Re “ To be a leftist is to be ruled by fear, disgust, and the projection of one’s own negative motivations onto other people. ..”
Kinda says it all right there.
But I keep hearing from psychiatrists that it is the conservatives that are ruled by "disgust".
I think I figured it out.
You show a conservative a picture of a neighborhood covered in trash and graffiti, kids, who when asked if they can name a continent are unable to do so, or men dressed up like the most extreme caricatures of women and we feel disgust because these are things people should be disgusted by.
It is repulsive to not take care of your nest, the young should be educated and boys are not girls.
The liberals feel disgust at anyone having more money then they do, being able to protect themselves and having a clean environment to live in. They are especially disgusted by happy, educated children.
They will tell you that it is disgusting for you to have those things because not everyone has them.
But rather than trying to get everyone to have them, although they will tell you that is what they are for, they actively try to take those things away from the people who have them.
They regard humans with disgust. They should not be clean, happy, well-fed or safe. To them that is as strong a violation of the natural order as we feel seeing some hollow eyed kid picking through trash. Because they think that is the natural state of man.
But the tests do not pick up on that. Because they show pictures of things NORMAL people find disgusting. And liberals ain't normal.