I have a level of rage about all this that is insurmountable. The sheer idiocy, cowardice, ineptitude, deferment, and malaise that has brought us to this current point. It is all encompassing.
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And keep in mind, it's not like I want to say all this and not offer hope. There's incredible people working and risking their lives- but it's just how much those people are not supported / outright prevented from doing their work by the aforementioned hollowmen.
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I guess the thing I can most say - is that I understand what this rage really is. For a long time I had a lot of trouble connecting to anger. But this is common of half the kids who grew up around a lot of it (the other half learn to adopt it in turn). It was a feared expression.
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But one of the things therapy teaches (among many other things) is that anger is a natural and necessary emotion - that just so happens to have many of the most toxic forms of expression, especially with men. But...
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The core of anger is fighting for selfhood, the right to understand that you deserve to be alive, to exist, to preserve, to draw boundaries with all that is unhealthy, and to undo the instinct for all the toxic forms of expression.
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Because if you don't, if you embody the toxicity, and ultimately you doom yourself and everyone around you. Which, looking at all of this, is the catch 22 I cannot shake.
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BTW, in case it's not clear. He's going to be looking for excuses to use national emergency measures to cancel the election. This is not exaggeration. This is the next step.
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The amount of people who, despite the last four years, still think America is Trump-Proof, bewilders me to no end.
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