It ain't over till it's over!!!

There are ANY number of dirty tricks that can still be played by the GW Bush-Dick Cheney-Karl Rove-John McBush-Sarah Palin Gang - and do be sure that they will try to play every filthy trick they think they can get away with. Election Day results are still a long, LONG time away.

And even after Obama is successfully installed in the White House, it will surely be a long, hard haul for the US (and for the rest of the world) to dig ourselves out of the enormous hole created during eight years of criminal leadership of the US by GW Bush and Gang.

So - do hold the celebrations for at least a couple of years, though we could mutedly raise a couple of restrained cheers if Obama's elected on Nov 4th. As someone stated at another forum: "It's not too late to get back to making this country a decent place for all..."

As an Indian, I do believe that this is an historic opportunity for every US citizen to start changing the US to the leading democratic nation in the world - its rightful position - instead of having the shameful distinction of being led by a bunch of thieves and scoundrels no less criminal than the Nazis of pre-WWII Germany.

GSC

It's entirely up to all of us to ensure this. I'm afraid that over the past eight years, US citizens have NOT worked in the right way to ensure that "What is good and right WILL prevail!" Which is precisely why that filth of GW Bush+Dick Cheney and Gang prevailed over the past eight years, at enormous cost to the USA and to the rest of the world (while daily proclaiming that he, GW Bush, was following direct instructions daily given to him by Jesus Christ!!!!).

I suggest that there are several things to be done to ensure that "What is good and right WILL prevail...":

1. People who wish this to happen need to get together MUCH more effectively than they have done in the past.

2. People who wish this to happen will need to communicate on issues MUCH more effectively than they have done in the past. In this context, the renowned systems scientist, John N. Warfield, has developed powerful means of working in complex systems, which enables people to discuss complex issues in systems effectively without getting into futile argumentation. In brief, Warfield has developed practical means to:

a) articulate and clarify to ourselves and each other what we perceive to be the 'elements' within the complex systems we discuss; and

b) create easy to understand models showing our perceptions of how these elements are related to each other.

Information about Warfield's seminal contributions to systems science are available at http://www.jnwarfield.com and also from the "John N. Warfield Collection" of books, papers and presentations held at the library of George Mason University (check out:http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/gmu/vifgm00008.tp - write to: specialcoll@gmu.edu).

Based on Warfield's foundational work, I've developed a very practical system, the 'One Page Management System' (OPMS), which enables individuals and groups at any level to articulate a Mission and then to develop, from their own currently available good ideas, continuing 'Action Planning' to accomplish the Mission, whatever it may be. The Mission could be, for instance "To dig ourselves out of the hole that we have dug for ourselves through eight years of maladministration and filth by GW Bush and Gang". If that's agreed to be a worthwhile Mission, the first step is to ask ourselves the 'trigger question':

"What, in our opinion, are the THINGS TO DO To dig ourselves out of the hole that we have dug for ourselves through eight years of maladministration and filth by GW Bush and Gang?" (Responses to this would be the first 'elements' for the Mission).

Putting our ideas effectively together (without fruitless argumentation) would need some modeling showing how the various elements "contribute to" each other and to the Mission. Continuing development of this and other such models would lead to the needed consensus Action Plan to accomplish the Mission.

To do this in practice would require some means to display and discuss the models, which we cannot do using the pure prose currently employed at this forum. We would need to show and discuss our models to each other. This can be done, but it does require some facilities to display and discuss these models. I'd be very happy to provide full details of how this could be done to anyone who would write to me at gs (underscore) chandy (at) yahoo (dot) com. There is freely available a useful software package that enables recording of elements and development of models employed in the OPMS.

-- GSC

The email id to get access to the John Warfield Collection at the George mason University Library is

"speccoll@gmu.edu"

(and not as provided in my earlier posting).

My regrets for the goofup.

GSC

...(as "futhark" claims) Cindy Sheehan has become an 'unperson' at Salon. If so, you should rethink. As futhark points out, it was Cindy Sheehan's revolt against the GW Bush filth-machine that has done so much to create the awareness in the US public that real change is required...which change now may become possible if Obama wins on Nov 4th....

GSC