Toxic Empathy: How Compassion Shapes Politics

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.9 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Meghan McCain welcomes Allie Beth Stuckey to the podcast for an engaging discussion on the role of empathy in politics, inspired by Stuckey’s new book, Toxic Empathy. Together, they explore the complexities of empathy in political discourse and its potential to cloud judgment, particularly with the 2024 election approaching. The conversation also delves into the challenges of navigating conservative media, the importance of critical thinking in political decision-making, and the evolving dynamics of the Republican Party. Meghan and Allie offer thoughtful cultural commentary while addressing audience questions and reflecting on the current political climate.

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0:00.0	Megan McCain has entered the chat.
0:07.0	Megan McCain has you, Miranda Wilkins.
0:35.6	Happy Friday to you, Miranda.
0:39.2	I am edging closer and closer and closer to my birthday, and I just changed my plans.
0:45.4	We're going to go to New York and then for two days and then I just switched it.
0:49.3	And now we're going to like spa resort in Virginia instead.
0:54.3	Because it sounds a little weird.
0:55.8	I didn't want to be away from the girls so long with, I don't like, I don't like both
0:59.7	parents being gone.
1:01.1	Yeah.
1:01.4	You know, if it's like something I can handle.
1:02.9	I know that sounds like a little like helicoptery, but I just get paranoid.
1:06.6	Yeah, I just like, I also, I think it's around the time that Trump's doing his rally,
1:12.4	the Madison Square Garden rally. And I just thought New York would probably be kind of like a,
1:15.2	like a shit show. And also, every time I go to New York, I spend hundreds of dollars on
1:21.1	Uber's. And it just feels like a waste of money. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, okay, everyone will be like, oh, take the subway.
1:29.6	I don't, I don't understand how the subway works.
1:32.7	And I've been to New York a million times.
1:34.7	Yeah.
1:35.0	And I still don't get it.
1:36.0	I don't.
1:36.7	It's like something my brain just like cannot compute.
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