Toward The Turning When Culture And Psychology Dance From Scott Gibbs

Gibbs, a psychotherapist who works with conflict in relationships and across groups, argues that "fighting" over practical problems undermines our ability to solve them. That failure intensifies the fight, deepens distrust, and fuels polarized populism on both the right and the left. In his words, fighting creates populism, which feeds more fighting.Take affordability. A free market-oriented right gives greater weight to individual choice, property rights, and rewards for enterprise. A universalist left gives greater weight to equality, access to necessities, and collective responsibility. Proposed remedies start to feel like threats to "who we are." The right may hear, "My freedom to direct my life is being put under someone else's control." The left may hear, "People's dignity and safety count less than money and the pursuit of profit." Each side's defense becomes the other side's threat, and an argument about the economy turns into a struggle over whose freedom and needs count. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support .