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-------------------- 2591 - SUPERVISING? - you should become “bystanders“?
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- If you are a bystander, or a supervisor, or a politician , observing conflict, there are at least 10 other things you can become. Become the voter. Look for these in today’s impeachment trial:
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------------------------------- Referee
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------------------------------- Mother, basically it is like raising children.
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- The provider helps people meet their needs by sharing ideas and resources and allowing them to feel secure and protected.
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- The teacher gives lessons in tolerance and joint problem solving.
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- The bridge builder forges relationships fostering dialogue and helping develop joint projects for the conflicting parties. If you noticed Republicans and Democrats are conflicting parties.
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- The mediator brings people to the table and helps reconcile conflicting interests. Mediators are especially good listeners.
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- The arbiter determines disputed rights and promotes justice. Arbiters must be seen as being honest and fair. The Chief Justice.
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- The equalizer helps build a collaborative democracy. Helping each side see a balanced point of view. Make certain each feels equally heard and equally said. This will be a challenge with Senate rules?
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- The healer repairs injured relationships.
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- The witness calls attention to early warning signs and escalations happening. Knows when to call chill, time-out.
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- The referee establishes rules for conflict and helps strengthen defenses on both sides.
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- The peacekeeper enforces the peace and preempts any violence. Sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you. I don’t know, some of those words are still hurtful.
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- These bystander behaviors will encourage people to air unresolved issues. Listen respectfully and carefully absorbing what each side is saying. Feedback your own understanding of what was said for clarification.
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- Conflict is natural. Conflict is a good thing because it is what brings about change. In people and in organizations and systems. Think of it that way.
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- Conflict is inherent in our democracy as free people. People you think for themselves. The best decisions come from surfacing different points of view and jointly searching for creative solutions. Could this happen in Washington D.C.?
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- Some of these bystander roles can become very subtle. They can take the form of inviting two people to have lunch with you. Simply asking if you can take a picture of the two of them. Invite them to a baseball game, poker, or other sporting event. Don’t try to avoid the conflicting ideas or opinions but encourage getting them on the table and dealing with them.
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- Conflict is a good thing. Just deal with it.
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- So, we have an impeachment to deal with. Is that a good thing? Maybe , if they take some of this advice. Attitude is paramount. How to make things better?
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- Stop the arguments between right - left?, conservative - liberal??, republican - democrat???
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- These are the wrong questions.
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- Think for yourself.
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- Do not follow the “political” leaders.
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- If you think for yourself you don’t need a leader. You become your own leader.
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- In America the leaders should be following you. Government works for you.
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- “We the People” are supposed to be running the show. 328,239,523 independent thinking, creative, ambitious, motivated, caring people are the governed and the government. 21% of this population is under age 21 but they should have a voice too.
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- If they all think alike then most of them are not thinking.
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- In 1860 Abraham Lincoln said the Constitution gave “liberty to all“, which clears the path for “hope to all” and by consequence enterprise and industry to all.
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- Society should be structured so that everyone has a job, “industry to all“. But, to do this society must be fluid and dynamic.
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- Globalization is a good thing. It has its costs. It has its pain. But it is competition and a rising tide that will raise all boats. Americans should not be afraid of China or India or Mexico and should not be protected from them. We just need to get the taxes and tariffs off US business so they can have a level playing field to compete. Our President is trying to level this playing field.
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- Competition is the name of the game. Clean competition makes everyone better.
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- For example, competition in a global economy will force our government to re-write the outdated, cumbersome income tax code. And, in a hurry.
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- It will force health insurance to be price competitive and reduce the burden off of US corporations, so they can compete more fairly.
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- Fair Trade Agreements by governments are never fair for the long haul.
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- The dynamics of capitalism will make the necessary adjustments. Government should be helping US companies compete, not stifling their abilities to compete, or coddling them, or their workers.
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- Welfare works this way, God helps those who help themselves. It does not work if everyone does not have some skin in the game. The victim is always the one with the most responsibility.
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- Education is in the same boat. The education system is there to protect itself. The “business” they are in is educating kids to be competitive in their lives. The education systems themselves need to be in this competition if their “business” is going to ever improve.
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- Fiscal responsibility means we live within our means. We must stop borrowing money from our children Every politician should be required to have the national debts paid off before they retire.
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- These basic principles came from 55 delegates representing 13 states in 1787. Only half were lawyers and only half had a college education. The average was 42, the youngest 27, the oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 81.
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- These founders of the Constitution represented these very principles in their own lives. Alexander Hamilton pulled himself up by his own boot straps. He was born in Scotland as an illegitimate child. At age 15 he came to America and entered King’s college (Columbia University). He joined Washington’s militia and became a lieutenant colonel. At age 30 he became a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. President George Washington selected him as the Secretary of Treasury at age 32.
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- Benjamin Franklin was 15 of 17 children. He was the son of a poor candle maker. He had 2 years of formal schooling. Yet, he grew up to be the founder of America’s first scientific society in 1743. He invented the pot-bellied stove and bifocal glasses. He showed the world that the spark and snap of a Leyden jar (a capacitor) was the same electricity as lightning and thunder in the clouds.
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- The next two scientists who tried to duplicate his kit flying experiment were electrocuted. Franklin invented the lightning rod to put on buildings to protect people. He chose positive as the flow of electricity before the electron was discovered to have a negative charge. Every student of electricity has had to follow his convention even though they also learn that electricity is the flow of negative electrons.
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- When Thomas Jefferson was asked by the French minister if he was replacing Franklin, Jefferson replied, “ No one can replace him, Sir, I am only his successor.”
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- When Ben Franklin gave the summary speech at the closing of he Constitutional Convention James Wilson had to read it because Ben was too weak. Ben said he did not agree with everything in the constitution but in 81 years he has learned that his judgment is not infallible and he would support the combined judgment of all the delegates. He asked everyone to keep their disagreements inside the walls and to go back to their constituents and support the Constitution whole heartedly.
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- The British Prime Minister Gladstone said it “was the most wonderful work ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man.” It offers lessons and examples to peoples throughout the world. It was the product of individuals thinking for themselves. They were not “politicians“. That is why I support term limits.
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