Conservative politicians in #Alberta, from #DanielleSmith and #JasonKenney on down to #PierrePoilievre and #PrestonManning, have used the rage of Albertans as the fissile material powering their own political ambitions. In the process, they have created a generation of #grievance #junkies, people who are absolutely addicted to the idea of their own #victimhood at the hands of a corrupt federal government.

@NatObserver @maxfawcett
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/26/opinion/alberta-grievance-politics-conservatives

Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.

* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction

"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."

World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation

* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one.

"Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."

"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book

Republican President General Dwight David "Ike" #Eisenhower planned the World War II invasion of France in 1944, which cost a lot of lives but was major and successful step in ending a war begun by a lunatic autocrat.

Eisenhower accepted responsibility for this invasion, whichever way it went. He drafted a speech to deliver if the invasion failed: "The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone." A responsible president.

When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, democrat Lyndon B. Johnson reached across the aisle, and Eisenhower came to his aid: On a visit to the Oval Office, Ike wrote out what he thought LBJ should tell an emergency session of Congress. A helpful president.

That was the kind of man that the #Republican Party used to admire and elect.

#BonespurWarrior #grievance #resentment #revenge #corruption #aggrievement