They say we’re having “dangerous levels” of heat throughout the country. Heat is not dangerous if you have AC. What’s dangerous are the climate fascists seeking to outlaw fossil fuels and AC — to outlaw them for the little people, certainly not for the Bidens, Zuckerbergs or Pelosis.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

I see many examples of spouses and partners who endure consistent and systematic meanness from their significant others. This pattern is more prevalent than you might think, and the clinical term for it is emotional abuse. There are a number of warning signs that you might be in an emotionally abusive relationship. They include a spouse who wants you to him- or herself, and doesn’t understand that you have a life, family and friends outside of the relationship.

Another indication of abuse is the shifting of responsibility, where the abused partner is accused of being “too sensitive” after being called deliberately hurtful names. The abuser always feels entitled to be treated as if you were his or her willing servant. The common denominator in all these examples is a misguided sense of entitlement, where he or she feels deserving of aspects of your life to which he or she would not normally be entitled.

This principle carries not only social and political implications, but also has dramatic implications for daily life in a relationship. Emotional abusers are ultimately weak because they are banking on an irrational viewpoint in order to get their way. So, the abuser’s ability to get away with spewing disruption and hurt is only as strong as the spouse or partner’s willingness to evade the fact that he or she is sovereign over his or her own life. If one doesn’t believe that, and humbly remains in the hurtful relationship, this only strengthens the pseudo-power of the abuser who claims to love you. The very thing that is causing the hurt and pain is therefore fostered even more and becomes more invasive.

Of course, there are things to which a partner or a spouse can rationally feel entitled. In a monogamous relationship or marriage, each partner willingly agrees not to go outside the sexual relationship with other people. You’re not giving up sovereignty over your life by keeping an agreement you freely choose to make. But many problems in relationships arise from the false beliefs that one is entitled to something to which he or she is not.

When the abuser forgets that his or her partner is an autonomous individual, and stops loving him or her for the individuality that he or she possesses, this is when love invariably turns sour. When you want to possess the person rather than simply to love him or her, that’s the beginning of the end. The next step can become emotional abuse.

So what gives rise to this false entitlement? In the majority of cases that feeling is driven by anxiety – anxiety that you will abandon him or her. And that anxiety is amplified when you do something that suggests your having an autonomous self, i.e., going out with friends, visiting family alone, etc. A non-abusive partner might express hurt and worry that “you’re going to leave me,” perhaps hoping to control your behavior in that way. But the emotional abuser, driven by the same anxiety, takes the situation to a ridiculous conclusion by “daring” you, in a way, to defy the idea that you’re not the controller of your existence. The psychiatric labels “narcissistic personality” or “borderline personality” both refer, in large part, to this false sense of entitlement such people feel.

Irrational anxiety destroys everything it touches. The only cure for the emotional abuser is to challenge and correct these false assumptions of entitlement. And just as importantly, it’s the duty of those around them – spouses, partners and friends alike – to not buy into that false thinking. If you repeatedly let it slide and allow it to happen, then you are contributing to your own unhappiness and emotional turmoil.

Michael J. Hurd, Life’s a Beach

From the American Thinker:

Are electoral outcomes predetermined? Are voting machines still connected to the internet? Will thousands of undeliverable ballots be harvested by postal workers, delivered to unknown locations, to be filled out by Democrat operatives and delivered to selected precincts, and run through vote tabulators multiple times until the preordained candidate takes the lead?

Democrats aren’t even concerned about the 2024 election. Biden has few campaign workers and no headquarters. Why should he? He already has the necessary votes, as he did in 2020, and is confident that his vote tally will exceed that of any opponent. For Democrats, the fix is in, the campaign is theater. Has Trump or the GOP fixed anything since 2020, effecting a different outcome?

Or will elections even happen? Will there be a false flag event leading to delayed or canceled elections for “public safety”? We are on the verge of nuclear war with Russia. How many pathogens, developed in America’s vast international network of 300+ biolabs, are ready to be unleashed on America and the world, requiring draconian lockdowns and travel restrictions, closing society North Korea-style, making elections “too risky”?

Who, if elected, can turn the tide against a tyrannical government?

https://rumble.com/v307ppk-leftism-is-a-disease-worthy-of-our-ridicule.html

https://rumble.com/v30axdy-tucker-carlson-no-one-is-punished-for-lying-people-are-only-punished-for-te.html

“Woke” (definition) informal US … (adj.) A state of oblivion only achieved by those delusional enough to find injustice in everything but their own behavior.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

We know where the drugs in the White House are coming from. Good grief; it’s obvious. They’re a crime family. Crime is stressful. Criminals need drugs to cope with their insane lives. Hunter is probably hooked on things you have never heard of. What’s most remarkable to me? Nothing kills these people. They just keep existing, and we’re forced to watch them play out the American version of Caligula and Claudius combined.

The bigger question: Why are we allowed to even know all this? Why does the equivalent of state-run media keep reporting on drugs in the White House? To me, that’s obvious too. It’s their way of making even more brazenly obvious what we already know: The laws do not apply to them. Laws are for the little people. The sociopathic oligarchs are giving us the middle finger, and we continue to take it.

If we can’t have a second American Revolution, I am all for a French Revolution. Google Marie Antoinette. We are dealing with the most smug, depraved, grotesque mentally and morally disfigured people who ever held power anywhere. It’s not only the Bidens. It’s everyone around them.

You could not have written this — everything that’s going on today, not just politically, but culturally– as fiction. It would have been rightly condemned as cheap and trivial. To think that America, founded by the likes of Washington, Jefferson and Madison has come to THIS is too incomprehensible to articulate.

Shame on those of us who are afraid to speak up and simply state the obvious. Do you love your children and grandchildren? Do you think when they’re living in the squalor, impoverishment and utter despair of totalitarian socialism in 30 years, that they’ll wonder why you didn’t try to stop it?

Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Charleston SC). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest. Also follow Dr. Hurd on Twitter at @MichaelJHurd1, drmichaelhurd on Instagram, Michael Hurd Ph.D. on LinkedIn, @DrHurd on TruthSocial

Why Get Help?

Solution-focused life coaching with Dr. Hurd

ARTICLE SEARCH

DR. HURD’S LATEST BOOK

Foreword written by Dr. Stanton Samenow
READ AN EXCERPT NOWGet your autographed copy now, only from DrHurd.com!
CLICK HERE

SOMEBODY TO TALK TO…

Schedule a Consultation or Coaching

• Phone
• Email
• Skype Consultation

QUICK LINKS

• HOME
• MEET DR. HURD
• WHY GET HELP?
• SOLUTIONS–NOT EXCUSES
• TESTIMONIALS
• THE SHOP
• CART
• REFUND AND PRIVACY POLICIES
• CONTACT ME
• ACCESSIBILITY

LETS CONNECT

Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest.

CONTACT INFO

Living Resources, LLC
Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
1643 B Savannah Highway
Box 321
Charleston, SC 29407
United States

Copyright © 2023 Living Resources, LLC, t/a Dr. Michael J. Hurd.
All Rights Reserved. For permission to copy/reprint content, please ask us first so we can give you a citation information.
Website Design by D3Corp Ocean City Maryland

Subscribe to Dr. Hurd News!

Smug leftists snidely dismiss holidays like July 4 and Columbus Day as “slave-owning white men” holidays. Yet they still want to be off work on these days. Wouldn’t a principled stand mean refusing to participate in any holiday that isn’t Juneteenth or MLK Day?

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

President Calvin Coolidge celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1926, with a speech providing a magisterial review of the history and thought underlying the Declaration. His speech on the occasion deserves to be read and studied in its entirety. The following paragraph, however, is particularly relevant to the challenge that confronts us in the variants of the progressive dogma that pass themselves off today as the higher wisdom:

“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

(Posted annually since 2004.)