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I know, I know I said it. I said that both Mr. Trump and Mrs, Clinton needed therapy (last post). People are taking down their FaceBook accounts because of things they have said publicly, and this should worry me.  But that was yesterday. And the theme of this blog, remember, is that everyone needs therapy.  So it isn't an insult, okay? President-Elect Donald Trump acceptance speech Today, the day after the election, I'm thinking more of the President-Elect. No matter the personality we saw during the contest, he knows this country better, more intimately, than any of us . We underestimated him.   And this intimacy, this knowledge, is the reason he won the election without contest.  It is why he said he would give us hell if Mrs. Clinton had been elected, that he wouldn't accept the election results. He knew . He had his finger on the pulse of America all along, when nobody else did.  America, to most of us, has been the America that is outspoken, everyone shout...

Most of us have voted by now for the next President of the United States. The candidates have been talking for months about many, many issues, but mostly themselves, talking about, and defending themselves. If this were not an anonymous blog, I'd offer each my card . Social workers are generally democratic, and highly educated, and when educators get together, some 3,000 educators, as they did last week for the Council for Social Work Education (CSWE) annual program meeting in Atlanta, the synapses in the halls of the hotel burn so bright, the place might just burn down. (Social workers like to speak in hyperbole). When I told my son, who I consider a balanced man, about the topics presented at CSWE's # APM16 , he opined, "Wow, you guys must be the most pinko-liberal educators in the country!" Maybe. Yet we are a diverse group, not always predictable, and despite the mostly liberal leanings, nobody has it in for social workers anymore, not like the late  Mike Royko  d...