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How Contempt Destroys Democracy: An American Liberal's Guide to Toxic Polarization

How Contempt Destroys Democracy: An American Liberal's Guide to Toxic Polarization

Elwood, Zachary

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN13: 9798987528358
Publisher: Via Regia
Published: Apr 14 2024
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

With Trump back in power, many Americans feel exhausted, furious, and afraid. But when those Americans aim their contempt and rage at wide swaths of fellow citizens on the other side, it doesn't weaken Trumpism - it feeds it. Trump thrives on division; contempt and rage help him (just as those emotions aid other highly us-vs-them leaders and activists).

Those who wish to defeat Trump must try to understand the decades-long cycle of us-vs-them animosity that led to his rise - and that continue to lead many Americans, on the left and right, to support high-conflict, us-vs-them approaches. Those who don't make the effort to understand the psychological aspects of our divides will often act in self-defeating, polarization-amplifying ways; they will rage against perceived injustices, while accidentally contributing to the very dynamics that upset them.

Elwood is one of the wisest voices on the topic of toxic polarization... America needs its citizens to listen to Zach. -Daniel F. Stone, polarization researcher and author of Undue Hate

In How Contempt Destroys Democracy, you'll learn:

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