Whitney Phillips: How to cope with political panic. - NBCNewsTHINK
You probably know people — maybe including yourself — who are panicked about the. They post and repost lots of partisan content, argue with people on social media and generally are edgy and defensive. You also probably know people — maybe including yourself — who are totally unwilling to engage with the midterms. They refuse to read or watch anything about them, complain about people who bring them up and are similarly edgy and defensive.
Doomsharing or oversharing — even when the information is true — can be contagious, in turn affecting how others share. Stressed-out people, in other words, stress people out. These might seem like opposite responses. But in my college classrooms, where I teach courses focused on politics, public debate and controversy — including a course this fall titled simply the 2022 Midterms — what I have found is that political panic and political aversion often have a key thing in common: high levels of anxiety.
The anxiety then gets expressed in different ways — as aggression, running away or shutting down. Evolutionary biology describes these behaviors as fighting, fleeing or freezing, adaptive responses to threats that are designed to keep us safe. What political aggression looks like is self-explanatory, and it tends to be the thing people focus on in assessing what’s wrong with our politics. But the impulse to either vanish or clam up is equally significant and, in my classroom experience, even more common. This takes the form of actively rejecting anything political and immersing oneself instead in
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