How do we support America and let corporatism make its own rules? How do we balance this out so it is fair and just and supports the principles that America has been traditionally known for?

Farming/Ranching: Conservative

A critical issue that has done great damage to our local farmers and ranchers is the aggregation and consolidation of our food supply through corporate control. The whole system is now controlled by relatively few companies. For decades corporatism has infiltrated small and medium sized operations through patenting processes, seeds and pesticides as well as lobbying special interest influence. That reduced the ability of smaller operational farmers to survive indiepndently. The CP sees this as a national security risk and anti-capitalism/competition which distorts capital structures. This is more of an antitrust and influence issue and needs to be addressed.

A second issue we need to keep an eye on is foreign ownership of our farmlands. This also can become a larger national security issue if the current trend continues.

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Foreign Policy

To build and sustain a fair and just democratic world, so as to promote peace and sustainable commerce that protects foundational freedoms as provided in the principles and values of the Untied States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. To safeguard American interests through the State Mission by engaging with our international neighbors to achieve these ends.

CP supports power-balancing considering short and long term impacts, stability and security.
CP supports the development and stability of republican democracies
CP supports to the best of our ability: honor and duty to moral and ethical principles and values.

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It is important for people to understand that the State mission abroad is key to success in achieving security at home. As history has shown, without strong understanding, and strong relationships, and support for Republican Democracy, dictatorial authoritarianism can take deeper root and grow. Allowing that to happen reduces American influence and power toward upholding the principles of the founding purpose of the United States.

The Declaration of Independence clearly outlined our goal. To be free and independent of authoritarian or dictatorial rule.

In the case of US foreign policy, one must address international issues that can impact America in the short and long term.

Free Speech: Conservative

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This simply means you have the right to peaceably assemble and bring your grievances to the government. It does not mean other companies, social media platforms, etc. can’t restrict your speech in their environments.

Hate speech is NOT free speech, it is demagogic speech
Demagogic hate speech is anti-free speech
Demagogic hate speech promotes intimidation against free speech
Hate speech and speech that incites violence, sedition and insurrection is anti-American
Reasoned discourse is always acceptable, inciteful hate speech is not

You actually don’t have the right in public to be a complete jackass, spew hate, cause violence and invade other peoples rights. That’s not free speech. That being a terrible citizen. As with other aspects of the Centrist Party platform our message is grow up. Act like a mature adult, the world does not revolve around you alone. And stop being a baby.

Gerrymandering: Conservative/Progressive

CP supports a quadrilateral independent panels in each state to decided district gerrymandering. These panels shall consist of 25% Left Wing, 25% right wing, 25% Centrist and 25% Independent

Let’s face it, stupid has been in charge too long. We need sane reasonable methods to as opposed to extreme ideology and power hungry politicians to make better decisions. The only way to do that is to create a fair and balance method for decision making.

Having biased parties use their respective power bases to garner greater control for their own party is a direct conflict of interest with the needs of the ‘total’ citizens of the United States of America.

Parties aim to Gerrymander districts for, in some cases balancing the power of the vote among citizens. Some though, try to use gerrymandering to control or suppression via sophist methods to hide agendas that undermine citizen rights and civil rights needs to be reduced or eliminated form the process.

The simplest solution we have come up with so far is to create voting districts by proportional caste.

That means measuring income and making sure there is a relatively equal number of district members that are of diverse annual income levels.

To illustrate or approximate how this would work:

For example, if an area has 2 millionaires, 4 people that make around 500k, 20 people that make 100k, 300 people that make 50k, 2000 people that make 20k and 1000 in the poverty level. Then, if split into two districts. Each district would have

1 millionaire
2 500k earners
10 100k earners
150 50k earners
1000 20k earners
and 500 in poverty.

The idea behind this would be to enable attention to the rights and privileges of citizens on a more equitable basis for funding in education, health, etc.

Housing Speech-Political: Conservative

JG advise from connections: We need a housing plank that helps reduce caste variance in city residences. One plan from the Swiss has merits to consider. It can also contribute to more affordable housing markets thus enabling greater home ownership.

Immigration

Noting that American citizens come from all around the world and relatively few descended from actual Native Americans, we need to be at least be considerate of our history.

Legal Immigration
Considerations:
Emergency situations such as the fall of Saigon
Asylum Issues Human rights must be considered, but we can not have an open border policy (no country could afford an open border policy).
Our State mission needs to be involved in discussions and policy designed to ensure greater security for people in their countries so they will not have need to escape to America. If we are to claim to be a world leader, then we need to act like it.

America through policy and diplomacy has the ability to influence other countries in ways that will reduce immigration. America can’t afford to pay for large scale intervention policy though. That said we can help others in ‘how to help themselves’. If we can be successful there, immigration will reduce anyway without larger scale costly interventions needed.

Impeachment

Here’s the thing. Any public servant that willing breaks the public trust should be impeached. The reason is simple. Their job is to uphold the public trust and serve the needs of the people, local, county, state, nation. Doesn’t matter. It’s their job to not lie, not mislead, and not commit fraud.

The Founders of our Great Experiment, that of the United States of America defined impeachable offense as a commission of “high crimes and misdemeanors”. But that was never defined in the constitution. It was assumed based on its precedent. Yet it is clear that is is what the founders relied upon when the wrote the U.S. Constitution.

It goes back to at least the year 1371, where the first recorded use in a case was found. It continued to be used onward through the centuries in the 1400’s, 1500’s, 1600’s and then in the 1700’s. In 1776 the Declaration of Independence was written. The Constitution followed, and the Bill of Rights came after that.

CP supports in all impeachment trials that the power of impeachment be managed by a council of impeachment managers consisting of 25% each Left, Right Centrist, and Independent.
CP supports adoption of a policy to define based on historical precedent, the intentions of the founders and support for the reasons the Founders established, that of removing a political from office, banning that politician from further ability to attain office and for prosecution of crimes and misdemeanors.
CP supports to this end, that if an impeachment includes high crimes against the nation or its states, or its people, that the rules of evidence and adjudication be in compliance with the Rule of judiciary law in federal court and that all impeachment proceedings comply with said rules in order to reduce the political nature of impeachment proceedings.
CP supports a policy or constitutional amendment to bar a politician from running for office if that politician is found to have committed crimes in violation of the public trust or any crimes that become known from before holding office, in office, or after office.

Americas Founders used the term in our Constitution based on their understanding of its meaning as loss of public trust, as it had been then already used for centuries. In other words if a politician breaks the public trust, that politician can be impeached. Generally acting against the interests of the people, and the nation is a break of public trust. Of course crimes and misdemeanors are also included and the founders provided a path and allowance that public officials can be indicted and punished for crimes against the law as well, even after leaving office. And they were quite specific about that.

This would solve many problems. The mere existence of a rule would mitigate the willingness of any politician to lie, mislead, commit fraud or abuse the public trust in any fashion. In other words ensuring the integrity of the impeachment process would effectively be putting a tight leash on our political representatives. This would reduce in office demagoguery, populism argumentation, foreign influence, and myriad other crimes politicians have historically committed.

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We (EW,JR) discussed:

lowering threshold to impeach to 50% (?)

defining ‘loss of public trust’ specifically.

Neet to:

examine case law from 1371 forward

Need parameters for base case test.

If this is done, it may be advantageous to lower threshold to 33%. (DISCUSS)

The effect would be to create a stabilizer based on MAD principle. Thus politicians would be resistant to committing ‘loss of public trust’. This may have the effect of creating honesty in politics. Just take away the incentive to lie.

Pros:

Cons:

Loyalty Oaths (fealty)

Loyalty Oaths (fealty): All public servants and military have a fiduciary and/or sworn to the United States of America and are sworn to protect, defend and uphold the constitution of the United States of America.
The case of Trump pushing loyalty to Trump raise the notion of King verses President.
There can be loyalty to a politicians agenda as long as that agenda supports the constitution and not the politician.

Market Transparency

The CP supports a simple and transparent financial reporting for quarterly and annual reports in order to ensure that investors in public companies are seeing an honest representation of value. Capitalism requires market transparency to function well. There have been too many instances where corporations were able to mask debt in order to represent themselves as more profitable than they actually were.

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Mask wearing for health: Conservative

This really shouldn’t need to be said, however:

If a private or corporate business wants to protect their customers health from disease and death, they can do so. If an individual or a group of individuals decides to disregard those rules, then they can be considered trespassing on the companies property.

If a governing body with due authority says masks are not required during a global deadly pandemic, dumb as that is, companies can still require mask wearing on their properties.

CP supports company rules that align with health needs, public safety and the safety of their customers
CP supports charging trespassers with at least Reckless Endangerment is a risk scenario and Trespassing of the property

It’s simple, you can’t claim your rights are more important than the rights of those around you, especially when there is a public health risk. We all live in communities and those communities do not and should not revolve around the whims of irresponsible people.

Military Support: Progressive

Threat dynamics are in flux. The trend is for agile response systems and methods.
Special forces, stealth systems and cyber are all more critical in this day and age.
A review of cost/benefit ratios may reveal that cost cutting and rerouting expenditures may yield more effective result sin support for military needs.
CP supports those who serve, and those who have served. We recognize the challenges and must work with the debt that has been handed us by previous administrations, but we need to work harder to support our vets.

Minimum Wage: Progressive

Considering the logic of choosing a minimum wage in the past the CP will examine the context and add to that an inflation adjusted logic to calculate the proper manner of a minimum wage policy.

CP supports a minimum wage policy that adjusts for inflation.
CP supports Cost of Living considerations in calculation.
CP supports traditional mean minimum wage rises historically established weighed against all related factors.

Money: Conservative/Progressive

Our money is no longer based on a gold standard and has become a regulated fiat. That essentially means it is no longer real in its traditional sense. It is now a pure utility as a means of exchange. It need to be declared a utility in order to reduce market manipulations and risks associated with political regulatory quality.

CP supports establishing money/currency as a utility.

Net Neutrality

CP Supports Net Neutrality and establishing the internet as a utility. The internet has become a critical aspect of communications and information infrastructure. Nearly every aspect of American business, education and interaction relies on the internet. It is well established that bad actors use the internet for criminal and fraudulent behavior. Thus, to protect America and our citizens, access to the internet and its usage requires an appropriate degree of regulation.

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Net Neutrality: Conservative/Libertarian

The wild west of disinformation on social media is ebola virus of the internet. It is a brain melting virus that spreads at the speed of the internet. Global and national security suffer from the degradation of truth. To preserve and defend America we must protect truth. Therefore we must find a way to manage the garbage flow form disinformation specialists. Russia is directly implicated in these propaganda campaigns and most Americans don’t even know when they are spouting Russian disinformation from the former KGB, now the FSB, via the IRC, through distributed access networks of foreign infiltration units, in multiple foreign countries including within the USA. This is a NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE.

The destruction of Net Neutrality simply means corporations are more able to take advantage of those that use the net.
Liberty and security of free speech is reduced
Costs rise as corporations take control of bandwidth
CP fully supports returning Net Neutrality
CP supports making the internet a regulated Utility

It’s not just Russia. Other countries participate in disinformation because they know the more they can keep America confused the easier it is for them to advance their own agenda, which is generally to weaken America. Iran, China, N. Korea, etc.. It is imperative that Americans learn how these networks are purposely encouraging disinformation to Make America Less Great. Donald Trump empowered their efforts to undermine America. The only questions are was Donald too stupid to see what he was doing; or was he directly treasonous; or both?

Since Donald began his campaign in 2015. Russia modified it’s infiltration techniques. They used to originate false stories. Now, amplified by the Fake News that Donald created on a near daily basis, they realize they don’t have to make things up. They had the President of the United States to do that for them. And then the presidents followers were participating in crazy memes and conspiracy theories, so all Russia had to do was ride the wave of crazy and stupid ideas flowing out of those sources. Donald Trump did more damage to Americans reputation and integrity that any other president based on the evidence at hand.

Nuclear Weapons: Conservative/Progressive

Ronald Reagan pushed for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The Centrist Party will take up that banner. National security has many branches of concern. Intelligence tells us that resource scarcity and food and societal stress can lead to war. The proliferation of nuclear weapons in a world that is at risk of large scale stressors on food and material resources in relation to consumption increases the risk of conflict. The presence of nuclear weapons in a world that is essentially committed to more resource stress leaves os a binary choice. Either we continue on our path and risk a nuclear war or we eliminate one or more risks that is pushing us toward nuclear war in order to reduce the possibility/probability of a nuclear conflict.

Stepwise unilateral push for global removal of strategic nuclear weapons.
Strategic nuclear weapons should be targeted first.
Tactical nukes second.

Reagan coined the term trust but verify. When it comes to nuclear weapons, verify is the critical point.

Plastics Pollution: Conservative

Plastics pollution is a current, critical, and growing problem. The imposition on our environment is indicated to be impacting the basis of the food chain in the ocean. A full scientific analysis of the risks needs to assessed to guide policy. Reliance on the notion of ‘cheap and easy’ solutions needs to be examined in context of externalized costs and risks to human and economic health.

The CP supports safe, sustainable packaging that is largely recyclable and non toxic to food and water supplies.
Anyone remember paper? CP supports paper packaging. Yup, even straws. Oh, and if your straw does collapse because you left it in the drink too long, don’t be a baby. Be Strong. Take that lid off and drink like a…okay, like a human.

Let’s keep it clean folks.

Police Reform: Conservative

Bear with us on this one: There is a term called ‘scope creep’ typically applied to how a client creeps the definition of an expected result from agreement. This routinely puts development companies under pressure to perform above the originally agreed upon scope. But scope creep also occurs in rules and process. It can occur over years or even decades. It can take an original idea and transmogrify it into something less or unrecognizable in relation to the original intent. That seems to have happened in police forces across America. Aright, calm down. I’m not saying all police officers are corrupt. I’m saying the system and psychology can morph and become less than the original intent.

TO PROTECT AND SERVE

That is what we have traditional associated with policing our communities. But changing circumstances, political leanings and dangerous situation have all contributed to a type of corruption that got into the systems of policing and the unions that protect the police. There have been far too many incidents of police planting evidence to cover their own butts. That typically means someone died or went to jail because of a corrupt police officer. Unions and officers may attempt to rationalize this and even lie about it to protect themselves, but at that point, they are not protecting and serving the community.

The CP supports stronger safeguards to ensure the police are protecting and serving their community.
The CP supports the examination of a military style ROE for incident engagement, as may be applicable.
The CP supports honor and honesty in policing
The CP supports reasonable force in response to force
The CP DOES NOT SUPPORT any officer sitting on a suspect or delaying apprehension for an undue amount of time, especially when there is sufficient force available to detain, handcuff, and place a suspect in a police vehicle.

This is a tough area and the CP stance can change if the evidence warrants it but at this point in time this seems the most logical direction.

Prison Reform

America has the highest prison population per capita on Earth. Imprisoning people MUST NOT BE FOR PROFIT. It needs to be an expense. Private ‘for profit’ prisons have no incentive to reduce prison population or prevent a return to prison. They make more money by having more people in prison, not fewer. With imprisonment as an expense States, Counties, Cities and regions are incentivized to create a better, more educated, more civilized society.[/et_pb_text][et_pb_accordion disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” body_link_font=”||||on||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Points of Focus:” open=”on” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

CP supports ending for profit prisons
CP supports strong efforts to reduce recidivism rates
CP supports policies that reduce crime and incarceration
CP supports better separation of social issues and injurious crime
CP supports a focus on education and job training.
CP supports a greater focus on reintegration
CP supports restoration of voting rights once sentence is served.
CP supports all prisons become strong education centers

Unless the crime is serious enough to warrant life sentences, people that go to prison will be released from prison. Thus, prison time must be used for education and reform. This benefits society, the individual and the economy. Anything less is a tax burden on society in both societal health and direct costs in policing, courts and incarceration. Reducing crime reduces costs and builds better, stronger communities. Safer more secure communities are the goal.

Also, we need to consider the difference between personal social issues and crime that does harm. These two types of behavior may/should have different remedies.

Better education for all of America’s students reduces the likelihood of criminal activity and produces a stronger economy.[4] A stronger and more fair economy benefits all and enables a more just society. Stopping the profit motive in prisons is key to this strategy.

We have the technology and ability to achieve better state and federal prison systems that lowers costs and contribute to society. Let’s do that.

Additional Analysis

In studies since 1991, we note that direct costs were assessed. In a 1996 GAO analysis[5] the costs in the study in question showed similar costs in daily costs and “could not draw any conclusions about cost savings or quality of service”. Mixed results and limited scope prevented significant differentiation. However this could easily be considered too narrow a study. Quality of care was considered but loosely defined. That study stated sufficient data were not available but noted that one private facility indicated a reduced recidivism. Based on the scope of other studies two conclusions arise.

Additional wider scope studies would help define cost and recidivism; and
A focused comparative analysis including education and vocational training would help in understanding differences in longitudinal cost benefit analysis.

Also, In a 2010 analysis, direct costs were examined. But long term costs of recidivism and crime were not quantified into the assessment. Studies regarding family disorganization theory and education as well as vocational training indicate that blue collar criminal violations are reduced as education and vocational training is increased. Interestingly, while collar crime increases with level of education.[6]

A 2020 UCSD study showed that while “government spending on education increased by a factor of 1.2 from 1980 to 2005 spending on police and law enforcement increased by a factor of 1.5”[7] Another 2020 study showed that increasing education and vocational training reduces blue collar crime. At the same time it is notable that ethics education needs to be increased as some data shows that increased education can contribute to an increase in white color crime.

[1] DOJ: PRISON REFORM: REDUCING RECIDIVISM BY STRENGTHENING THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS

https://www.justice.gov/archives/prison-reform

[2] 2013 Rand: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education

[3] Reisman J., Schmidt L., Provvedini A., and Chamberlain M. “School 2000 – The Learning Center” University of the World, 1992

[4] Gordon, Howard R. D., and Bracie Weldon. “The Impact of Career and Technical Education Programs on Adult Offenders: Learning Behind Bars.” Journal of Correctional Education, vol. 54, no. 4, Correctional Education Association, 2003, pp. 200–09, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23292175.

[5] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-158/html/GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-158.htm

[6] Groot, Wim & Maassenvandenbrink, H.. (2010). The effects of education on crime. Applied Economics. 42. 279-289. 10.1080/00036840701604412.

[7] Ades, James & Mishra, Jyoti. (2020). Education and Crime Across America: Inequity’s Cost.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344260626_Education_and_Crime_Across_America_Inequity’s_Cost

https://www.justice.gov/archives/prison-reform

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Prisons

It doesn’t make sense to have private for profit companies running prisons. A for profit company has no motivation to prevent people from returning to prison. NONE. They only make money when the have prisoners.

CP supports ending for profit prisons
CP supports strong efforts to reduce recidivism rates
CP supports policies that reduce crime and incarceration
CP supports better separation of social issues and injurious crime

Implementing policies that help reduce crime rates and build better stronger communities makes everyone safer and reduces economic and societal costs. Better education for all of Americas students reduces the likelihood of criminal activity. A stronger and more fair economy benefits all. A more just society is complimented by such achievements. Stopping the profit motive on retaining prisoners is key to this strategy.

The poor state and federal prisons prompted the move to privatization. The effect was a system that encourages more people to remain in prison. That is a tax on ALL Americans. We have the technology and ability to achieve a much better state and federal prison system that lowers cost and contributes to society. Let’s do that.

Pro-Human = H

WARNING: CONTROVERSIAL

The Centrist Party supports accepting humans as human beings. We are all human. We are the human race. We are humankind. This is not controversial.

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Somehow it seems strange that this is controversial. The CP’s goal is to reduce controversy and predjudice regarding sexual orientation. It also seems strange we need an alphabet soup to describe who we are. This is the purpose of describing us, the people, as Human=H.

If you’re tossing letters in the soup pot, then why is it just LGBTQ? It can be argued that LQBTQ is itself predjudicial. Why isn’t it LGBTQMFAPC?

LGBTQMFAPC

Lesbian
Gay
Bi-sexual
Transexual
Queer
Male
Female
Asexual
Platonic
Cisgender (aligns with sexual assignment at birth)

At a minmum it should be LGBTQMF. Why are Males and Female identifications left out? Maybe because those are traditional descriptors and thus not exceptional? Maybe.

But humans to tend to clump into groups of interest and identity. Still…, that seems immature; but it is also human nature as we experience it.

Individual biology, genetics, and liberty should be respected in America. Biologically, who you are is a matter of ones own reality. And ones own reality has many different aspects. How you see your self is a matter of your own reality and/or choice. Neither of these realities should be automatically controversial.

Group-Think(ing)

The fact that people tend to gather in groups or similar ‘lifestyle’, belief, social circumstance, or interest is ‘normal’ human behavior. However, the Centrist Party would like everyone to consider that our main group is human. That is what we all have in common. We should not allow race, creed, color, gender, or orientation get in the way of the simple fact we are all human.

Three percent of hate crimes in the FBI database in 2020 were based on Gender Identity. It is silly to attack another person simply because of differences. We as citizens and patriots of America need to get over it.

People are who they are, AND who they choose to be. Hopefully we can all relax on this issue and reduce predudice in all areas of race, creed, color, gender, and orientation. In other words we all need to continue to grow up. Hopefully to the point that gender and oreientation ‘hate crimes’ drop to zero; and we all learn that we are equal, at the least, in the category of simply being human.

The Centrist Party supports the fact that we are all ‘Human’.

Creed, color, caste and orientation does not, and should not, matter when it comes to us living together as citizens in the United States of America. The great melting pot as it’s been called. While certain groups of candidates choose to divide people and America, The Centrist Party focuses on recognizing we are all Americans, and we are all human, and we all need to work together in order to achieve greater outcomes for our lives, and our country.

People can call themselves whatever they want, but that won’t change the fact we are all human. And that is the basis for the rights we are supposed to enjoy as citizens of The United States of America. Equal access to opportunity, equal application of justice and the law.

FBI Stats

FBI statistics show a substantial amount of registered hate crimes are based on perceptions regarding sexuality. The majority of hate crimes are still race based though. But in no way does that diminish the heninous nature of hate crimes in general. All hate crimes are bad.

Hate Crimes Categories as of 2020; FBI Stats:

63.3% Race/Ethnicity
17.6% Gender/Sexual Orientation
15.1% Religion

There has been a large scale push for decades to categorize people more. If a group experiences predjudicial treatment against, then that group tends to argue for acceptance. This is also normal.

With regards to sexual orientation we began to see in the 1980’s, the letters LGB for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual. In the 1990’s, we began to see LGBT to also include transexuals. And more recently we see LGBTQ which presumably includes Queer.

The left argues recognition is needed to reduce sexual identificatoin predjudice. The Democrats push the all inclusive model of acceptance and say that recognition is key to acceptance.

The GOP pushes the idea that sexuality is completely binary even though science clearly demonstrates that sexuality is not completely binary.

There are multiple factors in human sexuality to be considered. And common sense still says that we are all human. Factors regarding sexuality include:

Genetics
Biology
Birth order and number of births (recessive gene)
Social orientation
Environment

All of the above factors are being examined through science and statistics in physiology and sociology. Choice or no choice still should not matter. It’s not your business to judge another person simply based on differences. At the same time we all, judge each other. It does not matter that the bible says we should not judge, we do it anyway. There might be some super humans out there that don’t but has anyone ever met someone that never cast ‘any’ judgemnet upon another person?

The simplest solution is simply to accept that we are the human race. Color doesn’t matter. Caste doesn’t matter. Creed doesn’t matter. And whom people are attracted to is a matter of reality for each individual. For example: if you are not homosexual and don’t want to have a homosexual relationship, then don’t. But don’t think you have the right to condem others if they don’t see the world exactly as you see the world.

Science:

The science of sexuality shows us there are multiple factors. Chromosomes, neurochemistry, biological influences, environment, even personal choice give ones own circumstances, any any combination of such factors. The Centrist party’s position is not about right or wrong, it’s about human rights.

Why anyone chooses one person over another regarding attraction or personal identification is reliant on any combination of factors, but our goal is to see people as people. Not male or female. Not black or white, or yellow, or red. Besides, if we look at ourselves in grayscale we are all simply shades of grey. And genetically we are all decedent’s from Africa.

So, let’s grow up and realize we are the human race.

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Sport Competition

As to physiologic differences, it’s true, if you happen to be a 250 pound tackle in football, you should not play on the girls team just because you feel feminine. Example: in weight lifting and boxing, you qualify to participate in weight and ability classes. Same in Karate.

Strength matching in sports competitions is important but it does not need to based on personal identification. We can all play together. But in competition, to keep things fair. let’s consider strength and ability. That seems fair enough.

Bathrooms. Well, make em all unisex. Privacy is paramount still but a toilette is a toilette. Urinals can be separate of course. We are looking for solutions that work for society. And society will always have varying arguments. But simple and economical is not the worst goal in this argument.

Public Schools: Conservative/Progressive

The experiment with putting schools in churches was supposed to improve scholastic achievement. It was driven by lobbyists that wanted to get public money into schools located in or associated with churches. This does have implications regarding separation of church and state. Public education has been the bedrock of American endurance and progress since its founding. At this point we see that there are problems with performance in public and charter schools. It would be better and wiser for America to support performance based education in public schools. Yes, this phrase will upset school unions. but the unions need to support better education with ALL that that implies. In other words, better performance needs to be combined with better pay. We don’t live in a perfect world, but we need to incentives performance as that has traditionally demonstrated betterment as opposed to degradation. And yes, there will always be points that need to be negotiated and yes, we should continue to discuss as systems evolve and problems are become notable. For the church folks, if you want your kids in church, bring them there on Sundays as families have done for centuries now in America. But don’t put government money in your church. There was apparently a reason that Jesus turned over all the market tables in the temple. Let’s not mix government and God and let us follow the guidance on the founding fathers on this issue. Most of which were Christians or God fearing at the least, as indicated in our history.

CP supports public education

Retirement Age: Conservative

Increasing the retirement age is unpopular with voters. Unfortunately, so are all other reforms that would restore Social Security to solvency, including tax hikes and cuts in the formula for calculating full pensions.

Solutions for the Social Security problem are unpopular so no one fixes it. But that is not good governance. Here are the bad solutions: Raise the retirement age, tax hikes, cuts in pensions. Is there a best bad option? Or would a spread across the solution base be better. This is a fight needs to be addressed.
CP supports solutions that increase the security of Americas citizens. How we get there will take a focused effort.

Due to the lack of action in American governance on this issue for decades, we have made the problem bigger. Letting it slide is not an option. We, yes, this will sound silly to some, should even examine the cost variance of our elders living with us instead of moving into care homes. Yes, that takes more effort, but isn’t that what family is for?

All options need to be examined.

CP supports American citizens.

So we need to stop kicking this can down the road.

Sustainability

Economic sustainability means environmental sustainability
Environmental sustainability means economic sustainability

Economic and environmental sustainability are inextricably tied together in a world where resource usage exceeds sustainable economic capacity. Policy needs to be tied to sustainability issues.

Market Sustainability: Market Health

CP supports local scaled operations in meat farming.
Prices will then better reflect the capital costs long and short term and this will thus mitigate the externalized costs of said industries.

The disease vector risks combined with economic and environmental risks in both the short and long term indicate we need to end industrial meat ranching. These operations take advantage of both lobbying and defray the costs of their operations on to the government and the people.

In other words the industrial meat industry is not paying for current and future damage potentials as they have occurred and will rise in the future. That is not capitalism. That is corporatism.

CP supports regulation in the food industry regarding all ingredients that cause inordanant and adverse conditinos in human health especially when it impacts healthcare costs.
The Precautionary Principle and Economic Sustainability apply here.

With all due respect to the will of the people to pick their poison, we must address the fact that in the face of costs becoming increasingly insurmountable, and debt loads rising, it is the responsibility of government to protect the safety and “general welfare” of the nation and its citizens.

Taxation

There are many ways to tackle this beast. The national debt, individual debt. Governments run on taxes. Now, keep in mind that the intent of the US government, by decree, is to serve the needs of the American people and protect the nations interests. That means achieving relative balance in the global economy. So don’t think that we should not be involved overseas. If we stop Americas involvement around the world we might as well fold our tent and sell America to the highest foreign bidder.

CP supports a stronger tiered approach that better addresses the needs of the people and the nation
CP supports examination of eliminating the corporate tax and introducing direct VAT taxes that include externalized cost calculations
CP supports examining basic income. Will it help more or hurt more is an interesting question and are there ways to make it work better?
CP supports taxation relative to the task and challenge at hand

Anything less than adequate taxation and maximum efficiency and effectiveness of governance is undesirable.

This is an area that will require new thinking that will go against the trends that special interest have introduced. Balancing capitalism with government needs, which translated to the needs of the people and the nation and getting that in line with a healthier economy and a hopefully less challenging future all must be considered.

Transgender Athletics

Simple is best. First there is a difference between physio-biolgical differences, genetic differences, neuropathological differences and psychological differences. That said science actually indicates we are all a bit mixed between male and female. Mostly people are more male or more female. And some are less male and female. And some simply choose to identify psychologically as an opposing gender. This could be attributed to chromosomal issues or social psychological issues.

It is unfair for biological males to compete against biological females in sports. It’s as simple as that.

CP supports sport categories that match physio-biological identification based on physical construct of ones body, even if that body has been altered.

Yes, yes, we’ve really stepped in it hear. All the liberal wailing begins about how horrible the Centrist Party is. But here’s the thing: “people are people so why should it be you and i get along so awfully”. All we’re saying is we have to do our best to be reasonable. If a person wants to identify themselves as a female when the have the body of a male, that is their right, but it does not change certain physical realities. However, it does not mean it is fair to enter into competition against females and win all the medals just because such a person claims to be female. There are actual physical realities to be considered here.

If we want to be fair in sports, we should continue to match according to physiobiology.

Note: Since we are all male and female in different ways. there may be overlap is certain areas and we will need to consider that as well. So mostly simple, but not always.

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The ‘United States’ of America

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

The Centrist Party supports the ‘United States’ of America. The Founders chose a ‘United States’ of America as opposed to an ‘Un-united States of America’ to form our nation. This ‘united’ form of nation was chosen in order for America to be a ‘Great Country’ as opposed to a ‘weak country’. Therefore the CP is opposed to the secession of any State(s).

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During the Constitutional Convention of 1787 the Founders and State leaders argued out the points regarding a loose conglomeration of ‘States’ verses a ‘United States’ of America.

The results: Only a ‘United States’ of America could become a truly great nation. An ‘Un-united States’ of America would leave America weaker due to its inability to make decisions on behalf on the ‘National Interest’. If each State pursued its own interest the combined power of the United States would not be possible.

Thus, as demonstrated in the US civil war, secession is neither good for America, nor is it desirable as it opposes one of the key components of what makes America a ‘Great Nation’. Therefore, the CP does not support secession of States.

The notes regarding these arguments are contained in The Federalist Papers written by Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay.

Uptick Rule – Markets & Health: Conservative

The uptick rule (Rule 10a-1) has been credited with lowering market volatility and stabilizing market securities.

CP supports an independent review of the original uptick rule in contrast to variations for the rule that have been examined.

Rule 10a-1(a)(1) provided that, subject to certain exceptions, a listed security may be sold short (A) at a price above the price at which the immediately preceding sale was effected (plus tick), or (B) at the last sale price if it is higher than the last different price (zero-plus tick). Short sales were not permitted on minus ticks or zero-minus ticks, subject to narrow exceptions.”

Veterans -Those that serve: Liberal/Conservative/Progressive

Serving those that serve: Veterans deserve our commitment to their well being. Those willing to serve America in our efforts to protect freedom and liberty in our communities and States need our commitment to their ability to return to America.

CP supports a greater focus on skills education
CP supports a greater focus on reintegration
CP supports using military bases for transitions
CP supports transitionary status of military personnel for base employment

It is odd and disturbing that military personnel that serve our country often end up homeless upon their return to civilian life. They need our support AND we must never forget the support they provide for our country.

An interesting side effect of this is that it may help reduce some costs while enhancing military readiness in some areas.

Voting Rights

Voting Rights are vital for our Republic. The Centrist Party supports all efforts to extend voting rights to every citizen, at home or abroad. With policies that increase voter turnout, protect our most vulnerable communities and lower barriers to entry, we aim to guarantee the future of our democracy. The Justice Department has reported our voting systems are more secure than ever. Voters must be protected from unjust voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression.

The CP is open to any system that can solidly, fairly, justly an appropriately improve the quality of the vote to achieve better elections.

One interesting system is Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). This uses a system where the voter chooses a first and second or even third on the ballot. As of Sep 6, 2022, eleven States have already adopted and use RCV. Three additional States have adopted RCV and are working on implementing the system.

Ranked-choice voting in the United States

Voting Rights

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Constitution Leaves States in Charge of Voting

August 2, 1776: Declaration of Independence Frames Voters’ Rights

In the Declaration of Independence, signed on this day, Thomas Jefferson writes, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.”

June 21, 1788: Voting Left to States

The U.S. Constitution is adopted on this date, but in lieu of a federal requirement, it grants states the power to establish standards for voting rights. As a result, mostly white Anglo-Saxon Protestant males, who own property and are older than 21, are the only group allowed to vote. Article II establishes the Electoral College.

July 9, 1868: Citizenship Granted to All US-Born and Naturalized

Following the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery, the 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to all people “born or naturalized in the United States” and “equal protection under the laws,” including formerly enslaved people.

Black Men, Women Get Right to Vote

Voting Rights c. 1865

February 3, 1870: Black Men Granted the Right to Vote

The 15th Amendment is ratified, granting Black men the right to vote and Congress the power to enforce the right. However, laws, including poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses, are enacted in mostly Southern states, suppressing Black voting rights until 1965.

August 18, 1920: Women Get the Right to Vote

After decades of protest and struggles for change, the 19th Amendment is adopted, granting American women the right to vote: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” However, its passage does not stop mostly Southern states from restricting minority women from voting through the passage of discriminatory laws.

Native Americans, Asian Americans Gain Rights

Voting Rights c. 1865

June 2, 1924: Native Americans Granted the Right to Vote

Congress enacts the Indian Citizenship Act, granting the right to vote to Native Americans born in the United States. Despite its passage, some states continue to bar Native Americans from voting.

1943 Chinese Exclusion Act Ends

In the wake of World War II when the United States and China had operated as allies, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which had barred Chinese from becoming citizens since 1882, is finally repealed. Chinese immigrants and their American-born families become the first Asian Americans eligible to naturalize and gain citizenship—and vote.

March 29, 1961: Washington, D.C. Residents Can Vote in Presidential Elections

The 23rd Amendment is ratified, allowing American citizens living in the District of Columbia to vote for president and vice president. Prior to its passage, D.C. residents could only vote for those offices with valid registration in one of the nation’s states.

January 23, 1964: Poll Taxes Banned

The 24th Amendment is ratified, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in federal elections. “There can be no one too poor to vote,” President Lyndon Johnson says during a ceremony announcing the amendment.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

August 6, 1965: Voting Rights Act

President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, banning literacy tests and enforcing the 15th Amendment on a federal level. It also provides for federal examiners who can register voters in certain jurisdictions. Facing a flurry of legal challenges, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds its constitutionality in a number of rulings from 1965-1969. In 1970, Section 5 is extended for five years.

July 1, 1971: 18 and Up Can Vote

The 26th Amendment is signed by President Richard Nixon, granting the right to vote to U.S. citizens who are 18 or older. Prohibiting discrimination based on age, it lowers the age from 21, largely in reaction to the number of 18-20-year-olds fighting in Vietnam.

August 6, 1975: Rights for Non-English-Speaking Voters

In addition to establishing a permanent ban on literacy tests and other discriminatory voting requirements, amendments to the Voting Rights Act are signed into law by President Gerald Ford requiring districts with significant numbers of non-English-speaking voters to be provided with instructions or assistance in registering and voting.

June 29, 1982: Voting Rights Act Extended

President Ronald Reagan signs a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act. Revisions also reverse recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, making voting easier for people with disabilities and the elderly.

Accessibility Becomes Requirement

September 28, 1984: Voting Is Made Accessible

The Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 is signed into law by Reagan, requiring polling places in federal elections to be accessible for people with disabilities and the elder. It also states that if no accessible location is available, an alternative way to vote on Election Day must be offered.

May 20, 1993: Voter Registration Through DMVs

Also known as the “motor voter” law, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 is signed into law by President Bill Clinton. It requires state motor vehicle agencies to offer voter registration opportunities, states to offer mail-in voter registration applications, states to maintain current and accurate voter registration lists and opportunities to register to vote at certain state and local offices. In its first year, 30 million-plus voters update or complete their registration.

October 29, 2002: Help America Vote Act

Enacting sweeping voting process reform, President George W. Bush signs Help America Vote Act, mandating that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission improve and certify voting equipment, maintain the National Voter Registration form and administer a national elections clearinghouse with shared practices, among other items. It provides states with funds to meet the new standards and provisions.

Supreme Court Walks Back Voting Rights Act

June 25, 2013: Voting Rights Act Walked Back

In Shelby County v. Holder, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, rules that Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional, holding that the constraints placed on certain states and federal review of states’ voting procedures, known as preclearance, are outdated. Seen as a blow to civil rights activists, since the ruling, which affected nine states and several counties and townships, a federal commission found at least 23 states had enacted “newly restrictive statewide voter laws.” These include polling place closures, voter ID laws, limiting early voting and more.

Source: https://www.history.com/news/voting-rights-timeline

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The CP is:

Centrist Party Platform Framework

Economy:

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Environment

Healthcare

Political Reform

Security

Fixing the soil & eliminating the root rot.

Evidence & Reason

Protecting America Now & in the Future

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The CP position in the ideological perspective expressed in the following two venn diagrams:

Platform Detail Menu

CP Doctrine

Platform Planks

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The Centrist News

Centrist Party Platform Foundation

Economics: The Balance of Systems & Methods

Key Points:

The Keynesian Problem

The Work of the Hand & The Mind

Secure – Stable – Sustainable:

We Should Never Stop Learning

Skill – Innovation – Performance:

Energy is the Engine of Life

Clean – Safe – Sustainable:

Cleaning House

Clean – Safe – Sustainable:

Health & Well Being

Health – Food – Lifestyle:

Get the Money Out of Politics

Integrity – Honor – Humility:

Stability Equals Security

Key Points:

Honor – Integrity – Strength:

Key Parameters of the Basis of the Centrist Party Platform:

NOTE:

CP Platform Policy Issues/Position Planks

Article 2, Section 4

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

1st Amendment: Conservative/Progressive

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

The 2nd Amendment: Conservative/Progressive

WARNING: CONTROVERSIAL

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

The 2nd Amendment…

To reiterate:

Making it work for all Americans

14th Amendment​: Section 3.

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

25th Amendment​: Section 1.

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

Abortion: Pro Life & Pro Choice Rights

Pro-Respect, Life, Liberty

WARNING: CONTROVERSIAL

Libertarian/Progressive

Note: This plank is still in development as arguments are examined. We have published it early due as this issue has been highlighted by the SCOTUS decision. We present arguments regarding the CP’s perspective to give readers a good sense on the Centrist Party position on this important issue.

Let’s look at this more closely:

Pro-life by definition means the right to life is for all people:

Another thing to consider:

Research Perspectives

Anti-Corruption:

Anti-Fascist:

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

A story, post WWII:

Martin Niemöller

Anti-Legalized Corruption: Conservative

Anti-Racism:

THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE SAID.

Anti-Sophistry:

Conservative/Progressive/Democratic/Libertarian

14th Amendment: Section 3.

25th Amendment: Section 1.

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