JUST SAY NO

JUST SAY NO

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D., Traditional Realist

We are becoming a society of excuses for our disastrous and ignorant decisions. Not only have we been indoctrinated with the notion of tolerance for all actions and every behavior, but tolerance has been sold as a super virtue that would make a Kumbaya world where everyone would accept and love all as equals. 

However, not everyone is equally worthy. There are some people who are nasty, dangerous and even evil. Many of these individuals do horrendous deeds throughout their lives. Most of their parents turned a blind eye to their antics. When the parent is tolerant of mean, inappropriate actions it lets the child evolve into more antisocial and destructive behaviors. Goodness has to be encouraged and badness has to be punished.

In our non-judgmental and tolerant culture, we emphasize the child’s beautiful smile and ability to speak intelligently. He avoids any responsibility for misdeeds by masterfully lying in a creative, cute and innocent manner. As this youngster matures into an adult these tendencies become part of his character. This art form of lying is becoming more prevalent and sophisticated by advertising, slick politicians, unethical professionals, Hollywood role models and significantly harried, permissive parents. They know they are being conned but why should they get upset or take time to correct it? The truth is a messy business that takes time, energy and righteous people who care about the world they leave behind.

Righteous people have been rebranded and derided by our progressive culture as hypocrites, and intolerant bigots. They are portrayed as mean spirited and cruel, unforgiving to others who have fallen on hard times. These moral individuals believe in personal responsibility for one’s actions. Excuses are not accepted.

This biblical, tough love formula has been the backbone of the US moral stability. Without it everyone does his “own thing” that leads to social chaos and dominance of the most wicked. In the “1980s drug epidemic” Nancy Reagan, wife of President Reagan, came up with the “Just Say No” slogan to curtail the rampant spread of drugs in our country.  She was unmercifully ridiculed. It did not end the use of illegal drugs but decreased the trajectory of it. The message was clear: excuses are a dime a dozen. “Just Say No” to drugs and you end your horrible drug addiction journey regardless of the temptation and threats.

In modern vernacular, it would be translated to “No one can bully you into taking drugs if you do not listen to them.” In other words, the “bullying” is a non-excuse for a person to absolve them from the stupid decision they made. The decision to obtain drugs and injecting them is the person’s responsibility. Any comments to the contrary are attempts to shirk their responsibility. No rationale could justify this behavior. The person is the victim of his own decisions and will suffer the inevitable consequences.

Returning the power of decision making back to the person ends the nonsense of others as bullying/forcing the individual into drug use. These potential drug users make voluntary decision that allow them to avoid this destructive route. Some addicts who heard this message still chose to use the powerful substance knowing it would seduce them to abandon their longterm thinking ability for short term pleasure. A person could end their nightmare by just saying “No” and bravely fighting through the withdrawl from drugs and regaining their functional life.

Tough love is not easy. It means a person has to say no to nasty people who are trying to encourage, tease, instigate or bully someone to do the wrong thing. By saying
“No,” it most often ends the bully’s shenanigans and he moves on to another softer touch. At worst, you speak to a friend or authority figure to help you stand firm and fight for your integrity. It is worth the hassle to protect one’s future, independence and moral values.

Voluntarily entering into slavery for immediate drug gratification, sex, high standard of living or any other reason is an obscene act. Surrendering one’s independence and freedom is evil to oneself.  Everyone has a duty to uplift others by example and deed. Without these inspiring role models, we will fall into despair and helplessness.

The hard and more painful path of saying “no” to mean associates is not easy to admit to oneself. Once it is done, freedom will again be in the person’s reach. Any individual, adolescent, young adult, middle age, or senior can make stupid decisions, but they can correct them with courage and honesty to speak their minds in a reasonable and forthright manner. Real friends will accept the apologies while phonies will attempt to ridicule the person to convince him he should maintain his self-destructive behavior.

Those who want to do you harm are never friends. Just get rid of them and their sick rationalizations to keep you dependent on them and their drugs.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

FREEDOM AND RIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE SACRIFICED ON THE SCIENTIFIC ALTAR

FREEDOM AND RIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE SACRIFICED ON THE SCIENTIFIC ALTAR

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

The United States constitution endowed citizens with God given inalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. These limits on the government are specifically spelled out in our Bill of Rights. They are not negotiable.

The Covid-19 virus has turned out to be much overblown. It was originally advertised as a pandemic where millions, not thousands would die. The models were dead wrong. In the United States they originally estimated 2.2 million deaths.  The estimate now has been drastically reduced to 60,000 deaths. This low figure is 1,000 fewer than the flu deaths of last year. This figure is inflated by hospitals that are reporting all deaths as Coronavirus even when the patients had co-morbid issues. According to many authorities they are reclassifying deaths.

The reported scientific consensus of managing this virus was never reality. The U.S. has never quarantined its citizens or shut down the economy for any other health epidemic. This questionable panic is still being hyped as potentially the worst disaster in history. The social distancing rule was introduced as lowering the curve of people dying. It has strongly been followed in the U.S. while Sweden did not practice it and its numbers decreased. It does not prevent deaths but spaces them out over a longer period of time. This is to avoid too many patients overwhelming our hospital system. The speculative requirements make less and less sense as the facts paint a different reality.

Yet draconian measures continue to be suggested and some implemented. Drones are being used in certain cities to insure “social distancing,” by finding people who are violating the rules. Freedom of religion by congregating in a church has been ruled illegal by many community leaders even on Easter Sunday. Our public schools and universities have been summarily shut down for the year or longer even when youngsters have shown great resistance to this virus. Our economy has ground to a halt except for government picked “essential businesses.”

The most frightening aspect of this temporary suspension of our constitutional freedoms are the elites along with their scientific high priests who call for permanent cancellation of our constitutional freedoms under the guise of national health. Worldwide known, Bill Gates, is funding seven different Covid-19 vaccines. This arrogant, global elitist has openly suggested mandating citizens to carry a digital certificate of immunity that proves a person has been vaccinated for the Covid-19 virus.

Being forced to carry official papers by any government is reminiscent of NAZI tactics to isolate and insert fear into the hearts of every citizen to follow the decrees of the central government. This is antithetical to our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The citizens are supposed to be the ultimate decision makers, not a totalitarian government.The national and global elites are joined together as true totalitarians in believing they are all knowing and powerful. They want to dictate what the average person should do using their pseudo-scientific god-like truths. The fear of pandemic is the perfect event to capsize local, national and international governments. It is immaterial to the progressives if we find an effective vaccine or not. Our present flu vaccine, which is changed each year, is not a vaccine in the traditional sense. The flu is a collection of illness and the vaccine only protects against a small number of them. It should be up to the public to weigh the dangers and benefits of treatment not the government. Once fear overpowers the citizen’s rights the elites have won and the people have been squashed.

The Coronavirus fear campaign was perfected by learning from the H1N1, SARS, Zika, Swine Flu, and HIV diseases. Americans are killing themselves at an incredible rate by their own hands using dangerous drugs such as Meth, Heroin, Fentanyl and others. There are many Americans who do abusive things to their own bodies. They are overeating, eating junk food, smoking, drugging, not exercising, not getting sufficient sleep, and over medicating.

Yet the same people run in a panic to doctors to be prescribed drugs and operations to be cured while neglecting their own immune system.  These same individuals are wholeheartedly obeying the elites shredding their freedoms for the promise of preventing them from dying from Covid-19. Currently they are conforming to ridiculous government mandates in the hope that they will avoid death.

We are trading freedom for the assurance of living, which cannot be granted by the government. We should never sacrifice our constitutional rights and freedoms for promises that cannot be granted by men, even the high priests of science.

Only God has the ultimate power of life and death.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL STABILITY IS CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY

THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL STABILITY IS CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

One of the greatest virtues of the United States has been its stability. Our founders understood that everything changes with time, nothing stays consistent. Over reaction or under reaction will determine the severity of any change. The inability to know the future caused our wise forefathers to slow down our decision-making and include debate to determine the best decision. They realized that any radical shift in our course could capsize the ship. This would lead to unmitigated disaster of over-reacting that might not be salvageable. They believed in “steady as you go” to avoid grievous mistakes of one’s own making.

This is the reason these wisemen after all their historical research of ancient civilizations found that democracies in the long run were destined to fail. People generally overreact from fear, fickleness and being short sighted. They want everything they had in the past without considering the consequences.

For this human shortcoming these men of reason decided on a representative government with separation of powers. That would slow down the process and force a consensus of competing groups of society to agree to a better decision. Our form of government has allowed US citizens to live in a culture and economic society of predictability and security. There is a built-in tacking as found in sailing that never encourages a radical change in direction. It causes a high level of “steady as it goes” from one administration to another. Irrational changes and revolutions as seen in a democracy are constrained in a constitutional republic.

In a crisis like our current experience with Coronavirus there are many voices heard expressing different routes to alleviate the issue. One day we are social distancing, then we should not wear masks, then we should. A level-headed strategy will hopefully continue to stabilize until this crisis eases and calm is restored. Steady as you go will keep the boat from tipping over until we are on solid ground.

The United States ratcheted up testing, surpassing every other nation in the world. As the number of people tested increases so do the number of people who tested positive for the virus. This increasing number of people who tested positive was reported as an alarming occurrence. The panic increased even when the predictions turned out to be too high. It appears we will have fewer deaths than last year’s flu of 61,000. The inaccurate scientific models have constantly been lowered from 2.2 million deaths indicating the predictions were never credible.

The crucial number is the number of deaths. This is what created the panic in the first place. The death total has been a fraction of what had initially been forecast. It has included all the deaths due to multiple health complications, while the death rate from other causes has dropped.

The death forecast has been a moving target due to different models with different assumptions. As Dr. Fauci said, on March 31^st, after lowering the estimates many times that there could be 100,000 to 200,000 Covid-19 deaths in total. Then he quickly added that he did not want to be held to that number. This arrogant scientific priest dictatorially stated, “we won’t end the quarantine until there are no more deaths from the virus.” Drastic speculative change leads to more uncertainty that fans the flames of greater panic. Citizens are being conditioned to follow “speculative scientific mandates” without presenting hard factual evidence. Many experts are questioning the effectiveness of social distancing. It has never been scientifically proven to be effective. We are supposed to follow it on faith although scientific experts reject evolving promising treatments because they have not been “thoroughly tested.” This double standard is undermining scientific credibility while increasing legitimate questions rather than quelling them.

The elites’ tendency to use a crisis to enlarge government and limit citizen’s freedom appears to be a serious motivator of this pandemic. Our civil rights should only be temporarily forfeited for public health concerns. Instability is a time when elites like to make dramatic changes to limit our freedoms and gain greater control. We must remain vigilant and brave not to let this happen.

 America’s constitution has guided our decision-making, keeping us stable and on course. Many elites are urging we surrender our civil rights for public health. Dramatic pseudo-scientific predictions, no matter how piously presented, should not determine our decisions. Constitutional rights should not be permanently eliminated on such flimsy speculation. We need to remain calm, thoughtful and consider everything we need to keep for a balanced society.

Our national hallmark of “steady as it goes” needs to continue to guide us on the economic and health front.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

THE FEAR FACTOR COULD BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES

THE FEAR FACTOR COULD BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

The US has had a long period of prosperity and peace. We have been the strongest nation in the world with military and economic superiority. The greatest concern many people faced was what was the next luxury item to buy.

Most of us have never previously faced a world depression, world war, national catastrophe or a pandemic. We are currently confronted by a world-wide panic that is being fanned by conflicting information. These are based on wild speculation and government elites’ desire to blanket the nation with their ominous edicts to alter our government. It appears they want to frighten us then demand that we do things that Americans have never been forced to do in the past.

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights has been suspended in many areas of the country. Schools, restaurants, and various businesses have been shut down. “Social distancing” has been the reason given for not being able to gather in groups. Even public access to beaches (one of the healthiest environments there is) has been revoked by government decree. People have been told to remain in their homes and not congregate in the streets, bars, clubs, stores, homes or any place where people can interact even churches. These government mandated self-quarantine is being done for supposedly “the greater good” of all citizens. It has devastated our economic system. 

The frightening and unnerving feature of this intrusion into citizens’ lives is how easily people have complied. The main thing the government planners have done is introduce relentless fear into the public arena every day. The government health agencies talk daily about speculative scientific disease models. These have been introduced into the discussion to create a narrative that is more threatening than the last one.

The models are as valid as the assumptions and data fed into it. As the number of deaths claimed by the medical profession to be caused by the Coronavirus changes, the panic level increases. Recently Dr. Fauci said there could be from 100,000 to 200,000 deaths, “but don’t quote me on that” after the experts originally stated there could be 2.2 million deaths in the United States. Any of these estimates are high enough to raise the heart rate of most Americans. These pseudo-scientific figures are spread like wildfire by the media. The public repeats them to each other increasing the apparent veracity of the number and creating an avalanche of fear.

Life is tenuous. The death tolls per year for the following categories is staggering: heart disease- 650,000, cancer- 600,000, accidental deaths- 165,000, respiratory disease- 160,000, strokes- 146,000, diabetes- 83,000, suicides- 47,000, drug deaths-70,200, smoking related deaths- 480,000, second hand smoking- 7,330, influenza- 56,000. They all would cause a great amount of panic if they were orchestrated by the media night after night. These are only some of the major groups of deaths. Focusing on death can only increase anxiety, depression, that lowers our immune system. This is what the Covid-19 panic is doing, even though many of the other disease death tolls are much greater.

As FDR stated during WWII, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Of course we should do everything to lower the risk of being exposed to Coronavirus including building up our immune systems by eating well, sleeping enough and living properly with positive thinking. FDR’S wise advice allowed many citizens during WWII to deal with and overcome legitimate issues of survival.

Our government could easily choose to create panic for many of the illnesses listed above with the same level of fear factor especially for influenza except it was not presented as dramatically as was the pandemic. This Covid-19 is running its course. We will develop a vaccine that will defeat the virus.

There are many ways of living in our short life span. Living in fear is the least preferable. Americans in the past have been forward- looking optimists. They had faith and lived everyday appreciating the grace of God. Most asked Him for courage to conquer their worst fears and he answered.

Without God’s afterlife the thought of any means of dying would provoke distress, anxiety or immobilization. This is not in the DNA of Americans. Our nation’s ancestors were adventurous and brave people who overcame immense hardships to come here and struggled to reach the American Dream. These sturdy individuals pushed aside troubles, rejection and fears to fight to become assimilated and accepted as Americans. We need to have the same faith in God as did our ancestors.

We again need to think positively, thankfully and humbly for all we have been given and rid ourselves of destructive fear. We need to elevate our courage to regain our strength as the leader of the free world.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.