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

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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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