{"id":18347,"date":"2025-06-26T18:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18347"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:56:16","slug":"political-violence-surges-because-politics-matter-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18347","title":{"rendered":"Political Violence Surges Because Politics Matter Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/pops.13084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;published in February in&nbsp;<em>Political Psychology<\/em>&nbsp;reported that &#8220;political identity outweighs all other social identities in informing citizens&#8217; attitudes and projected behaviors towards others.&#8221; The results echoed those from similar research from Stanford University in 2017 which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/stories\/2017\/08\/political-party-identities-stronger-race-religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a>&nbsp;that &#8220;the strongest attachment\u2026is Americans&#8217; connection to their political party. And the strength of that partisan bond \u2013 stronger than race, religion or ethnicity \u2013 has amplified the level of political polarization in the U.S.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/06\/23\/political-violence-surges-because-politics-matters-too-much\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/06\/23\/political-violence-surges-because-politics-matters-too-much<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A study published in February in Political Psychology reported that &#8220;political identity outweighs all other social identities in informing citizens&#8217; attitudes and projected behaviors towards others.&#8221; The results echoed those from similar research from Stanford University in 2017 which found that &#8220;the strongest attachment\u2026is Americans&#8217; connection to their political party. And the strength of that partisan bond \u2013 stronger than race, religion or ethnicity \u2013 has amplified the level of political polarization in the U.S.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/06\/23\/political-violence-surges-because-politics-matters-too-much\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[489,1740,509,847],"class_list":["post-18347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-polarization","tag-political-violence","tag-politics","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}