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Survey Finds People Who Identify as Left-Wing More Likely to Have Been Diagnosed With a Mental Illness
Summit News ^ | 2/12/2020 | Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on 02/12/2020 4:24:58 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...

The data speaks for itself.

A new survey of more than 8,000 people has found that those who identify with left-wing political beliefs are more likely to have been diagnosed with a mental illness.

Ann Coulter’s “liberalism is a mental disorder” catchphrase has become something of a clichéd meme, but the data appears to support it.

Carried out by Slate Star Codex, the online survey collected a wealth of data from respondents about their education, demographic, lifestyle and political views.

The results show that people who occupy the farther left end of the political spectrum are more likely to have been “formally diagnosed with depression, borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.”

In addition, the results show that the highest percentage of respondents (38%) who admit being diagnosed with forms of mental illness also identify politically as Marxists.

In comparison, just 12.1% of conservatives say they have been diagnosed with a mental disorder.

While the survey is by no means scientific, it does give an insight into how disturbed people are more likely to be attracted to fringe leftist beliefs, which in a lifestyle sense usually encourage degeneracy and a lack of moral responsibility.

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To: stevio

And when we can’t hear them they get mad, hence the source of their anger!


21 posted on 02/12/2020 4:45:50 PM PST by Reily
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Interesting study, corroborates what we knew already.

The more leftist they are, the more hateful, unbalanced and obsessive they are.

The Bernie Bots, Code Pink hags, “social justice warriors” are clearly a bunch of lunatics who should be heavily sedated or institutionalized.


22 posted on 02/12/2020 4:49:50 PM PST by RooRoobird20
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To: Its All Over Except ...

No! Do tell...


23 posted on 02/12/2020 4:51:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

I’m stunned, I tell ya.


24 posted on 02/12/2020 4:52:35 PM PST by ScottinVA (Prayers up for Rush Limbaugh...)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Duh!


25 posted on 02/12/2020 4:54:01 PM PST by bgill
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Geez. Just look @ the uglies lowlife that are positioned behind Dimwitz candidates

The television screams mental illness


26 posted on 02/12/2020 4:54:32 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower CIAramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: Its All Over Except ...


27 posted on 02/12/2020 4:55:18 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

I certainly would not argue with that. Leftists and Rats are totally insane.


28 posted on 02/12/2020 5:00:03 PM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up. Particularly Mutt Romney)
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To: frank ballenger

Reminds me of another Far Side cartoon..... Two Prison Guards in the electric chair switch room....one tells the other to “Flip the switch on and off real fast”.......


29 posted on 02/12/2020 5:01:28 PM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Of course! A large portion of Democrats do drugs, and that’s the cause of the mental illness.


30 posted on 02/12/2020 5:08:39 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Its All Over Except ...

LIEberalism IS a mental disorder!

ALL LIEberals are mentally disturbed!


31 posted on 02/12/2020 5:15:14 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS!)
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To: Steely Tom

32 posted on 02/12/2020 5:16:53 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: wardaddy; Bonemaker; LucyT
While I'm not too surprised by the headline, the reporting here leaves a lot to be desired.

The fact is, Slate Star Codex is an intellectual blog run by a self-avowed left-leaning psychiatrist, Scott Alexander. He has written some good pieces, most notably his 2014 piece on tribalism where he effectively calls out his fellow leftists for being hypocritical when it comes to tolerance. (If you have an hour, I'd recommend reading it.)

As such, it is extremely likely that affinity bias will result in mentally-diagnosed leftists being overly-represented in this biased survey. Furthermore, it is extremely likely that right-leaning folks won't even know this blog exists, leadng to conservatives likely being underrepresented. Finally, most normal people (and especially conservatives) don't respond to polls, let alone ones where they VOLUNTARILY reveal their DSM-5 diagnosis (if they have one).

Yes, the reporter notes "the survey is by no means scientific". But I expect sensational reporting on the left, not our side.

33 posted on 02/12/2020 5:19:57 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: RasterMaster
Heh...







34 posted on 02/12/2020 5:22:49 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Howie66

Funny.


35 posted on 02/12/2020 5:41:10 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

They is what they is and they ain’ts no more.

Always good to have verified proof of their obvious mental derangement’s.


36 posted on 02/12/2020 6:00:28 PM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: LucyT

37 posted on 02/12/2020 6:08:00 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Very clever use of “TDS”:

Trump Derangement Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3815859/posts

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a social mental illness that manifests itself in the refusal to accept the results of the 2016 elections. This ailment belongs to the category of political psychosis. Unlike most other mental disorders, TDS is a contagious disease that can cause epidemics and even pandemics.

This syndrome is caused by the new neuropathologic coronavirus Bacillus Anti-Trumpicus (2016-nCoV). The virus, entering the human brain, selectively eats only those neurons responsible for a coherent political worldview. Theoretically, the disease is incurable, although some countries have announced successful attempts to combat the epidemic and control the spread of infection.

More at the direct link:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/trump_derangement_syndrome_diagnosis_and_treatment.html


38 posted on 02/12/2020 6:11:44 PM PST by Qiviut (President Trump: defies political gravity - MAGA! Nasty Nan is a walking obscenity.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

It’s Michael Savage who came up with it.


39 posted on 02/12/2020 6:30:02 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

bump


40 posted on 02/12/2020 6:40:26 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Trump forced the Democrats to attend a Medal of Freedom ceremony for Rush Limbaugh.)
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