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Survey Finds People Who Identify as Left-Wing More Likely to Have Been Diagnosed With a Mental Illness
Summit News ^ | 2/12/2020 | Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on 02/12/2020 4:24:58 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...

The data speaks for itself.

A new survey of more than 8,000 people has found that those who identify with left-wing political beliefs are more likely to have been diagnosed with a mental illness.

Ann Coulter’s “liberalism is a mental disorder” catchphrase has become something of a clichéd meme, but the data appears to support it.

Carried out by Slate Star Codex, the online survey collected a wealth of data from respondents about their education, demographic, lifestyle and political views.

The results show that people who occupy the farther left end of the political spectrum are more likely to have been “formally diagnosed with depression, borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.”

In addition, the results show that the highest percentage of respondents (38%) who admit being diagnosed with forms of mental illness also identify politically as Marxists.

In comparison, just 12.1% of conservatives say they have been diagnosed with a mental disorder.

While the survey is by no means scientific, it does give an insight into how disturbed people are more likely to be attracted to fringe leftist beliefs, which in a lifestyle sense usually encourage degeneracy and a lack of moral responsibility.

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Some interesting comments on his Twitter feed below...
1 posted on 02/12/2020 4:24:58 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Noooo.... How could such a thing even be possible?


2 posted on 02/12/2020 4:26:29 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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https://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1227676071795085318?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet


3 posted on 02/12/2020 4:26:41 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Not surprising liberalism attracts what I call “fantasy prone” personalities.


4 posted on 02/12/2020 4:29:14 PM PST by Reily
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Ann Coulter’s “liberalism is a mental disorder” catchphrase...

That's Michael Savage's catchphrase, not Ann's.
5 posted on 02/12/2020 4:29:38 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Interesting points at PJW's Twitter feed I gave a link to: True, it might just be effectively measuring urbanisation or those who embrace modernity in both cases, but it would still be damning. 1:50 PM · Feb 12, 2020 Anthony 🏁 @ant_iuculano No matter what though, I don't think it's a coincidence that there are disproportionately more people with mental illness in the marxists category than in the other ideological brackets.
6 posted on 02/12/2020 4:32:42 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

They are sure more unhappy and pessimistic and tight with their money and tend to blame their environment or others for their quandary

Conservatives at least here own scold and snark

But at least this minds right

People in general today are weird with so much in tumult in the West


7 posted on 02/12/2020 4:33:14 PM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: SpaceBar

Yeah, it’s been pointed out.

And I thought the exact same thing when I read it...


8 posted on 02/12/2020 4:33:57 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: Steely Tom

There’s a faulty gene involved.


9 posted on 02/12/2020 4:33:57 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo2)
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To: Reily

There was a great Far Side cartoon of the bearded psychiatrist listening to a patient on the couch blah-blah-blah.

The shrink wrote on his note pad

Just
plain
nuts.


10 posted on 02/12/2020 4:34:51 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; bgill; bitt; ...
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PING

Survey Finds People Who Identify as Left-Wing More Likely to Have Been Diagnosed With a Mental Illness

Surprised - not.

11 posted on 02/12/2020 4:36:26 PM PST by LucyT
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To: SpaceBar

Good catch. He “wrote the book”, as they say.

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder published in hardcover in 2005.


12 posted on 02/12/2020 4:37:26 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Reily

And angry people


13 posted on 02/12/2020 4:39:29 PM PST by CottonBall (This space for rent.)
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To: wardaddy

Tight with their money while virtue signaling how much they care for people and have compassion for the downtrodden, the poor, the homeless, etc, ad nauseum.

I’ve been in uber progressive cities actually giving money to people I felt the Lord wanted me to help, when all the while hundreds of easy to spot lefties just pass by.

And they won’t talk to anyone. They just state straight ahead. You can’t pry them to talk.


14 posted on 02/12/2020 4:39:55 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: CottonBall

Particularly when reality won’t cooperate with their fantasy!


15 posted on 02/12/2020 4:40:52 PM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

LOL, Yes, it can definitely be combined!


16 posted on 02/12/2020 4:41:58 PM PST by CottonBall (This space for rent.)
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To: SpaceBar

That’s Michael Savage’s catchphrase.

EXACTLY. HOORAY Doc. So very well-stated, it cannot be said often enough.


17 posted on 02/12/2020 4:42:17 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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[ Survey Finds People Who Identify as Left-Wing More Likely to Have Been Diagnosed With a Mental Illness ]


18 posted on 02/12/2020 4:43:48 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

They want all of us to listen to the voices in their head too.


19 posted on 02/12/2020 4:44:00 PM PST by stevio (Drain the Swamp!)
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To: stevio

Agree!


20 posted on 02/12/2020 4:44:34 PM PST by Reily
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