Safeguarding Our Sanity Amid Daily Chaos |
Sherry Knight Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--February 3, 2026
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In a previous commentary written for CFP in April 2023 (Our Sanity At Risk), I mentioned a best-selling book by Alvin Toffler published in 1970. The main premise of the book is “that the human mind cannot adapt to such rapid and multiple social changes in a short period of time, and that continuing to experience rapid change would ultimately drive a human being insane.” In that same commentary, I also made the point that “our cultural traditions and religious beliefs are being attacked in ways we have never had to deal with before.”
It is now February 2026, and those of us who still have a mind capable of rationale thought are struggling to separate fact from fiction in the multiple lies we are being told daily by the mainstream media, the looney-toons in the U.S. Congress, and the newly come-out-of-the shadows Socialist Democrats like Zohran Mamdani. Adding to the already very misleading messaging from all the “Trump haters” is the dangerous rhetoric and violent behavior of the roving gangs of paid, trained, and organized agitators that the news media continues to refer to as “peaceful protesters.”
When San Francisco-based, talk show host Michael Savage wrote Liberalism is a Mental Disorder in 2005, he took a lot of criticism because he dared to address the dangers to the United States from radical Islamists, unchecked illegal immigration, and many other social issues we are still struggling with today. In retrospect, Dr. Savage was right about many of the things he was concerned about then that are still social and political issues for Americans today. He was apparently also correct in his assertion that “liberalism is a mental disorder,” even though I thought he was being a bit hyperbolic at the........