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Re Trump: A Quick Seminar on Anger, Sorrow, and Laughter by Curtis Dahlgren, July 23, 2019"Anger is better than laughter." - Ecclesiastes 7:3, paraphrased in olde English (one of my first 2003 columns, adapted)
SHOULD TRUMP "TONE IT DOWN"? If Vince Lombardi were coaching in this day and age, he would probably be ordered to attend "anger management" classes. People today are taught to blend in rather than to stand out, and any expression of passion is considered not Psychologically Cool. Those of us who can't "blend in" and who complain about attacks on our cultural roots are considered "not well-adjusted." Lombardi wouldn't adjust well at all to the concept of "parity" or "outcome-based football," or "all competition is evil."
I don't normally mention specific chapter-and-verse passages, but the other day, I was reading the King James version of Ecclesiastes and made a discovery: The KJV says, "Sorrrow is better than laughter" (Ec. 7:3), but the Hebrew root word for sorrow is the same one translated "anger" in verse 9 ("Be not hasty to be angry")!
There is more "sorrow" than "anger" in the passion of a conservative, and more anger than sorrow in the passion of a liberal.
The media claimed that President Trump was "angry" about the Muller investigation. I'd say both angry and afflicted or sorrowful. Wouldn't you be? A hypothetical: Let's say Hillary Clinton wins the 2016 election, and the Republicans still control the House, okay? If the GOP got a special counsel appointed to investigate her, after spying on her campaign (not that they did, but the reverse was fact), and suppose that probe went on for two years or more, you don't think Hillary would be "angry"? You know better than that. So what's the problem?
P.S. "BE angry, but don't sin." It's about time we got mad enough to push back. Good things begin to happen when you don't just roll over and play dead, or stick your head in the sand.
PPS: We ought to be very, very grateful that our President - in contrast to some of his predecessors - fights back.
And LAUGHS at his enemies !!
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