Regarding the stage of internalizing: "You tend to idealize your abandoner at your own expense" (page 15). Regarding 2012, give President Obama credit where credit is due, but avoid idealizing him.
Regarding the stage of rage: "Rage is not the first time you encounter anger in this process . . . . [But] [i]t is not until this FOURTH STAGE that your beleaguered sense of self, under siege from self-attack, is ready to stand up and fight back, to take on the challenge of the outside world. Only then is your rage of the self-empowering, healthy kind. Its aggression can help you rehabilitate your life" (page 16; emphasis in the original as italicized print).
Perhaps Cornel West and others who are disappointed in President Obama have reached the stage of rage described by Susan Anderson. If they have, perhaps it will help them rehabilitate their lives after their experience of the loss of love in their individual political love-life.
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