ceeboo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 4:19 pm
No, I do not see anything wrong with comforting distraught people about the election - Truth be told, I am a fan of comforting distraught people no matter what is causing this mental pain.
As to the potential implications regarding the question you ask of me ("You do presumably?") - I will resist the temptation to ask you a question with similar frames and simply rest on the possibility that it was an unintended consequence that we all face when communicating with only written words on a screen.
I am relieved that your last post was not, after all, a callous expression of disregard for the genuine concern some people have over the bizarre and horrible reality of having as president a convicted felon and sexual assaulter who took away the right to choose to have an abortion.
I applaud your concern over the lives of women (I share them) - Is your concern over lives limited to women or does this concern go beyond women?
Is this about foetuses? What about hungry children who are not fed by tax cuts for billionaires?
There are good grounds to be really upset about countless things (I can even understand people being really upset over an election result)
And the number doesn’t invalidate any of them.
Of course you sympathize, you share the author's political ideology.
I don’t know that this is true. It may be that the author and I would disagree on many things. I used to think that not wanting to have an ignorant, felonious con artist as president would be something everyone with good sense could agree on and would be horrified to see happen. But then this happened.
Here is what I find interesting about your above quote: You make a statement (even suggesting it as factual) concerning a particular reason that the essay's author is "incredibly disturbed" over her husband and her husband's family - But, the author never mentions this particular reason in the essay, you did. So, I think you might be sympathizing with yourself?
Shrug. Maybe I wrongly assume she and I would agree on that. Guess you see that she and I do not need to be perfectly aligned ideologically to share our concern about a Trump presidency.
You think more than 77 million American citizens are no longer in their right minds?
I can't even imagine thinking something like that about 77 million individual human beings. Wow!
Why is that so shocking? Do you remember when executing people for witchcraft was a thing? I look at Trumpism as being akin to being a flat-earther or something like that. I could really like someone and find out they are a flat-earther. In other respects the person may be perfectly normal, but that person did catch a mind virus, and the Trump one is both virulent and destructive. It is a global pandemic in fact. Some people caught COVID, many but far from all of them died, and similarly authoritarianism is sweeping the globe. Trump is our sad version of the authoritarian pandemic.
As I am sure you understand, there is another side to that same coin - and "we" find ourselves in similar circumstances (Even if "we" don't author "deeply moving" essays about the person we married or their families or cancelling holidays)
Sure! I get it. I also know people gather to cry about how wonderful Russell M. Nelson is. I am also aware that people watch the Kardashians obsessively, or go to P Diddy parties. I can’t help but think of any of those things as slightly or even terribly (in some cases) off kilter. The authoritarian mind virus is much worse, but those who carry it definitely think people who fear them are the sick ones (snowflakes).
