Why Political Disagreement Feels Like Personal Attack
The rage you feel toward political opponents isn’t about policy—it’s your identity defense system activating because you’ve fused your beliefs with who you are, and their disagreement registers as an existential attack on your adequacy, intelligence, or moral worth. The gap between “they disagree with me” and “I want to destroy them” reveals not their wrongness, but your framework’s grip.
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