To the editor:
I don’t have to travel to Egypt to see the river “D-nile.” Rather nowadays 24/7 there it is on the news, sourced from the deeply troubled elephant in the White House living room, and denied by his Republican elephant enablers.
As the stress mounts with the problematic chief elephant all his enabling friends are searching to spin away and thus deny the very stark reality that the emperor elephant is, and has been, nude. As the stress mounts the spinning becomes more desperate and dysfunctional.
This denial of painful reality is an extremely familiar – and highly destructive – human theme that I watched unfold countless times as a former addiction and behavioral health counselor for thirty-seven years. While doing family therapy I talked often of the analogy of trying to survive by denying the very large, deeply troubled elephant in the living room. In the early phase of the unfolding illness progression it’s very easy to play into denial by minimizing, rationalizing and blaming other things. Meanwhile the untreated elephant becomes more unpredictable, thus more dangerous.
The way out of such destruction is to break through dysfunction by delivering painful reality. The current impeachment process is America’s necessary intervention on a herd of troubled elephants, all out of touch with reality, all in need of help.
The only way out is through the pain. Intervention is tough love – on everyone involved, whereas on going denial is a tragic life of lies.
Hopefully in time from this crisis will arise a much stronger America, where diversity finds common ground.
Mike Beebe
Lyndeborough