How Relational Mobility May Be a Hidden Factor In American Political Polarization

American political polarization dominates every corner of our social media pages. It inevitably crosses the table over family meal times. It hardens the most extreme fringe minorities into warriors who view their struggle as not only righteous, but protecting the culture and people they have come to love. But causes this disparity of empathy between fellow-blooded americans? Can we isolate the factors that cause the South and the Midwest to go to ideological war with the North and Shores? While that may be an expansice question to cover in one project, an important place to start may be our countries high relational mobility and its affect on the various traits our culture (and interioir cultures) produce. In this in this exhibit, I will be going over how relational mobility influences major psychological frameworks and constructs that incetivize the kinds of aggressive action we see between parties. Much of what I discuss is a grander account of western culture, how exactly things like analytical thinking, internal locus of control, cultures of Honor and Dignity, as well as cultural reciprocity loops have become utilized to provide our citizens with exactly what theyve grown up to desire: a political identity that reflects their independence but still acts like a family. We will keep careful track of how seeming unobtrusive aspects of interpersonal relationships end up affecting things much larger than themsleces down the domino change. The listener should come away from the podcast with a more comprehensive look at western culture, and beginning questioning the kinds of things we value in current society if we desire to change the direction towards political disarray we have been stumbling on for the past 5-6 years.