Posted on 10/05/2025 10:22:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
We need to talk about it openly
Friends,
I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject.
A significant number of you are disoriented by what Trump and his lapdogs are doing. Many are deeply anxious. Some of us are depressed.
For years, medical experts have recommended that Americans be screened for “anxiety disorders.”
But what many of us are feeling now is not a personal disorder. It’s a rational response to a nation that’s becoming ever more disordered.
What we’re experiencing is not a sickness or individual distress. It’s a sensible reaction to a society becoming sicker and more stressed.
Trump and the enablers around him aren’t just violating the Constitution and disregarding laws. They’re not merely doing cruel and vindictive things.
They’re also spreading fear and fueling hate.
This fear and hate are harming every one of us, even the shrinking minority who support the regime. Hate is a corrosive that eventually consumes the haters. Fear breeds more fear, which causes everyone to be afraid.
The harm may continue long after the reasons to fear and sources of hate have passed into history.
I have a friend who suffered trauma at the hands of abusive parents. She’s spent much of her life trying to cope with that trauma, trying not to let it rule (and ruin) her life.
Another friend is the child of a Holocaust survivor. He has spent much of his life trying to escape the ghosts of relatives he never knew who were murdered by the Nazis, whose deaths have cast a dark shadow over his own life.
Most of us are fortunate enough not to have suffered childhood trauma from abusive parents or been raised in the dark shadow of the Holocaust or other horrors.
But most of us are now suffering a trauma of a different sort — from an abusive president and his lapdogs, and from the dark shadows of fear and hate they cast.
Just as with my friends, many of us now feel powerless and afraid. We don’t recognize our nation. We’re disoriented, vulnerable, anxious.
Trump apologists call it “Trump derangement syndrome,” but the actual derangement is in and around the Oval Office.
I don’t think we’re talking enough about the national trauma most of us are now enduring.
Some of you may assume there’s something wrong with you when you can’t sleep or awaken feeling anxious. You may feel alone in this.
You should be aware of how widespread, and reasonable, your reaction is.
Trump’s cruelty and vengeance will pass. Years from now we’ll look back on this as a terrible period in America’s history. Our nation will survive.
But the fear and hate he has sown could cause lasting blight.
Recognizing this — being aware of the toll it’s taking and will continue to take on us, even years from now — is important to our eventual recovery, that of our loved ones, and the recovery of our nation and the world.
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Robbie ‘third’ reich! Fidiot!
Even for a Lilliputian, Reich is short.
Why post this drivel from the little tater tot?
Did Bobby ever grow up and get taller?
A sphincter says what?
So people can comment on it.
Duh.
He spoke to my economics class in college. Total dweeb. That was still when the legacy media was pretending he was smart.
It’s not worth commenting on. Duh.
And yet people are commenting on it. Duh.
Reiccccccccchhhhhhhhh has always been an idiot.
Has Reich ever been right? About anything? Ever?
Partly, publishing excerpts of the mindless blather of leftists is to remind us of just how lacking in rational thought they are on a daily basis. But there is a sort of reverse logic, in HOW they came to the conclusions they hold dear, in the absence of any supporting evidence or even a starting point. Everything is backwards for them, beginning with “Orange man bad”, then trying to fit some string of words to rationalize that conclusion.
They do not WANT to be talked out of their terrible fixations, and mere logic or reason does not touch them. They have to be frightened in some drastic and fundamental manner, to even initiate any dialogue, and sometimes it is still fruitless, like dealing with a child blind and deaf from birth.
Robert, I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject.
A significant number of Democrats are insane, violent and confused about reality. Kick them out or go down with them. I’m good either way, just a suggestion.
Oh fer godsake.
I think you nailed it.
Always loved how Rush pronounced this idiot’s name! 🤣
What a little bitch
Maybe just put a barf alert in the headline so we know you know it’s garbage that you’re posting.
So you are saying you are too stupid to figure it out for yourself from the title and author right in front of your eyes?
You may be that stupid, but I don't want to insult the intelligence of people who aren't.
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