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The Nation Needs Therapy

oscar
3 min readMay 28, 2023

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The aim of psychological therapy is to help establish a dialogue with the self so we can self repair and keep moving forward.
If you can have a conversation with yourself and objectively examine your emotions, then those emotions will be your guide and friend in the journey to discover and develop yourself, an aim for all of us.
Like with individuals, so too with nations.
As a country, here in the US, we appear to be stuck at this time.
I am hopeful that it won’t last long but as of now we’re definitely stuck.
An example of it is the influence that Trump has on the minds of so many people.
What is astonishing, is that Trump does not give any indication of his being a reflective man.
So a large section of the nation needs therapy.
That section of the nation, presently appearing unwilling to examine their emotions, is in bondage to a man who has publicly told us he could end the war in Ukraine in one day.
He didn’t say how, but he said it.
We do not have to be geniuses to understand that the only way he could achieve that is to tell president Zelensky in Ukraine, ‘no more weapons for you. You must negotiate with Putin. Let him have what he’s conquered. Putin deserves room to expand (didn’t Hitler claim that, too?)’
And he would then put a call to Putin and tell him, ‘Next time, coordinate with me on what extra living space you need. No need for all that bloodshed.’
The trouble with Trump is that he likes being a thug.
There was…

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