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Politics : Sour Grapes
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To: sandintoes who wrote (147)11/10/2004 10:39:58 AM
From: Jagfan  Read Replies (1) of 272
 
POST ELECTION SELECTION TRAUMA

That's what some shrinks in West Palm Beach, Florida are calling it. Post Election Selection Trauma Disorder. The acronym would be PESTD. Pronounce it anyway you like. The phrase is used to describe Florida voters who are visiting the offices of psychologists because of the emotional trauma of Bush's win last week. The shrinks say that these pitiful people are emotionally shocked and paralyzed by Bush's win.

These people are weak. They're emotional cripples. They can't cope with life without the help and support of their grand caretaker government. They can't even cope with an election loss. They sit there with blank expressions, mouths hanging open like a brook trout, staring off into the distance. These are not the people that you could depend on when the chips are down. They're a pathetic indication of things to come, of the "grief counseling" culture that permeates our society today. There's a fight at the local government school? Rush in the grief counselors. Someone accidentally sets off a fire alarm? Grief counselors. Too many red lights on the way to your canasta game? Grief Counselors.

This weakness disgusts me. Your candidate didn't win? Deal with it. Resolve to do a better job of choosing a candidate the next time. If you want to nominate a U.S. Senator as your presidential candidate, perhaps you should chose a Senator who actually has something to show for 20 years in office. If you want to nominate a veteran, perhaps you would be well advised to find a veteran who didn't call his colleagues in the armed forces war criminals.

Thank God this country has been populated for the most part by people who react to adversity with a determination to go forward and persevere. If America had to rely on these slugs sliming their way into psychologists offices in West Palm Beach in hard time our country would be doomed.

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