Fantasies Of Our Future With Hillary

On some level, Clinton was battling the sad history of women's silence. Now many female Clinton voters will be asked to bite their tongues and suffer for the larger good. It's a bitter kind of heart break.
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When Hillary Clinton drops out of the race, the disappointment her supporters will feel will not be trivial. A campaign, like a romance, inspires fantasies of the future; it idealizes another person; it makes you feel that you're part of something larger than yourself. And when it's over, your heart breaks.

"What we're talking about here is the phenomenon of attachment," explains Dr. Alan Lipman, a clinical psychologist. "When you lose that, you experience a loss of hope. To put it in medical terms, it's a bereavement."

Read more at Tapped, the American Prospect blog.

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