Aux origines de la colère américaine

Comment expliquer que la colère soit devenue l'émotion dominante de nos voisins du sud? Cette hargne est bien souvent légitime et les politiciens devraient tous s'en soucier avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.

 "This is a scary place to be—for us as individuals, and for the nation as a whole. The ways in which anger is constantly stoked from every side is new, and the partisan divide that such anger fosters may have pushed us further down a path toward widespread violence than we realize. One recent working paper found that the more partisan people become, the more likely they are to rationalize violence against those they don’t agree with, to experience schadenfreude or moral disinterest when they see an opponent get attacked, and even to endorse physical assaults on other groups. “Though most Americans reject violence, as more of us embrace strong partisanship, the prevalence of lethal partisanship is likely to grow,” wrote the political scientists Lilliana Mason and Nathan Kalmoe.

We should, in other words, be worried, perhaps even more than we already are. It seems like our current madness should be reaching its apex, that relief ought to be on the horizon. But the sources of our anger run deeper than the present political moment."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/charles-duhigg-american-anger/576424/