"""All of this anger-mongering in campaigns, whether subtle or overt, has had a corrosive effect on American democracy. A poll by The Washington Post found that 35 percent of voters in battleground districts of the 2018 midterm election chose the word angry to describe their feelings about the campaign; 24 percent chose patriotic.
“The thing about political professionals is, we get to leave after the
campaign is over,” the pollster Jefrey Pollock told me. “[We] don’t have
to worry about what comes after the election.” These professionals
aren’t moral crusaders, as Cesar Chavez was; they’re hired guns. After a
long campaign, Pollock said, there’s “this huge group of passionate,
energized people” who don’t know where to direct their anger.
As
Chavez learned, that’s a perilous state of affairs. Without anyone to
channel that anger, it can turn into a destructive obsession. And that’s
when things can really get out of control."""
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/charles-duhigg-american-anger/576424/
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