learned helplessness

Learned helplessness becomes a survival mode.

Can you explain what you call the “bipartisan acceptance of judicial supremacy” and the passivity and the learned helplessness that comes with it, and how that has delivered us into what you say is actually a decades-long constitutional crisis?

The American people remain in a deep slumber and state of learned helplessness as Donald Trump and his forces continue with the shock and awe campaign against American democracy, civil society, the rule of law, the Constitution and human decency.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s documentation of Stalinism strikes the same note: the elimination of a private existence away from politics, with the regime constantly forcing itself upon one’s attention, feeding each individual’s growing atomization and learned helplessness.

The American people appear to be vacillating between learned helplessness and mass disinhibition.