You are going to be dealing with people that you thought you knew but didn’t. People who appear to be adults who are emotional children. People who up until now never cared about politics or elections one way or the other. But now they are caught in the maelstrom. Beware.
These demented people are to be avoided like the plague. When engaging them nod in apparent approbation but in effect placation. Whenever they say something you respond, “Interesting.” And immediately move on. They are not to be addressed or engaged. These people are insane.
TDS victims have now entered disease levels never before anticipated. You are going to be seeing the perseverated repetitions of mantra-like accusations of Trump being everything from a racist to white nationalist to directly responsible for the murder of Cecil the lion.
When engaging these people keep in mind that they have no particular political or philosophical ideology. Their sole raison d'être is the opposition of Donald Trump. Remove Trump from the equation and they melt and dematerialize. Hatred is their oxygen. Their fuel.
It is almost guaranteed that anyone that you engage who presents chronic TDS has no historical perspective to compare the election to. Don’t bother bringing up Bush v. Gore or any historical point of reference. Their history began in 2016. No matter their chronological age now.
If you attempt to suggest that rioting and the destruction of property are unwarranted, illegal or immoral aside from the quizzical look, you will most likely hear something to the effect that property can be replaced and/or this is vindication or recompense. Or something.
Do not engage anyone exhibiting the signs of TDS. No matter how angry they might make you or how correct you may feel you are, you will not win and you will certainly not make any headway whatsoever. TDS is a form of intellectual sleepwalking. Do not wake them.
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