Good people can be manipulated to support harming innocent people

[Klein1014]

The Stanley Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology studies in the 1960s that investigated the willingness of individuals to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were told they were administering electric shocks to a "learner" for incorrect answers, and a significant majority of them (65%) obeyed the experimenter to the maximum voltage level, despite the "learner's" simulated cries of pain. The experiments revealed how powerful the influence of authority can be, and they raised significant ethical concerns about the treatment of participants.

We are seeing this played out as people support trans ideology which is child abuse of the worst kind. Its also being showed as anti ICE riots. What we are seeing is violence thats mainly coming from the left. As left wing ideology is becoming rejected we are seeing a massive increase in violence based on ideology that is funded and supported by donors for the democrat party. What is different today is that its not one or two people. Its an organized well funded movement y socialist communists democrats and global elitists. American conservatism is defeating them and they are going after us with no regard for life

 

[Patriot]

The Stanley Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology studies in the 1960s that investigated the willingness of individuals to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were told they were administering electric shocks to a "learner" for incorrect answers, and a significant majority of them (65%) obeyed the experimenter to the maximum voltage level, despite the "learner's" simulated cries of pain. The experiments revealed how powerful the influence of authority can be, and they raised significant ethical concerns about the treatment of participants.

We are seeing this played out as people support trans ideology which is child abuse of the worst kind. Its also being showed as anti ICE riots. What we are seeing is violence thats mainly coming from the left. As left wing ideology is becoming rejected we are seeing a massive increase in violence based on ideology that is funded and supported by donors for the democrat party. What is different today is that its not one or two people. Its an organized well funded movement y socialist communists democrats and global elitists. American conservatism is defeating them and they are going after us with no regard for life

Good analysis of the political climate from a psychological perspective. I would add that individuals today, particularly young people, have become more radicalized due to the lack of social conditioning, i.e., the humanizing effects of in-person social life. They are increasingly isolated and lonely, although they live most of their "lives" on the internet, particularly via social media. But the anonymity and physical distance of online interaction does not carry with it the empathy and realistic grounding that interpersonal interactions have traditionally accomplished. Instead, we often see the exact opposite: othering, demonizing, and minimizing of people and the value of their lives. It is relatively easy, for example, for someone to claim that Charlie Kirk deserved to die because he was a "Nazi" or what have you, when a person has been conditioned against the value of life in general, and when he/she does not have to personally account for his/her words, much less say those words to the face of those most hurt by them. In addition, when hateful words are condoned and encouraged by other like-minded and hate-filled individuals in the same online "community," a sort of feedback loop of vileness and reward for vileness develops, identities are established to fill otherwise purposeless lives, the psychological problems become social, it escalates, until portions of said "community" organize themselves for an actual physical demonstration in the streets, which, fueled by misplaced hate and anger, and totally out of touch with reality by this point, result in irrational displays and violence against whatever normally benign entity (such as the police or ICE) happen to be available.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the rest of us properly socially adjusted people can only look on and shake our heads in bewilderment at such senseless and counterproductive behavior.

 

[Klein1014]

Good analysis of the political climate from a psychological perspective. I would add that individuals today, particularly young people, have become more radicalized due to the lack of social conditioning, i.e., the humanizing effects of in-person social life. They are increasingly isolated and lonely, although they live most of their "lives" on the internet, particularly via social media. But the anonymity and physical distance of online interaction does not carry with it the empathy and realistic grounding that interpersonal interactions have traditionally accomplished. Instead, we often see the exact opposite: othering, demonizing, and minimizing of people and the value of their lives. It is relatively easy, for example, for someone to claim that Charlie Kirk deserved to die because he was a "Nazi" or what have you, when a person has been conditioned against the value of life in general, and when he/she does not have to personally account for his/her words, much less say those words to the face of those most hurt by them. In addition, when hateful words are condoned and encouraged by other like-minded and hate-filled individuals in the same online "community," a sort of feedback loop of vileness and reward for vileness develops, identities are established to fill otherwise purposeless lives, the psychological problems become social, it escalates, until portions of said "community" organize themselves for an actual physical demonstration in the streets, which, fueled by misplaced hate and anger, and totally out of touch with reality by this point, result in irrational displays and violence against whatever normally benign entity (such as the police or ICE) happen to be available.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the rest of us properly socially adjusted people can only look on and shake our heads in bewilderment at such senseless and counterproductive behavior.

Gemeinschaftsgefühl (community feeling), ...Alfred Adler
I went to an Adlerian graduate school.
This word is the measure of mental health it refers to the quality of social relationships.