Posted on 06/10/2023 5:00:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
For decades we’ve wondered what causes the Democrats and progressives to ignore facts, flog blatantly false narratives, take irrational policy positions, engage in megaphone politics, censor, bully and project their corruption and bad faith onto their opponents. Could they really be as unbalanced as they appear to be?
Turns out they are.
At least that’s what the science says. And we know how much the left loves its science.
A research paper published in March tells an interesting story. “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism” explores “relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment.” In an interview last month with PsyPost, a psychology and neuroscience news website, the authors said they had “introduced a new contribution to the literature on dark personality traits, coining the term dark-ego-vehicle principle.”
“According to this principle, individuals with dark personalities – such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits – are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality.”
As it turns out – and this should be to absolutely no one’s surprise – “certain forms of activism might provide them with opportunities for positive self-presentation and displays of moral superiority, to gain social status, to dominate others, and to engage in social conflicts and aggression to satisfy their need for thrill seeking.”
Now we have an explanation for the Democratic Squad, Antifa, global warming foolishness, the disturbing obsession with wokeness and destruction, censorship, forced compliance, and a dictator’s lust for dominance on the left.
The question that logically follows is this: Do the dark personality traits affect only the fringes of the Democratic Party, or is the entire political left fueled by derangement? The only reasonable answer is the left is mad to its rotten core. But then we’ve known that since the 2016 election, when Trump Derangement Syndrome ripped through the Democratic Party and its many collaborative groups.
But it was merely confirmation of what we first suspected then were convinced of for many years before that: The worst in our society, the unstable, the cranks, the neurotic, the egomaniacs who feed on attention, the ruthless power seekers are drawn to the Democratic Party.
We anticipate that our detractors will say we are overgeneralizing, lumping all Democrats and progressives into a cohort that the researchers suggest are extremists. (They likely will also note that the researchers mentioned the existence of “right-wing authoritarianism,” to which we would reply that they also said “some left-wingers are more likely than right-wingers to endorse harming or even murdering their political opponents.”) Others will say we’re misrepresenting the research.
The internet/social media provides countless echo chambers for those seeking reinforcement and the avoidance of opposing opinions.
It also provides access to the truth, but, as Colonel Nathan Jessup said, most people can't handle the truth.
I’ve described the current cultural infection as pathological narcissism, and this study seems to bear that out.
Excellent piece. I will add that I have also observed these traits among the extreme right wing anti-Trumpers. Or, perhaps, the extreme right wing anti-Trumpers are actually LEFT WINGers in disguise!
“ So basically you hold up a cross and the demons howl with rage?”
Well, they kind of do, don’t they? Look how they shriek when scripture is quoted. They are particularly repulsed by verses damning sodomy and about “knowing you in the womb”.
What change during the night?
“According to this principle, individuals with dark personalities – such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits – are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality.”
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Malignant narcissists/psychopaths have no empathy or self-insight, so no to the title.
This theory assumes that leftists have a mind to begin with, when we all know that they are less than dumb, ergo, brain dead.
That last one is really something. Good Lord. And that woman holds an elected office.
Mental illness is a résumé enhancement for the theoreticians behind the formulation of Democrat Socialist policies. This agenda is in no way, shape, form or manner is of organic origin, or constructed on logic, or supported by verifiable and reproducible scientific protocols.
Imagination run amok while navigating a fever swamp. The phantoms of the mind become real and tangible antagonists to all rational thought, and the bid for attention is doubled and redoubled.
There is no maximum of how this feeds upon itself, until it bursts. With carnage on all sides.
“The thing I’ve noticed about mental illness is it’s usually tailored to satisfy and validate some aspect of the person’s personal world view.”
That’s interesting. I was going to post elsewhere that My friends and I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out why and how our mutual acquaintances (I have no ‘tard friends) think and why they believe the things they do.
We came to the conclusion that they are ‘tards for many different reasons, snowflakes.
Maybe they get the world view young, and the mental illness shapes itself to whatever it was.
There sure isn’t any talking them out of anything.
Mentally ill people do not know they are mentally ill. They think everyone else is mentally ill.
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Lots of words to say narcissism with a heaping dose of sexual perversion?
“There sure isn’t any talking them out of anything.”
Liberals see a world around them that is constructed by their views. The government destroyed Christianity because the government viewed it as getting in the way and creating an alternate legal and social construct beyond what the government wants. Communism did the same for the same reason. But what happened in reality was people freed from any traditional religious thoughts and constructs had a framework that required religious thoughts and constructs. Therefor every crackpot thing that came along found a place in the framework that was now empty. Thus sustainability, racial equity, global warming was turned into religions that replaced the traditions of Christianity.
Mental illness is really the only explanation. How can people spend so much time on-line hating is just beyond me but I have seen it in person and on twitter.
Just looking at the typical comment section on twitter following something about trump or a conservative politician I see the fag flag, ukrraine flag, blue wave and then in the bio section ‘resist’ and various hate against anyone that wants to make america great again. A huge number of hours spent hating.
It is so easy to control people but driving them to this kind of hate is the stuff of science fiction movies.
For some reason, the worst psychopaths often raise to the top level of government. See e.g. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Kim’s, and many, many petty dictators.
In general people are not that bad! Why they raise to the top then?
The Left are using mental illness they are not driven by it. If they secure the full power that they seek mental illness will once again be mental illness.
I have noticed this as well.
I have a theory. I think humans naturally/instinctively want to be in “the group”. Get kicked out of the tribe back in the old days and it meant sure death.
So instinctively humans want to be in the group. The media environment defines “the group” for us. (i.e. the group currently loves trans people, hates white people, and hates DJT.)
The media environment has changed so significantly, I think the human brain is having trouble keeping up and adapting. The media presence people are immersed in is so complete as to almost be likened to the matrix. Most are plugged in 100% while awake. And this media is dominated by the “in group” constantly feeding its membership values.
Social media platforms provide examples of bad behavior and the news broadcasts it as an example and warning to others. I suspect these are fabricated, many times. (i.e. woman says something about Africa, gets on plane, finds out she’s been fired after she lands. Media broadcasts and writes stories about it far and wide. Radio DJs work it in between songs on all the pop stations, etc.)
Anyway, still a work in progress. But after COVID and what I have been seeing lately, something is driving the crowd around like it’s a remote-controlled drone.
Yes, but they are normalizing it. “Sure we’re murderous bat-shit crazy. So what?”
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