DH is a good man and a strong Trump supporter, but his way of manifesting is to embrace the negative. So I'm hearing things like, "That Supreme Court case isn't going anywhere," and "I predict a Biden inaugural." Needless to say, this is really hard to live with, since I'm the positive type.
Any advice for how to live with such a person without enacting the silent treatment?
Yeah, alot of anti-doomers are setting themselves up to have their worlds shattered if they are wrong. Very similar to how leftists 4 years ago had their worlds shattered when their queen lost.
This is the big mistake of the Pessimist. You've convinced yourself that feeling miserable and spreading that misery to others somehow lessens the impact of disappointment or tragedy.
It doesn't. It just means you've increased the amount of time you and those around you have been miserable. Rather than being a beacon of hope that others can look to in times of trouble, you have become a seed of discontent that wastes what time you have to enjoy your life by constantly presuming the worst.
What profit is there in getting to say, "I told you so" when the broader impact of your negativity is to have increased the number of people willing to give up and give in before the fight is even over?
The Optimists will not have their world "shattered". The Optimist will keep right on being optimistic and finding the positive angle to approach life in the future no matter the outcome.
It's the doomers that act as though the world is literally over if the best possible outcome fails to pan out. If the big danger of the future bad thing happening is that it will crush people's spirits, then all the pessimist has done is surrender their spirit early. It's the emotional equivalent of an under achiever not answering questions on a test because they'd rather be seen as lazy than be proven stupid by getting the answers wrong.
EXACTLY!