Trump Tariffs Broke Canada's Collective Brain ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the Trump tariffs and how they affect the way we think about politics, and how we try to make sense of them. We also discuss the impact of groupthink, and the role of emotions in politics.
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and the american tariffs are just one side of things we saw people lose their mind over the
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trump tariffs and i think part of that is the collective hate that there is for trump because
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just the constant media bombardment of these these messages and we don't have to even give
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examples everybody knows off the top of their hand the examples we don't have the same collective
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bombardment media messaging on china so when the chinese tariffs came
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there there was almost i was i saw like no commentary on it not even a fraction of the
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same emotion no has anyone asked carney about it i don't think so it feels like there's a certain
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amount of groupthink and this groupthink is it it's not naturally what would appear given these
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situations yeah and often it's a media push or it's a it there has to be some other driving force
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behind this to get to this point yeah so i'm i'm wondering how do you
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how do we have conversations how do we address some of these points and how do we
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start changing minds when things are wrapped up in these emotional responses
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yeah you know it kind of comes back to something we've said on the show a lot and you know we've
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talked with other people about a lot about how it really does feel and i understand you know of
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course there's there is this type of um emotional language on the right as well in describing the left
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but it does seem that it's particularly difficult to kind of break through uh the emotional
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weight that the left that people on the left put on politics in the way that it does feel that they
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truly don't like honestly it feels like they don't view conservatives as even human like they they view
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them as like if they do view them as human they view them as like so you know like biblically evil
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that like how could you even you know even even entertaining like they you know the the left talks
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a lot about like platforming right like how do you platform people like this or you know they talk
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about um they do a lot of guilt by association type of of rational you know we can't listen to
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you know jordan peterson says something about anything and you can't even begin to understand like
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you can't even begin to listen to the argument he's making because he's already been associated with
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transphobia so how could you listen to what a transphobe has to say about politics you know
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what i mean like it's there's this sort of like really heavily emotionally intertwined um uh baggage
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that surrounds anyone on the right that the left associates with them and it's it's really hard to
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bust through that and actually have a conversation on principles and and like on and on uh you know
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the the just the merits of ideas without kind of wading through all this heavy