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“People who engage in this survivalist lifestyle are exhibiting what I would call an extreme reaction,” says Columbia University’s chair of psychology, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman. “They revert to behavior designed to ensure their security.”

What is WRONG with these intellectuals?! It's as if there's been a shift in what's considered normal. If leadership in D.C. peers over their wall one night, and they notice that millions of us are all gathered ARMED across the plain as with Saruon's forces at the Keep in The Lord of The Rings, then THAT would be abnormal. But what people are doing now isn't abnormal at all. Less than a generation ago, it was considered wise, prudent, and good family stewardship to garden, hunt wild game, and freeze and can food, and keep a nominal collection of suitable firearms for hunting and home defense. But now it's being categorized as an extreme reaction?

While we certainly give no respect to the brainless liberal base of intelligencia, it can't be refuted that they are at least observant. They might not be interpreting their observations correctly, but they ARE observant. Far too many people are reacting to what they observe, and while some don't react correctly, for the most part, if you present a problem across a large base of people, a very large percentage of them are going to react in a very similar fashion. Then, because of these, another certain percentage who wouldn't have otherwise, will also react because they've been swayed. The good professor might feel mighty stupid when he finds himself in a difficult situation because he analyzed rather than reacting correctly if and when he realizes that all the crazies really weren't so crazy after all. But people like him that I've known tend to be a bit thick. In a way, they're a lot like three year olds. They're not IN trouble until they're in TROUBLE and then they react. It's a lot like a parachutist waiting to hit the ground before pulling the rip cord. The time to pull it would have been sometime BEFORE that! But the idiots will analyze the situation digressing around them, and toss around big titles and feel important right up until that day that calamity overtakes them.

He says we're overreacting, but what would he propose? I suppose he would recommend that we fawn at the feet of The One and wait for our government checks to arrive in the mail? Anybody who can do very basic math can determine that every financial forecast coming from every expert is currently leading to disaster. This is, unless of course, people only listen to what the MSM and the government say about it. Then it's different! It also happens to be a huge load of unbelievable crap! But it's different!