Posted on 02/09/2025 5:38:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
It’s well substantiated that liberals tend to suffer madness and depression more than conservatives. Unfortunately, psychotherapies for depression are not always effective. Perhaps a complicating factor is that the afflicted often try to explain away their disease by insisting they care more about social problems, especially perceived inequality. Then why did the mental health issues become even more exacerbated during the first Trump (45th) presidency?
Even research from leftist academia concedes that wealth inequality in the U.S. decreased during Trump’s first term — for the first time in three decades. Under Trump, lower-income Americans were particularly sanguine about economic expansion, with confidence rates at their highest since 2000. While all income groups were positive about the economy under Trump, lower-income workers were especially buoyant.
Despite the reduction in inequality in such an important facets of life (ranking highest in voter concerns), President Trump Stress Disorder (AKA post-election stress disorder) morphed into TDS. The leftist wallowing in incongruous doom (a contemporaneous Gallup poll indicated that 69% of Americans saw their finances improving in 2019) undermines their “we’re depressed because we care more” argument.
J.D. Vance (and many others who were “underprivileged” at first) are an inspiration and tribute to overcoming challenges, their whole essence being forged from childhood ordeals. He (and many others) definitely emerged stronger from the crucible, sharpened into the polished metal to become a U.S. Marine. However, there’s also evidence that others who suffer childhood trauma, and unstable families, are more prone to become maladjusted adults. And that maladjusted adults are more likely to assume a misguided leftist worldview.
There is research to substantiate this, too. Indeed, related studies show that better health among children is positively related to conservative political ideology among older adults: “Adults who had excellent health as children were 30 percentage points more likely
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Leftist do not live in a real world. I would guess that’s what makes them crazy.
I have said that while conservatism is the politics of reality, liberalism is the politics of denial. Liberals often find the facts of reality inhospitable to their preference: which is a narrative that enables them to feel virtuous while disparaging those they resent and envy. To do this they erase the boundary between opinion and fact; when someone offers an opinion not to their liking, they accuse him of lying, as if their preferred opinion is not just an opinion. but factual truth. Conversely, if one confronts a liberal with unassailable facts, they will simply dismiss it as “your opinion.”
This is a pathological cognitive pattern which most likely belongs in the Axis II category of personality disorders.
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Obviously.
“ Leftist do not live in a real world. I would guess that’s what makes them crazy.”
Yep, what really drives them batshit crazy is when the rest of us refuse to follow them into their make believe world.
I think he swiped that from Ann Coulter.
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