Has there been a single other civilization in which leaders bragged that their response to adversity was being helpless, terrified, and traumatized?

Can’t think of one. Nada. Certainly not one that will last long.

Sick virtues are a symptom of a suicidal society.

Imagine Xi Jinping when Wuhan exploded talking for 90 min on TV abt how scared he is he might get sick. Imagine Churchill getting on the radio during the Blitz to tell everyone how he can’t stop crying. Imagine Washington commissioning a painting of him puking into the Delaware.

“But it’s her trauma!”

So go deal w it in private w friends and family who can actually help. We don’t know you. We can’t help. Foisting it on strangers is abt something else. It’s parasocial lunacy designed to ostracize anyone wise enough to reject such gross manipulations.

Did G. Gifford, or Reagan, or any other actually harmed politician do this?

Let’s stop pretending it’s normal or healthy for a culture to venerate leaders’ weaponizing “trauma” to secure their agenda. These ppl are not friends. They’re elected officials. They should act like it.