This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
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This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
Daddy Issues, Data Issues and Divine Right Delusions
Shrink The Nation
42 minutes
1 week ago
Daddy Issues, Data Issues and Divine Right Delusions
America’s back on the couch. We open with the shutdown-as-family-drama: unpaid essential workers, trust leaking out “in buckets,” and a Congress that swapped governing for purity tests and cable hits. It isn’t politics; it’s low differentiation with triangulation and emotional cutoffs, and the kids (us) feel it first. Then the fun-house mirror: an AI-crowned digital king flinging sludge* on critics while a chunk of the country flirts with strongman fantasies. That isn’t satire; it’s validatio...
Shrink The Nation
This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
