Psychopolitics examines how power operates through emotion, perception, and attention. This section explores the psychological strategies behind modern governance—distraction, outrage, propaganda, and spectacle—as tools for control.
From “shock and awe” policymaking to the constant manufacture of crisis, these essays trace how leaders manipulate attention to shape public behavior, normalize instability, and erode civic reasoning. Psychopolitics looks beyond policy outcomes to reveal the mental mechanics of power in a media-saturated age—where the struggle for democracy is often a struggle for focus itself.
Representative pieces include The Distraction Doctrine, Trump’s Distraction Playbook, The Authoritarian Playbook, and Political Rebranding Reveals Deeper Collapse.
- The Great Swap: Will Trump’s Impossible $2,000 Promise Alter Perception? (11/10/2025)
- Social Security Privatization: The Ultimate Prize (9/27/2025)
- Political Rebranding Reveals Deeper Collapse: When Signature Policies Need New Names (9/3/2025)
- The Manipulation Machine: How Technology, Inequality, and Polarization Threaten American Democracy (6/19/2025)
- The Distraction Doctrine: Trump’s Pattern of Manufacturing Crisis to Hide Policy Failures (6/13/2025)