Voting Perception-Action
Voters can act more in their own best interests when they have foreknowledge of the ways their normal perceptions and anticipations get used against them.
Voters get misled by listening to gatekeepers, by focusing on near-term negatives, and by looking for positives.
Envision Best Actions
Even in the best circumstances, making sense of new information takes a lot of attention.
This human limitation gets exploited by media people, activists, and politicians. All of these gatekeepers draw our attention to their priorities and away from ours.
To get on course and stay there, we need to generate a stronger setpoint signal ourselves. We can do this by considering these fundamentals:
- What action would a government person take if he supported the Constitution on a given issue?
- How would this action impact what matters most: life, then liberty, then property?
- What overall course of action would best make our rights secure?
Legislators currently spend most of their time taking unconstitutional actions. They grab the executive power to allocate budget line-items. They grab the executive power to manage the faithful execution of rules and sanctions.
Executives also currently spend most of their time taking unconstitutional actions. They enact regulatory rules and sanctions. They interfere with our saving, working, and shopping. They command troops in undeclared wars. They enact tariff taxes.
We need legislators to spend most of their time formally repealing the many unconstitutional existing statutes. We need executives to spend most of their time closing the many unconstitutional administrative departments and agencies, and recommending formal repeals.
We can help ourselves get on course and stay there by making good use of a constitutionalist voting scorecard.
We can use a scorecard to help us appreciate how little government action gets voted on in a given session. We can read the positions taken in the scorecard to help us review our own thinking. We can gage how well a politician supports the Constitution based on his votes—in the most-recent session, and in past sessions when his party was in power and his votes helped decide what could become law.
A time-tested voting scorecard is John Birch Society’s Freedom Index. The Freedom Index explains constitutionalist positions on major votes, and scores the votes of congressmen and state legislators.
See Long-Term Negatives
In most counties, most voters strongly desire to live freer and to live better.
Progressives are the USA’s socialists. Some are business-crony socialists, and others are activist-crony socialists.
To the extent that there is freedom, producers are controlle
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