Therapy nation: Why Americans can’t stand each other anymore
A growing number of Americans no longer experience political disagreement as disagreement. They experience it as psychological harm. Ordinary conflict is now routinely described using the language once reserved for trauma, abuse, and crisis. People don’t simply disagree with opponents anymore. They describe themselves as "unsafe," "triggered" or emotionally damaged by exposure to opposing views….
A growing number of Americans no longer experience political disagreement as disagreement. They experience it as psychological harm. Ordinary conflict is now routinely described using the language once reserved for trauma, abuse, and crisis. People don’t simply disagree with opponents anymore. They describe themselves as "unsafe," "triggered" or emotionally damaged by exposure to opposing views….
A growing number of Americans no longer experience political disagreement as disagreement. They experience it as psychological harm. Ordinary conflict is now routinely described using the language once reserved for trauma, abuse, and crisis. People don’t simply disagree with opponents anymore. They describe themselves as "unsafe," "triggered" or emotionally damaged by exposure to opposing views….
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