• Before the Age of Reason, Ancient beliefs held that a woman whose hands and feet were bound before being thrown into a pond was only innocent if she drowned.
  
  
• Today in America the rule of law rejects that lunacy as illogical, because the rules of formal logic acknowledge that it is impossible to prove a negative. The accuser is required to prove the accused did something: The accused is not required to prove she or he did not.
  
  
• Unfortunately, there still reamains a few savage brutal primative societies that still trod the medeivle path ruled priests of Ancients beliefs that condone defy reason to wallow in unending misery, e.g. societies that squander the life of a child to murder other innocent children. A sin born as much by those who stand in silence as by those who commit the act.

• Choose those principles from with the ever wider gap between the increasingly "polarized", "monopoly parties", i.e. lie between the extreme margins defined by that gap using principles evolved during the Age of Reason as first-principles that culminated in, and are embraced by, the Declaration of Independence.
  
  Less Socialism-based than Democrat policies. Less morality-based than Republican policies.
• Are more than just the alter ego of a single person,
  
  
• Offer a set of broad principles, i.e. are not a gaggle of people with a single issue, and
  
  

"Coin-Flip Election" is a TAPP-defined term that refers to 50% 50% election results produced by principle-free candidates of the two "monopoly political parties" who use equally matched consultants, with equally powerful computers, to pick an inconsistent set of wants predicted to buy 51% of the majority of Americans. However, being equally matched and principle-free, guarantees their parsing of Americans will always be close to 50% - 50%.

The results are bad for America:

• The majority is neutered -- 50%-50% guarantees most voters is canceled.
  
  
• Fanatically committed minorities are empowered -- their trivial number decides for the neutered majority.
  
  
• The neutered majority loses interest in voting, or decide to fence sit during elections so they can buy influence from a principle-free winner later.
  
  
• 50% - 50% results render America ungovernable -- it invites losers to adopt "if I can't have it I will spoil it" behavior, whereas a more decisive result would not.
  
  
• Voter fraud soars: To overturn a decisive result, a person must risk more fraud than most people will accept. However, the amount of fraud that must be risked to overturn a 50%-50% result seems trivial enough to tempt people who think of themselves as honest.

"Consumers" are the people or entities that pay value to buy the goods or services produced by "producers".

"Controlled Market" is a "market" in which the government dictates what goods or services "producers" produce.

"Democracy" is a form of government whose ethic is a simple majority vote by its citizens.  It is often described as majority rule, and it is a form of government rejected by America's founders in favor of a "republic".   See also: "tyranny of the masses".

"E Pluribus Unum" is America's motto.

Is best translated as "Out of many, [is] One."," One out of many" or "From many, [comes] One."

It is the source of the wonderful American metaphore -- "Melting Pot"

It is a direct controdiction to the false metaphore suggested America's detractors -- "Mosaic"

"Employee Stock Ownership" is a form of "free enterprise" in which the "enterprise" is owned by its employees. It is an alternative to "capitalism".   Note: Employee stock ownership is implemented through plans that grant tax subsidies no longer represent "free enterprise".

An "Enterprise" is a serious undertaking by a person ( "entrepreneur" ) or other entity (corporation, partnership, organization, etc).

An "Entrepreneur" is a person who engages in a "business enterprise".

"Ethics" is a branch of knowledge whose premise is that a "principle good" exists by which all things humans do, say or think can be judged good or bad.

An "Ethic" is a specific set of principles adopted by a person or entity to define the "principle good" of "ethics".

"False Pride" see "Seven Deadly Sins"

"Finders-Keepers" is a method of "natural resource management" in which the person of entity that first discovers or stakes a claim to a "natural resources" assumes eternal ownership of it.  Note: "Finders-keepers" is the "ethic" of "capitalism".   TAPP belives that was a rational prior to 1900, but that it is no longer a valid one.

"Foreign Trade" is a general term that means "inter-market trade" among two of more "markets" delineated by national political boundaries.

"Free Enterprise" is an "enterprise" that is not subject to significant government control over decisions made by "producers" and "consumers".   Note: Government control includes acts like granting tax exemption to employer-paid health insurance premiums but denying it to individually purchased health insurance.

"Free Market" is a "market" that permits "free enterprise".

"Free Trade" is "Inter-Market Trade" that occurs between or among "Free Markets".   Note: Trade with "Controlled Markets" of Socialist/Corrupt governments is "open trade" not "free trade".

"Incumbent Protection Laws" mean laws that regulate an individual's ablity to support a political candidate.

Those laws are written by inumbents, but because those laws can be written to to bestow advantage on incumbents over challangers, those laws are written by people serving in a classical "conflict of interest".

TAPP belives the result is exactly as human nature predicts for honest people who act while subject to a "conflict of interest". -- blinded by their conflict, they pass "scrupulously fair" law that just happen to result in an incumbent reelection rate that hovers at or above 90% all levels of government in America.

TAPP believe the most significant distortion is that laws give people with free time a huge advantage over people who are more gainfully employed. E.g. People A person enjoing of seeking government payments can spend say 1,000 hours working to elect people who promise to pay her or him more. However, a person who works for a living is put in jail if instead they gave a challanger $20,000 to hire a similar amount of help (i.e. @ $20/hour). Fair is permitting both individuals to deliver the same amount of help regardless of whether it is in free time or money. Because incumbents have entire constiuencies dependent on government money -- and a large amount of free access to large numbers of people -- this inequlaity puts challangers -- especially those who belive in self-reliance and individual inatiative -- at a disadvantage.

Other names for these laws are "Political Campaign Reform Laws", "Campaign Reform Laws", and "Election Reform Laws".

"Intra-Market Trade" is "trade" that occurs between "producers" and "consumers" that reside in a single "market" defined by political boundaries.

"Inter-Market Trade" is "trade" that occurs between "producers" and "consumers" that reside within a collection of "markets" that are defined by political boundaries.

• Whose goals are based on a set of principles ( or "ethic" ) it is willing to state in writing, and
  
  
• That enforces compliance with those principles by candidates who claimed Party membership to get elected after such candidate is elected.

"Market" is a collection of "producers" and "consumers" that is defined by a common characteristic.   "Markets" can be delineated by geography/political boundaries (World, Asian, China, Hawaii, local, etc.), or by product (SUV, teen fashion, etc.). There are "free markets", "controlled markets" and "monopolized markets".

"Melting Pot" is the metaphor that distinguishes America's unique common-principle-based defintion of nationality from the pre-America world's common-bloodline-based defintition. It refers to a metalurgist's melting pot or crucible in which new alloys are forged from baser metals. [more]"

A "Monopolized Market" is a "market" in which ownership/control of natural resources is restricted to one, or a very few entities, by virtue of:

• "finders keepers" ownership of the land that holds the resources, or

• the amount of capital necessary to create an entity capable of competing in the extraction and processing of the resource being too great to permit the formation of new "business enterprises" to compete with the existing ones.

A "Monopoly Political Party" is a TAPP-defined term to simplify reference to the Democrat and Republican Parties when the context in which it is used applies equally to both, e.g. America's two Monopoly Political Parties guarantees polarization.

"Mosaic Metaphor"

"Natural Resource" is a thing of value that is not produced by capital or labor: Some examples are 1) land, 2) the atmosphere, 3) oil, coal, gas and radioative elements, 4) minerals, 5) water and 6) TV and radio electromagnetic frequencies.

"Natural Resource Management" is the mechanism by which natural resources are allocated within a "free market".  Note: "capitalism" adopts "finders keepers" as its "natural resource management" "ethic". DeBeers Diamond minds are a specific example.

A "Non-Legitimate Political Party" is a "political party" whose guiding ptrinciples or "ethic" are to gain control of the reins of government power to acquire the spoils such power bestows for the benefit of its members. The efficacy of a tactic or strategy, not its consistency with a set of higher principles, determines the actions it takes: Instead of championing a set of higher principles, it merely parses voters by their wants, literally by street address, until it assembles a collection of wants sufficient to buy 51% of the votes -- and curses America with today's ungovernable coin-flip results.

"Open Trade" is "inter-market trade" that occurs between "markets" without regard to whether they are "free markets".

"Political Polarization" describes a system with only two mutually exclusive choices that makes a polarized system inherently unstable and discontinuous. The danger of entrusting a government's unlimited power to a polarized system should be self-evident, and it should be equally self-evident that is exactly what America's two monopoly parties have imposed on it.

1. Exactly two of anything guarantees polarization, and

2. It is impossible to polarize three of anything.

"Pride" see "Seven Deadly Sins"

"Principle Good" is the principle, or set of principles, that classical "ethics" holds should be used to judge whether things humans do, say or think are good or bad.

A "Political Party" is an organization that collects donations of time and money from members and uses them for the purpose of electing people to public office who will pursue goals agreed upon by the members.   See also: "legitimate political party". and "non-legitimate political party".

A "Producers" are "business enterprises" that produce the goods and services exchanged in "markets".

"Self-Evident Truth" describes an idea that is beyond debate. It is an idea that is asumed to be as much a part of the fabric of the unverse as gravity, and like gravity, it cannot be modified by humans. For example it is not within the power of a U. N. Committee to modify a self-evident truth. A self-evident truth is like the word "Orange". We either all agree "that is orange" or we don't. Additional words neither add to our understanding, or are they capable of changing its meaning.

"Simple Majority Rule" See "tyrany of the masses".

"Sophomoric" describes individuals who have been educated to the point of cleverness, but not to the level of intellectual honesty.  They subscribe to "situational ethics". Their tactic is to knowingly ignore context when interpreting words, and/or to intentionally confuse words that sound similar, but have materially different meanings.  For example, Sophomoric individuals deny the material difference between equal and identical to argue that people are not born equal, because they have different weights when born. The ACLU argues with cunning and cleverness, but not intellectual honesty, to confuse freedom and license to use the support of America's founders for freedom to justify the ACLU's goal of "license" to do anything that pleases them.  Sophomoric people rationalize their wants instead of reason to the truth.

"Spin" is a 20th century euphemism for use of intellectual dishonesty to mislead to the point of intentionally lying. It is used by politicians who dishonestly claim to hold a virtuous principle, but that she or he had no intention of honoring. Spin is the lie told in the hopes of plausablly rationalizing the politican's actions that are inconsistent with the principle she or he once claimed. In fact, today the public has been so numbed by increasingly idiotic rationalizations excused as spin, they have lost their ability/will to respond to even the most blatent lies. Bald face lies are meet with "all politicans lie" instead of for demands to remove the ones who do. [The use of spin is shared by supporters of such politicans who, not suprisingly, do not with thier candidate's power to be constrained by consistency with the principles claimed to get elected].

"Republic" is a form of government that denies the reins of government's unlimited power to the simple majority voting anonymously. Instead, a Republic limits the role of citizens to electing a smaller number of representatives who must exercise government's unlimited through a process in which the representatives debate and vote in public.

The purpose is to to protect citizens against the "tyranny of the masses" that invariably results from simple majority voting anomalously in a pure "democracy". In the American Republic, the representatives were further limited by a set of citizen rights that American's adopt as "self-evident" (beyond debate), God endowed in the individual, and unalienable. Over these rights, the Representatives have no power regardless of how large the vote.

"Seven Deadly Sins" : Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and False Pride.

Note: There is an important distinction between a feeling of accomplishment and false pride that is overlooked by most people who refer to pride as a sin. [more]"

"Situational Ethics" is the antithesis (opposite) of classical "ethics", that holds "Good" or "Bad" depends on how the person(s) making the judgment feels about each and every situation as it presents itself. When permitted among those who hold the reins of power inherent in a public office, it leaves the governed totally at risk to the whims of the power holder. "Good" and "Bad" change from day to day, because those who have no stated anchors to which they can be held:

• Are easily swept away by the tide and "tyranny of the masses", - women were burned to death as witches by people who thought it "Good" in that situation.
  
  
• Easily persuade themselves that "Good" now includes changes that benefit their friends and contributors -- while those it hurts should be willing to sacrifice for the new "Good" of the many.
  
  
• Conclude that those against whom they bear a grudge are obviously "Bad" in all other ways -- Senator Waxman's conclusion that free speech is a good thing except with respect to radio stations that challenge his wisdom and right to rule.

"Third Political Party" is a class of "political party" that:

• Acts as the alter ego of a rich woman or man, e.g. Perrot and Forbes, or
  
  
• Are a gaggle of people committed to a single issue who are uninterested in the broader concerns of all other people.
  
  
• Adopt policies that lie outside the boundaries defined by two increasingly "polarized" "monopoly parties", i.e. lie outside the extreme margins defined by that gap -- to the left of Democrat postions or right of Republican ones.

"Trade" is the exchange of goods and services for value.  "Trade" is the primary activity of a "business enterprise."   Note: "free trade" and "open trade" are profoundly different.

"Two-Party System" means a political system in which there are only two "legitimate political parties". The existance of one or more "third political parties" does not matter.

"Tyranny of the Masses" is the result of simple majority rule in a pure "democracy", because the "ethic" of the simple majority is frequently emotion that is not tempered by education or encumbered by a set of unquestionable principles.

"Wonderful Variety" refers to the collection of all things good from the many different home nations of the ancestors of today's Americans. Variety, is the correct term for what makes America strong and good. Only people ignorant of language, history and the central concept of Ethics would promote diversity whose root of course is "to divide". Houses divided do not stand. And for all of time, as today, the evil of large scale violence is only found in socities with "diverse" beliefs and principles. In a society united in the belief that "thou shall not kill", only the ignorant of those of evil intent could seriously demand that "I do, because I can" must be respected to provide diversity of thought.