The state in which a person, in light of immense political, polarization, becomes incoherent, unlogical, and stops thinking when arguing their points. Becoming purely angry for the sake of anger and aggression.
Symptoms may include sensitivity to certain subjects, random outbursts, name calling, refusing to acknowledge the other side's argument; and not being able to identify the difference between a calm rebuttal and a whiny reply.
Symptoms may include sensitivity to certain subjects, random outbursts, name calling, refusing to acknowledge the other side's argument; and not being able to identify the difference between a calm rebuttal and a whiny reply.
The reporter had clearly fallen into a state of political psychosis after baseless claim after another followed by name calling of opponents, no matter how calm.
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Get the politics mug.The problem of collective decision-making under irreconcilable pluralism. Politics aims to organize societies where people have fundamentally different values, beliefs, and desires. The hard problem is that no system can fairly aggregate these preferences without violating some core principle (like majority rule trampling minority rights, or consensus leading to paralysis). Every political theory—democracy, liberalism, socialism—has a fatal flaw when implemented in a world of real, diverse humans. The search for a perfectly just and stable system may be logically impossible, condemning us to a perpetual, messy negotiation between order and freedom, equality and excellence.
Example: A community must decide: Build a hospital or a school? The sick and elderly prefer the hospital; families with kids prefer the school. A vote creates a winner and a resentful loser. Compromise (a smaller version of each) may satisfy no one fully. The hard problem: There is no "correct" answer discoverable by reason or science. Any decision will impose someone's values on someone else. Politics is the arena where this irreducible conflict plays out, not to be solved, but to be managed. The ideal system is a mirage; the best we can do is avoid civil war while bickering endlessly. Hard Problem of Politics.
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Example: A journalist in an authoritarian country is kidnapped, tortured, and released, but lives in constant fear of re-abduction. A family in a war zone hears bombs every night for years. A minority community sees their rights legislated away and faces increasing state-sanctioned violence. Even in stable democracies, a person may develop political trauma from chronic exposure to threats of civil war, the erosion of democratic norms, and the feeling of helplessness as institutions fail. The trauma is the shattering of the fundamental trust that the political world will provide a safe container for life.
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Example: A person becomes convinced they are a "digital soldier" for a political leader. They believe mainstream news anchors send them coded signals through eye blinks, that their neighbor's lawn sign is a threat against their family, and that they must stockpile weapons for an impending "Storm." They lose their job for ranting about these beliefs at work. This is political psychosis: their grasp on reality has been hijacked by an ideological narrative, transforming the world into a personalized, paranoid political thriller where they are the protagonist.
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