{"id":29433,"date":"2018-04-28T03:46:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T03:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29433"},"modified":"2018-04-28T03:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T03:46:04","slug":"wishing-for-success-creates-emotional-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29433","title":{"rendered":"Wishing for success creates emotional conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have made no secret of my loathing, disgust and anger at Donald J. Trump’s election to the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n

I won’t back down from any of those feelings.<\/p>\n

That all said, I am torn at this moment. The president is on the verge of scoring a major success that if it comes through will benefit the entire planet, not just the country he leads.<\/p>\n

North and South Korea might be on the verge of forging a peace agreement that ends officially the Korean War. Moreover, they might be willing to “de-nuclearize” the Korean Peninsula, which of course means that North Korea could abandon its plans to build a nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n

The Korean War ended in 1953 with a ceasefire. They never signed a peace treaty, which means the Koreas remain in a state of war.<\/p>\n

The president is likely to take credit bigly<\/em> for whatever good comes from a peace treaty and a possible disarming of North Korea.<\/p>\n

He’ll deserve credit. All of it? I’ll wait for that one.<\/p>\n

I fear that Trump will boast and brag his way past any good feelings that would result. Believe me, his critics — such as yours truly — will be hard-pressed to speak kindly of the president, which means it will take little for us to walk back the good thoughts and public pronouncements that will come his way.<\/p>\n

However, when the president succeeds, the nation succeeds. We all should be bigger than our personal dislike, distaste and disgust that Donald Trump is at the center of it.<\/p>\n

I’ll hope for the best on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n

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