Why is everyone so
unhappy (leftists especially)? by Bob Livingston
Americans are an
unhappy lot, and they’re growing less happy by the year. That’s according to
the World Happiness Report (WHR) which is based on Gallup polling and sponsored
by United Nations-linked globalist organizations.
America dropped from
the 13th-happiest country in 2016 to the 18th-happiest in 2018. The nation saw
happiness levels drop significantly in the WHR from 2005-2007 and again from
2013-2015.
So why is everyone so
unhappy? The authors of the WHR attribute American unhappiness to income
inequality, obesity, the opioid epidemic and a “depression epidemic.” Certainly
income inequality, obesity, an opioid epidemic and a depression epidemic all
exist. But blaming them for Americans’ unhappiness doesn’t get to the root of
the problem.
The root of the
problem lies in America’s pursuit and worship of false gods; namely the god of
Democracy.
Democracy is an
organized system of political, moral and social control. Democracy is not
freedom. It is not government by the people and for the people. It is the
perfect disguise for benevolent totalitarianism. As such, it’s anathema to
Christian-based morality and liberty.
The elites promote
democracy, and the people love it because they love evil more than
righteousness. We think that most of our readers are gravely concerned about
the deterioration of morality in America as reflected in what we see and hear
around us. The vast majority of Americans go along with the system. Its social
and moral depravity prospers under the cloak of democracy. Democracy is the
fallacy of argumentum ad populum writ large.
Government is
attacking the individual and family unit in a myriad of ways: through social
programs, class warfare and altruism, which is selfless self-denial to the
point of literal self-sacrifice for a myth called society, and propaganda.
Social welfare
programs are destructive to the individual and the family unit because they
absolve the parents of their parental responsibilities and promote dependency
on government. There are now “families” that for two or three generations have
been wards of the state. Many if not most of them are without a male head of
household. They depend upon the state to provide their sustenance, their
housing, their transportation, their healthcare and their entertainment.
They know nothing of
individuality or personal responsibility. Their provider is the state, and the
state is their god.
According to a report
in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, when people get their basic
necessities from government, government becomes their god.
Researchers found that
in countries where government services were “better” (what they meant by better
was never defined), people were less “religious.” This was true among the
studied countries and among states in the U.S. Researchers also discovered that
during the period 2008-2013, better government services in the states in a
specific year predicted lower religiosity one to two years later.
Most people believe
that social welfare programs are designed to help the needy and the downtrodden
despite 50 years of evidence that U.S. welfare programs have done just the
opposite. In fact, social programs are destructive to the family unit. And this
report shows they are destructive to the Church (and by Church I’m referring to
the Church established on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2, not the Roman
Catholic Church).
In a recent report
from Social Capital Project, researchers found that 30 percent of kids now born
are children of single mothers. That’s a 700 percent increase since 1960.
Millions of young men are being raised without a father or single positive
adult role model to teach them what it means to be a man. No matter how hard
they try or good their intentions, mothers or grandmothers cannot teach young
boys how to be men — men who treat women with respect and love and behave as
fathers to their children.
Government policies
first encouraged women to abandon their primary and God-directed role in raising
their children and join the work force, then drove them there through currency
debasement and high taxation that combined to drive up the cost of living,
making it almost impossible for a one-earner household to survive, much less
prosper.
We now see these
problems manifesting themselves in a myriad of ways, not the least of which is
the increase in harassment and sexual abuse of women and children. The policies
and actions of the elites in government and the Hollyweird crowd have destroyed
morality and pushed on us a social and moral depravity in the name of love. We
have been neutralized with the love syndrome.
After years of
promoting such immoralities as “free love” and consequence-less sex through the
murder of the soon-to-be-born in the womb; years of demeaning and ridiculing
God-based morality; years of support of policies that destroy the family unit
and universalism promoted by the organized church, the humanists are
“surprised” that some men took them at their word and felt free to act like
dogs.
The organized church
teaches us to love all people, all things and all evil. Well, this love
syndrome is not Christianity. It arises out of an esoteric philosophy intended
to subdue us into docility.
We are taught to see
no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil. This is a seduction to get us to love
evil. The more we love evil, the greater the capacity of evil to destroy us.
And the more we love evil, the less our capacity of discernment, not knowing
good from evil. The more we love evil, the more we pursue evil things. This is
our state of mind now. We do not know good from evil, contrary to the plain
teaching of scripture. “Follow not that which is evil, but that which is good.”
III John verse 11.
When one accepts the
social gospel and democracy, he automatically accepts and becomes a humanist.
He self-destructs as an individual giving himself over to altruism and group
consciousness. Next comes the inability to know right from wrong based on the
moral principles of the Bible.
When asked what was
the greatest commandment, Jesus told the Pharisees and Sadducees, “‘You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with
all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like
it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments
depend the whole Law and the Prophets.
Believe it or not, a
very high percentage of people don’t love themselves, much less God or their
neighbors. How can we tell? Because they are usually selfish. They don’t give
to the poor or do for others. They depend on government to provide social
services. They are unable to walk in other people’s shoes. Their focus is
totally on themselves.
Surveys show that
among conservatives and leftists of similar means, conservatives give far more
to charity and donate far more of their time to others than leftists. Leftists
believe in social welfare far greater than conservatives. Social welfare
programs create a belief in the public mind that since our earnings are expropriated
by the state and distributed to the “poor,” we have done our duty to the poor
when we “pay our taxes.” If this is our attitude, then we are falling short of
God’s command to both help the poor and downtrodden and spread the Gospel of
Christ. We are not showing a love for our neighbors.
The goal of government
is to coerce the people into a regimented, docile and obedient mass under a
propaganda system based on altruism and self-sacrifice, and so it seeks to
undermine the individual, the family unit and the basic tenets of Christianity.
The result is that Christianity still has its name, its churches and its forum,
but it no longer has its spirit.
Every human action
creates a reaction. Start being conscious of this and you will become excited
out of your mind.
Examples: Smile at
someone and they will smile back. When someone pulls in front of you, wave at
him instead of tooting your horn. Compliment people and they will feel good and
like you. Love someone and they will love you back. Do small favors for people
and they will respond.
These things cost
nothing, but they pay life dividends when you show consideration of the world
around you. And they are actions that are obligatory for Christian behavior.
Every negative thing
you do and think is reversed in like measure back to you. Every positive thing
you do is reversed back to you in like measure. If you bargain with life for a
penny, life will pay no more.
If Christians
fulfilled their obligations — individually, through the Church and through various
charities (church-based and secular) — there would be no need for government
welfare programs and therefore no perceived need for confiscatory plunder to
fund these programs. This would not only limit government power and expand
individual liberty, it would exalt God above government in the minds of the
people.
And people would be
much happier.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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