Category Archives: Deconstruction

What Passes for Rationality in the Modern World

Posted on September 16, 2015 by johnrachel

Who in their right mind would come up with MAD __ mutual assured destruction __ then destabilize it with policies which replace its precarious, paranoid, hair-trigger brinkmanship with more confrontation and a renewed arms race? Continue reading →

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Fighting for the Democracy We Deserve

Posted on September 13, 2015 by johnrachel

“Fighting for the Democracy We Deserve” is a manual for constructive voting in the 2016 election. It presents a concrete plan for wresting control of the country and our democracy back from the rich and powerful, and restoring the constitutional mandate of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. There is a financial reward for saving America from authoritarian rule by the corporate elite. If voters unite behind the strategy contained in this short book, each and every U.S. citizen will end up $14,084 richer. Continue reading →

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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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Donald Knows Best

Posted on August 24, 2015 by johnrachel

Let’s make it an all ‘Donald’ administration and we can count on a jolly, no-holds-barred, rollicking good time! 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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Another Average Run-of-the-Mill Benevolent Dictator

Posted on July 10, 2015 by johnrachel

Ideas can be dangerous. The U.S. is the world leader in stamping out what it considers dangerous ideas and murdering those who spread them.

Killary Clinton: “We came. We saw. He died.” Continue reading →

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Values of the Rich

Posted on July 6, 2015 by johnrachel

Rich or poor, we’re all just protoplasm. We all have so much in common, every time I look at Donald Trump, I feel like I’m looking in the mirror. Continue reading →

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The Race To A Vanishing Point

Posted on June 22, 2015 by johnrachel

The U.S. plunges the world toward World War III while Americans play on their smart phones and watch bad TV. Continue reading →

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Shallow

Posted on June 17, 2015 by johnrachel

Obama thinks being president is a fun job. Now we know. 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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