Posted on 06/10/2023 5:00:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
For decades we’ve wondered what causes the Democrats and progressives to ignore facts, flog blatantly false narratives, take irrational policy positions, engage in megaphone politics, censor, bully and project their corruption and bad faith onto their opponents. Could they really be as unbalanced as they appear to be?
Turns out they are.
At least that’s what the science says. And we know how much the left loves its science.
A research paper published in March tells an interesting story. “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism” explores “relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment.” In an interview last month with PsyPost, a psychology and neuroscience news website, the authors said they had “introduced a new contribution to the literature on dark personality traits, coining the term dark-ego-vehicle principle.”
“According to this principle, individuals with dark personalities – such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits – are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality.”
As it turns out – and this should be to absolutely no one’s surprise – “certain forms of activism might provide them with 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.”
Now we have an explanation for the Democratic Squad, Antifa, global warming foolishness, the disturbing obsession with wokeness and destruction, censorship, forced compliance, and a dictator’s lust for dominance on the left.
The question that logically follows is this: Do the dark personality traits affect only the fringes of the Democratic Party, or is the entire political left fueled by derangement? The only reasonable answer is the left is mad to its rotten core. But then we’ve known that since the 2016 election, when Trump Derangement Syndrome ripped through the Democratic Party and its many collaborative groups.
But it was merely confirmation of what we first suspected then were convinced of for many years before that: The worst in our society, the unstable, the cranks, the neurotic, the egomaniacs who feed on attention, the ruthless power seekers are drawn to the Democratic Party.
We anticipate that our detractors will say we are overgeneralizing, lumping all Democrats and progressives into a cohort that the researchers suggest are extremists. (They likely will also note that the researchers mentioned the existence of “right-wing authoritarianism,” to which we would reply that they also said “some left-wingers are more likely than right-wingers to endorse harming or even murdering their political opponents.”) Others will say we’re misrepresenting the research.
There are a lot of unwell people out there.
Lemme think about this. Er...no.
I’m a bit of a power user on Twitter. When I hit a nerve with a post, I get attacked by armies of Leftists. Looking at their often freakish profiles, I can only conclude they truly are mentally ill.
Better question may be, WHY would the Left EVER admit that they are Mentally Ill?
Men love darkness rather than light.
We’re all liars to others and to ourselves. Politics is just where we see it on a spectrum.
It looks like mRNA programing to me.
Yes. They admit it quietly amongst themselves. They are quite proud to be loonatics
They accept what they are told because it makes sense at a superficial level.
Deep thinking is hard work. And sometimes it is depressing.
Better to just avoid deep thinking and accept what you are told if it sounds good.
It's like what Hannah Arendt said about Adolf Eichmann and the banality of evil (i.e., he wasn't necessarily evil as much as shallow and clueless--a joiner).
Social media provides an ideal platform for creating highly specialized and self-selected subcultures. When the quilters, cat fanciers, antique car buffs, etc. link up, it doesn’t much matter. When the mentally ill do so, it gets toxic fast. They mark their territory and get very hostile when normies show up.
One of the keys is how much time people spend online. There are a lot of people out there who are spending virtually all their waking, non-work hours glued to a screen. And some of them work on a screen as well. Some of them are offended that reality doesn’t conform to the synthetic, wish-fulfillment fantasy they have constructed online.
I really can’t picture anything which would “cure” the tens of millions of mentally ill people out there. This isn’t anything like a “reasonable” problem where you can take someone aside, “show them the truth” and snap them out of it. No. Their mind just “works wrong” and there is no fix for it. And — very obviously — they raise crazy children too. It’s a self-perpetuating problem which I think is truly endangering our civilization.
What? The left mentally ill? No way!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PNvLESU0EE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pq6kenJwNY
Does the guy in the Napoleon hat making “b-bl-b-bl” noises with his lips know that he’s nuts?
“Better question may be, WHY would the Left EVER admit that they are Mentally Ill?”
The thing I’ve noticed about mental illness is it’s usually tailored to satisfy and validate some aspect of the person’s personal world view. The old joke goes, how many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one. But the lightbulb must want to change.
“Will The Left Finally Admit It’s Driven By Mental Illness?”
Will The Left Finally Admit It’s Driven By demon possession?
There, fixed it
As has been said, "Character is what you do when no one is watching...or how you treat people on an anonymous forum."
I've had people right here on FR tell me that statement was irrelevant right after they had insulted people for no reason.
Shallowness and weakness of character are common all across the political spectrum.
So basically you hold up a cross and the demons howl with rage?
;)
Satan’s useful idiots.
The Demonicrats willingly giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States is not mental illness. The Constitution has a word for it.
The desire to control and dominate others is a bona fide mental illness. That explains their love of big government. It’s not enough for them to just have control of their own lives, and in fact they don’t want it. They want to be dominated just as much as they want to dominate others.
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