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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych
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The real danger for the country isn’t the election results, it’s the reaction to, and the refusal to accept the results. For more than four years, Trump and the Right
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The collective anxiety is the by-product of two unfortunate realities of the Trump era:1)You’ll never go broke if you consistently bet on the ignorance/depravity of 1/3 of this country.2)One-half of
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They're boxed-in to their support of Trump by caricatures of their morality/intelligence. To admit Trump is who/what he is substantiates those caricatures to some degree. It's less psychologically/emotionally distressing to
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Part II of @psychunseen’s excellent article on “illusory truth, lies, & political propaganda”. The “fire hose of falsehood” is described as the “shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright
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Starting February 29th, a string of (almost) every thread I've written about Covid-19....the politics, the psychology, and the consequences to society: Thread #1:https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1233769125882814467 ....#2.....htt
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When people don’t know what to believe, or feel like they can’t believe anything….they will attach their beliefs to bias-confirming narratives…even if they are illogical. I’ve previously used a “circuit
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In "normal" cult situations, the deprogramming is difficult even when the rest of society, and reality, directly contradicts the surreality of the cult. With Trump, the pathology of the "cult
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After recently observing that Trump has had a “Cluster B” , Typhoid Mary-like effect on society, I had an interesting observation regarding Trump’s cult following….1/https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1188071727412269057 ….an
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U.S. has 4% of the world's population, but 22% of Covid deaths. If U.S. accounted for the same share of deaths as population, it'd have 38K deaths. Incoincidentally, that falls
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Two years ago, I wrote about the “gated-community” mentality that appeared to be both an underlying factor, as well as the culmination, of the current political climate (cultural civil war/political
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“Trump is gonna Trump”?If the Right “obsessed” a little more about their fraudulent reverence for traditional/conservative/family values…the Left and principled conservatives who abandoned the Republican party wouldn’t have to
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A really interesting article that analyzes susceptibility to conspiracy theories of the Christian Right, but that also applies more generally. A look at a few of the author's (and some
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