Please see the following article. Through history, societies and their cultures have been destroyed by uncontrolled immigration. So it is with America now.
V. Thomas Mawhinney, 5/18/22
https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/bidens-welcome-program-for-illegal-immigrants/
V. Thomas Mawhinney
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The following is a reblog from 2016, with some up-dated information from 2022.
Drug Abuse Contagion in America #I
The word contagion in this title best describes the spread of something within a population. It could be changes in health or genetic make-up (biological); it could be cognitive, emotional, or behavioral changes in individuals (psychological); or changes in the quality of social interactions among individuals, groups of people, agencies or organizations (social/psychological).
It is also important to understand that drug abuse contagion can negatively impact (contage) other individuals who have contact with the drug user (physical or psychological abuse, neglect, job loss, multiple addictions, etc., can lead to legal problems and divorce). All of these outcomes are bad for everyone, and especially children who are involved. Such outcomes are also very bad for America.
Many changes can be good for individuals, populations, and societies. Some changes could increase the likelihood of health, happiness and even the very survival of individuals, populations and societies. Of course there are many changes that could reduce the probability of all of these bad outcomes, and change them to good outcomes.
Considering the realm of drug abuse contagion within our society there are a great many factors that can increase this form of bad contagion. They are too numerous to catalogue here, and some may not yet be identified.
The following are only some of the factors that stimulate bad behavioral contagion in the form of recreational drug abuse and addiction:
This last matter showcases a dramatic change by America’s increasingly liberal/progressive federal, state, and local government’s rules for citizen’s recreational drug consumption in America.
The recreational use of marijuana has now been legalized in seven states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Oregon, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Washington. . ( Note: as of 4/29/22, an additional 28 states have fully, partially, or decriminalized marijuana).
Marijuana has also been legalized for medical applications in 27 states: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington
I will soon deal with the medical use of marijuana in a second blog on that topic. For now, I will simply note that the increased in availability and use of any drug, with pleasurable conscious-altering effects, is likely to lead to even more increased use, legally prescribed or not.
Among all of the reasons for the increases our population’s use of marijuana I have listed above, are the effects of all levels of America’s government starved and desperate for increased revenues.
Beginning in the 1960’s, America’s Governments have successively legalized population behaviors that were once outlawed as vices. These activities are ones that were, and still are, are commonly understood to addict, kill, or produce other behavioral, emotional, or physical problems in large numbers of citizens who engage in them. These activities are ones that attract the involvement of criminal elements of society.
As a result, America’s increasingly progressive governments and their puppet entertainment and main-stream news media have used the language of individual rights and freedoms to propagandistically justify these culturally transforming legalization’s of formerly prohibited vices.
Disguised by this avalanche of propaganda, the driving force of this bad behavioral contagion is America’s government’s dire quest for economic survival.
America’s Gross Federal Debt is expected to stand a near 20 trillion dollars at the start of 2017. America’s governments are going bankrupt due to socialistic mismanagement. (note: as of 4/29/22 our national debt stands at 30 trillion +).
Our governments have taxed citizens to the breaking point and so they have cleverly legalized pornography, gambling and now recreational marijuana use so they can win new sources of tax revenue. I expect that prostitution will be the next target for more wide-spread legalization.
Our governments are now desperately foraging for new revenues and are focused upon further pleasuring and economically predating its citizens.
Can you perceive the faint historical echo’s from the Roman Colosseum in all of this?
Please view the following two articles about the known effects of marijuana on users. Here you will learn some of the reasons why the recreational use of marijuana was formerly made illegal.
Please note that these articles are from authoritative sources.
America is killing itself in so many ways…and the legalization of drugs is just another one of them.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/marijuana-use-and-its-effects?page=2
V. Thomas Mawhinney Ph.D., 11/12/16
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Indiana Health Services Provider in Psychology
I have been reading about the decline of many cultures, and the great ones too, for over 30 years.
It is important to bear-in-mind that the name of a society, or its geographical location, is not its culture. The names and locations of a societies are not so prone to change as are their cultures. Cultures are comprised of rates of change of population behavior patterns and their consequences: immediate, intermediate and delayed.
Causes of change can be consequences of consequences of change. All of this can take the form of changes in individual and population behavior patterns: Such as religious traditions, political, governmental and economic practices, fertility, population ethnic and racial proportions, as well as material artifacts and technologies; all of which can lead to more cultural evolutions, and so-on.
All of this impacts a Societies’ ability to stay strong and able to adapt to the many internal and external environmental events that they must effectively cope with in order to remain strong and viable over the the great expanses of time the may seek to exist.
My past readings have centered primarily on books and academic papers. Recently, I have started to scan the internet to see what may reside there about this complex topic.
I have found much there about the perceived decline of America’s culture. Many potential causes of America’s decline have been identified. The decline itself should come as no surprise to astute observers America’s great unraveling
I have written a great many postings about America’s Cultural Decline since 2009 that I will not attempt to count them.
If you have interest in this topic, and I cannot imagine why you would not, please enter “Cultural Decline” in my search box in the upper right side of my main blog page. I am sure you will find some interesting, perhaps compelling, information as a result.
Roosh Valizadeh published an important article on December 2, 2014. You can visit his blog at RooshV.com
The title of this article is “Cultural Collapse Theory: The 7 Steps That Lead To A Complete Culture Decline”.
In this article, “The cultural Collapse Progression” is briefly described and numbered. Then, in the text of his article, he explains some of the components of each of the 7 steps.
As you review the following steps, please be mindful of your own collection of events that you have seen unfold in America.
You may be in-for-a significant Epiphany!
If so, please vote accordingly in all elections to come.
I suggest that you go to RooshV.com to read this and other relevant postings.
V. Thomas Mawhinney, Ph.D., 4/19/22
There is no question!
It is now, for certain, that America’s corrupted electoral process put a dementing Joe Biden into our Presidency. A President who is a corrupted (along with his son Hunter) puppet of external and internal Marxist Revolutionaries bent on destroying America.
As a hedge against President Biden’s removal for his rapidly increasing mental incompetence, they installed Vice President Harris. She is simply incompetent because of general ignorance.
The Joke is on America. But it sure as hell ain’t funny!
V. Thomas Mawhinney, 4/6/22
The following was a comment I received in response to my post on 4/2/22, entitled “America’s Cultural Death March”.
Dr. Mawhinney,
You would have thought when a former Democrat POTUS claimed he was fundamentally intending to change our nation, that red alarm flags would have popped up all over our blessed country.
Somehow, America fell asleep at the wheel and paid no attention to the agenda going on known as “secular progressivism” and the hidden evil engineering of “CRT” and “ Woke” ideologies.
A number of our major cities were torn asunder by a wave of violence, destruction and looting and also the “defunding police” campaign being promoted as crime grew and flourished in many of our major cities across our nation. The malignant “cancer” grew as an apathetic populace of Americans slept. The proverbial “ostrich” buried its head in the sand too deep!
What the peace loving people of Ukraine today would give to have a country like ours… and the majority of our country doesn’t even realize it!
Why are people busting the fences down at our southern border to get into our country?
The old saying goes, “You don’t know what you had, until it’s gone.”
It is what it is. Our mainstream media is a well oiled liberal “politically correct” machine driven by a socialistic desire to eradicate the Judea/Christian principles and values our nation was built on and to ruin our Land of Liberty and the country our forefathers fought and died for… May God have Mercy.
Being thankful to God isn’t one of America’s main objectives these days. Simply said.
Thank you, Dr. Mawhinney, for sharing your thought provoking perspectives!
Much appreciated.
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The following was my response to this comment:
Thank you Ray J. It cannot be said any better than you have put it. My only hope, and it is a slim one, is that somehow our corrupted electoral system can be fixed before our next series of elections. Sadly, I am presently unable to see how this can be done. Blessings, Tom
Call it America’s cultural death march! It is our societal and cultural death by unregulated immigration.
The Democrats, bent on an irreversible “transformation” of America, starting with the Obama administration, are very near to achieving this goal.
They understand that they are likely to be voted out-of-office in the coming elections. They know they have alienated much of their traditional base with their consistently anti-American policies.
Many, presumably in the know, predict a landslide Republican resurgence at the polls our in upcoming elections.
But, the Democrats count on two ways to save their Socialist/Communist, Global Government, and Green Energy Revolution.
First, they bank on successfully cheating at the polls (as they did in the last Presidential Election), having then successfully corrupted America’s Electoral process.
Secondly, they hope to so badly damage America’s Republic, in the time they have left in office, that our traditional society and culture are left in an irreparable condition. In this case, the voting public would be so frustrated and angry about the “poor performance” of new Republican Administration that the Democrats could again win the Presidency.
It would then be their turn in power again. Providing them yet another opportunity to further reinforce their previous revolutionary accomplishments.
Pray that this does not come to pass, and vote accordingly.
Now see the Democrats double down on an historically tried-and-true method for destroying great societies.
V. Thomas Mawhinney, Ph.D., 4/2/22
The sad truth resides here.
V. Thomas Mawhinney, 3/21/22
Attorney General William Barr has been in the media recently discussing his new book: “One Damn Thing After Another”. In his book and on air, he has discussed how angry at him President Trump became when he advised Trump that there was no evidence of substantial voter fraud in the 2020 election.
I greatly respect Mr. Barr. However, it is a key fact that Barr’s assessment came shortly after the election and is in direct conflict with evidence compiled over a one-year-interval since his statement to then President Trump.
This evidence is presented below and is authoritative in my judgment.
Moreover, I read Mollie Hemingway’s amazingly detailed book entitled, “Rigged”. This book documents the many ways in which public opinion was fraudulently turned against Mr. Trump, even before his Presidency. It also documents a great many irregularities, and illegalities that occurred in the 2020 Presidential Election.
The Anti-Trump propaganda started well-before he won the Presidential Election. Shamefully, it then continued all through his stunningly effective Presidency. Trump was amazingly effective in spite of two fallacious impeachments and a blizzard of allegations and false charges of misconduct throughout his Presidency. This continues to the present day!
All of this was perpetrated by America’s corrupted Democrat Party, their foreign and domestic progressive and Marxist operatives, as well as their “main-stream” propagandistic news media.
Now comes well-documented information detailing the Democrat Party-corruption-plagued Presidential Election of 2020; and more evidence is on the way.
It is no accident that following President Trump’s very narrow fraudulent defeat; immediately….everything that could go wrong has gone terribly and destructively wrong for America.
The Democrat Party is about the business of purposefully destroying America. Many believe it is a matter of domestic and geopolitical stupidity on the part of the Biden Administration. However, the endless destructive decisions are too many and to perfectly executed for stupidity to be the explanation.
We must to everything possible to stop, and survive, America’s ongoing Marxist Revolution.
Carefully evaluate the evidence below and then read Hemingway’s book.
Come to your own conclusions and vote accordingly at every legal opportunity!
V. Thomas Mawhinney, 3/17/22
Thanks to Patriot Gordon Jones for sending me this article.
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