Wfhat do we know?

What we know in relation to how the presidential candidates and our potential representatives and senators personify our own knowledge:

1. Our ordinary knowledge
How do we accept for purposes of public discourse and action, the basic theory from the social sciences that "social reality is constructed"?
--i.e. we invented and can reinvent our culture, like our ideas about markets
--i.e. we learned and can relearn our estimates of each other
--i.e. we organized and can reorganize the way we get things done together

2. Our extraordinary knowledge
How do we accept for purposes of public discourse and action our various weaves of meaningi, irrespective of how we view them as being derived?
--i.e. how do we trace our values and their residence in our evocative objects
--i.e. how do we accept our handling of differences a la John Rawls and others
--i.e. how do we accept the limits on consensus in a 232 year old system

3. Our evidence-based knowledge
How do we respect knowledge from evidence-based experts?
--e.g. regarding global warming, health, poverty<>wealth, education, peace
--in spite of our own vested interests
--in spite of our own loyalties, presuppositions and assumptions