Tony Wilson
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Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Louis CK: Dems 'Sh*tting On Trump Supporters' Is 'Stupidest Thing You Can Do' | Kyle Kulinski Show" video.
Have you heard of or read the book "Angrynomics" by Mark Blyth & Eric Lonergan?
Mark's a political economist who studies how studies how politics and economics interact rather than treat them as separate subjects. Eric's a fund manger with a soul as well as a brain.
The books basically 2 guys discussing the anger that's prevalent across most of the world right now and the economics causing it
They discuss 2 kinds of anger that we see in public with large groups of people. Moral outrage and tribal anger. Moral outrage are things like BLM and union strikes where people are protesting at something they see as morally wrong - cops killing people, companies where wage inequality and conditions are ridiculous, etc.
Tribal anger is what you're talking about where politically motivated opportunists are weaponizing anger into tribalism. Things like Qanon, anti-vaxxers, anti-5G,... etc where people angry at government policies that hurt them are having that anger REDIRECTED into mindless rage. Its where we see bad faith actors like Bannon, Hannity, Rachael Maddow, etc. and organisations like Fox, OAN, CNN, MSNBC driving people bonkers.
Just look at what Louis CK does here in just a few seconds. "Look at what progressives ALWAYS do..." which plays straight into the "their side does.... but our side is innocent even when it does the same thing" schtick.
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