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How can they live with themselves?

I am indignant.

It is now well known that Big Pharma is paying physicians regarding the safety of drugs, including opioids, which is causing the high number of deaths from these drugs.

It is not as well known that SSRI antidepressant drugs are also partly responsible for mass shootings. Every mass shooter has been taking one of these drugs, which have been shown to cause violence.

Now it has come to light that the NRA has paid millions of dollars to numerous politicians to vote against gun control legislation, even though the vast majority of Americans want gun control.

How can these people live with themselves in the face of school shootings and other mass shootings? How can money be more important to them than the life of a child or an adult?

I cannot understand this.

Money in politics is ruining our country

Years ago when I was traveling in Europe, I discovered that in Scandinavian countries, when someone is running for office, they have the same free time on television to declare their platform, and that’s it for campaigning. They don’t need the huge campaign funds to run for office that politicians need in the US Anyone can run for office, and people can choose between them.

Things would be very different in our country if money and greed weren’t part of our political system.

When money becomes more important than love and caring, we are in big trouble, and we are definitely in big trouble. What does it take for people to realize that we are here on the planet to evolve in love and manifest love? How many children need to be killed in school shootings for people to do something with the drugs and guns that are too readily available?

Apart from guns, food and drugs are also killing us

I am heartbroken by how many people are dying, not just from opioid and other gut-ruining drug overdoses, but from junk food that passes as food in our grocery stores and from GMOs and other pesticides, Antibiotics and hormones that many edibles are packed with: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases. These drugs and food-like products have been shown to create toxicity in the gut that goes to the brain, leading to anxiety and depression, and then to drugs that can cause violence. Can you see how all of this is connected? And it all comes from greed.

How can these food manufacturers, factory farms, Big Pharma, and companies like Monsanto live with themselves? How can the executives of these companies sleep at night knowing that millions of people are being lied to through their food and drug commercials, especially those aimed at children? How can they live with themselves, knowing that they are knowingly killing people because of their greed?

What has happened to these people who cannot feel the pain of families losing their children to junk food illness, drug overdose, or school shootings?

Yes, I am outraged and heartbroken at the lack of love and care for one another that is rampant not only among politicians, Big Pharma, food manufacturers, and factory farms, but also among the insurance companies that now direct how doctors treat to your patients.

How can doctors who push drugs live with themselves?

Conventional doctors who are part of a medical corporation that is basically run by insurance companies, now have 15 minutes to see each patient and are pressured by their corporations to see more and more patients in one day. And what do they usually offer? Drugs! It’s no wonder so many doctors are now turning away from insurance and becoming janitorial physicians who take their time with their patients. It is no wonder that many physicians are training in functional medicine so that they can treat the root causes of the disease rather than simply treating the symptoms with medication. The Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine has grown rapidly in recent years and now has a lead time of more than six months. People are getting smarter and now they want real help instead of just drugs.

It will take the people of our beautiful country to get smarter and take courageous steps to make a difference.

You must feel as bad as I do about all this. But we can all do something by first learning to love ourselves through our Inner Work practice, and then by being role models to share our love with others. Love heals, and the more we come from love, the faster this much-needed collective healing will occur.

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