We also see controlling the path in larger cultural contexts. For example, politicians who see people suffering and rather than actually walking alongside them, make people feel like they’re understood and they’re not alone, while actually leveraging and exploiting their emotion for political gain and influence. I see your struggles and your pain. You don’t deserve it. Here’s who’s to blame and here’s how I can help you and make them pay. This near enemy is so seductive that it is often as dangerous as the far enemy: walking away.
