This one is not quite politically correct.
There are two diseases in our culture (at least). They're both kind of sick.
Some people talk about TDS as "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Anything that Mr Trump or his supporters say triggers an instant negative response. And the issue is much broader than Mr Trump.
Other people talk about TDS as "Trump Discipleship Syndrome." Anything that Mr Trump or his supporters say triggers a positive response. And this also is much broader than Mr Trump himself personally.
And pretty often these days, people with differing opinions can't even have a meaningful conversation any more.
I'm thinking if we have issues that trigger us, then regardless what that particular trigger is, we're controlled (triggered) by others, either the trigger issue (regardless what that issue is) or the people who can't stop talking about those trigger issues.
That's true for political trigger issues, for religious trigger issues, for social trigger issues, isn't it?
The point is that if we get triggered, someone else (or something else) is controlling us, and they probably don't have our best interests in mind.
In my opinion -- and it's guaranteed: if you don't like it, you get back everything you paid for it -- is that people blindly following either side (or any side in between) are living a compromised life: there's so much more to life than just opinions and issues.
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