America Addicted to Rage: Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott on the Kirk Assassination
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This segment zooms in on the psychology behind America’s division. With insight from psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, the panel dissects how social media outrage, tribal thinking, and dopamine-driven rage responses have turned political discourse into psychological warfare. Tony Brueski and co-hosts explore why so many Americans are trapped in “us vs. them” narratives, and how misinformation fuels distorted perceptions that can escalate into violence. Shavaun draws on clinical experience and neuroscience to explain why people become addicted to anger — and how that cycle makes tragedies like the Charlie Kirk assassination feel inevitable.
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| 1:07.6 | It's sad and it's shocking because this is something where I feel like both sides are digging in even deeper, two things that are not real, where you see one side going, well, every, you know, every Democrat hates him and this is horrible. |
| 1:21.7 | They're all celebrating. You're like, no. I don't see. I mean, maybe I'm sure if I dug deeper I could find some real horrible |
| 1:28.7 | assholes who were celebrating sure not not much but you know what for the most part nobody |
| 1:33.6 | was yeah for the most part anybody I knew who was a respectable Democrat were heartbroken |
| 1:39.5 | we're like holy shit this is not good this is horrible. So reality check for everybody on this. |
| 1:47.9 | No, most sane, healthy thinking people, nobody is celebrating this shit. |
| 1:53.6 | They are not. |
| 1:54.4 | You can find an extremist somewhere, yes. |
| 1:57.0 | And on the same token, well, he said this, he said that. |
| 2:00.9 | Take a look. Take a look. |
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