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Terrorism. Chaos. Fear of the future. In the age of Obama, America is undergoing a �fundamental transformation� � that much everyone knows.

But what few seem to realize about this transformation is that the sheer stress of living in today�s America is driving tens of millions to the point of illness, depression and self-destruction. Consider the following trends:

Suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death for Americans. Even more disturbing, in the world�s greatest military, more U.S. soldiers died last year by suicide than in combat;
Fully one-third of the nation�s employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and more than half of all �millennials� (18 to 33 year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them awake at night, including large numbers diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorder.
Shocking new research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that one in five of all high-school-aged children in the United States has been diagnosed with ADHD, and likewise a large new study of New York City residents shows, sadly, that one in five preteens � children aged six to 12 � have been medically diagnosed with either ADHD, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder;
New research concludes that stress renders people susceptible to serious illness, and a growing number of studies now confirm that chronic stress plays a major role in the progression of cancer, the nation�s second-biggest killer. The biggest killer of all, heart disease, which causes one in four deaths in the U.S., is also known to have a huge stress component;
Incredibly, 11 percent of all Americans aged 12 and older are currently taking SSRI antidepressants � those highly controversial, mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA�s �suicidality� warning label and alarming correlation with school shooters. Women are especially prone to depression, with a stunning 23 percent of all American women in their 40s and 50s � almost one in four � now taking antidepressants, according to a major study by the CDC;
Add to that the tens of millions of users of all other types of psychiatric drugs, including (just to pick one) the 6.4 million American children between 4 and 17 diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Ritalin or similar psycho-stimulants. Throw in the 28 percent of American adults with a drinking problem, that�s more than 60 million, plus the 22 million using illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens and inhalants, and pretty soon a picture emerges of a nation of drug-takers, with hundreds of millions dependent on one toxic substance or another � legal or illegal � to �help� them deal with the stresses and problems of life.
By the way, things are no better over the pond � and may be worse, according to one major study that concluded almost 40 percent of Europeans are plagued by mental illness.

What on earth is going on? Why isn�t medical science � and for that matter all of our incredible scientific and technological innovations in every area of life � reducing our stress and lightening our load? Why doesn�t the almost-magical availability of the world�s accumulated knowledge, thanks to the Internet, make us more enlightened and happy?

During eras when society and families are stable, unified and fundamentally decent and moral � as, say, America during the 1950s � the stress level for each person is minimized, or at least not compounded by a perverse society. Conversely, when � as is the case today � we have widespread family breakdown, a depraved culture that mocks traditional moral values, a chaotic economy and disintegrating monetary system and a power-mad government dominated by demagogues and sociopaths, the normal stresses of life are greatly multiplied.

Thus it has come to pass that America, long the hope of the world, has grown increasingly dispirited and angry, which in turn breeds anxiety, fear, confusion, hopelessness and depression.

Let�s face the hard facts: We just re-elected perhaps the worst president in history, someone manifestly obsessed with dismantling traditional, free-market capitalist America and transforming it into a socialist nanny state. That in itself is highly stressful � at least for the roughly half the population that still understands socialism always leads to a profound loss of freedom and prosperity.

Then there�s today�s relentless economic pressures: high unemployment (the actual rate is at least double that of the �official� government rate), foreclosures and bankruptcies, a stagnant growth rate, 11,000 new people signing up for food stamps every single day, rising taxes for the entire middle class whose net worth is simultaneously shrinking, ever-higher prices for food, gas and other essentials � and overshadowing it all, a galactic national debt burden, courtesy of a wildly out-of-control government unrestrained by either the Constitution or common sense.

That, too, is very stressful. Top it all off with an administration continually abusing the public for the sake of enlarging and consolidating its political power � for instance, by purposely making the �sequester� cuts hurt Americans, even our active-duty soldiers, as much as possible.

Make no mistake: This sort of stress on Americans is not only intentional on the part of Team Obama � it is strategic.

Just reading a few pages into Saul Alinsky�s notorious �Rules for Radicals,� one encounters repeated confirmation that the very key to radical �change� is keeping the populace angry, encouraging their grievances, stoking their resentments and making sure they are continually upset. That is the primary psychological dynamic of �community organizing� � and America today is led by community-organizer-in-chief Barack Obama, a long-time master practitioner and instructor in Alinsky�s neo-Marxist agitation methods.

Commenting on Obama�s sudden obsession with employing every means possible to deny law-abiding Americans their constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms, Rush Limbaugh exclaimed: �All of this is so in our face. Everything that people hold dear is under assault. Deliberately making people upset! This is not what presidents do.�

It�s not what presidents do � unless they happen to be leftist revolutionaries, in which case �deliberately making people upset� is precisely what they do to accomplish their intended �fundamental transformation.�

We need to realize that Americans could not have twice elected a leader as transcendentally unworthy of the presidency as Barack Obama without first having had their minds and hearts captured. Through constant leftist indoctrination, emotional manipulation, ruthless intimidation � and then being rewarded once they have �converted� � perhaps half of the American electorate has been programmed over the course of decades by a subversive school system and equally perverse �news� establishment. Truth be told, both institutions have become full-blown abominations, occupying as they do near-sacred stations of public trust in American civilization.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/americans-snapping-by-the-millions/

You see crazy folk all the time any more. Liberalism really is a mental illness. The "authorities" lock down an entire US city and the people therein think it is great. Looks like totalitarianism to me.

And yes, I not only viewed that link you put up with the Lt. Col., I shared it too. Very troubling.

What's so troubling to me is the news media [sic] are nothing more than echos of the dimocraps' talking points for the day. No one does investigative journalism any more; they just wait for the halfrican to tell them what to say. Chris Mathews of PMSNBC embodied the news media [sic] with one statement; "Thank God for hurricane Sandy". I wish he was surrounded by folks who had been without food or fresh water for weeks, the victims of hurricane Sandy, when he said that. That little "thrill that ran up his leg" would actually be urine running down his leg as the crowd of half-starved, desperate people closed in on his puzzy azz. One of those loony tune reporters [sic] actually blamed the NRA for hiding domestic terrorist. You have to actually hear this stuff to believe someone really said it. It's an all out frontal assault on the ethics and morals that made America the greatest nation the planet has ever known.

I, for one, will cling to my Bible and my gunS, and oppose the halfrican and his policies every chance I get.

Amen folks... and great post!

Then we will be accused of being part of the tin foil hat crowd, even by some of our own forum members here...

Yes it was and yes we will be. Bank on it.

I had my tin-foil hat dipped in Opti-fade. No glare to scare off the turkeys or deer, and I'll be protected from the halfrican's mind-control rays.

Those two facts alone should be enough to justify the trial of the politicians who let this happen or worse still, were driving elements of this disaster.

"one in five preteens � children aged six to 12 � have been medically diagnosed with either ADHD, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder;"

As this percentage increases there will be fewer people allowed to purchase firearms. Gun control can become a reality for politicians patient enough to wait.

"During eras when society and families are stable, unified and fundamentally decent and moral � as, say, America during the 1950s � the stress level for each person is minimized, or at least not compounded by a perverse society."

That stable and moral family and society was a direct result of faith in God and church attendance. Perhaps that's why life is still better in the southern & some western states where we cling to our Bibles and our faith instead of creatures like big O.

Twenty years ago I was called "homophobic" and I told the liberal youngster that he was correct, as anyone who is not afraid of the consequences that will occur with the destruction of the family as God intended it is a fool. Perhaps that young fool is beginning to see what I meant.

I had to cut some holes in my tin foil hat, otherwise it blocked out all the voices and life just got too lonely.

"pmsnbc"

That's a BEAUTY!
surprised I didn't think of that.

I gotta click like on that.

People have been getting the fear everything under the sun programming for so long and from so many angles it has seeped into every corner of their minds.

It's all they see anymore.
Every thought, word, and deed is overshadowed with it... like an evil fog hanging over and fully penetrating their minds and lives.

I thought I had the wife save it for me, hafta ask her later, can't find it just now but it's sure appropriate here.

A cartoon drawing.
Man in lounge chair watching tv.
Question "how to eliminate terrorism and fear of everything"
Next frame man smiling holding remote.
"click".

Fear mongers plant seeds.
Water and nurture for years.
Tend and fertilize and stake up.
Prune and manicure to perfection.
Enjoy the fruits produced.

The final harvest is nearing.
Grinning they say "we're gonna live like kings"

I believe it's in sociolgy that a cage is built suitable for 50 rats. As they add more and more rats they begin to behave like humans, rape, murder, gangs, etc.

Jim

What is happening on earth at this time can only be overcome by God. The weapons of this warfare cannot be carnal but Spiritual for the pulling down of the strongholds of the enemy.

Pray America, and turn to the Lord. The only real peace can be found there.

Indeed...

But all this 'depression and mental illness' will only help the Azzhole-In-Chief when he continues to push his gun-control BS... Ditto, sir... Ditto...

I read something the other day they said 60% of all firearms deaths were the result of suicide.

People need Jesus. He's the cure.

I ain't got time to 'go crazy'!! The only folks going crazy are most of the azzholes that live in cities like onto rats! If I lived akin to that.....I'd probably be nuts myself!! The only thing city rats know is concrete, asphalt, smog, and wall to wall people! If you elect to live there.....it's your choice!!

I know it would drive me crazy trying to keep up with today's young adults/teens and their addiction level need to stay in touch. Come out of a 100 yard long tunnel on the highway and everyone pops out their electronics to see if they missed something during the 15 seconds they were under ground.

The same thing with their structured lives. I guess I was abused as a child, because I can't remember my parents devoting every waking moment including weekends to hauling my ass around, attending every sporting event, play, kindergarten/grade/middle/and high school graduations, swim lessons, and birth day party in the community. I do rememeber being turned out with my bike, making my own fun, and being told to be home at dinner. About 3 times yearly dad would pull me out of school to go fishing. A parent would likely be jailed now if he/she jerked the kid out for a fishing trip or range session.

Another issue now too is that one often finds a 4 member house hold with each member bearing a different last name. FUBAR

Seems to me most people in this society have lost all coping mechanisms. So they are treated with anti depressants. Script runs out and it's bonkers time. There is a pill for everything......ridiculous.

Amen brother. Without God we are nothing.

Indeed.