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286. Navy SEAL Mindset | Congressman Dan Crenshaw

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Incentives of Outrage and Victimization in Politics

I'm amazed by some of the people I thought I was close with who betrayed me or turned on me for the smallest of gains. It's just unnecessary, but it's the incentive structure, unfortunately, in politics because that kind of conflict gains people's attention. We have unfortunately devolved into sort of this Jerry Springer rock and sock compolitics - tabloid politics. The people who get credit are the ones who don't bother with any of that boring policy stuff but instead come out and yell and scream on the house for about something or other which is currency.

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