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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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
This is nonsense. Emergency declarations cannot cancel a presidential election. They are required by the constitution & would need an amendment to alter. We had an election during the Civil War, and we'll have another in November. There's cause for frustration, not paranoia.
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you can believe in the magical powers of a piece of paper if you want. In reality it comes down to "he can do whatever he wants unless someone stops him". The Senate hasn't stopped him. Will the armed forces? If not, what then?
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Also Lincoln was a distinguished leader trying to restore order. And Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @wereoctopus
This is exactly the same thing I heard from people on the far right about Obama. I live in a red state, and they were convinced that he would declare martial law and was running drills in Texas to that end, and was planning on a third term. This is equally ridiculous.
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For fuck's sake. Obama was a reasonable president set about order and governance. The other is Donald Trump. If you think rhetoric is the only difference then you're a damn fool.
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I'm not saying it's the only difference, but only that their perception as well as yours is off kilter if you believe, as they did that the election will be cancelled by fiat.
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