The Day the Country Died

 Within certain segments of the population the election of Donald Trump has produced various forms of mental agony. Certain groups of people are suffering mentally because they cannot accept that the nation rejected them, rejected what they stand for, and rejected an administration that represents their values.

Those who have pointed out that the Trump presidency has been good for the therapy business rarely point out that the crybaby left is contorting itself into agony because it is incapable of accepting that its great hero Joe Biden was a dud and that Kamala was a subliterate reformed courtesan. They ought to ask themselves how it happened that such an incompetent fool was the best they could find.

If you read through the Salon.com article about the mental health disaster that has befallen the crybaby caucus you will note that its members are in the latter stages of agony over what might happen under Trump. They are refusing to consider that the nation repudiated them because they had failed. The notion of failure does not appear in their mental space. 

This latter administration systematically lied about the mental fitness of the president. And yet, no one cared. No one understood that lying to the people does not make you a great leader. While whining in their herbal tea about the misinformation and disinformation that they see in the Trump administration, they fail to notice that the public rejected them because they were lying about the most salient fact-- the condition of Joe Biden’s brain.

So, the crybaby caucus is aghast at the way the Trump administration has turned back their great cause-- transgender rights. And it is horrified that so many fine lawless criminals are being deported. When Barack Obama did the same, they did not utter a peep.

They are bitterly mourning the loss of democracy, though they fail to recognize that the nation has repudiated them and embraced Trump-- democratically.

It’s not that they fear the loss of democracy. They fear the judgment of the people, especially when applied to their ability to govern. And they refuse to accept that the electorate has rejected their wondrous value system.

As you might guess, the writers at Salon do not care about accepting the results of a democratic election. They do not understand why the public turned against a political party that was offering them a new lease on sanity. The people voted for Trump because they are too stupid to understand the mental health stakes.

Many Americans, therefore, are reluctant or unable to consider how their experiences and personal challenges reflect larger dynamics and power relationships. They may instead internalize this stress and subsume the political into the personal in a manner that isolates them further, rather than bringing them together in a more healthy communitarian fashion with the goal of solving shared political and social problems.

But, Salon.com wants to lead us to more rational thought. It proposes that on November 5, the Democrats did not merely lose an election. Going all hyperbolic they insist that on that date the country died. No more and no less.

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