DOES LIBERALISM CAUSE MENTAL ILLNESS?

Powerline ^ | April 13, 2020 | Steven Hayward

[CheshireTheCat]

The great Zach Goldberg, the youngish Ph.D student who has been quantifying the explosion of “wokeness” in the news media and elsewhere over the last decade, has been looking through the raw data in the Pew Research Center’s latest American Trends Panel Survey, and unearthed some interesting findings, which you can see here. Top line: liberals are more than twice as likely as conservatives to be found to have a mental health condition...

[CheshireTheCat]

The Pew survey was the subject of a difference piece posted on FR a couple of days ago. This current piece also discusses an additional survey that shows the same results.

[Bobalu]

Liberal = mental

synonyms

[fhayek]

CAUSE....?!

[carikadon]

Michael Savage of the Savage Nation said decades ago that liberalism was a mental illness.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I think it’s the other way around.

[aquila48]

I think the mental illness comes first.

[Secret Agent Man]

it IS proof of mental illness

[CheshireTheCat]

Different, not difference. I’m going to bed now.

[wjcsux]

Most of us here on FR have known that for decades.

[Sacajaweau]

It seems to be a basis for hate.

[Fai Mao]

Does the Pope wear a funny hat?

Yes lieberals are insane.

[right way right]

Demonic possession.

[PubliusMM]

Liberalism IS mental illness.

[Trumpet 1]

Many times liberal ism will be confused with left ism. Liberal originally came from the word liberty. The Bill of Rights is a concept of liberty. Leftism seeks to destroy Western Civilization and replace it with a totalitarian government.

[tbw2]

One of Doctor Jordan Peterson’s students has been studying personality relative to political belief, just has Johnathan Haidt.

Both of them found a higher rate of diagnosed anxiety disorders in SJWs as well as a tendency to black/white thinking that is more often associated with conservative Christians.

[tbw2]

One of Doctor Jordan Peterson’s students has been studying personality relative to political belief, just has Johnathan Haidt.

Both of them found a higher rate of diagnosed anxiety disorders in SJWs as well as a tendency to black/white thinking that is more often associated with conservative Christians.

[desertfreedom765]

A variation on the Chicken or egg question.

[867V309]

'Liberal' has been coopted just like 'gay'

the smelly, louse infested, baby killing dumbocraps who think biden is a cogent being are LEFTISTS not liberals.

[Dutch Boy]

That description is getting very hard to dismiss. At times it may be the most fitting.

[aquila48]

I have no doubt that there are some genetic links to political orientation.