Thread to mourn the passing of the soul of John Kerry

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257. You are welcome.

Individuals get PTSD and we know the kind of issues it can cause. Well, a nation can as well. The symptoms are still there, but this time on a collective level. There is denial, rage, hypervigilance, addictive behaviors, rationalization, inability to learn from past experiences, etc.

I see our country doing that after 9/11. I see our politicians who may as individuals say to themselves that they will never allow that trauma to affect them. And yet, they do. Kerry is now just a very apparent symbol of that collective trauma. Obama is as well. It doesn't make them all good or all bad. But it isn't what we want dictating our national and foreign policy.

Please we have no money for domestic concerns. But if there is a millionth of a chance in hell that a 'terrorist' out there could impact us here, we will find the money. If that isn't hypervigilance and being over reactive, I don't know what else is.

I wish I could believe that humanity as a whole is evolving psychologically. My experiences professional and otherwise just won't allow it. There is a group of truly disturbed...always...the sociopaths, narcissists, and even 'evil' people. Then there is a small group of those attempting to wake up from it all. And then there are the rest of us....living lives in quiet desperation. It seems it has always been this way. It certainly is now. And I expect it will always be the same tomorrow.

Enjoyed discussing this with you as well.