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I think the issue at hand, is before when people shouted at each other at some point you could retreat to your homes, but with social media, and the internet there is no respite. It's always there to engage and it's really hard to turn it off and not feel disconnected when you re-engage. You may have lost the narrative, you may have escalated it when cooler heads were prevailing, you may engage and be totally outnumbered..
When Trump is constantly barraging all discussion (worldwide not just locally), there is a question of whether you ride on the crazy train or stand in front of it. I would say unless your Superman, you are stuck on the train until it crashes or if you are lucky, slows down.
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"General Woundwort's body was never found. It could be that he still lives his fierce life somewhere else, but from that day on, mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them. Such was Woundwort's monument, and perhaps it would not have displeased him." Watership Down, Richard Adams
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