Kerby Anderson
Next week is Thanksgiving week. But many Americans are dreading the annual ritual of gathering families together because of the 2024 election. You might hope that the shock, grief, and anger would subside after this election, but this post-election distress continues.
CBS did a story on “Post-election Emotions.” It offered expert tips and resources to manage a person’s mental health after the 2024 elections. Liberal women say it is “time to learn from the Koreans and adopt the 4B movement” in this country (by shaving their heads and denouncing men).
An article in Psychiatric Times, reflected on a similar experience after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election. Her followers talked about their feeling of betrayal and felt they were living in an alternate reality.
Journalist Mark Halperin predicted that the reaction to the Trump victory might be the cause of the biggest mental health crisis in the history of this country. In an interview he did with Tucker Carlson, he explained that “tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation and their connection to other human beings.”
The election has rattled their vision of the future. He added, “I don’t think it will be kind of a passing thing that by the inauguration will be fine. I think it will be sustained and unprecedented.” He even thinks that we will see violence. “I think there’ll be workplace fights. There’ll be fights at kids’ birthday parties. I think there’ll be protests that will turn violent.”
We can hope that his fearful prophecy does not come to pass, but we should be prepared for the social turmoil ahead. As I have been traveling around the country, many people say they are concerned about the possibility of conflict because of the polarized nature of our society.  Thanksgiving week might provide a glimpse into the future.

Kerby Anderson
Chuck Bentley is the CEO of Crown Financial and the host of the daily radio broadcast, My MoneyLife. He was on my radio program last week to talk about this question he received from a listener: “I am really concerned with what Elon Musk said about America heading toward bankruptcy. Do you think there is anything we need to do if he turns out to be correct?”
Elon Musk has said this on a recent All-In Summit hosted by the All-In Podcast: “America is going bankrupt extremely quickly, and everyone seems to be sort of whistling past the graveyard on this one.”
Chuck Bentley attributes much of the problem to the promotion and popularity of what is called “modern monetary theory.” The economists and politicians believe our currency is like Monopoly Money. They argue that we can ignore deficits and ignore the growing national debt since the government will always be able to print enough money to pay its debts. But he warns we are headed for a downward debt loop.
During the program, I explained that we aren’t the only people concerned about this. Chuck Bentley quotes from an article by Les Rubin who admitted: “The government CAN pay their loans due to their unlimited ability to borrow—for now—or print more money, as long as other countries and investors will continue to buy our bonds.” But in the article, he then warned that it will eventually stop and “we will have to default, leading to severe consequences.”
Both Chuck Bentley and I concluded that if Elon Musk and the proposed Government Efficiency Commission cannot reduce spending, then the economic future for this country isn’t very bright.