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POLITICAL RANT

It's about time we admit something is wrong. We have fallen behind the rest of the world in nearly every way. While AT&T is hyping up 5G in the USA, Japan has had 10G for years and nearly all their cell phones have been waterproof since the 1990s!  

Meanwhile in the United States: Bye, bye phone.

That's just one small example. 

U.S. citizens have worse diets, worse healthcare, worse education by far than many other developed countries. We actually have the worst prison system of any country in the entire world locking away more of our population than any other country percentage-wise. 

It's insane!

What was that thing about making America great again? 


And why doesn't America apply what works? 

There are countries with rehabilitation programs so effective that their prisons were emptied and closed. They actually started shipping in prisoners from neighboring countries at first but have also had to close many of their prisons or convert those prisons into schools and hospitals!

Say what you want about Milton Erickson and Richard Bandler but they devoted their lives to the science and modeling of what works for others to create success and while they did it on a person-to-person basis changing lives, the world needs to be doing it now on a grand scale. 

We need to stop making it a competition and start making it a collaboration. We have a choice, we can be divided into small sections of land or accept we all have only one world and there is either one future or destruction for all of us! 

There are countries with a ZERO carbon footprint Bhutan even has a NEGATIVE carbon footprint! i.e. Why Bhutan is the only carbon-negative country in the world | GVI UK

By now we as a people should have evolved beyond trying to be the biggest bully on the playground and into a focus on diplomacy, trading ideas, technological breakthroughs, educational success methods, and so much more. 

Imagine what the future could hold for us and for future generations then! If leaders the world over were to have stopped acting like spoiled two-year-olds fifty years ago Mars might already be colonized and we could already be venturing out to explore distant galaxies instead of exhausting the resources of this small blue planet, a spec of dust in the great wide cosmos. 

There is enough for everyone if we but have the courage to reach out for it together, working side by side instead of letting our fears and prejudices hold us back and conquer us, fear and prejudice that causes millions to live in hunger, poverty, and defeat. 

It isn't fair. It's time for CHANGE. 

This is Ashley Needles, running not for an office but for a dream. 

All the best my dear friends!


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