Category Archives: Democracy

Just a theory . . .

Posted on August 31, 2015 by johnrachel

What was just a theory yesterday can become a reality today and new possibilities will define all our tomorrows … at least, in theory. Continue reading →

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Nothing new . . . but who knew or even knows now?

Posted on August 19, 2015 by johnrachel

Sometimes it is difficult to make sense out of some of the foreign policy decisions our leaders make. Why did we attack Iraq twice? Why did we destroy Libya? Why did we start the crisis in the Ukraine? Why do we overthrow the democratically elected leaders of some nations, court the friendship and favor of monarchists and tyrants? Why are we now aggressively provoking conflict with Russia and confronting China? This book goes the long mile toward explaining what underlies some of America’s most nefarious activities on the international front. Continue reading →

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What if you . . . ?

Posted on July 19, 2015 by johnrachel

What if hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of voters did the same as you and voted for someone they could trust, even though that person was not a Democrat or a Republican? Continue reading →

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Justin Bieber is the new Hitler!

Posted on July 15, 2015 by johnrachel

If someone in the State Department or the White House decides that Justin Bieber’s music truly sucks, or even if they just take a disliking to that froofy, pseudo-pompadour hair style he alternates with his Beetle boy look, you can be assured of the headline the next day, front page of the New York Times: Justin Bieber is the new Hitler! Continue reading →

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The Real Debt Ceiling

Posted on July 3, 2015 by johnrachel

THEY OWN! WE OWE! And that’s how you get the worst wealth inequality in our history. Other than a handful of legislators __ Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren certainly are talking about it __ and our president who gives lip service to this critical issue, there is no one in public life who is serious about addressing this threat to our existence as a nation. No one! Just about everyone in elected office __ to a man, to a woman __ needs to be replaced. Target date November 2016!
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“Buddy, can you spare some change?”

Posted on June 30, 2015 by johnrachel

The vast majority of the American public has no one to turn to but themselves. The liberal elite are mired in unworkable paradigms, debilitated by a lack of imagination, dragged down by the inertia or careerism and an inability to commit to the dirty work of activism. The conservative elite have nurtured their sociopathic obsessions with wealth accumulation for its own sake, live behind insurmountable walls consigning the unwashed masses to a permanent quarantine, are more convinced than ever of their entitlement and exclusive right to rule the world.

My book is not more whining. It offers a step-by-step, highly detailed plan for challenging the corruption of our current politicos, and for reversing the destruction of representative democracy in America.

Change does not just happen. People need to believe it’s possible.

Then they need to make room in their hearts and time in their day to make it happen. Continue reading →

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Mission Control: We Have A Problem

Posted on June 10, 2015 by johnrachel

Is anyone thinking this through? While a Bernie Sanders presidency would inject some hope into our dismal electoral politics and floundering democracy, his election without a supportive Congress would create gridlock and dysfunction of biblical proportions. Democrats and Republicans would combine for a bipartisan assault, President Sanders would be demonized, vilified, emasculated, meaning the prospects for the advancement of a progressive agenda, serving the needs of all Americans, not just the ultra-wealthy, would be set back for decades. Continue reading →

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Bulging Waste Line

Posted on May 28, 2015 by johnrachel

What follows here is not an argument for reducing government. It is evidence that we need …
Good government. Smart government. Honest government. Visionary government. Representative government. I am focusing on profligate defense spending and pursuit of unnecessary war. Continue reading →

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Freedom of the Press

Posted on April 30, 2015 by johnrachel

There is indeed freedom of the press in America. But it’s not quite what I understood it to be. Now it’s the freedom to keep Americans in the dark. It’s the freedom cherry-pick from the vast array of newsworthy items and only publish those consistent with the preferred narrative of our government. It’s the freedom to suppress anything which our government would find inconvenient or untimely towards pressing its manufactured version world events. Continue reading →

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The March To Corporate Totalitarianism

Posted on April 18, 2015 by johnrachel

It’s all but over folks . . . except for the revolution. Anyone want to borrow my pitchfork sharpener? Continue reading →

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