Why do lefties suffer from extreme TDS?

I sort of get it. I was furious when Bush won his second term. I was young and dumb (youth and ignorance go hand in hand, but every young generation thinks they are the exception to this rule), and thought everyone who voted for him was an idiot because he was a horrible,stupid person. I don't think that was incorrect, but the lack of life experience kept me from realizing that our President has basically been the same type of politician for the last 50 years. If you haven't experienced the winning and losing to see the pattern, an unexpected loss is jarring. Add to that a current younger generation of liberal and extremely easy to offend,depress,outrage,etc, and this rediculous hypocrisy is easy to understand. I don't like it, but kids will be kids. The problem is how many of today's youth's are still kids in their 30s.

The truth is, people don't actually hate the man. They hate what he has turned the presidency into. As soon as he is no longer president, the world will go back to not caring. The problem is he WANTS half the country pissed off at him. He's the skankhunt42 of Washington DC. That's what people hate. And if that's how he wants people to feel about him, then why shouldn't they?

Also, the derangement syndrome goes both ways. Here we have an empty suit of a president with no real ideology. He pretends to be pro-life, but even the sycophants know he doesn't care about abortion. Why do they support him then? A hundred dollar ladder counters a $20 billion wall. Why support him then? The economy was on an upswing before he was elected and decided to take credit. Why cheer him on his fake victory? Sure, tribalism explains a lot of it. That's how he got so many people to believe Obama was born in Kenya. But that was seven years ago. Now we've moved into derangement territory. And here you are, still defending President Skankhunt42 until you are blue in the face... like a good sycophant.

It's actually his supporters that do.

You'd have to be deranged to ignore all his faults.

Are all the Ackbars here?? I hope so, because traps lurk everywhere!

In answer to your question, TDS is simply the current manifestation of the perpetual modern identity crisis. “My team good. Your team bad.”

It started during Reagan's two terms beginning 1980. No one said "Reagan derangement", but lefties were saying he would ban abortion, start WW3, and was "mentally unfit". Sound familiar? Now considered one of the best for talking to Gorby and bringing down the USSR.

I can't remember when "Bush derangement" started or what it was about. It used to be just the far-left, today it's most Democrats.

You've come to the right place. TDS is on full display here, with some of the Trump-hating posters on here day after day, month after month, year after year, spouting their hatred of the man. I've come to the conclusion they're either so far off the deep end, they can't help themselves, or they're being paid to do what they do.

Both party lemmings do it. The Republicans complained about Obama for years. Works both ways. People who are of either party act like dumbasses. Thankfully I'm off neither party which gives me much better judgement than any of the followers from those parties. Bunch of loser followers...lol

In all honesty, I have a sneaking suspicion it's not even him they hate, but the fact that they don't have anywhere near as much reach as they thought they did. For decades they have ruled the media, Hollywood, academia, the music industry, and it just sort of "felt" like they were the ones in charge. Of course Hillary should have won. She had everyone on her side. And it all meant nothing because in reality, people are fed up with them. They're tired of the identity politics. They're tired of the political correctness. After generations being raised to think one way, the people voted differently. It's like learning that Santa isn't real. It's just so hard to believe he won. He emphasizes the reality check that the left desperately needed: that they don't own the country.

What I find fascinating is that they don't have have a solid persona anymore. They have given up on their liberal values and instead have devoted their entire fabric to hating Trump. Where Trump and the republican party represent the people, jobs, trade deals, low unemployment, and prosperity, the democrats now represent nothing other than "fuck Trump". That's their entire reason for being. They have completely dropped the ball and they won't get it back until they learn to get their shit together, which I don't expect to happen any time soon. They aren't even willing to spend a second of self-reflection looking inward at their shortcomings or asking why people don't like them anymore.