This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
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This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
The American Divorce: When Red and Blue Call It Quits
Shrink The Nation
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The American Divorce: When Red and Blue Call It Quits
The “national divorce” fantasy sounds tidy until you run it through family systems: cutoffs, triangulation, custody battles, and a court stuck parenting two furious adults. Translation: America doesn’t need a split; it needs differentiation. Keep your values, lower the reactivity, stop outsourcing maturity to the judiciary. What we do in this episode Put “national divorce” on the couch: why it’s not feasible, not cheap, and not a cureTriangulation 101: how parties use you to fight each other ...
Shrink The Nation
This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
