Dark Coping

Getting over abuse, whether it’s emotional or physical or both, takes years. Decades even. It’s hard bloody work but it’s got to be done if we want to function successfully and maybe even become happy beans.

Recovering from Trump and his Republican party’s desecrations, where every day brings another round of crazy, screw-yous-alls events, is gonna be triple+ hard. Can an entire nation survive and thrive after this concentrated Narcissistic Abuse?

The Orange Menace may well have pulled the final pin in the rickety, kluged together mess that is our country. Rush, Newtie, Jesse Helms, Trent Lott and their ilk have been gaslighting us citizens, stoking hatred, division, resentment and full metal butt-hurtitude, for decades. Why? It distracts us rubes so’s we don’t notice their hands on our wallets and their theft of our rights.

Can the gun brandishing rageaholic Nazis and KKK ever be returned to their closets? Is it too late?

What are we on the Left doing? As uszh, we’ve taken the latest bait and formed the usual circular firing squad. The Republicans don’t need to do a thing – they can be as disorganized, greedheaded, race-baiting, hypocritical, uncaring and uninterested in just, fair governing as they wanna be – and they’ll continue to win. All they need do is keep sowing those divisive seeds. We Dems with our Purity Posses eat that shit up. Unified front? Where’s the fun in that? Much more satisfying to yell at and blame each other, right?

NO!

Jim Wright, responding to a Unicorn Brigader on his ShoutyFace page said:

"So far your sacred principles have gotten you a horrifyingly bad Republican president who has for all intents and purposes thrown in with the Russians, a Republican congress that is so malicious it is openly and actively working against American citizens, a hard-line right-wing Republican Supreme Court that will in the coming decades dismantle every civil right you claim to hold dear, and a Republican majority of state governments (i.e. the people who appoint the electors of the Electoral College, rendering your vote in future presidential elections null and void. QED). You've essentially given the high hard one to every person of color, every LGBT person, everybody with a uterus, every non-Christian (or those who aren't Christian ENOUGH), every immigrant or potential immigrant, every scientist (well, with the exception of those employed by the military), the environment, education, the poor, the elderly, the infirm, the uninsured, the hungry, and the disenfranchised.

But, hey, at least you have your pride."

Yup.

Here’s the deal – I RILLY don’t care to discuss or debate Brazille’s revelation. In fact, I won’t discuss it.

A) It’s old news – it’s NOT currently happening, Elvis has left the building – AND, shocker here, the click-baity, righteous anger igniting headlines are NOT providing the full nuanced story.
B) We are now a zillion fathoms deep in steaming, smelly, disease riddled right wing shit. If we want to survive, we’d best focus on the enemy in front of us. You remember him/them, right? Ya know, the imbecilic, narcissistic and bloated Richie Rich rage whore and his team of dimwitted trolls. Sure ya do, it was in all the papers.

If we live through this, if America survives, we’re all gonna need some serious shrinkage. I’ll see if Janice has any room on her dance card.