Our American self-governance is currently faced with literally thousands of simultaneous and complex issues,
that are tending to overwhelm our government and leave American citizens angry and divided. Each of us experiences this explosion of complexity like the characters in the famous story about the blind men and an elephant -- each of us sees parts of a larger whole no one can see completely. We need to work together in the context of this complexity, each of us taking up some facet of social responsibility, getting in-synch with other citizens considering other facets.
The "bullet point cloud" creates a soft but detailed statistical approach to building unity, enabling each of us to quickly define ourselves and our views. This establishes our common ground and helps overcome the narrowing limitations of individual psychology. It brings us into resonance with the larger whole and opens the way to teamwork and cooperation where today we find ourselves in conflict.
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The cloud builds resonant unity from a million independent points
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Find the time to listen
Follow the Golden Rule
Offer experience instead of advice.
Question old assumptions, look for new insights and common ground
Remain open-minded
Seek to understand
Speak authentically about what has personal heart and meaning
Treat all participants with respect
Trust and understanding:
I want to trust the other members of the Alliance.
I want to understand the other members of the Alliance.
Principles I agree with:
Issues are complicated. Nobody can master every aspect of every issue. To make good decisions, we have to work together and learn from each other.
Issues are interdependent and interconnected. We must approach them in context.
It might be true that people who disagree with me on an issue are seeing an aspect of the issue I wasn't aware of.
Just because I believe something doesn't mean I am right about it. Sometimes it's a good idea just to admit I don't really know for sure.
My personal definition of a word or concept may not be THE definition, so I should strive to understand a speakers' intended meaning of a word or concept, and not impose my own.
There will always be opposing and conflicting positions on issues. This is natural, and a creative part of a healthy politics.
We can work together successfully even if we disagree on issues.
My Values
I support or believe in these values:
All persons must have equal rights
Citizens and their leaders must assume personal accountability and responsibility
Government must reflect the will of the people
No religion or religious value should be imposed on all people
Political decisions affecting society as a whole should be balanced with respect to society as a whole
The will of the people must be constrained by principle
We must learn to work together in a constructive spirit
We must strive to maintain the unity and integrity of our nation
Within reasonable limits, society should maximize individual personal freedom
My Issues
I am interested in these issues:
"God yes, Christianity no," said founding fathers
"money = freedom of speech" is pure nonsense
50 char 2 small to xpress meaningful stance on CT
9 Civility Tools should guide political discourse
a blight over America
aaa new issue
aaa test issue
Abortion
Abortion is 3% of Planned Parenthood services.
Adjust social activities to maximize common good
All Humans are Created Equal
All political power is inherent in the People
Alternative Medicine and Healthcare
American Disabilities Act was good for America
Anger in Society
Balanced constitutional interpretation is critical
Balanced Judgment
Big Money in Politics
Big Pharmas should not control supplement laws
Boycott Bank of America. B of A has not paid taxes
Bring innovative ideas and solutions
Bring NCDD trainers to Congress
Campaign Finance Reform
can't live without it
Church and State
Citizen Participation and Engagement
Civil Discourse
Civil Rights
Civil rights are human rights
Climate Change
Collective Bargaining
Congress Reps should do 4 townhall meetings/year
Cooperation
Corporate Power
Corporate Taxes
Corporations must be good citizens.
corporations must be governed in public interest
Corporations must pay fair share. Close loopholes.
Corporations must pull their weight in America
Corporations must report profits where earned
Create Action Oriented Constitution
Creating jobs is our number one priority
Creating Opportunities for Conversation
Current health care can be a death sentence
Death penalty
Deficit Reduction vs. No Tax Hikes
Defining, exploring, learning/teachng
Democracism
Developing Collective Intelligence
Developing the TagNet system
Disabilities
Disrespectful commentators are bad for the country
Distribute the Fed's powers over more gov. bodies
Divide companies so that none are too big to fail
Do not increase taxes on the wealthy
Drugs
Education
Election Reform
Elections matter-get involved with your candidate
Eliminate the personhood of corporations
End all tax breaks for GE
End corporate welfare.
End tax breaks for those making over $250,000
Energy
Environment
Every issue researched not demigogued
Every tag should affirm a desired view or fact
Expedite legal immigration processing
Fact-Check Your Own Opinions First
Fair taxation for everyone considered a "person."
false beliefs for avoiding cognitive dissonance
Federal Reserve
Focus on health, not sickness
Food
Fragmented or Disjointed Thinking
Free enterprise focuses people into serving others
Free Market Capitalism
Freedom
Gangs
GE should pay its fair share of taxes
Give voice to stakeholders
Global Warming is not a proven theory
Gov is instituted solely for good of the whole
Government Distributes Society's Wealth and Power
government serves and protects the common good
Governments fund vital things the market will not
Grassroots Mobilization
Guns
Haiti
Harold Hein's call for use of reliable information
Headstart programs help kids stay in school
Health Care
Homelessness
How do we determine who is a bad teacher?
Human Trafficking
Hunger
I am pro-choice. It's a woman's decision.
I can't figure this out.
I LOVE this!!!
I support healthcare reform
Immigrant kids are good-will fund Social Security
Immigration
Implementing Simpson-Bowles
In a free society we need adult, active citizens.
Inclusion and Diversity
It is confusing!
It works great!
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General electric, must go.
Jobs
Justice
Lack of self-restraint compels regulation
Laissez faire free-market capitalism is dangerous.
Legalize it all-use health care- not criminal
LGBT Issues
Life begins at conception.
Local Meetup groups are useful
Lower the Corporate TaxRate to 20% - no deductions
Making Unions Relevaant in the 21st Century
Making Unioons relevant in the 21st Century
Media
Men
Mistrust
Misunderstanding
Money in Politics
Moratorium on Nuclear Reactors
More bipartisan deliberation
More funding for clean energy
More funding for clean energy
Mothers should stay with children until school
naming directs energy, blaming wastes energy
National Debt Crisis
National Security
National Unity
Native Americans
needs some anti biotics and Vitamins
Negative Politics
Neutralize Citizens United
Neutralize Citizens United
Neutralize Citizens United
Neutralize Citizens United
Neutralize Citizens United
NFTA has cost our jobs to outscorcing repeal it.
No corporate personhood
Not knowing what is true hampers everything.
Nuclear Power
Obama should fire Jeffrey Immelt as Jobs Czar
Offer Americans training in civil communication
One People, One Nation
Our participation belongs in the soup kitchens too
Outlaw high-capacity magazines
Parental notification required below age 18.
Partisanship in Politics
Peace
People CAN work together!
Political language can be very divisive
Privacy
Promote and Model Civil discourse
Promote forums for Participation and Engagement
Promote public consensus
Promote public sector transparency/accountability
Prosecute Wall St. bankers who committed fraud
Public schools should make condems available.
Public schools should teach sex education.
Race
Raise taxes on the wealthy to bring down the debt
Raise taxes on the wealthy to bring down the debt
Random Selection Public Officials
Ranked Ballot is t prfct marriage of Jstce & Frdm
Ratify Group's, Core Values, Principals, and Goals
Reforming Congress
Restrict corporate kickbacks to Congress
Return TMR to Eisenhower levels not just Clinton.
Rights of the community outweigh individual rights
Rude people not allowed in townhall meetings.
Rules of rational engagement are needed
Same human rights for all people!
Sex education should be taught in the home only.
Social Security and Entitlements
Social Security is not entitlement, is insurance.
Some limits on fed worker collective bargaining
Something is broken - I am getting an error.
Spin and Distortion
Support No Labels transpartisanship agenda
Support No Labels transpartisanship agenda
Support No Labels transpartisanship program
Support Simpson/Bowles Recommendations for SS
Support the new healthcare reform law
Sweet Tool to Find Others in an Info Wilderness
Take away our guns and only bad guys will rule
Tax breaks should benefit country broadly
Taxes
Terrorism
Test issue from Bruce
The Culture of Blame and Accusation
The Market System does not exist
The Obama Justice Dept. must be more aggressive
The Role of Government
The Spirit of Democracy
The USA has a great form of government
the word promotes fear rather than problem solving
There comes a time when it becomes a duty
They should be the same worldwide.
This could be an important invention let's try it!
This is pretty easy once you get the idea!
Too Big to Fail
Too dangerous to sustain
Train citizens in good communication techniques
understanding the base to deal with the problem
understanding the process
Unscientific or Irrational Thinking
USA Constitution
Use Non-Violent Techniques of Marshall Rosenberg
Violence
Wall Street bailout
Water
We can be advocates and be civil at the same time
We can overcome political Babel
We don't want corporations to govern.
We Must Balance "NoTaxes" w/ need for No Deficits
We must be able to fire bad teachers.
We need a sub-tag concept, for more detail
We need not agree, we must respect.
We The People must offset the sway of corporations
Welfare
what has happened to the middle class?
When possible, replace anger with understanding
Wisdom
Wisdom: the interconnection of concepts to reality
Woman are individuals in their own right
Women
Work together to end unwanted pregnancies.
You benefit from a healthy nation--contribute.
My Interests
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I am interested in these areas:
Collaboration and teamwork
Collective intelligence
Community organizing
Conscious evolution
Environmentalism - ecology, green
Global shift
Group process - dialogue, circles
Holism
Integral design
Populism - voice of the people
Psychology
Spirituality
Systems engineering and cybernetics
Transpartisan politics
Universal oneness
Women's movement
My Orientation
I identify with these descriptions or groups:
Activist
Advocate
Agnostic
Altruist
Atheist
Capitalist
Centrist
Coffee Party
Communitarian
Conservative
Constitutionalist
Democrat
Educator
Environmentalist
Federalist
Fiscal conservative
Fiscal libertarian
Follower
Globalist
Green
Humanist
Independent
Internationalist
Leader
Leftist
Liberal
Libertarian
Mystic
Neo-conservative
Non-interventionist
Organizer
Pacifist
Patriot
Peacemaker
Populist
Programmer
Progressive
Religious
Republican
Social conservative
Socialist
Speaker
Spiritual
Tea Party
Theocratic
Theorist
Transpartisan
Universalist
Volunteer
Worker
Writer
My Themes
These themes or solutions resonate for me:
All is one
Bring all factors to the table
Build a wisdom culture
Build trust
Co-creativity
Collective intelligence
Common ground
Community
Computer support for complex issues
Connect the good
Conscious evolution
Dialogue
Diversity empowers creativity
Divine guidance
Everybody on the same team
Everything is connected to everything else
Expertise from everywhere
Find enough time
Global shift
Golden rule
Heal the nation
Holistic vision
Integral context
Listen to all voices
Look for ways to understand
Many minds sharing big tasks
Meditation
More friends and fewer enemies
Mutual respect
My neighborhood
One nation, one people
Overcome spin and distortion
Prayer
Realize the full potential of democracy
Resonance
roses are red, violets are blue
Sacred circles
Servant leadership
Shared purpose
Solutions that work for everybody
The blind men and the elephant - see all aspects
The Civil War is not Gone with the Wind.
Tolerance for Religion
Transcend and include
Transpartisan unity
Unity in diversity
Voice of the people
We are the Human Network
Yes we can
