We perceive two basic distinguishable categories of the concept of “Buyer’s Remorse.” One is the feeling of regret after making a useless or foolish purchase; the other amounts to a state of cognitive dissonance ultimately occurring when one had expected something different.
The first category of regret is the consequence of a foolish purchase, which may be illustrated by the following examples of regretted purchases made during a recent “Black Friday:” Irma Fool from Hackensack, New Jersey, bought a teapot that emitted the sound of rude coughing, rather than “whistling” when at the boil. Selma Ipecac, a tenant of a fourth-floor apartment in a large metropolitan building in the Bronx, purchased a gas-powered hedge trimmer, I.P. Daily, of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, purchased, at “Final Sale” a sealed box of irresistibly priced set of dishes, which, on later examination revealed itself to be abundantly gifted with chips and cracks. Yono Say, of Brighton bought a Beach Umbrella which, when later opened, revealed gaping holes on one side of its canopy.
With thematic reference to our second category of “Buyer’s Remorse,” viz., the state of cognitive dissonance brought about when one expects something entirely different from his choice of action. In this category, we would confidently declare that the citation of one notable example amply suffices for illustration, viz. the voter’s predictably remorseful choice of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.
Barely one week after his official inauguration, the autocratic and atavistic Chief of State, elected in large part by his showman’s demagogic “snake oil” representations to the haplessly manipulated population of inadequately informed, systemically grievance-ridden, anti-establishment populists, has begun the implementation of his (previously denied) perverse and draconian 2025 program.
It will not be long before his misled, supportive MAGA lemmings realize that their temporal, tactical significance has become obsolescent and their incited choice of President, was an extremely painful opportunity for feelings of painful and regrettable buyer’s remorse. (see: early blog, “LEMMINGS”)
The deplorable MAGA program is identically demonstrative of a tribute to Trump’s programmatic menu of governance, a la Hitler, Mao, and Mousellini, and an ultimate disaster for the Nation; notably its formerly supportive underbelly of MAGA populists. Among its numberless, atrociously inhumane goals, antithetical to 200 years of American liberty and way of life, and, a sweeping program of change in economic and social policies; most especially in curtailing the existence, of Medicare and Medicaid and a plethora of humanistic policies, vital to the subsistence of many of Trump’s misadvised MAGA acolytes.
Unfortunately, as is the case of mundane commercial transactions the latter instance of tragic “buyer remorse” there will not be available any process for return and possible refund.
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