Political Tribalism Callouses Your Soul

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

Joe, Politics, Trump, Wash, Joewalsh, News, Thedaily, Thelincolnproject, Podsaveamerica

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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If what Trump said in the Oval Office yesterday doesn’t send a chill up your spine, then you’ve forgotten what America is. Or you’re way too dangerously partisan. And once you throw due process out the window for anyone, you throw it out the window for yourself. And one more problem…we’re not even speaking off the same basic fact sheets.

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0:00.0	America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.
0:07.3	That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.
0:13.5	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.6	The social contract, it's on us.
0:30.6	Political tribalism calluses your soul.
0:40.3	I just love that expression.
0:45.3	Dangerous partisanship calluses your soul.
0:52.3	The internet can callous your soul. The internet can callous your soul. Political tribalism, extreme political tribalism,
1:06.4	calluses your soul.
1:15.6	Smart guy I follow on Twitter posted that yesterday, talking about social media, how social media calluses your soul,
1:20.6	hardens you, moves you away from the things you know are right and the things you believe in and it's all
1:31.3	about i got to win my side's got to win i've got to prevail we forget what matters we forget
1:43.9	what's right and wrong or it doesn't matter what's right and wrong
1:47.5	our soul is callous we callous our soul we we become hardened robots only interested in winning and
1:59.7	prevailing.
2:04.8	We lose our humanity.
2:08.6	We lose our sense of right and wrong.
2:14.1	Political tribalism does this to us.
2:25.0	Like my team, my guy, TikTok, my side, they got to win and they're never wrong.
2:28.9	Trump is never wrong.
2:39.5	I believe in the Constitution, Joe, and I fear executive overreach, Joe.
2:41.4	But Donald Trump, never wrong.
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