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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

You may have noticed those of you who live in the United States, and I think that many other countries have the analogous statement that could be defended, that temperatures are running high when it comes

to politics and political opinions. I'm not specifically referring now to the actual government,

the new second administration of Donald Trump, and the actions that they and their allies are

taking. That's kind of not what we do here at Mscape, but we want to understand the phenomena.

We want to know what the explanation is for why things are the way they are.

So even putting aside actions of the government one way or the other, let's think about the

attitudes of the people, of the people who want to vote for these government employees in the

first place.

There seems to be some intensity out there of feeling, intensity that even occasionally rises to the level of

political violence against the people you disagree with. It wasn't necessarily always that

way. You might imagine that maybe it was always that way,

but you're just more sensitive now. No, it's actually not always that way. It has been

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