Thread:Comments:United States re-elects Barack Obama/A truly terrible day, IMO./reply (5)

No. It's not a "psychological reality". It's a judgement you (in this case) are making, based on a freehand analysis fraught with potential. It might be a correct judgement; on the other hand, it presumably accrues extra plausibility because it fulfills our impulse to believe in others' superficiality, and that in itself should make us skeptical of it. But regardless of how relatively correct or incorrect it is (one suspects this isn't an area for absolutes), one thing it isn't is some sort of manifest truth.