I understand what you're saying. I didn't mean to sound like I was dismissing all PWs to a Q-less hell as if the departure of Trump never rocked me. It did. I felt like I had been gut-punched before I began to see what was happening, so I understand their despair. That doesn't mean I think it's harmless.

The thing is, people make their choices, but they seldom understand where those choices will lead. Worse, people who are led and run by their feelings make choices without even realizing they have made them. They think feelings make their choices for them, when the truth is they have subjected their will to their emotions so that it no longer serves them in the way that it should. The latter are extremely easy for unscrupulous people to manipulate, and I think that is how all the badness at PW is being reinforced and perpetuated.

Many of the PWs believed the worst, which is understandable under the circumstances, but then they couldn't be talked out of it, and they began to talk other people into it. They never chose to get up from that dark place to look for what hope might still be out there––the hope that might be found in a truth one has yet to discover. Now, because of that choice to remain in the dark, they can't see that what they once hoped for is even possible, and their bitterness will never let them try. Instead they will continue to chatter and repeat to one another the idea that they are in the toilet and that the toilet, in all its stinky splendor, is the truth.