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24 Jun, 9 tweets, 2 min read
Wow. Great speech by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley:
"I want to understand white rage....I want to understand what caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the United States." 1/
More Milley looking and speaking at Matt Gaetz:

"I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers of being 'woke' or something else." 2/
Here's a few explanations for the assault on the Capitol that General Milley speaks of: 3/
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych Profile picture
21 Jun
Other than the "deprogramming" phrasing, I agree with @BandyXLee1's analysis below:
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As long as the Right Wing media continues to validate the pathology, any progress made on an individual level immediately reverts to regression once they re-engage: 3/
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18 Jun
Carlson alternately plays on fear/victimization.....and empowerment/narcissism.

In threads about conspiracy theories, I've noted: "Conspiracy theories... simultaneously sustain the believers’ narcissism and victimhood".

This is what Carlson taps into...1/
Carlson scares the Hell out of people with comments like,

"When they come for you, and they will..."

...until he has them locking their doors and suspiciously peeking out their windows at their neighbors.....2/
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18 Jun
This is a really interesting TedTalk on addiction. Applying it to the political climate, and viewing it through the lens of demonization/tribalism.....The obvious challenge we face as a country?........1/ ted.com/talks/johann_h…
....How to re-establish connection and strengthen "bonding"....when the incentive structure for many in the media, especially people like Tucker Carlson, is to create an emotional response that not only sabotages those bonds with fellow Americans, but also with family members? 2/
.....3/.....ted.com/talks/johann_h…
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych Profile picture
16 Jun
Technically, it's a defense mechanism where people unconsciously "project" negative thoughts/traits onto others. On the surface, it appears as hypocrisy. It can often be a confession of past/current behavior, or predictive of future behavior. ....1/
It's often a window into how someone engages/reacts to their environment. It's often indicative of someone who is hyper-subjective in how they see the world, and/or lacks ability conceptualize an alternate reaction in another person. Basically, the unconscious thought process: 2/
"Since this is how I would respond in this situation, everyone must respond the exact same way".

With Trump, since he views every situation as a transaction to exploit, lie, cheat, steal, he projects (subjectively interprets) that everyone else must be doing the same. 3/
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych Profile picture
13 Jun
An addiction model may actually explain tribalism, confirmation bias, and even conspiracy theories/Qanon. Let’s unpack….

Several years ago I started observing the parallels between addiction and political tribalism as marriages/friendships/families imploded over politics….1/
Specifically, I started noticing the parallels between the effect that addiction has on relationships when those relationships (interventions) threaten the continuation of the addictive behavior/activity.

Basically,….2/
…when confronted with a threat to the addiction, the addict will often cut the loved one out of their life, rather than cut out the addictive behavior.

This has occurred countless times over the last 5 years as people have cut family/friends out of their lives over politics. 3/
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11 Jun
Not aware of studies, but I've written/talked about (Lincoln Project podcast) the "proxy phenomenon":

A transition from people acting as a proxy in an ideological war....to ideology becoming a proxy in those people's personal wars with ideological/political/personal enemies…1/
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.....with the ideology increasingly becoming fluid. 3/
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