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The root cause of failure in all modern democracies...
We apply competition ruthlessly to markets, but next to nothing on power.
If power had to compete the way businesses do, most political careers wouldn't survive a year.
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Nothing is a distraction from Epstein.
Epstein is the distraction for everything else.
If you're like me, your greatest successes of life came the same way; asking for help.
I learned a trade, sold a business and began a new career after forty all by asking a favor. It's how I started dating my wife.
Are those memories less important because they depended on another person saying 'yes'?
Not to me. It takes courage to ask for help. There's a chance of rejection, it's not under your control. It's a test of worthiness.
Are you as successful as you wanna be in life?
If not, what's the problem? Be honest with yourself. Maybe you're not working hard enough or maybe you're just not as good as you think.
That very well may be true, but I really don't think so. You don't have a problem at all. The problem is with others; specifically your friends or lack of them.
Don't fall into the mindset that you can do everything yourself. Find other people; talented and reliable. Work together, share your dreams.
Project 2025.
Boy they really pumped the brakes after the Nov trouncing at the polls. All the games with the NG shut down in court and abandoned.
No more talks of Trump seeking a third term; trying to save face like he's deciding not to run again instead of it being blatantly illegal.
Thats what a good bitch-slapping at the ballot box will do to an agenda. They've got another year before the mid-terms sink their ship completely.
The Michigan ballot initiative for ranked choice voting in 2026 has officially been suspended.
We've learned a lot from this process and will try again in 2028 with a more organized approach.
The main reasons for failure were the late start and use of volunteer petitioners instead of a professional firm.
It's been made more difficult in recent years to petition successfully, but the will is there for our voting rights to be expanded and protected.
Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design.
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