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This is for the doom and gloomers
Jeffrey
Veteran
From my friend on facebook:
I offer this up to the gloom and doomers in the media: In the 1800s 70 people out of 100,000 died violently each year, in the 1900s this number fell to 60 out of every 100,000 (and this was with 2 world wars, Stalin, Hitler and Vietnam). Now only 3/10s of one person out of 100,000 meets a violent end. When I was born in 1951 there were only 50 democracies in the world, today there are over 100. In 1976 there were 90 authoritarian countries, now there are only 25. Do not let the Republican strategy of spreading fear and hate sully your mind or your soul. To quote my friend Leonard Cohen - "There ain't no cure for love."
I offer this up to the gloom and doomers in the media: In the 1800s 70 people out of 100,000 died violently each year, in the 1900s this number fell to 60 out of every 100,000 (and this was with 2 world wars, Stalin, Hitler and Vietnam). Now only 3/10s of one person out of 100,000 meets a violent end. When I was born in 1951 there were only 50 democracies in the world, today there are over 100. In 1976 there were 90 authoritarian countries, now there are only 25. Do not let the Republican strategy of spreading fear and hate sully your mind or your soul. To quote my friend Leonard Cohen - "There ain't no cure for love."
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Regardless of that however, I definitely agree with not listening to the fearmongering being spread by our(at least the US) government. They use fear and irrational hatred to justify all manner of atrocities all over the globe. The most important thing is to think for yourself and don't take anything (even the stats that may be more cheerful