dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

The Grind

A global survey conducted by Gallup suggests people living now are more stressed, worried, and angry than ever before.

To gain insight into people's emotions, researchers asked participants to describe events that occurred the day before the survey.

Questions included:

-- Did you smile or laugh a lot?

-- Were you treated with respect?

While 71% of respondents said they experienced considerable enjoyment the day before the survey, 40% said they felt worried and 35% said they were stressed.

The Details

The survey ranked more than 140 countries in terms of positive and negative experiences.

Coming in first place for negative experiences was Chad, a landlocked African nation that struggles with drought, poverty, political turmoil, and widespread child abuse. More than 70% of respondents in Chad said they had recently struggled to afford food; more than 60% reported physical pain.

Coming in first place for positive experiences was Paraguay, a steamy South American nation of about 6.8 million people. Fourth place was Panama, followed by Guatemala, Mexico, and El Salvador.

The United States came in 39th.

In terms of stress levels, Greece came in first place with 59% of its adult population reporting feelings of stress. This is slightly higher than the US, where 55% of adults reported feeling stressed.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Someone answer this for me; why do Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Mexicans want to come here if we are ranked 39th, much lower than these countries?

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Don't forget that one of the techniques used by the Marxists has always been to keep people in turmoil. Saul Alinsky pushed that technique in Rules For Radicals

Kevyn

Alinsky was not a Marxist and keeping people in turmoil is not one of his rules for Radicals. Do you just pull this nonsense out of your arse?

Lonewolf

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

The trouble with Democrats is that they know so much about what isn't true. Alinsky was very much a Marxist, and although he was not a c*******t he had a great affinity for Marxism. From the book, "Let Them Call Me Rebel" by Sanford D. Horowitz.

"Alinsky was enchanted with the action and adventure of...[the Spanish civil war]. It was not something that [he] would do,...but he did raise money for the International Brigade. He also liked what the Stalinists were doing in Spain, recalls Leon Despres, who was at the time a member of the Socialist Party.... 'I don't think he ever remotely thought of joining the C*******t Party [but] emotionally he aligned very strongly with it,' said Despres. In fact, it would be accurate to say that Alinsky was more radical in his inclinations, convictions, rhetoric, and wishes than his actions, which took a more pragmatic form."

"Alinsky was never a member of the party or a c*******t. He was too independent and combative to surrender intellect to dogma. But the c*******ts did not give up on him, Alinsky believed. ' The definition of myself in the higher circles of the C*******t Party was quite interesting,' Alinsky wrote in the early 1940s. 'They felt that I was doing a united front job . . . and while I was a rank individualist, fundamentally I was a liberal and maybe through a period of time I could be educated and possibly recruited.'"

"In the fall of 1937, he presented a paper at the annual congress of the American Prison Association in New York. This rather theoretical and historical paper raises more questions than it answers about the ideological direction in which Alinsky was headed. It suggested a flirtation with Marxism.'

"Saul Alinsky wanted to address the big political and social questions partly because he wanted to have a big impact. He wanted to do it as other men throughout history had done it, with the force of his ideas and the power of his pen. from time to time, he would seek out others who were interested in doing the same. ...His politics--although more at the level of philosophical than of activism--placed him as an independent l*****t: anti-authoritarian, non-c*******t, but with an affinity for Marxist ideas,..."

When attacked as a radical, Alinsky replied: "As far as being attacked as a radical . . . well, you are a radical. 'To be a radical is to grasp a thing by the root. Now the root of man is himself.' K.Marx, which is what I always say."

The following sounds very much like keeping people in turmoil: "...one key to mobilizing [the middle-class activists] was 'to excite their imagination with tactics that can introduce drama and adventure....'"

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Thank you for the explanation in a way that the progressives might understand.