The L.A. Times has a story (thanks to Cathy Seipp for the pointer, and for the amusing link to the movie The Grudge). My favorite line from the L.A. Times story comes from psychologist Alan Hilfer:
“They’re allowed to be angry. They’re allowed to be frustrated . . .,” said Hilfer. “And they should talk about it. But they need now to move on.”
That’s the advice many liberals would likely give to conservative friends who were complaining about “feeling helpless and paralyzed and sad” — or traumatized, depressed, and so on — because of a Democratic victory (and, yes, such Democratic victories have been known to happen in the past, and I’m sure they’ll happen again). It seems to me that it ought to work equally well for liberals.
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