The Weakest People in America Voted Trump
The weakest people in America all voted for the same man.
There is a psychological reason for that.
In 1996 psychologist Steven Hayes at the University of Nevada published research on what happens when people build their entire lives around avoiding uncomfortable emotions. He found that a wide range of destructive behavior can be traced back to a single pattern. The refusal to feel what you need to feel. The willingness to do anything, believe anything, destroy anything, as long as you never have to sit with the discomfort of being wrong.
Hayes called this experiential avoidance.
Experiential…
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