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The Toll of Daily Politics on the American Psyche

February 28, 2019
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After a few months of being more plugged in to what is happening in our country, I’ve come to the realization that trying to be informed in even a basic way is enough to drive someone quickly insane.

Make no mistake. The daily political climate is taking a tremendous toll on the American psyche. Even if people don’t closely follow the news, the speed and absurdity of news developments is far too much compared to our ability to process it.

This week we watched every single Democrat senator who is a candidate for president vote to deny basic health care to babies born alive after a failed abortion. They believe that a child completely independent of the mother after birth has no rights to health care. The doctor can leave the infant to die and it is perfectly fine.

The Olympic Committee announced that transgender people will be allowed to compete. So people who were born men will be allowed to compete as women. This is already happening in high schools across the USA. Girls sports are dead. Even Martina Navratalova was shunned by the community she has championed when she spoke out against this growing trend.

We have a significant portion of this country’s leadership that hates our president so much that they want to see him fail in every way more than they want to do things that benefit our country.

We are daily assaulted by lies and gaslighting. It takes too much time for the average person to sort through the lies and track down the truth. We are surrounded by media sources that don’t even pretend to be impartial any longer so unless you are spending time literally every day trying to piece together the truth about every single event happening, you will not be informed. You simply cannot watch and read the MSM any longer and have any kind of objective big picture understanding of current events.

And yet our country was designed in such a way that it will only work with a well-educated and moral citizenry. I think it’s blatantly obvious that a fairly significant portion of our country is not well-educated and not moral.

We are bankrupt morally.

We are bankrupt financially.

We are bankrupt culturally.

We are bankrupt intellectually.

And those who speak the loudest seem hell-bent on pushing us over the precipice as quickly as possible.

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I’m a Christian, wife, homeschool mom, battle-seasoned blogger, and happy warrior for Christ. I discuss how Christians who don’t fit dominant institutional church and cultural narratives are already living truthfully and faithfully in the body of Christ.

“Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.” Acts 17:11

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  1. Peggy

    February 28, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    There is also a lot that is going on behind the scenes, completely out of view.

    You’re right that the toll of processing the things that we do see is enormous.

    I’ve been trying to trace Ocasio-Cortez’s We-Have-12-Years-To-Save-The-Planet idea back to its source, and ended up at the IPCC SR 1.5 report. I made it through Chapter 1, but it was a slog, and still have 4 more chapters to go. Essentially, her Green New Deal is an attempt to implement in the U.S. the economic and social changes that the IPCC says will be necessary worldwide to manage global warming, to keep it from continuing indefinitely. There is nothing in the report so far that gives me any confidence that they could actually manage global warming.

    Reply
  2. Peggy

    February 28, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    There is also a lot that is going on behind the scenes, completely out of view.

    You’re right that the toll of processing the things that we do see is enormous.

    I’ve been trying to trace Ocasio-Cortez’s We-Have-12-Years-To-Save-The-Planet idea back to its source, and ended up at the IPCC SR 1.5 report. I made it through Chapter 1, but it was a slog, and still have 4 more chapters to go. Essentially, her Green New Deal is an attempt to implement in the U.S. the economic and social changes that the IPCC says will be necessary worldwide to manage global warming, to keep it from continuing indefinitely. There is nothing in the report so far that gives me any confidence that they could actually manage global warming.

    Reply
  3. Peggy

    February 28, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    There is also a lot that is going on behind the scenes, completely out of view.

    You’re right that the toll of processing the things that we do see is enormous.

    I’ve been trying to trace Ocasio-Cortez’s We-Have-12-Years-To-Save-The-Planet idea back to its source, and ended up at the IPCC SR 1.5 report. I made it through Chapter 1, but it was a slog, and still have 4 more chapters to go. Essentially, her Green New Deal is an attempt to implement in the U.S. the economic and social changes that the IPCC says will be necessary worldwide to manage global warming, to keep it from continuing indefinitely. There is nothing in the report so far that gives me any confidence that they could actually manage global warming.

    Reply
  4. Peggy

    February 28, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    There is also a lot that is going on behind the scenes, completely out of view.

    You’re right that the toll of processing the things that we do see is enormous.

    I’ve been trying to trace Ocasio-Cortez’s We-Have-12-Years-To-Save-The-Planet idea back to its source, and ended up at the IPCC SR 1.5 report. I made it through Chapter 1, but it was a slog, and still have 4 more chapters to go. Essentially, her Green New Deal is an attempt to implement in the U.S. the economic and social changes that the IPCC says will be necessary worldwide to manage global warming, to keep it from continuing indefinitely. There is nothing in the report so far that gives me any confidence that they could actually manage global warming.

    Reply
  5. Ticia Messing

    February 28, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    I find the more I pay attention to the news today, the more frustrated and angry I get. That is a sad state of affairs.

    Reply
  6. Ticia Messing

    February 28, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    I find the more I pay attention to the news today, the more frustrated and angry I get. That is a sad state of affairs.

    Reply
  7. Ticia Messing

    February 28, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    I find the more I pay attention to the news today, the more frustrated and angry I get. That is a sad state of affairs.

    Reply
  8. Ticia Messing

    February 28, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    I find the more I pay attention to the news today, the more frustrated and angry I get. That is a sad state of affairs.

    Reply
  9. Sallie

    March 1, 2019 at 9:21 am

    There are no easy answers regarding how much time and attention to give to politics and current events. Part of me would prefer to just put my head in the sand and ignore it. But the part of me that truly believes we’re on a precipice feels compelled to speak out.

    Reply
    • Sallie Borrink

      August 12, 2025 at 7:45 am

      I’m in the process of republishing about 80 posts from a website I did for a short time called “Finding the Truth in the Noise.” This post was from that website.

      I am struck by the choice of the word “precipice” here. This was long before I ever learned about the Q thing after the 2020 election. I think I realized Q was connected to Trump in December 2020 by looking at stuff on Twitter.

      “Precipice” is an often quoted Q-related term.

      https://qalerts.app/?q=precipice

      Crazy and interesting.

      Reply
  10. Sallie

    March 1, 2019 at 9:21 am

    There are no easy answers regarding how much time and attention to give to politics and current events. Part of me would prefer to just put my head in the sand and ignore it. But the part of me that truly believes we’re on a precipice feels compelled to speak out.

    Reply
    • Sallie Borrink

      August 12, 2025 at 7:45 am

      I’m in the process of republishing about 80 posts from a website I did for a short time called “Finding the Truth in the Noise.” This post was from that website.

      I am struck by the choice of the word “precipice” here. This was long before I ever learned about the Q thing after the 2020 election. I think I realized Q was connected to Trump in December 2020 by looking at stuff on Twitter.

      “Precipice” is an often quoted Q-related term.

      https://qalerts.app/?q=precipice

      Crazy and interesting.

      Reply
  11. Sallie

    March 1, 2019 at 9:21 am

    There are no easy answers regarding how much time and attention to give to politics and current events. Part of me would prefer to just put my head in the sand and ignore it. But the part of me that truly believes we’re on a precipice feels compelled to speak out.

    Reply
    • Sallie Borrink

      August 12, 2025 at 7:45 am

      I’m in the process of republishing about 80 posts from a website I did for a short time called “Finding the Truth in the Noise.” This post was from that website.

      I am struck by the choice of the word “precipice” here. This was long before I ever learned about the Q thing after the 2020 election. I think I realized Q was connected to Trump in December 2020 by looking at stuff on Twitter.

      “Precipice” is an often quoted Q-related term.

      https://qalerts.app/?q=precipice

      Crazy and interesting.

      Reply
  12. Sallie

    March 1, 2019 at 9:21 am

    There are no easy answers regarding how much time and attention to give to politics and current events. Part of me would prefer to just put my head in the sand and ignore it. But the part of me that truly believes we’re on a precipice feels compelled to speak out.

    Reply
    • Sallie Borrink

      August 12, 2025 at 7:45 am

      I’m in the process of republishing about 80 posts from a website I did for a short time called “Finding the Truth in the Noise.” This post was from that website.

      I am struck by the choice of the word “precipice” here. This was long before I ever learned about the Q thing after the 2020 election. I think I realized Q was connected to Trump in December 2020 by looking at stuff on Twitter.

      “Precipice” is an often quoted Q-related term.

      https://qalerts.app/?q=precipice

      Crazy and interesting.

      Reply

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