by Andrew Horning

I’m running for office for two main reasons:

  1. Our culture is obviously self-destructing by the agency of two inherently divisive private organizations, operating by campaign donation strings, under an enormous, costly, anti-constitutional, corporate system of corruption that depends and thrives upon conflict. I wish I were exaggerating, but you likely know I’m not. What’s worse, though, is that I’m the only 8th District candidate actually opposing this puppet show both with my well-documented proposals, and choice to sacrifice odds to principle by being the only candidate who’s not wearing the team jacket for DC dysfunction.
  2. I am the only 8th District candidate putting constitutional rule of law on the ballot as an option. By the clear text of state and federal constitutions, our government is ungoverned, our police are unpoliced, our lawmakers are lawless (and most are unelected bureaucrats), and our justice is unjust. We need to govern our government by clear, written law, and I’m the only one proposing we do just that – for laws that are few enough for everyone to know, simple enough for everyone to understand, and important enough for everyone that they’re applied equally to all without special classes, exceptions, provisos or cheating.

It’s foolish to keep playing partisan ping-pong, as if yet another “Red Wave” and then “Blue Wave” and another “Red Wave” and another blue and another red…etc., etc., et cetera… will fix anything.

I think we have three main issues:

  1. The self-appointed “Two Party System” that our founders warned us about, is tearing us apart. “Cancel culture,” violence and partisan contempt disgorging from increasingly cancerous US Presidential elections, are the worst in my lifetime, certainly. The ever-more-restrictive ballot access and partisan laws that favor the mighty and crush any offering an alternative, are increasing the urgency with which we must use our votes as intended – as weapons of peaceful revolution. We must unite against those who profit from this insane tug of war over who loses the most on every Election Day.
  2. We’ve been provoking, funding, training and arming enemies, both foreign and domestic, for too long. We have got to stand-down our global “whack-a-mole” game and concentrate on real dangers. We’ve ignored the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party for too long (the one thing Trump was right about). Our culture of self-righteous violence and misunderstanding of our constitutional design is inexcusable as well as self-destructive. We’ve put our domestic police into increasingly adversarial roles against citizens (with the 8th District incumbent’s votes, BTW) while blurring the line between military and domestic force in both weaponry and rules of engagement. This must stop.
  3. Monetary/financial cronyism and banking/lending reform. There’s unfortunately a rather long, complicated story about why we’re such a mess, and why this is such a terrible problem that the incumbent political parties will not, and can not, touch. But it’s the real cause of inflation, and we’re only seeing the beginning of that if we don’t fire our troubles on Election Day.

A brief overview of my proposals for the previous are here: https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/eight-steps-to-success/.

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