Fighting for the Democracy We Deserve

By John Rachel

This is a manual for constructive voting in the 2016 and 2018 elections. 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.

Brace yourself for a real game-changer which will redefine politics for the foreseeable future. Get ready as the nation begins its journey toward a peaceful and abundant future for all of its citizens, not just a privileged few.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Rachel
• Release date: Jan 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311252357

John Rachel

John Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter, music producer, novelist, and an evolutionary humanist. Since 2008, when he first embarked on his career as a novelist, he has had nine fiction and three non-fiction books published. These range from four satires and a coming-of-age trilogy, to a political drama and now a crime thriller. The three non-fiction works were also political, his attempt to address the crisis of democracy and pandemic corruption in the governing institutions of America.With the publication of Love Connection, his recent pictorial memoir, Live From Japan!, and the spoof on the self-help crazes of the 80s and 90s, Sex, Lies & Coffee Beans, he has three more novels in the pipeline: Mary K, the story of a cosmetics salesgirl with an IQ of 230, the surreal final book of his End-of-the-World Trilogy; and finally, The Last Giraffe, an anthropological drama and love story involving both the worship and devouring of giraffes. It deliciously unfolds in 19th Century sub-Saharan Africa.The author’s last permanent residence in America was Portland, Oregon where he had a state-of-the-art ProTools recording studio, music production house, a radio promotion and music publishing company. He recorded and produced several artists in the Pacific Northwest, releasing and promoting their music on radio across America and overseas.John Rachel now lives in a quiet, traditional, rural Japanese community, where he sets his non-existent watch by the thrice-daily ringing of temple bells, at a local Shinto shrine.

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Fighting for the Democracy

We Deserve

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John Rachel

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Table of Contents

Introduction

A National Referendum

Getting Started

First Things First

The People Speak

50 Million Signatures!

The Power of Numbers

Why Should Anyone Care?

The Only Thing Politicians Understand

Job Security

Our Ultimatum

"Sign on the dotted line!"

The Honor System

The Candidate Contract

A Legal Sledgehammer

Eliminating Doubt

It’s Up To You

How This All Works

Why?

How?

When?

Thinking Big: Promoting the General Welfare

The Most Controversial Proposal in the History of the World

Crumbling of the USSR - 1992

Military Waste

Afghanistan and Iraq

The People’s War Reparations Invoice

The Peace Dividend: Recovering Lost Money and Time

Make It Happen!

A New Direction for America

Yes! This Is For Real

What Goes Around Comes Around

Peace Bonds

United States Dollars

You’re An American Citizen … You Deserve Respect

The Birthright of Every American Citizen

Radical Reform, Responsible Revolution

An Imagined Conversation

The Birthright of Every American Citizen

About the Author

Legal Notices and Disclaimers

Introduction

This is a manual for meaningful voting in the 2016 and 2018 elections.

It contains a way for you to make your vote count, for you to make a difference when you step into that voting booth in November.

There is strength in numbers and if enough of us follow the simple, sensible, and powerful advice offered here, we can accomplish no less than a complete reversal of the destruction of our democratic system, we can once again have government of the people, by the people, and for the people, not authoritarian rule by the rich and powerful, who now dictate what our government does. This means our elected officials in Washington DC will start working for us — you and I — turning this country around with better jobs, less war, higher pay, better schools, the best health care, generous retirement benefits, affordable college education. We’ll have safer food, cleaner air and water, opportunities for advancement and improvement of our lives, a bigger share of the enormous wealth of our nation. We’ll have a country which will not only truly be the best in the world, but one we can all be proud of again.

Vast numbers of Americans are fed up. They know the game is rigged. But until now, there was no way to take on the big money donors who have corrupted our democracy, and bought our elected officials.

Now there is.

Remember the key is this: There is strength in numbers.

And as long as we regular citizens still have the right to vote, if we stick together we can break the hammerlock the rich and powerful now have on both Congress and the White House.

The plan is painfully simple. We just need to do it.

So let’s get started.

A National Referendum

Getting Started

When you watch the news, it makes you want to scream.

It’s one thing after another. The challenges just keep mounting, with no solutions in sight, only more crises.

There are so many problems, it’s hard to know where to begin.

• Real wages have been flat. Americans work harder for less.

• We are embroiled in wars everywhere. The War On Terror has put us in a permanent state of military readiness and active conflict.

• The War On Terror is as destructive within our borders as without. We are constantly being watched. Our local police now look like Navy Seal teams.

• The media is a homogeneous monopoly.

• The wealth of the country has migrated upwards. Wealth inequality is at a historic high. The top .1% now own as much as the bottom 90% of the population.

• The banks are too-big-to-fail and the bankers too-big-to-jail.

• Our manufacturing base has been gutted.

• The middle class is being slowly decimated.

• Our public education is in shambles. A basic college education is becoming unaffordable.

• The number of people living in poverty has doubled since 1973.

• Our country is being sold to the