Taking pleasure in misfortune
The Germans have a name for it, schadenfreude, or taking pleasure in other people’s misfortune. And except for the few saints among us, we have all probably been guilty of it, at least when it involves certain other people. Schadenfreude, however, can be taken to the extreme; it can even be self-destructive – like when we wish failure for someone whose failure harms us. You can probably see where I’m going with this: the people wishing our president ill, even if this means disaster for us all. There seems nothing our president can do to please these people, although Pat Buchanan has suggested something: bombing Iran. I doubt this would do it. There seems nothing he can do to get their approval, much less their support. They do not want him to do well, even though his doing well is good for the nation.
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