you've lived with a lot of convenience and long life and health.
But in a sense, we live in a situation where. And on top of this, of course, there's a culture of narcissism, which we'll come back to it. It's that people have gotten used to these things in part because they have come so easily. It's kind of like if you slept in a king bed all your life, queen beds suddenly seem like a real imposition. It's people get used to a very high standard. And the way this happens is that there's a thing, a term I didn't coin, but it's hedonic adaptation. We're the people that get upset when we stand in line at the DMV for a car that our parents would have thought was a technological miracle and a luxury. I mean, we are the country that loses our mind if the Wi-Fi goes out. "And we have gotten used to remarkably high living standards. But we, particularly since the Vietnam War, we have asked almost nothing of society, since we outsource this to brave volunteers who do it as a tiny minority of the country. We are a country that's been at peace, even though people again scoff at that and say, but we were in Afghanistan, we were in Iraq. But that's different than rising living standards. There is income inequality, which is a political problem and a different problem.
Tom Nichols: "People bristle because they say, Well, we're not really an affluent society. That even when we talk about, my God, the country is in such a mess and what are we going to do? In 2020, we patted ourselves on the back for getting about 65% of the public out. "And so I think that fragility is real because I think people no longer think seriously about politics and take politics seriously. your president.' And basically, electing people for entertainment value. You can't sustain a democracy on weaponized voting on. All of these attitudes are completely uncivic. is the voter who said she had voted for President Trump, that she was unhappy now because he wasn't hurting the people he was supposed to be hurting. "One of the things you hear a lot of is a quote I used in the book. When you look around at places like Italy, India, Poland, the United Kingdom, Brazil, all of them are in the grip, or have been in the grip recently, of populist movements that are based on just unfocused rage, voting as revenge, voting as punishment of other people. One of the reasons that I wrote the book is that I didn't think this was just a kind of flash in the pan problem because of one election, or the past two or three years. I think that's a real fragility, and it's happening not just in the United States, but around the world. Tom Nichols: "I don't think it's just a sense of fragility. On what's causing a sense of fragility around our democracy at the moment Author of " Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy." ( Beatty, On Point news analyst. Tom Nichols, national security scholar at the U.S. Today, On Point: Does America have a culture of narcissism? If so, how is that poisoning politics and threatening democracy? Guests And don't let anybody tell you otherwise." "When washing machines were first developed, they were marketed as ‘you deserve it.’ That actually backfired because there were a lot of women who felt that was wasn't appropriate," he says. Nichols says that kind of sales pitch didn’t always work in America. He says the enemy is all of us, joyfully marinating in a culture of narcissism. What's causing it? Not media, not special interests, not the political parties. International affairs expert Tom Nichols says democracy is under assault.
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