Posted on 10/08/2020 7:32:04 AM PDT by karpov
First, I don’t think “liberals” is exactly the right word here, but I’m not going to relitigate that one now. Second, as I’ve argued in my The Age of the Infovore (and in some forthcoming writings you haven’t seen yet), I don’t think “mental health condition” is appropriate in this context. Furthermore, what are called “mental health conditions” often are sources of insight and can be positively correlated with talent.
That all said, I don’t think you can understand modern American discourse, most of all social media, without recognizing that “the intellectual Left” has higher neuroticism — as defined by Five-Factor personality theory — than say centrists. The Right of course has its own correlations, but that is a topic for another time.
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It's way over half!
Many of the Left’s mental illnesses have been redefined as normal out of political correctness. The entire goal of the political left is to redefine traditional normality to include all their depravities.
Watching CNN will for sure give one a mental illness. Like the hen crying THE SKY IS FALLING.
“the intellectual Left” has higher neuroticism — as defined by Five-Factor personality theory — than say centrists
They claim the right is “driven by fear”, of gays, or immigrants, or other religions, what have you. Yet a neurotic is, by definition, what we call people who are driven by irrational fear.
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Only half? It’s probably closer to 75 percent.
Half have a condition the rest are just crazy.
From my anecdotal observations almost all people in this group are on some sort of psychological medication or illegal drugs. “Depression’ is a huge code word with them.
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