Robt REICH nails 4 Stages of DRUMPF-*grief*. I'm Stage 2/Numbness.

[UTUSN]

I had figured out for myself the numbness condition before I found REICH's codifying, like this: What had gotten me through the horrible year and a half of the campaign was the carrot that I would finally be rid of all 17 of the Repuke FREAKS out of my life forever. Then came the unimaginable crushing. But after that, the daily outrageousness of the DRUMPF "transition," my mantra became, "What did anybody *expect*?!1" I immediately, like the first day, reached the point of Outrage-OVERLOAD, because what else could be expected. So news-in/news-out, just a sentence or two of background on each new FREAK being anointed, not really to see how bad the FREAK was, just to detect what new perverted twist DRUMPF was using.

And I called it myself being "numb" - neuropathy. But REICH offers a way out of each stage, which I really don't see myself accessing. Really, I see existential *DISASTER* of some kind way before 4 years.

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http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-four-stages-trump-grief-532716
[font size=5]Robert Reich: The Four Stages of Trump Grief[/font]
By Robert Reich

1. Normalizer Syndrome
You want to believe Trump will be just another president—more conservative and pompous than most, but one who will make rational decisions once in office. ....

2. Outrage Numbness Syndrome
You are no longer outraged by what Trump says or what he does—his incessant lies, his cabinet picks, his bullying, his hatefulness—because you’ve gone numb. You can’t conceive that someone like this is becoming president of the United States, so you’ve shut down emotionally. Maybe you’ve even stopped reading the news. ....

3. Cynical Syndrome
You’ve become so cynical about the whole system—the Democrats who gave up on the working class and thereby opened the way for Trump, the Republicans who suppressed votes around the country, the media that gave Trump all the free time he wanted, the establishment that rigged the system—that you say, the hell with it. Let Trump do his worst. How much worse can it get? ....

4. Helpless Syndrome
You aren’t in denial. You know that nothing about this is normal; you haven’t become numb or stopped reading the news; you haven’t succumbed to cynicism. You desperately want to do something to prevent what’s about to occur.

But you don’t know what to do. You feel utterly powerless and immobilized. ....


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[billymike]

1. To include a fifth would've been a kindness.(nt)

[madinmaryland]

6. That would be a fifth of the finest whiskey one can find!!!

[yuiyoshida]

12. AS FOR ME...SURE GLAD California now Allows us

to SMOKE pot... (or do edibles)

[Vinca]

2. I don't think I'll ever get past 2 and I know I'll never be at 1.

I'm swearing more than usual, too. LOL.

[still_one]

3. Not me. I went right to anger. Anger at the FBI, the media, and others

downgraded my satellite service so I only get locals, no CNN, no MSNBC, no fox

Sent a contribution to the ACLU and planned parenthood

I will fight these assholes anyway I can, and I sure won't knowingly utilize any of the services or products they offer

[hlthe2b]

4. where is unyielding nausea on that scale?

Uggh... I can hardly talk about it.

[Nay]

7. Yeah, where is "nausea" and "dread" in the list? Cuz that's where I am.

[gulliver]

5. "joining with others"

I think we are going to have to escape from our screens and get together physically to get anywhere. I strongly oppose demonstrations at this point. We don't have the togetherness level to generate anything but a counterproductive demonstration. Every time CNN shows one of our demonstration enthusiasts shouting "Hey ho, Hey ho, Donald Trump has got to go," Trump gains a thousand supporters.

I think we are looking at an explosion of "rallies" next year. It's going to be a good time to own venues.

[Skittles]

8. NORMALIZER syndrome?

hell, no, FUCK NO, I have never felt that for that orange piece of SHIT

[hfojvt]

9. none of those really fit

#1 what exactly are "rational decisions"? Are huge tax cuts for the rich supposed to be rational decisions that I am okay with? Was the invasion of Iraq a rational decision?

#2 well, I stopped reading the news a long time ago. Not really sure why it would be rational to follow and obsess about every little thing Trump says or does. Some of the obsession and wailing does not seem either rational nor productive to me. Nor do I think that paying attention to the M$M would really make me more 'informed'.

#3 It can always get worse. A whole lot worse. Plus, I tend to be cynical about nonsense like "the establishment that rigged the system".

#4. These seem to be TYPES rather than stages. You move through stages. So if I have reached stage 4 then I should have gone through stages 1-3. I am not really "desperate" about doing something, and it is pretty clear that I, and WE, are fairly helpless. Especially me, in my red state, red district. I'd have to be delusion to not be aware of that.

[handmade34]

10. never #1 but

I am experiencing the rest all at one time

[Pachamama]

11. I skipped Stage 1 and 3 - go between Stages 2 & 4

And a general feeling of nausea that won't go away...

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. I was hoping Trump would get to this point

but I may get there first.