Is There No Cure For Democrats’ Derangement?

We’ve noted before that today’s Democrats are operating with a mental deficit. A new poll further confirms they are a broken people. While it’s good for a cheap laugh, because they are often smug, condescending and hateful to those who disagree with them, their fragile psychological state poses a threat to the republic.

A Rasmussen poll released Monday found that 60% of Democratic voters still believe “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.” As disturbing as that is, 69% of those who self-identify as “liberals” believe Donald Trump conspired with Moscow to beat Hillary Clinton.

The poll indicates that Trump Derangement Syndrome is not limited to the Democratic side: 45% of moderates also believe in the Russia hoax, while 27% of conservatives hold the same view. (Are there really that many Never Trumpers on the right?)

For the record, the Trump-Russia partnership was a fabrication set loose by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and a number of Democratic Party minions. More than two years ago, special counsel John Durham released a report, compiled over three years, that, according to CNN, “concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.”

The FBI probe, said Durham, was based on “raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence” and corrupted by “confirmation bias.”

In other words, there was nothing to investigate, because the entire rancid stew was concocted to drive Trump from the presidency. “President Obama” and then-CIA Director John Brennan “knew before the FBI opened up on that information that this was a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton,” says John Solomon, chief executive and editor in chief of Just the News.

Much of the blame for the Democrats’ belief in the myth goes to the press, which put its full faith in the fraudulent story and convinced tens of millions of readers, viewers and listeners that Trump was, if not a Russian agent, a collaborator with Moscow in a plan to ensure his election. Two legacy outlets, the New York Times and Washington Post even shared a Pulitzer Prize for covering a lie as if it were the truth. They won’t return the prize and the craven Pulitzer board won’t rescind it.

Of course the Democrats chose then as they choose now to believe a big lie. It’s consistent with their dark personality qualities, their “high narcissistic and psychopathic traits,” their penchant for always looking for “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.”

Democrats even admit they need help – 45% of those who say they’re liberals believe they have poor mental health. Only only one in five say their mental health is excellent and just one in four say it is very good.

Conservatives, on the other hand, are more stable. Nine in 10 self-report their mental health to be excellent (51%) or very good (39%).

Our republic can never function in a healthy manner when half of the two-party system is institutionally unbalanced. Rather than throw tantrums, actively divide the nation and live well beyond the fringe, Democrat leaders need to focus on restoring the mental health of their candidates, officials and voters. It’s their obligation to the country.

Diana, I hear you regarding family. For the past 5 years, my 3 sisters and I have had sort of group emails. Sometimes daily, sometimes a week or more apart. We always had an understanding that we would not discuss politics, and it seemed to work. Well, last month, one of the 2 more leftist sisters said she knew she was crossing the line, but then went on a rant about the L.A. immigrant raids, authoritarianism, how much our society is starting to resemble Nazi Germany, mentioned POTUS (but failed to capitalize his last name or indicate that he is a duly elected president). It was very offensive to me. I always thought that the agreement to keep politics out of discussions indicated that the relationships we had were more important. Well, after that rant last month, I have stayed quiet, not participating in adding my news to the conversations. Yesterday, the one who raged about Trump, said that if I wanted to continue to receive the emails, I would need to speak up. (WTF??) So I answered and explained my position on it all and said that I will not be bullied over political differences, and if that was going to be part of what I could expect going forward, then she wins, and leave me out. My message said, several times, that IF she needed to be free to be political, I would not be part of it. So her answer to me was then basically that it sounded like I made my decision and she wouldn’t include me in the exchanges any longer, and that she was relieved over not having to make the effort. ???? I have six siblings. 4 are VERY leftist to the point of apparently hating me, and 2 are moderately liberal but not completely estranged. It is so sad. The facebook stuff they put up is mostly full of lies, out of context, or just the first 1/3 of a story. They put up comments about Trump supporters being stupid, “have a lot to answer to us for”, says we are haters, white supremacists, Nazis, etc., etc. I know I need to do a better job coping with all of this, but I would be lying if I denied that it hurts at a deep emotional level. They just think I am the wrong one, uneducated, just not as evolved as them, whatever.

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