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Dr. Bashah, a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, has served as an expert witness in high-profile criminal, immigration and civil court cases, while Johnson is the CEO and cofounder of Redirect Health as well as the host of \u201cThe Optimistic American,\u201d a podcast promoting a hopeful view of America\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
In \u201cAddictive Ideologies,\u201d Dr. Bashah and Johnson warn readers about the perils of political polarization and the social conditions that lead to fascism, drawing on Dr. Bashah\u2019s family\u2019s experiences of Jewish persecution in Iraq at the hands of Saddam Hussein and the Ba\u2019ath Party. Building on this profound personal context, Johnson uses his mayoral experience to chart a path for American citizens and politicians to follow in order to avoid similar atrocities happening on American soil. Together, the pair have salient advice for our rapidly changing political world.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn taking responsibility for ourselves we can find meaning,\u201d the pair write in the book. \u201cWe can find the benefits of people who don\u2019t think exactly like we do. We can find growth, love and purpose. We can find the truth. If we break our addiction to ideologies and regain our agency from those who would use it for their own means and self-aggrandizement, we can find the great optimism that allows us to create, innovate and find opportunities that are unavailable in our addiction. We can fix society one person at a time, and it starts by taking account of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAddictive Ideologies\u201d has already drawn praise from such experts as Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the American psychologist known for the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, professor emeritus at Stanford University and author of \u201cThe Lucifer Effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy research has shown conclusively how many ordinary people can be tied into atrocities,\u201d Zimbardo says. \u201cFinding one\u2019s agency and accountability are the only real tools to avoid those dangers, and Addictive Ideologies makes that case clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n
By blending insights from their respective personal and professional backgrounds, Dr. Bashah and Johnson illustrate how political polarization can create the social conditions that put democracy at risk\u2014and that make atrocities and genocides possible. Dr. Bashah and Johnson emphasize the personal responsibility we all share to protect our country and our loved ones, as well as the fact that evil acts aren\u2019t the result of a few bad men but of a country\u2019s mass complicity and inaction.<\/p>\n
\u201cAddictive Ideologies: Finding Meaning and Agency when Politics Fail You\u201d is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, among many other outlets.<\/p>\n
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