PREFERRED SEQUENCE: Political topics are best understood in terms of Constitutional basics, including currently proposed Constitutional Amendments. Thus, the Technidigm-2000 user should spend a great deal of time reviewing Constitutional Applications before delving into Political Applications. Since politics have a significant influence on the operation of government, Political Applications should be reviewed before Government Applications. Thus, the preferred sequence is: Constitution, Politics, Government, and Going Forward.
Each of the topics listed below is discussed as a level one opinion, which means that it springs from an honest attempt to avoid polarizing politics and any organizational agendae that might be promoted. The objective here is to educate the reader to understand that even opinions can be thoughtful, and that thoughtful opinions are worth reading as long as they are "on-the-level."
Some of the discussions provide the basis for applications and others provide explicit applications, sometimes even using Technidigm-2000 levels and systems terminology. In each case, the reader is free to elevate the details to level two by collecting additional relevant facts, or the level three by conducting relevant research. Of course, if a level four panel is convened, then that panel might ask for more level three research as well.
To achieve the luxury of convening a level four panel, at lot has to happen. For example, in an ideal world, deliberative bodies such as the U. S. Congress might provide level four legislation based on level three research and level two facts, applying their great knowledge and wisdom. Unfortunately, such deliberative bodies are primarily political and, thus, polarized and off-the-level. They compromise on everything as if compromise is a good thing. They are "bipartisan" on few issues, but even then they are still in the world of compromise.
So what? Well, until we start electing level four, on-the-level people, there will be few opportunities for most social ills to be resolved or even properly defined. Even the facts and research goals are changing with time, so it is probably best to spend our time developing level one opinions. In do so, we are practicing being on-the-level, at least, until the seemingly impossible arrival of the time when politicians are persuaded to be on-the-level, or we elect those who are and continue to be.
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