The frogs are gay
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We identify the functions and attributes of IIs that predict affective discomfort and offer suggestions for how people may use visualization and imagination to overcome the despair of unprecedented election results. This study explores the role of imagined interactions (IIs) with Donald Trump among those experiencing depression and learned helplessness as results of electoral defeat, as well as the winners - those who like Trump’s policies.
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For some, such lists provide sources of humor while for others they remain sources of horror - and powerful reminders that we live in uncertain and constantly changing times. In 2018, a common internet trope is to list the 2016 naysayers’ predictions that Hillary Clinton would crush Donald Trump in the election. More than a year later the damage to the psyche of large segments of Americans persists and the wounds remain open due in-part to the proliferation of social media. For many Americans the crippling blow came the night of Tuesday, November 8, and left a path of emotional devastation and confusion in its wake. In October of 2016 America visualized a Clinton win and seemed cocksure of itself, with that cocksureness heavily reinforced by polling agency results favoring Clinton and disseminated through both mainstream and social media. The Princeton Election Consortium predicted a 99-percent chance of Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 election - with a 95-percent confidence interval.