Donald Trump wants to scare you. Trump wants to make you feel nervous, overwhelmed, and hopeless. If you are a person who has been opposing this administration, they view you as an enemy who must be defeated.
The Trump administration is a hostile tyranny of the minority that seeks to overload and overwhelm at every turn.
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When Sarah Jones appeared on Chew’s Views with guest host Michelle Peltier, what resulted was an emotionally honest conversation about the psychology of our times.
Peltier asked Sarah how she was personally doing as she covers this administration.
Sarah answered:
I do get anxiety from the stuff that I’m, that I’m immersed in every day and I’ve had to really monitor myself and set up a lot of boundaries for how I’m going to participate and cover this stuff. I hope that everyone that is engaging in all of your listeners, that they can do that for themselves as well.
It’s so important right now because we can’t stay in the fight. If we are gonna be overwhelmed emotionally, and, and it is, it’s either anxiety provoking, enraging. There’s so many different ways that it comes at us and it that’s deliberate. It’s a psychological warfare tactic to get us to disengage. So we don’t pay attention to what’s going on and to get journalists to stop covering this stuff. Because it is so distressing and there’s a lot of issues with that, with journalists. So I’m glad you brought that up. ‘cause it, it is a problem. And so I’ve just, I’ve been very careful about how am I going to do this?
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