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[H2O Man]

34. It's a process.

Hopefully, that person will continue to play an active, positive role in Democratic politics.

However, you raise an important point. And I'm speaking generally here, certainly not about any person on DU. But there are those in life who opt not to get over bitterness. Quite often, we encounter such people in an array of situations, not limited to politics. In the field of health psychology, they are identified as having an external locus of control. Rather than take responsibility for those things they can change, they prefer to self-identify as victims of circumstance. Someone else is always responsible for their problems, their bitterness, and their suffering.

Likely everyone here has met someone who complains constantly about those darned "others." If you suggest a tactic they might use to improve the quality of their life, they respond with some variation of "I tried that, and it doesn't work." They tend to trust only those who share a similar, if not identical, world-view as themselves.

There are, of course. some people who are involved in political action that bring a variation of this to the table. We need to set the bar of expectations very low, in terms of what they might contribute.