A new disease has been discovered in the year 2000 and thus has been dubbed "the real Y2K bug". This disease has taken a great toll on the United States and its citizens, and its ill effects will last for many years. It is crucial for the future of the U.S. and its citizens that this disease be promptly and thoroughly treated until it is eradicated. This disease, formally named agoreaphobia, is defined as follows:

ag·o·re·a·pho·bi·a (gr--fb-)
n.

Definition:

An abnormal intense fear of losing an election and the power of public office, often leading to obsessive-compulsive behavior including repeated attempts to steal an election.
 

Indications:

Those afflicted with agoreaphobia exhibit bizarre abnormal behavior including compulsive lying and cheating; and frivolous election challenges involving the following:
 

• repeated vote recounts and ballot manipulation by party officials;
• counting blank "none-of-the-above" ballots as votes for oneself;
• lawsuits involving hundreds of lawyers;
• actions to exclude hundreds of thousands of legitimate votes while claiming that "every vote must be counted";
• an extreme fear of counting absentee ballots from American military men and women; and
• accusations that the real winner is trying to steal the election.

Once the election results are conclusive, and all methods to steal the election have been exhausted and unsuccessful, the loser and others afflicted with the disease claim that the winner "is illegitimate" and "was selected, not elected".

A person afflicted with agoreaphobia is commonly referred to as a "sore loserman" after the election has concluded.
 

Agoreaphobia is often associated with egomania, delusions of grandeur, loss of immunity, and fear of prosecution. Agoreaphobia is highly contagious and spreads quickly, but only among members of the same political party.

 

Members of the news media and the entertainment industry are especially susceptible to agoreaphobia due to their weakened inane systems, lack of diversity in brain structure, and extreme intolerance for healthy, rational, and logical thought patterns. Many have even promised to leave the country if they were not allowed to steal the election. However, none have actually carried out their promise. Thus, the compulsive liar behavior appears to dominate over the fear of losing power behavior.

 

 

Treatment:

 

Indoctrination makes the disease worse, not better. In fact, indoctrination is a major cause of the disease. Therefore, indoctrination is not a recommended treatment.

 

Leaving the country is the best treatment for those who made such promises. Although not covered by insurance, various charities will provide one-way tickets to any other country that will accept diseased refugees from the U.S., upon renunciation of U.S. citizenship and a written promise not to return to infect Americans. Note, however, that those who leave the country may be exposed to additional severe diseases that may place an even greater tax on their inane systems. In many other countries, abnormal behavior due to weakened inane systems may result in death.

 

For those who remain in the U.S., proper education and improved critical thinking and analytical skills are necessary to overcome this dreadful disease. Therefore, the recommended course of treatment is a daily dose of competent and accurate news and commentary available from conservative talk radio and conservative internet web sites. If access to the internet is unavailable, then subscriptions to conservative print media will suffice. Incompetent and biased liberal television, radio, movies, and print media must be avoided to make a full recovery possible.

 

Once recovery has been achieved, re-registering with a healthier political party will help prevent a relapse of the disease.

 
 
Children:

 

Children should be given daily treatment to avoid future infection. Upon reaching adulthood, they should take care to register with a healthy political party.

 
 
Prescriptions:

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[American sore loserman, from Al Gore, Democrat presidential candidate in 2000, Joe Lieberman, Democrat vice presidential candidate in 2000, "Gore-Lieberman" ticket combined with "sore-loser".]

ag·o·rea·phobi·ac(-k) n.

ago·rea·phobic

(-fbk, -fbk) adj. and n.