These Times

Men like Donald Trump have always existed. The difference is, we had enough self esteem and awareness to laugh them out the room when they tried to govern or control us. These are different times, and the decades of dumbing the general population down and fracturing us with fear and anxiety of the unknown is finally paying off for despots and tyrants. There are enough people now that have no grasp on reality and no tools to figure out that they are being manipulated. When you are an abused child, kept in the dark and only fed information your captors want you to have, you think that it's normal and everyone else is a crazy deluded victim. A good third of this country has been gaslighted, and they don't even know it. I think we have saved any of the ones that can be saved. The rest need the equivalent of being committed and deprogrammed, and I don't know if we have the time and resources to do it. Like any other delusional person struggling with addiction or severe mental issues brought on by years of abuse, you're not a trained professional, and you're just going to end up enabling these people, or yelling at them in frustration. That's why more and more, we're all arriving at the conclusion to cut them out of our lives. You can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves. People try to make you feel bad for doing it, but eventually it becomes a matter of survival. It's called tough love. When someone resists everything you do to help them, you have no choice but to let them hit rock bottom. Maybe they'll finally recognize that they need help, and reach out. Heartbroken parents do it to children out of necessity, but I'm supposed to feel bad because I unfriend someone on Facebook? Get a little perspective.