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Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part VI

Posted on April 15, 2016 by johnrachel

When we identify candidates who are on our side — the ones who willingly sign contracts for those specific things the vast majority of us want done — we unite behind them, a huge voting bloc of citizens who are serious about having true representative government — real democracy — in America. Candidate contracts are the surefire way of determining what candidates are on our side. Continue reading →

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Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part V

Posted on April 7, 2016 by johnrachel

It’s all about people power. Not PACs and SuperPACS. Not big piles of money. Change still comes down to the choice each of us personally makes in the voting booth. Power resides in our aligning our individual choices, so that collectively — as in tens of millions of us united in an unstoppable juggernaut of people power — we get done what needs to get done. We must elect representatives who represent us. We will guarantee they will represent us by making candidates sign legally-binding contracts. Or we don’t vote for them. Continue reading →

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Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part IV

Posted on March 29, 2016 by johnrachel

People must unite at a local level, not under party banners, but as a voting bloc around issues that are important to them. Party labels — also very much the case with ideological labels — muddy the waters, get people unfocused on what’s truly consequential. ‘Democrat’, ‘Republican’, ‘liberal’, ‘conservative’, ‘libertarian’ — even more so with ‘socialist’, ‘Tea Party’, and ‘Green Party’ — have recently become so emotionally charged, clear thinking becomes difficult, constructive dialogue impossible. Continue reading →

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Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part III

Posted on March 25, 2016 by johnrachel

Maybe people won’t talk politics. But once the floodgate is open, people will talk about what’s hurting them, what’s holding them back, how they are getting screwed by the system and those who run things, how they had wonderful dreams and hopes for their children which are being destroyed. So talk to them. And listen. Please! The future of our country depends on it. Continue reading →

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Give Peace A Chance

Posted on April 25, 2015 by johnrachel

America thinks it can bluster and bluff and use color revolutions to nudge Putin out of office and install some bloated puppet in his place like they did with Poroshenko in Ukraine. Russia is not Zimbabwe, Iraq, or Yemen. It’s not Grenada or Haiti. Russia is not going to be intimidated by a schoolyard bully. America’s aggression and infantile games can only end badly. Time for it to reverse course and cut its losses. 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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Perspective

Posted on January 21, 2015 by johnrachel

Books or bombs? America makes its choice and puts in perspective how twisted we have become. Continue reading →

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Starts With ‘C’ Rhymes With Dancer

Posted on October 17, 2014 by johnrachel

The food in America is toxic. Maybe not as poisonous as rat poison but ultimately just as lethal. Continue reading →

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America Has Become Anti-American

Posted on May 20, 2014 by johnrachel

Because I live in Japan and post articles which are critical of America, I am often accused of being anti-American. The truth is both counter-intuitive and extremely disturbing. I haven’t changed but America certainly has. America has become anti-American. Continue reading →

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Broccoli Is Free Speech and Tractors Are Persons

Posted on March 31, 2014 by johnrachel

Broccoli farmers celebrated today as the Supreme Court ruled in their favor, declaring broccoli free speech and the tractors used on their farms to be persons. Continue reading →

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