To keep from being faceless and boring always answer questions with unpinning philosophy. Don't say things like: "Yes, I agree with the caller. My record shows I support retirees..." Instead: "The caller brings up whether society as a whole is responsible for retirees or are they individually responsible and too bad for the losers."

Under  the warrior's perceptions of competition, confront to conquer, good and evil, many parts of society achieve mediocrity with high expense. By taking a different perspective, an intellectual win-win approach the quality of life in our society can improve by quite a lot.

Interestingly, religious conservatives and intellectuals share one thought: things are not the way they should be. To preserve the concepts of the U.S. Constitution, intellectuals better get moving to provide enough quality of life to the religious conservatives to keep them happy and in check.  This is normal in every society around the world.

The Republican Party is going through one its many revolutions: from warrior confrontational to evangelical caring for the flock. Just note that earlier Republicans were populists, like Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. Could this change be permanent?

Health care issues - Only one reason exists for the necessity of centralized health care: national and international competitiveness of our industries. Everything else is implementation. The conjured up and intentionally threatening concept the government cannot provide better health services than the HMO's is completely wrong. Keep insisting the American people are capable of good and far less expensive health care. It's the morality of the people that makes the health system work, not the gathering and distribution of what is taxes under any name, even a name like "co-pay". Soon people will start believing, the first step to better health care at every level. What is the difference if we pay government taxes or private taxes (health insurance paid by businesses) for medical care? People don't want "more affordable health care" as most people don't pay directly but rather through their employer, they want better health care. As a business owner I don't like being taxed for fancy offices of the HMO's. Private health care is a tax no matter what direction you look.

Fire all pharmaceutical sales people. They are completely unnecessary. Ban all prescription drug advertising on TV, cable, radio and other public media. Bring most research back to the national federal research labs and universities resulting in license free production of drugs. At least the proper drugs will be researched.

Additional training and national bonding result from a military draft. What more fun could you have than 2 years of fun, meeting people, learning skills and being successful; could a great two years to remember when you have a couple of kids running around underfoot.

Learn how to communicate with warriors if you are an intellectual. The intellectuals that come from the warrior group have good sets of communication skills to reach their audiences which many intellectuals register nothing or a complete misunderstanding of warriors, who belong to our society whether it annoys you or not.

Intellectual candidates must expect the warriors to try and cast them as evil, who won't go on a crusade. In essence, these same warriors must depend on your intellectual abilities to properly run their society so it becomes a slightly paradoxical situation. Answer back: you know the warrior "conservatives" are doing the best they can and they are truly patriotic citizens and when times are bad you can depend on these strong and determined, hard-working people. In other words, you will not accept they are bad people, just happen to fall into a particular evil from which you will rescue them. Of course, they really need someone understanding the issues and implementing sanity; for instance, balancing the budget. So keep saying you are not bad or evil (but it is an interesting and important concept), and it's important to all these name-callers that their country be run correctly and that is your job and the name-callers need to be brought into a modern, not so limiting societal thinking.  And in return the intellectuals will learn how to talk nicely, in an adult fashion, to warriors. But intellectuals must not treat the warriors as intellectuals who just don't understand: they are warriors and just as proud.

Television and other communications belong to our society as a whole, not just the interest of some business types that think people are only an opportunity to make money. I propose advertising be limited to 14 or 16 minutes per hour and all cables channels must be actively chosen and paid for only as desired. Let the producers and media delivery people make just a bit less money. We're in charge: we don't have to settle for they think we should. I have no idea why they think they are in charge. If you don't like it, go find another job; we'll be glad to help you find another job, no problem. The government is a market force: a large market force of the choices of the middle class.

Federal and local bureaucracies are not a make-work project for the middle class. Allow 2% of the bureaucracy to laid off without any reason or recourse. The best people don't like to work with people who know they can't be fired causing the workforce to become the lowest denominator of lazy people.

If you don't take the press into the future they will live in your past. If you cannot describe what the future will look like in very specific and greatly philosophical terms, the press will get bored with your simplistic answers and need a story, any story.

Every situation has a managerial aspect: look for the most productive point of view, not your emotional/get even desires (wouldn't that be easy if all we had to do was put people down). Don't call someone stupid for an honest or foolish statement, see what you can explain about the remark that furthers your philosophical interpretations in that area. If someone says the Republicans had ideas that changed things in the 80' and 90's, you should be discussing the Republican ideas, not you opponent's misfortune of being misquoted. Show people that you are a good leader, not a head-banger. Show you know how to handle situations while moving forward, not putting someone down: a trusted manager.

Normal people don't mind taxes. It's really about spending your money for much better benefits for you, not some expert in Washington, D.C. Call it "Wealth Management", not "Free for All" and I know I'd feel better about taxation.