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But those awful feelings follow negative thoughts and ideas.

The alternative would be awful feelings appearing out of nowhere.

They follow negative experiences. The thoughts and ideas mostly just serve to justify the feelings that are already there.

Yeah this is so unfortunate, we need to reverse this trend as a civilization

Yes, true. And I say this as someone on the right—we complain about “feelers” but that’s Trump’s whole MO.