The government has “reopened,” but as David puts it, systems reboot faster than people. The shutdown may be over, but the stress response is still humming under the floorboards. This week, we look at what political instability actually does to a population — especially a middle class already living one bad month from catastrophe. We unpack the Pyrrhic victory both parties insisted on celebrating, the family-systems chaos powering today’s political dynamics, and why entire voting blocs a...
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The government has “reopened,” but as David puts it, systems reboot faster than people. The shutdown may be over, but the stress response is still humming under the floorboards. This week, we look at what political instability actually does to a population — especially a middle class already living one bad month from catastrophe. We unpack the Pyrrhic victory both parties insisted on celebrating, the family-systems chaos powering today’s political dynamics, and why entire voting blocs a...
The Psychology of Political Violence: Fear, Belonging, and the Seduction of Us vs Them
Shrink The Nation
27 minutes
1 month ago
The Psychology of Political Violence: Fear, Belonging, and the Seduction of Us vs Them
No bourbon this round. We open by defining political violence clearly — threats, doxing, coordinated harassment, assaults, plots, and targeted property destruction tied to political identity or institutions — and set the only scoreboard that matters: fewer credible threats, fewer doxings, fewer plots, slower rumor timelines, fewer injuries per event. Then we map the heat sources. History says the temperature spikes in certain cycles; today’s mix of economic strain plus culture-war ident...
Shrink The Nation
The government has “reopened,” but as David puts it, systems reboot faster than people. The shutdown may be over, but the stress response is still humming under the floorboards. This week, we look at what political instability actually does to a population — especially a middle class already living one bad month from catastrophe. We unpack the Pyrrhic victory both parties insisted on celebrating, the family-systems chaos powering today’s political dynamics, and why entire voting blocs a...
