Post-Election Stress Disorder

When I was a youngster, I read a quote by Sherlock Holmes.  He said that the truth is far stranger than fiction.  It's funny because Holmes is/was a fictional character, but, nonetheless, I thought he was wrong.  In my young, concrete, adolescent mind, I figured that the feverish imaginations of humans would be far stranger than the truths in the world.

I was very much mistaken (which means that I was wrong.)

It seems that each week, sometimes each day, I read about something that makes me close my eyes and shake my head in wonder.  The latest is this nonsense about PESD.  I promise you that I'm not making this up.  Sometimes I parody a point of view, but this is real.

‘PESD’ Is PTSD For Dems Who Can’t Stop Crying Over The Election

Post-Election Stress Disorder in Women, an article in Psychology Today, outlines why women are more susceptible to the disorder.

This article lists some common complaints from women:

“I haven’t slept in two days…”
“I can’t stop sobbing…”
“I am having nightmares…”
“This reminds me of when I was sexually assaulted…”
“I thought I was over all of my past abuse but now it’s back…”
“I can’t sleep, can’t eat, can’t function…”

Nancy Molitor, a psychologist in the Chicago suburbs says, "I have people who've told me they're in mourning, that they've lost their libido."

There's tons more of this nonsense if you care to do a Google search.

Uncharacteristically, I'm simply speechless.  I'll try to find some words, though.

I thought that the country would go down a bad path with the election of Barack Obama.  I did not and do not agree with his political positions.  However, I do believe in America.  America is a country that survives oftentimes in spite of its leadership.  Through history, America has had some strange leaders, but there is a corrective force in America that most other countries do not have: The People.

Obama was a radical president by any standard.  Whether you approve of his politics or not, one has to admit that his agenda was implemented with uncharacteristic vigor and success.

To those of us who do not approve of his politics, his success in office was a disaster.  To those who do, it was a triumph.

The degree of his success in radically changing the political landscape of America is reflected by the degree of popular uprising in the election of November, 2016.  This is the nature of American politics.  It's a self-correcting process.

Swings between liberal and conservative administrations has been going on since our country was founded.  Why should anyone expect anything different?

The fact that there are Americans who think that the world has come to an end is a testament to their ignorance of the American system, and it's an insult to their fellow Americans.  Our forefathers believed in the common sense of the electorate; they believed in the common man.  Sometimes it may seem as though the common man has lost his collective mind, but, over time, he gets it right far more often than pundits and politicians.

Trump may indeed be a man of extremes, or he may not be.  Either way, there's a correction to his policies coming down the pike in a few years.

You may or may not like that, but your anxiety isn't a mental disorder.  It's self-important, self-entitled, self-imposed drama.  Get over yourself, you're no more or less important than the rest of us.

By the way,  I'm sorry about your libido.

TheCurmudgeon