This year’s presidential election is not for the faint of heart. In fact, over the past several months, mental health professionals have noted a significant uptick in anxiety and emotional distress related directly to today’s elections.
In a national poll by a University of Minnesota psychologist, 43 percent of respondents reported emotional stress related to Trump’s campaign, 28 percent were stressed out about Clinton and 93 percent said this year’s elections are more stressful than any previous election.
“‘I’ve been working as a psychologist since 2005, [and] this is the first time I’ve seen a lot of anxiety about the presidential election,’ says Dana Lipsky, who works with individuals and couples in Arlington … just outside the District of Columbia.
‘If I see 22 clients a week, about 15 of them will say something about the election.’ Electoral conflicts between spouses or partners have become so heated that Lipsky has counseled some couples to not discuss politics with each other unless it’s in couple’s therapy.
The US Has Become a Corporate Oligarchy
Unfortunately, positions of power have always attracted people who most want that power, and today we have many morally flawed people working in a corrupt government.The goal of the multinational corporate agenda is to continue concentrating power at the federal and global levels. Ultimately, the goal is to take power away from the individual and concentrate it at the highest level possible: This IS about control of the global population.
As noted in a 2014 study by two political scientists, the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, with the wealthiest elites in American society wielding the most control over the issues Congress and the White House ultimately take action on.
Banks, Oil, and Big Pharma Form a Symbiotic Whole
As previously revealed, big banks manipulate and influence your health in a number of different ways.The suppression of natural health treatment can be traced back to the corrupting influences of our financial system, for example, and the medical profession is cleverly manipulated and influenced in such a way as to bolster profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
The oil industry actually played an integral role in creating the conventional systems of medicine, finance, agriculture and education in the first place, and it was instrumental in creating the blueprint for success and power-building through consolidated monopolies.
The drug industry has since become one of the most powerful political and governmental influencers, with people wandering back and forth through perpetually rotating revolving doors between drug companies and the federal agencies tasked with their regulation, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It’s also why the “solution” being focused on is simply to make overdose-reversal drugs more widely available, as this feeds into the drug companies’ pockets rather than emptying them out. They profit from the problem they’ve created, and the federal approvals shield them from much of the liability they deserve.
Big Ag, Media, and the Military-Industrial Complex
Conflicts of interest also permeate our agricultural policies, which in turn influence public health. At present, our agricultural policies feed right into Big Pharma’s agenda, creating a steady flow of new patients, along with preventable public health crises such as antibiotic-resistant disease and pandemic outbreaks.The media has also been consolidated—to the point that 90 percent of what you read in newspapers, magazines and see on TV is now controlled by six media giants. This consolidation allows for tremendous influence on all matters, and has led to censorship being more the rule than the exception.
True unbiased, in-depth investigative journalism has joined the hairy-nosed wombat as an incredibly rare and near-extinct species, and you'd be wise to not swallow whole everything you read in mainstream media.
In 2013, Germany’s top security official warned Germans should not use American websites such as Google or Facebook if they want to protect their privacy.
Does Your Vote Count?
It’s easy to feel hopelessly powerless when faced with issues such as these, especially when viewed as a whole! But despite appearances, you DO have power—just not in the way you perhaps thought, or would like.
Don’t Panic—Refocus
Regardless of who wins the presidency today, please realize that your power as an individual lies in your day-to-day decisions, and that no matter who bears the title of President of the United States, the corporate influence will remain. If you don’t believe me, revisit “How First Lady’s Organic Garden Became a Junk Food Campaign.”Michelle Obama had clearly wanted to promote a real solution, but she was no match for the junk food and agricultural industries. The same can be said for President Obama, whose campaign promise to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs) turned into the complete opposite, where federal law actually preempted the first state GMO labeling law in the country and barred all other states from pursuing the matter.
Politicians say what is necessary to get elected, based on the polling of talking points. A politician’s public talking points constantly “evolve” and are rarely consistent with their actions that benefit their corporate sponsors.
Also realize that creating divisiveness among people is part of a carefully orchestrated plan that works in the oligarchy’s favor, so we really need to get smarter about how we engage in the political process and avoid falling for their carefully constructed and sophisticated strategies that limit us from having any really hopeful choices.
As long as we’re at each other’s throats over things we have little or no control over, it distracts us from analyzing and addressing the underlying system that is creating the problems in the first place. So let people have their opinion, whether we’re talking about political or presidential candidates, because these are all false choices anyway.
Avoid Victim Mentality by Realizing Where Your Power Lies
The power of the individual is alive and well, even in this deeply flawed system. It becomes yours by stepping OUTSIDE of the system with every decision and purchase you make. With every action you take, you also set the example for others to follow, thereby making you a change-agent within your own small circle of family, friends and acquaintances. In the end, our collective actions will create the changes that are so desperately needed, and thinking locally will eventually have a global effect.
Remember, the industries that are currently buying our politicians and writing their own laws cannot maintain power without your ongoing financial SUPPORT. While we may not have a significant choice in how our tax contributions are distributed to these industries through subsidies and contracts, we do have a very powerful influence by making responsible purchases each and every day.
Withdraw that support and you automatically redistribute financial power to a benevolent business aligned with your core principles.
Realize ‘Left Versus Right’ Is a False Narrative
We should not play the game and choose to be part of this false narrative of “left versus right” or “Democrat versus Republican.” Most people are still trapped in the mindset of opposition and there are great people across the board that need to come together. Readers of Mercola.com are split almost evenly between those identifying as Republican or Democrat, and working collectively has produced tremendous results by strategically organizing consumer marketplace pressure.Sad but true, most federal positions are already occupied because those positions have been bought and paid for by massive corporate interests that do not represent the people.
This is also why we must not support any additional federal or globalist laws such as trade agreements, no matter how good they sound, because they are ALWAYS written by hard-nosed corporate interests. It’s hard enough to fight for public justice at local and state levels, and even more challenging to fight at federal and global levels.
Trade agreements are nothing more than tools to transition economic powers to global authorities, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). They in turn make ridiculous laws that ban even the most basic of rights for information, such as country-of-origin labeling (COOL). We also need to fight to end federal subsidies of junk food ingredients.
Food Independence Is the Key to Other Forms of Independence
It’s time to dissent, to step out of the globalist and federalist systems, and it all starts with your food. If you cannot grow your own, then get to know the farmer that can. Keep your money in your community; the closer the better. Kissinger said it best:
As noted by Investment Watch:
Because food is such a potent form of control, breaking that control mechanism will have a ripple effect that extends outward into many other industries and fields of activity, including the political arena. So, instead of getting “down” about this year’s election, use it as a motivation to step into your personal power and join the revolution to create food independence.