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RE: Psychiatrist says Trump shouldn't have access to nuclear button
Live is to short for anxiety and confusion. You need to focus on life and if you want to change something engage in poltics, run for president, get famous and run for president than 
, fear has never changed anything for the good. Sorry i didn't want to sound smart-alecky.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to politicians ;-)
Feelings and emotions come in handy when one does not react blindly to what is making one feel uncomfortable. Following the uncomfortable sensations to their source leads one on an interesting journey.
But this is what I am talking about when people start diagnosing others for mental problems just off the cuff, especially when viewing them through the lens of corporate media...
• People are motivated to accept accounts that fit with their preexisting convictions; acceptance of those accounts makes them feel better, and acceptance of competing claims makes them feel worse.
• Dissonance is eliminated when we blind ourselves to contradictory propositions. And we are prepared to pay a very high price to preserve our most cherished ideas.
• Moral hypocrisy is a deep part of our nature: the tendency to judge others more harshly for some moral infraction than we judge ourselves.
• Groupthink leads to many problems of defective decision making, including incomplete survey of alternatives and objectives, failure to examine the risks of the preferred choice, poor information search, selective bias in processing information, and failure to assess alternatives.
• We are often confident even when we are wrong.… Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
• Certain beliefs are so important for a society or group that they become part of how you prove your identity.… The truth is that our minds just aren’t set up to be changed by mere evidence.