re: How long will the left melt over President Trump?

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What caused that?

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Truthful answer is that their lives are extremely easy and the lack of hardship or actual issues to focus on is detrimental to mental health.

For example, until recently, military members actually had a lower rate of suicide than non-military males. That only recently changed in 2012. This isn't just a situation comparing peacetime events either. During WW2, there was a lower rate of suicide. Same for the Korean War.

Another example involved Irish citizens during WW1. There was increasing rate of suicide leading up to 1914 and a decline that continued beyond a decade post-war.

Humans derive stability from purpose. Our society has essentially removed a large aspect of that "purpose". This results in increased emotional states secondary to what these individuals see as a lack of purpose or meaning to their lives.

In response, they either lash out or take their own lives.

It is also why you seem to see such rates of depression, suicide, and mental illness in first world countries. People are fricking bored.

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This raises another question. These are the most miserable people I've ever seen in my 43 years on this earth. Always pissing and moaning, protesting, rioting, literally shaking on social media, etc. What caused that? I don't get it

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The establishment caused it with its false left/right paradigm. Conservatives did the same for eight years under Obama.

But let's go ahead and pretend that this is some new phenomenon.