"The progressive left under Obama," writes
Kupelian, "is accomplishing much more than just enlarging government,
redistributing wealth, and de-Christianizing the culture. With its wild
celebration of sexual anarchy, its intimidating culture of political correctness,
and its incomprehension of the fundamental sacredness of human life, it is
also, whether intentionally or not, promoting widespread dependency,
debauchery, family breakdown, crime, corruption, depression and
addiction." The book, now skyrocketing up the Amazon charts, focuses on
real solutions and healing.
America, like all
nations, has endured its share of mega-crises. We've had military conflicts
that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands; economic disasters, like the
Great Depression, that left millions destitute; disease pandemics, including
the Spanish flu, which killed 675,000 Americans; catastrophic earthquakes and
other natural disasters; and, of course, the 9/11 terror attacks. We've also
endured serious social upheaval, including a devastating Civil War!
Yet we Americans, a resilient and optimistic lot, have
always persevered and ultimately prevailed – a truism borne out by every
generation's near-sacred mission to leave their exceptionally blessed nation a
better place for their children and grandchildren. Today, however, many fear
those days are over, and that naught but trouble lies ahead.
It's not just the
daunting array of current geopolitical threats – wars, terrorism, de facto
invasion by millions of illegal immigrants, unpayable national debt and
economic disintegration, "1984"-style surveillance, and a palpable
and ever-increasing loss of freedom – all causing high anxiety over an
uncertain future. It's also a growing conviction that government itself, whose
primary reason for existence is to protect its citizens, has instead become
Americans' greatest nemesis.
To be sure, the
American political scene has always been tumultuous, rife with raucous
criticism of government and the president. A few decades ago, Richard Nixon
became so mired in scandals, "enemies lists," and "dirty
tricks" that he had to resign. And Jimmy Carter openly acknowledged the
nation's "malaise" and "crisis of confidence" in response
to his appeasing and spectacularly inept leadership.
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In the 1990s, a scandal-plagued Bill Clinton, though not
convicted, was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. Yet with
Barack Obama, America has been thrust into an entirely new and almost surreal
realm. For no other occupant of the White House, however controversial or
unpopular, has ever inspired such a widespread conviction among the populace
that a sitting American president and wartime commander in chief actually hates
the very nation he was elected to lead and is sympathetic toward her enemies.
Indeed, Americans seem shell-shocked by a president
superficially depicted as incompetent, oddly disconnected, and blinded by
ideology, but who upon closer examination can be seen invariably pursuing some
deep and unspoken anti-American, anti-commonsense impulse in addressing every
crisis confronting the republic. Moreover, as we shall soon see, many of those
crises have been purposely created by Obama and his administration to advance a
largely concealed agenda.
This daily roller coaster of scandals and crises, as well as
the multiple threats facing the nation during (and often because of) Obama's
presidency, would be daunting enough. But add to them a pervasive and wantonly
perverse culture that celebrates mindless narcissism and wild sexuality while
openly mocking God, morality, and the overarching transcendent sacredness of
life that preserved our national soul in previous eras. The result is that
Americans today are being affected by political and moral chaos in
unprecedented and transformative ways.
Indeed, America is undergoing the progressives'
long-promised "fundamental transformation," and it's not a pretty
sight. That much everyone knows.
But what few seem to realize about this
"transformation" is that the sheer stress of living in today's
upside-down America is literally driving tens of millions to the point of
illness, depression, despair, addiction, and self-destruction in a multiplicity
of guises.
Consider the following trends:
• Suicide has surpassed
car crashes as the leading cause of injury death for Americans. Even more
disturbing, Stars and Stripes reports that more active-duty U.S. soldiers have
been dying by suicide than in combat.
• 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, while a large 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, bipolar disorder, or depression.
• Equally
alarming, one in 10 girls reportedly engages in "self-harm" in the
form of "cutting" their bodies with a knife or razor, while New
York's state Department of Health reports that "self-inflicted injuries,
such as cutting, burning, and pinching, are the second leading cause of
hospitalizations due to injury for children ages 15 to 19 years."
• 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.
• New research
also concludes that stress renders people susceptible to serious physical
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.
Of course, the biggest killer of all, heart disease, causing one in four deaths
in the U.S., is also known to have a huge stress component.
• Incredibly,
eleven percent of all Americans aged twelve and older are currently taking
antidepressants—those powerfully mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA's
"suicidality" warning label and alarming correlation with mass
shootings. Women in their 40s and 50s are especially prone to being diagnosed
as depressed, with 23 percent of them – almost one in four – now taking
antidepressants.
• Add to that the
tens of millions of users of all other types of psychiatric drugs, including,
for example, 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 24 million using illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine,
heroin, hallucinogens, and inhalants, and pretty soon a picture emerges of a
nation of drug-takers, with well over a hundred million of us dependent on one
toxic substance or another, legal or illegal, just to get through life.
• And Americans
aren't addicted just to drugs and alcohol, but, it seems, to everything:
Enormous numbers of men, women, and children are addicted to online pornography
(85 percent of young men and nearly 50 percent of young women reportedly watch
porn at least once a month). That may be why an astonishing 110 million
Americans currently have a sexually transmitted disease.
Food addiction is
also rampant, with one in three American adults clinically obese, and more than
one in six of the nation's youth.
By the way, things
are no better across the pond – and may even be worse. One major study
concluded that 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? Why is it that, instead, more and
more of us are so stressed-out that we're on a collision course with illness,
misery, tragedy, and death?
Most important, what
can we do to reverse course? Is that even possible?
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'He wants people to snap'
"Life is difficult," wrote psychiatrist M. Scott
Peck at the outset of his international best seller, "The Road Less
Traveled." Stress, difficulties, disappointments, accidents, disease,
misfortune, cruelty, betrayal – they're unavoidable in this life.
Yet, during eras when society and families are stable,
unified, and fundamentally decent and moral – as, say, America during the 1950s
and early '60s – the stress level for each person is minimized, or at least not
vastly compounded by a perverse society. Conversely, when, as is the case
today, we have widespread family breakdown, a depraved culture that scorns
traditional moral values, a chaotic economy, and a power-mad government
dominated by demagogues and seeming sociopaths, the normal stresses of life are
vastly multiplied.
Worse, subjecting Americans to unbearable stress, conflict,
and crisis by Team Obama is not only intentional – it is strategic. Remember,
these people are revolutionaries (engaged in "bringing about a major or
fundamental change," as Merriam-Webster puts it). They are utterly
committed to replacing one societal structure – America's constitutional,
limited-government, free-enterprise system – with another – a socialist,
wealth-redistributionist system run by an all-powerful government.
Such radical change cannot be accomplished while Americans
are calm, happy, content, and grateful for their blessings. Citizens must be
unhappy and stressed-out. Indeed, widespread popular discontent has always been
the required fuel for the leftist transformational engine.
Just reading a few pages into Saul Alinsky's leftist
playbook, "Rules for Radicals," one encounters repeated confirmation
that the very heart of 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 since 2009 America has been led by a
community organizer in chief and longtime master practitioner and instructor in
Alinsky's Far-Left agitation methods.
Top radio talker Rush Limbaugh picked up on this normally
unspoken aspect of Obama's modus operandi when he told his radio audience,
"I think he wants people to snap. I think Obama is challenging everybody's
sanity. ... The more chaos there is, the more requirement there is for him to step
in and control the chaos."
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, Limbaugh exclaimed, "Obama is literally
pushing people to snap, attacking the very sanity of the country. ... I mean,
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."
Fox News analyst Chris Stirewalt alluded to the same
phenomenon when he commented on "The Kelly File," "I might even
submit that this is part of an [Obama] administration strategy which says the
crazier, the angrier, the madder they can make Republicans ... the
better."
And best-selling author-columnist David Limbaugh put it this
way: "One may reasonably wonder whether the militant left in this country
is solely dedicated to manufacturing issues to keep the nation in a constant
state of uproar, angst and disharmony."
This book will present the case that not only are such
allegations true, but keeping Americans in a constant state of uproar, angst,
and disharmony constitutes an absolutely essential component of the Far Left's
transformation of America.
This process has been ongoing and long precedes Barack
Obama. Indeed, Americans could not have chosen as their leader someone as
transcendently unworthy of the presidency as Obama without first having allowed
their minds and hearts to be captured. Through constant indoctrination,
intimidation, and emotional manipulation (as well as being continually rewarded
once they have "converted"), a sizable part of the American
electorate, to one degree or another, has been programmed over the course of
decades by a subversive school system, an equally perverse "news"
establishment, and a shameful and degrading culture.
Of course, at the very nucleus of the myriad assaults on
traditional America is the rejection – at least by society's elites – of God
and the repudiation of the Judeo-Christian values that have long undergirded
our civilization. This in turn has led to pervasive societal disintegration and
a Pandora's box of endless and unimaginable problems.
What we're about to discover together in this book is that
not only are we undergoing a "fundamental transformation of America,"
but another transformation even more profound, that of Americans themselves.
And that, it turns out, was the real object all along.
But not to worry. We will also explore creative and
sometimes outside-the-box strategies for righting the American ship of state,
as well as living well in a dangerous and utterly unpredictable age. And we'll
survey the very best, most proven and effective ways to rise above the stress
and chaos that seem increasingly to dominate what once was a unified and
supremely influential superpower – and even more important, a good, decent, and
happy country.
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