Remaking America by George Shollenberger, Idea XIV (How Republicans and Democrats think)

The congressional debates over the economic stimulus proposed by President Obama reveals the way current Democrats and Republicans have developed and use their minds. From 1991-1994, I worked at the National Institute of Justice (NIH), U.S. Department of Justice. During this period, I was able to observe the behaviors of those Democrats and Republicans who became the Director when a new president entered the White House. If a new democratic or republican president entered the White House, a new Director was named.

Changing Directors will always cause NIJ to change its research projects because republican Directors assume that the cause of crime is ‘internal’ to the criminal, whereas democratic Directors assume that the cause of crime is ‘external’ to the criminal. Thus, republicans say that criminals should be caught and put into prison. Then, the keys should be thrown away. But democrats say that criminals should be corrected. Since these different views of crime form a pair of ‘excluded middle opposites,’ only one party is expressing the truth.

In the 1980s, I concluded that democratic view of crime is true . This finding occurred during Reagan’s administration. I concluded that all crime originates in the flawed symbolic languages we use and develops man’s mind. After George Bush became president, Dr. Robert Heath of Houston University agreed with my conclusion. But the University’s grant application was misinterpreted by a private sector peer review group. Here a major finding in the U.S. government was not understood by the private sector. Thus, the negative attitude of republicans about the poor performances of the U.S. government is wrong. Soon, I retired. Then, during my continued research, I learned that the writings of Jesus Christ confirmed my conclusion that flawed symbolic languages are the cause of crime. Jesus Christ is thus on the side of Democrats on the cause of crime.

As an independent voter, I cannot become a member of the Democratic or Republican party because both have turned away from the God that I worship.

However, the view of crime by republicans has a deeper cause. I’ll discuss this cause tomorrow.