Month: June 2018

National Organization for Science, Humanity, Information, and Technology Report

The National Organization for Science, Humanity, Information and Technology report 273.05.7, 20-06-2018

The National Organization for Science, Humanity, Information and Technology has released its most recent study on education, several other social behavioral factors, and their corresponding affect on voting preferences.

To complete this study, a random sampling of 75,000 people was taken from a control group consisting of 125,000 participants.  The study required 18 months to complete and each participant answered a 26-page questionnaire, which was divided into 7 distinct investigative areas, or chapters.  These areas of investigation were: level of formal education, geographic living environments, philosophical profiles, psychological profiles, religious beliefs and practices, sexual habits and preferences, and voting behavior.

The final report and white paper (Library of Congress # 18-7655092), available from the organization’s website, outlines an incredibly wide range of findings, which go well beyond mere correlation, and can only be explained as distinct characteristic properties of varying populations within the larger social construct.

Some of the more interesting findings were:

Those people who voted in a more progressive manner, as distinct from those who portray themselves as merely in the ‘liberal’ voting bloc, were overwhelmingly more educated, possessed a well balanced and egalitarian philosophical view of the world, were psychologically more stable, and possessed sexual norms which remain almost exclusively within the parameters of normal behavior and desires.

Conversely, among those people who voted in a more conservative manner, the study showed that those who identified themselves as ‘traditional’ republicans also possessed a level of education slightly above the mean value of the larger control group, and possessed a well considered philosophical view of the world.  However, this group also was more likely to suffer with issues on the peripheral margins of psychological disorders.  Chief among these were mild forms of bi-polar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.  This group also, like those identified in the progressive voting bloc, seem to possess sexual desires and behavior within socially acceptable norms, with only a 20% increase in a desire to experience what are identified as sexual taboos.

This desire to explore and experience sexual taboos was present with a heightened feeling of fear of rejection by close friends if these desires were ever expressed through actions, which the researchers believe may account for the rise in psychological disorders among this group.

Within the bloc that consider themselves to be ‘conservative,’ but not what is generally accepted as ‘traditional republican’ voter, the findings of the study were quite stark and revealing.  This group was distinguished in the study though a series of questions regarding conservative fiscal policy, foreign policy, domestic social policy, and religious belief structures.  No fewer than 15 questions were specifically structured to indicate an individual’s support for the current president.

This group had a staggering 98% positive attitude toward the current administration even though unrelated questions about tax issues (including wealth distribution inequities), education policy, and health care among others, showed a distinctly high level of disapproval with current initiatives.  These questions were placed within the study twice; once with wording completely unrelated to the persona of the president, and the second time reworded so that the initiative was expressed as an invention or policy of Mr. Trump.  This was especially true in questions about racial policy and equality, immigration policy, and global trade policy.

In an overall setting, the larger stream of data sets revealed the following: Respondents who identified themselves as conservative, but almost solely in relation to their attachment to Mr. Trump, and not based upon any consistent support for the traditionally conservative polices mentioned above, conformed to the following set of characteristics.  These people were 75% more likely than other groups to have no college education.  Of this group, 98% of them indicated no interest in ever attending college, and actually exhibited a fear and/or skepticism toward even the most basic post-secondary education.  Still within this group, 65% of them received a high school diploma, but more than half of these respondents, 58.7%, received a Graduation Equivalency Diploma (GED) from their State Board of Education.

Further, almost 99% of this group was not in possession of any holistic philosophical view of mankind and the world in general.  They were 77% more likely to identify themselves as religious conservatives, indicating a belief that A) the entire bible is the word of God, and B) that there is no error within the bible itself.  This is in stark contrast to almost all other groups within the study.  Even those within other identified groups who also identified themselves as religious conservatives, indicated a belief in the value of varying interpretations of scripture.

Regarding other areas of identified behaviors in the study, this group was 83% more likely than all other identified groups to suffer serious psychological maladies, which are, for the most part, untreated except through opioid-based medication.  Drug and alcohol abuse among this group, though elevated to some extent in most other groups, is rampant, with meth-amphetamines, being the primary drug of choice.

Lastly, the group that self-identified, above all other variants, as Trump supporters first and foremost, were 99% more likely than all other groups to prefer sexual relations with animals, rather than other humans.  Farm animals were preferred, but those who live in an urban or suburban environment seemed quite happy with any neighborhood dogs, or cats they can lure behind their trailer.  But who needs a study to figure that out.

Predictably, 100% of all respondents identified in all other groups agree that they would prefer if the trump supporters went ahead and just had sex with animals.  The rest of humanity doesn’t really want them to reproduce.

Each Of Us Must Now Choose a Side

“These aren’t people, they’re animals.”  These are the words of an American President.

I really need for each of you to allow that to sink in for a second.  A person who is supposed to be the leader of this ‘nation of immigrants’ and the ‘free’ world has declared, publicly, that the poor and marginalized people who are risking their lives to try to find a better life for themselves and their families are not even human, they are animals; they are brownish…or, really, more of a sandstone, medium to dark tan.  Anyway you look at it, they’re not moderately wealthy, Western Europeans.  They’re from shit-hole countries, and we don’t want them.

[Aside: no sane, Western European would ever want to come here.  I wonder why.]

If you have not actually listened to Mr. Trump’s comments, then you need to.  The person to whom he was responding made a comment regarding MS13 gang members, but Mr. Trumps comments, after he declares these people to be animals, quickly ventured into speaking about Latin American immigrants in general with no delineation between them and the criminal element about  which he began his comments.  This was not accidental.  This was not an oversight.  This was Donald Trump revealing his inner-most thoughts about our Latin American neighbors.  He has declared more than once that in his view these people who are fleeing the most horrid conditions any imperial, white citizen of the United States can imagine; people seeking asylum and safe harbor in the one country on this planet that is, by its very nature, supposed to welcome them, to be animals, something less than human and undesirable.

Please don’t mistake my meaning here. I’m not trying to minimize the brutality of drug smuggling/human trafficking cartels like MS13 and syndicates like them. However, as father Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit Priest who has spent almost his entire adult life working with the toughest gangs in Los Angeles states; he has never met a member of any gang who wasn’t running from something. That something is hopelessness, despair, poverty, and a host of other factors that can take any person from the loving image of God in which they are born, and transform them into the hating image of a devil sent to steal, kill, and destroy.

Every example from the life and teachings of Jesus, the Christ, was quite clear that people should not, and from a secular perspective the President of the United States CANNOT EVER, refer to people as something less than human.

Folks, this can no longer stand.  This is the issue on which we MUST confront our legislators in this country.  Each of them must declare whether or not they stand with Mr. Trump on this issue, or if they stand against him.  However they stand, we must demand that each of them state so, publicly, on the floor of the House or Senate.  They must place their cowardly asses on the record.  Here, now, in light of these words spoken by the president, it is now plainly (if not painfully) clear that you can stand with Jesus, or you can stand with Trump, but you can not do both.

Jesus said it best in His sermon: “No one can serve two masters.  Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and money.”                                                                              ~Matthew 6: 24

I wrote in my last post that we have to ask ourselves if this is what we want America to be, because as long as Mr. Trump sits in the White House, this is what America is.

These words are how it begins.  When you begin to characterize people as less than human, as animals, it makes it a lot easier to deport these people, to destroy the families of these people, to slaughter these people.  In a sermon I gave a little over a year ago I quoted from Father Martin Niemoller, a dissident priest during the Third Reich in Germany.  He said the following:

“When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent.  I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent.  I was not a social democrat

When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out.  I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews, I remained silent.  I wasn’t a Jew.

When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.”

I concluded my commentary on those remarks from Father Neimoller with the following admonition: “People, we are at a crossroads in the social evolution of this country.  We do not, any of us, want to have to ever say the following; ‘First they came for the immigrants…,’ because believe me, I don’t care who you are, if you don’t speak out, eventually they will come for you, and when that happens there may not be anybody left to speak out.”  Christ spoke truth to power, and if we are to be his followers, then so must we.

Even more frightening is that words like those spoken by Donald Trump a couple of weeks ago are the first steps toward genocide.  Words like those spoken by Donald Trump a few weeks ago are what allowed presidents and politicians of the 19th century to subject Native Americans to a systematic genocide.  Words like those spoken by Mr. Trump led to the lynching of black Americans.  Telling a nation that other people are less than human is what allowed people to stand silently by while almost nineteen million people, six million of them Jews, were sent to concentration camps and murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen.

Like Smoky the Bear used to say: “Only you can prevent genocide,” or something like that.  The only way to make smoky smile now is to do two things: always speak truth to power, and call out politicians without allowing them to double-speak their way out of an answer.

Niemand