Carl,

I just found a very large body of factual material on Wikipedia and several political “isms” that embody a lot of what I think is good (and bad).

First the existing stuff:

• Marxism Sidebar A rich collection of references to other related Wikipedia pages.

• Marxism

• Socialism Sidebar

• Socialism goods and services would be produced directly for use instead of for private profit driven by the accumulation of capital. Accounting would be based on physical quantities, a common physical magnitude, or a direct measure of labour-time in place of financial calculation. Distribution of output would be based on the principle of individual contribution.

• Social Democracy Sidebar A rich collection of references to other related Wikipedia pages.

• Democratic socialism. rejects centralized, elitist or authoritarian means of transitioning from capitalism to socialism. Democratic socialism advocates for the immediate creation of decentralised economic democracy from the grassroots level, undertaken by and for the working class itself.

• Category:Conservatism

• Conservatism

• Forms of Conservatism

• Progressive Conservatism  It stresses the importance of a social safety net to deal with poverty, support of limited redistribution of wealth along with government regulation to regulate markets in the interests of both consumers and producers.

• Progressivism began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in cities with settlement workers and reformers who were interested in helping those facing harsh conditions at home and at work.

• Classical Liberalism advocates civil liberties, political freedom, limited government under the rule of law, economic freedom.

• Liberalism a political philosophy or worldview founded on the ideas of liberty and equality

• Liberalism Sidebar A rich collection of references to other related Wikipedia pages.

So here are the political concepts that Frederick N. Chase favors.

1. In the above, I marked stuff I don't like and stuff I like.

2. A dominant world order (based on American Exceptionalism or not) is inferior to a collection of soverign nations (meeting UN-like to cooperate on transnational issues). Blocs of nations is an OK hybrid.

3. For North America, US Constitution-based evolution is vastly better than a revolution followed by some supposedly-better system.

4. Within a country, separation of Church and State is much better than having a state religion.

5. The 10 inscriptions of the Georgia Guidestones are good.

6. Social cooperation to severely limit the unearned income of hereditary rentiers is good.

7. He who does not work, neither shall he eat  and To each according to his contribution is closer to what we want than From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs) (which leads to the welfare queen and is totally unworkable beyond the tribal or village society). But a modern, heavily-interdependent society implies periods of education, public service, unemployment, sickness, and old age: recognition of this must be part of the calculus.