It seems appropriate and responsibly empathic to discuss the subject of personal “coping” tools relevant to the frightening dystopic threats to our Republican Democracy, as painfully discussed in recent writings.
It would be empirically reasonable to presume that individuals with diverse personalities and varied life experiences would demonstrate nuanced techniques for (the contextual) temporary relief from stress and difficulty; nevertheless, we have noted that among the most ubiquitously popular, temporal refuge is sought in the indulgence in emotionally soothing, “comfort foods.”
As universally known, “comfort foods” are personally chosen comestibles, such as chicken soup, mashed potatoes, pot roast, and beef stew, that temporarily provide an escape from presenting problems, offering needed consolation, and a feeling of well-being. It is our presumption that nuanced, personal foods selected for this purpose are dynamically effective because of their subjectively related recall and contemplative reprise of pleasant eating memories, affording temporal relief from a presenting source of situational angst.
It is inarguable that the elective indulgence in comfort foods for such purpose, inarguably, does little or nothing to resolve the troubling problem, but it does serve the office of a momentary respite from its relate misery and anxious perseveration. In any event, this mode of brief, enjoyable, and nutritious, time out is incomparably preferable to alternatives such as intoxication or release of hysterical outbursts.
However, we have two worrisome caveats and one recommendation to express, directed to those who contextually use “comfort food” for temporary relief from the dystopic and bizarre policies of the Trump Presidency; the practice havimg especial relevance since Trump’s term has slightly less than four long and painful years to endure and toxicly fester.
[CAVEAT 1:] The high cost of “comfort” or other food is predictably ever-increasing due to Donald Trump’s mania and ignorant addiction to the self-defeating National policy of indiscriminate and, ultimately, economic and politically harmful tariffs.
[CAVEAT 2:] Prudent concern should be personally exercised concerning the possibility of unhealthy obesity, given the empirically based, predictable instances of Trump’s ubiquitous and multifaceted challenges to democracy and reason during the next four years.
[RECOMMENDATION]: Externally voiced public opposition by voiced and active political opposition would be far more effective, more individually salubrious, and, indeed, beneficial to the effective amelioration of the extant threats to the Nation. It may also serve as an ameliorative practice in the personal containment of consummate angst.
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