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I feel like a high school civics class dropout. So much confuses me, to this day, you see, about democratic constitutional legal equity, which feels like it should have WinWin original empowerment intent, about public and private rights, unbent protected against others' immoral and illegal, unrepent ed wrongs of infringement, and why we invest so much of our gross, and I mean really Gross, which ain't Making America Great nationalistic produce out of what could not possibly be public health outcomes. If governments are not for liberating and defending public health then how could we realistically hope for those constitutionally promised deliverables: well-being, happiness, prosperity? Obviously I missed the day when our high school civics and U.S. history teacher explained these complex relationships between public health and growing democratic interdependent WinWin trust. And truth, and public service life, and healthy-wealthy ways of building a resilient ecologically invested economically smart emotionally and cognitively intelligent society. For example, how did the Supreme Court buy into the argument that corporations have the right to buy and sell candidates for public office because, if they didn't, then our legislative regulators would thereby unconstitutionally restrict rights of free speech as stipulated by our First Amendment? I have the right to speak up for the public health benefits of marijuana as compared to alcoholic beverages, but do I have a first amendment right to purchase, carry, and consume marijuana? In communications theory, we differentiate between what is linguistic performance and what is not speech but non-verbal action, investment, divestment. Why would that distinction not apply to the First Amendment for white privileged patriarchal corporations and yet does seem to apply for just regular persons like you and me? I have the right to speak out for white nationalism. I could even argue that the abolition of slavery was an unconstitutional taking of personal property, but that would not give me the right to go out and buy a person, not even a candidate for public cooperative WinWin wealth service. It obviously was my misunderstanding that the First Amendment protection of personal (not incorporated) rights is restricted to free speech and peaceful assembly and real human biosystemic individuals with no more than two eyes and one voice-box. Now I'm trying to wrap my Left and Right Brain around First Amendment incorporated rights to buy and sell governing authority, rights to buy and sell democratic trust commitments to responsible and accountable and transparently free choice-speaking and democratic health investing, rights to buy and divest of cooperative cultural integrity to robustly serve in our public health sector for equal and interdependently informed, unformed, exformed, formed, reformed, preformed personal (not incorporated) voices unwilling to buy and sell pro-organic healthy resilient lives. I keep going back to historic constitution development notes about this resonant rhetorical First Amendment, trying to find a strict conservative defense of original intent that might responsibly, and healthily, stretch enough to include corporate freedom to peacefully purchase public assemblies and rent free-market corporate spokespersons for Win/Lose choices supporting short-term capital returns against ecological-organic long-term democratic healthy climate services predicting nothing but further Lose/Lose patriarchal retributive injustice as everyday capital-hoarding democratically unusual cynical and nihilistic privileged market freedom for inordinate inhumane over-investment in enslaving otherwise reasonably healthy minds and public spirits and trusting natures for freely communicating democratically resilient health services. Anyway, when I was in graduate school, studying political philosophy, and integral multicultural wealth-of-health design, we learned corporate investment in partisan political processes as a private sector unhealthy opportunity to grow white privileged economic buy and sell colonialism, sponsored and supported by xenophobic unhealthy minds. Which feels rather distant from protecting our informed rights to free and robust speech and peaceful assembly within and among this public service promoting resiliently wealthy eco-logical, unincorporated ego-therapeutic, diversely nonsectarian, interdependent integrity of these healthy uniting WinWin States somewhat less competitively invested in monotheistic anthro-exceptionalism.
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