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Ch 1.1 | Let’s have a conversation
What started as an email to a friend trying to explain why I was unwilling to discuss politics over drinks turned into a vision quest for me. Since…
Feb 9, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
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📚Recommended reading list
Here are some books that are worth reading.
Oct 30, 2022
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Andrew Sturner
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🏗️ About the author
For the majority of my life, politics was something I glanced at from my periphery.
Nov 30, 2022
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Andrew Sturner
Chapter 5.12 | The Sovereign Alibi
International law was sold as a shield for the vulnerable and a leash on the powerful.
Jan 14
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Andy Sturner
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Chapter 5.11 | Trump’s Cannabis Rescheduling EO: Is it Good Policy or a "Ploy for the Stoner Vote”.
An evidence‑based look at the Executive Order, Schedule III, and how modern prohibitionists distort data to defend a failed status quo.
Dec 20, 2025
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Andy Sturner
Chapter 1 | Setting The Stage
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Ch 1.12 | 🗳️Plurality voting
The majority of elections in the United States are won by the candidate who simply wins the most votes. At face value, that seems like a simple system…
Jun 1, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 1.11 | 🔐Closed partisan primaries = polarization and Disenfranchisement
The impact of our closed primary system is immense.
May 23, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 1.10 | 💰Citizen's United = dark money
In the 2010 Supreme Court case Citizens United v.
May 18, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 1.9 | 👎The problems
Our political system has become the major barrier to solving nearly every important challenge our nation needs to address.
May 16, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 1.8 | 🙇♀️ The United States is a flawed democracy
We, as Americans, pride ourselves on our exceptionalism.
May 14, 2023
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David Meyers
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Chapter 2 | A Foundation
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Ch 2.8 | The framers built the Constitution. Now it’s our turn to form a more perfect union.
The Preamble to the Constitution reads:
Jul 25, 2024
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 2.7 | 👊Can you define socialism?
I want to be on the record that I believe in the free market economy. Unfortunately, it doesn't exist. Not here in America. Not anywhere on the planet…
Jun 30, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
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Ch 2.6 | 📰The media
🤝 Facts, truth, trust and democracy
Jun 30, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
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David Meyers
Ch 2.5 | ⛪Religion in politics
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is reported to have said:
Jun 30, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 2.4 | ⚖️SCOTUS
So let's talk about the Supreme Court! In 1803, Chief Justice Chief John Marshall established the concept of “judicial review” when issuing the…
Jun 30, 2023
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David Meyers
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Andrew Sturner
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Chapter 3 | Our Challenges
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Chapter 3.12 | The Grift & the Republic: Can we realigning Congressional Incentives Before It’s Too Late?
Americans despise Congress but keep reelecting it. We can't vote our way out of a broken system that rewards outrage and grift. If we want different…
Nov 20, 2025
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Andy Sturner
Ch 3.11 | Everyone votes with their wallet.
Let me start by saying that I’m a capitalist whose study of economics was forged in business school in the early 1980s, grounded in Milton Friedman’s…
Aug 8, 2024
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 3.10 | 💳Capitalism and monetary policy
I am a capitalist. I don’t want anyone reading this to think otherwise. Anselme Polycarpe Batbie (and 19th century academic jurist) said: He who is not…
Sep 9, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 3.9 | 📚Our education system is failing us
Education inequality
Jul 23, 2023
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David Meyers
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 3.8 | 🌪️Climate change and environmental regulations
While many politicians acknowledge the reality and urgency of climate change, there is significant debate about the best ways to address it.
Jul 20, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Chapter 4 | Politics in Crisis
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Ch 4.9 | It's never too late to act
Back in April 2023, I wrote “It’s time to act,” wherein I quoted Winston Churchill saying: “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing…
Jul 15, 2024
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 4.8 | The Democrats and Biden are exploiting our rigged system
Biden launched his reelection campaign at Valley Forge, Pa., and spoke passionately of our Democracy. He said: America made a vow. Never again would we…
Jan 8, 2024
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 4.7 | 💥Unrigging the system
The solutions addressed in this section are not meant to be exhaustive.
Jul 30, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 4.6 | 👴Let's talk about Biden
🗳️Why I voted for Biden
Jul 30, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Ch 4.5 | 😡Let's talk about Trump
Since 2015, I’ve watched as Donald Trump and his enablers within the GOP have torn our country apart.
Jul 30, 2023
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Andrew Sturner
Chapter 5 | Trump 2.0
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Chapter 5.12 | The Sovereign Alibi
International law was sold as a shield for the vulnerable and a leash on the powerful.
Jan 14
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Andy Sturner
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Chapter 5.11 | Trump’s Cannabis Rescheduling EO: Is it Good Policy or a "Ploy for the Stoner Vote”.
An evidence‑based look at the Executive Order, Schedule III, and how modern prohibitionists distort data to defend a failed status quo.
Dec 20, 2025
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Andy Sturner
Chapter 5.10 | Prove Me Wrong: What Charlie Kirk’s Death Should Teach Us.
Why defending the right to speak, even words that wound, is essential for democracy’s survival
Sep 16, 2025
Chapter 5.9 | The Moral Mirage: How the Political Duopoly Weaponizes Our Innate Sense of Righteousness
The Engineered Divide: How Our Political System Profiteers from Moral Warfare
Sep 9, 2025
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Andy Sturner
Chapter 5.8 | The Free Market Myth Meets Trump’s Intel Deal
Why both parties cry “socialism” only when it helps the other side.
Aug 29, 2025
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Andy Sturner
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