by David Freddoso
Former President Barack Obama recently pointed out that Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot with their obsession with Donald Trump and the various legal questions surrounding him. They have deluded themselves, as a party, into believing that the rest of the world is as obsessed as they are with Trump, whatever legal battles he faces, and the Jan. 6 committee. In reality, nobody cares about any of this stuff. At all.
Most people don’t even know what’s happening in that committee. And they certainly don’t care about the lawsuits being filed in New York.
“We spend enormous amounts of time and energy and resources pointing out the latest crazy thing he said, or how rude or mean some of the Republican candidates behaved,” Obama said on a recent podcast. “That’s probably not something that, in the minds of most voters, overrides their basic interests: Can I pay the rent? What are gas prices? How am I dealing with child care?”
Obama is completely right. If Democrats don’t listen to him, they are going to be slaughtered in the coming midterm elections.
And fortunately, they will not listen.
Perhaps the most amazing illustration of this is the recent poll showing that New York Attorney General Letitia James could actually lose her reelection battle — mostly because of this exact problem. She is completely out of touch with New Yorkers and completely Trump-obsessed in her work. James has essentially neglected her job of prosecuting the criminals preying upon New Yorkers in order to obsess over Trump and build up her profile with blue-checkmark Twitter. The last poll of her race shows her losing against a no-name opponent.
That doesn’t mean she will actually lose, but she is losing, even though she should not be anywhere close to losing. And politicians who are as out of touch with the needs of their constituents as she is deserve to lose.
This is where the Democratic Party finds itself now. The party’s activist base is obsessed with Trump to the point of insanity. They cannot give him up, two years after he left office. We hear all this talk of election denialism — it is almost as if they cannot accept that they won the 2020 election.
Obama was obviously off-base when he argued that Democrats could rally around the success of the Biden agenda. “The Biden administration has accomplished a lot,” he said. “You’ve got a historic infrastructure bill that’s going to help rebuild America and create jobs all across the country. You’ve got an inflation control act that is lowered prescription drug prices, has made sure that health care is even more affordable through the ACA, that is looking at lowering energy costs.”
Biden’s legislative agenda is a joke. It has not reduced inflation, and no one labors under delusions that it has.
In this case we can agree with obama. obama is speaking directly to one of our own greg.
greg is the poster boy for obsessive compulsive disorder.
Overview
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). These obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause significant distress.
OCD often centers around certain themes — for example, an excessive fear of President Trump getting re-elected in 2024. To ease your fears, you may post with alacrity inane drivel on conservative blogs until such point as to cry for medical help.
Symptoms
Obsessive-compulsive disorder usually includes both obsessions and compulsions. But it’s also possible to have only obsession symptoms or only compulsion symptoms. You may or may not realize that your obsessions and compulsions are excessive or unreasonable, but they take up a great deal of time and interfere with your daily routine and social, school or work functioning.
Severity varies
OCD usually begins in the teen or young adult years, but it can start in childhood. Symptoms usually begin gradually and tend to vary in severity throughout life. The types of obsessions and compulsions you experience can also change over time. Symptoms generally worsen when you experience greater stress. OCD, usually considered a lifelong disorder, can have mild to moderate symptoms or be so severe and time-consuming that it becomes disabling.
When to see a doctor
There’s a difference between being a perfectionist — someone who requires flawless results or performance, for example — and having OCD. OCD thoughts aren’t simply excessive worries about real problems in your life or liking to have things clean or arranged in a specific way.
If your obsessions and compulsions are affecting your quality of life, see your doctor or mental health professional.
Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic
Well, anti-Trump fixation is a useful excuse when dems get caught doing illegal things.
Like in Michigan where Ruby, a DEAD DOG, was sent an application for a Vote-By-Mail ballot by the Dem Party!
The late dog’s owner wasn’t concerned about the fact that dems were sending such ballot applications out, only about how it might look to the “infantile Republicans.”
https://www.usasupreme.com/photos-dead-dogreceives-register-to-vote-by-mail-application-from-the-democratic-party-the-homeowners-response-is-priceless/
Well how awful the dog voted straight Republican ticket, until it died.