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Manufactured Rage, Broken Minds
Ionosphere Capital Research ^ | 9 May, 2025 | Vaughn Cordle, CFA

Posted on 05/09/2025 7:50:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Through relentless narrative distortion, mass formation tactics, and AI-driven censorship, Democratic-aligned propaganda has destabilized the mental health of millions of young liberal women-especially those radicalized in academia and conditioned to see Donald Trump as an existential threat. This essay documents the psychological wreckage of believing lies, and exposes the party that weaponized fear and rage to mobilize votes and radicalize emotionally vulnerable young women.

The Psychological Damage of Narrative Lies

A quiet but devastating crisis has been festering beneath the surface of American politics, ignored and rationalized by the very party that claims to champion mental health. According to Pew (2020), 56.3% of white liberal women aged 18–29 report a mental health diagnosis-nearly double that of their conservative peers. This gap is not incidental, nor is it simply a reflection of cultural openness or access to therapy. It is the residue of systematic psychological manipulation: the Marxist oppressor-oppressed framework, institutionalized DEI dogma, and AI-amplified falsehoods like the “fine people hoax.”

This essay contends that Democratic-aligned propaganda, amplified by narrative engineering and AI-driven censorship, is directly responsible for at least 20–30% of the mental health crisis among young liberal women. These women were not merely misinformed-they were systematically indoctrinated and radicalized through narrative warfare, conditioned to view Donald Trump and his supporters as existential threats to their safety and identity. When the narrative collapsed-when Trump won, or when the promised utopia failed to materialize-the psychological cost was profound. The movement that weaponized their fear and outrage ultimately abandoned them, leaving a generation broken and disillusioned.

By tracing the mechanisms of mass formation, narrative distortion, and the censorship-industrial complex, this essay documents the psychological fallout of believing lies-and indicts the political actors who weaponized emotional vulnerability for power. The cost was not just political, but psychological and deeply personal: a generation left to mourn the collapse of an identity built on manufactured rage and broken promises.

The Ideological Weaponization of Mental Fragility

Hatred of Trump, for many young liberal women, became a form of ritualized moral signaling-a social currency exchanged in elite cultural circles. This was never about policy; it was about identity, belonging, and the desperate need to appear righteous and outraged. To call Trump a “Nazi, fascist, rapist” was not to engage in political argument but to perform a tribal incantation-a compulsive purge of internal insecurity through public condemnation.

Contemporary progressive ideology thrives on a brittle dichotomy: victim versus oppressor. Through DEI and intersectionality, the Democratic Party offered moral superiority as identity-but only through permanent grievance or atonement. Young white liberal women were told they must either apologize forever for privilege or collapse into victimhood. The result? Chronic anxiety, emotional fragility, and an inability to tolerate dissonance. Resilience was pathologized. Fragility was valorized.

Layered onto this psychological conditioning is the censorship-industrial complex-a $472.6 million USAID-funded disinformation apparatus that floods the public mind through legacy media, social platforms, and AI trained on progressive orthodoxy (USAID, 2024). This machine does not inform; it programs. The result is a synthetic moral universe-algorithmically reinforced, politically weaponized, and so fragile it shatters on contact with truth. The “Trump is a fascist dictator” hoax. The “very fine people” lie. The false rapist and felon narratives. Each one repeated, curated, and enforced until belief became identity. The lies held their identity together. When truth broke through, so did they.

The Democratic Party ignored the emotional breakdowns-and the collateral damage to one of its most loyal constituents. The psychological wreckage was collateral in a war for narrative dominance, where emotional instability became both weapon and casualty.

Trump Derangement Syndrome as Manufactured Mass Psychosis

This new psychological archetype—the Radical Woke Narcissist—is fueled not by principle but by performative victimhood, ideological zeal, and a narcissistic craving for validation. These activists emote, rage, and moralize. It’s emotional exhibitionism—a self-reinforcing loop of outrage, identity performance, and ritualized protest. They think they’re fighting for social justice—but what they’re really chasing is psychological validation through ritualized protest and performative rage.

TDS—Trump Derangement Syndrome—is more than a meme. It’s a psychological condition, a form of narcissistic mass psychosis. It mirrors what psychologist Mattias Desmet describes as mass formation psychosis: a hypnotic group state sustained by fear, repetition, and social reward. Trump became a myth, a symbol, an evil villain. In this trance, to oppose Trump was to achieve moral purity. And when Trump returned—elected again by a nation they were told despised him—it triggered psychic implosion. Not a loss. A violent severing from the fantasy they were promised.

The numbers are indisputable:

- Pew (2020): 56.3% of white liberal women 18–29 diagnosed with a mental illness

- Columbia (2023): Liberal girls from low-income families show highest depression rates

- CDC (2021): 57% of high school girls felt persistently sad or hopeless (vs. 24% of boys)

- GSS (1972–2018): Liberal women consistently report worse mental health outcomes

These are not anomalies. They are the logical outcomes of systematic narrative abuse.

This crisis is deepened by the party’s betrayal of women on a biological front—endorsing male athletes in women’s sports, dismantling the very concept of womanhood in the name of ideological compliance. These betrayals compound the damage. A 2023 Current Psychology study links radical activism to dark triad traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy—explaining why destruction is moralized and insanity normalized.

And when the lies collapse? So do the people built on them.

The "wild-eyed" courthouse screamer. The woman convinced she’s resisting Nazis. The young activists smashing Teslas in a ritual of AI-curated rage. These aren’t isolated meltdowns. They’re the psychic wreckage of mass psychological warfare.

Propaganda’s Measurable Toll

Social platforms, driven by AI and saturated with bots and paid propagandists, simulate consensus and deepen polarization. In Q3 2024, Meta removed 1.1 billion fake accounts—many of which were amplifying anti-Trump sentiment and reinforcing ideological illusions.

Critics dismiss this crisis as diagnostic inflation or cultural openness to therapy. But that’s misdirection. Yes, liberals seek therapy more—but not because they’re enlightened. Because they’re suffering more.

- Lancet Public Health: Liberals are 30% more likely to seek treatment

- All major surveys (Pew, Columbia, CDC, GSS) confirm liberal women experience far more emotional distress than conservatives

- Even after controlling for debt, climate anxiety, loneliness—the gap remains

Democratic Party propaganda likely accounts for 20–30% of the psychological damage. That includes AI-curated rage, collapsing narratives, identity destruction, and the emotional whiplash of constantly shifting social scripts. This isn’t accidental. It’s a deliberate byproduct of political strategy—where emotional instability is both a weapon and a casualty.....SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: propaganda; psychosis; tds; thebiglie; trumpishitler; women

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1 posted on 05/09/2025 7:50:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

One of the reasons they stay single is the emotional problems and the rage as a coping mechanism. They are reliable dem voters.


2 posted on 05/09/2025 7:50:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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They’re the psychic wreckage of mass psychological warfare.

Can't have a commie revolution without ginning up the mass formation psychosis.

3 posted on 05/09/2025 7:55:12 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: MtnClimber

Useless twits for the most part.


4 posted on 05/09/2025 7:55:53 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: MtnClimber

Straight out of the movie “Gaslight”.

“This essay documents the psychological wreckage of believing lies, and exposes the party that weaponized fear and rage to mobilize votes and radicalize emotionally vulnerable young women.”


5 posted on 05/09/2025 7:57:42 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

Natural selection in action. These are the TWOTs that should have never been married and anywhere near kiddies. These are the ones who are skewing the data on decreasing population.

This is a good thing for humanity.

Not so good, tho, for all the kitties who will end up in vegan households with these losers.


6 posted on 05/09/2025 8:05:23 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: sauropod

Review


7 posted on 05/09/2025 8:09:12 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: aquila48

It’s not just young females who have been radicalized. In my region the Indivisibles- primarily senior citizen women - have gone off the deep end with senseless protests and disruptions in city council meeting and forums.


8 posted on 05/09/2025 8:10:38 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: MtnClimber

The female left’s nurture instinct is pretty much atrophied.

Essentially they are an assembly of Hecates.

They have been socialized and indoctrinated to hate.

Their only hope is to become a practicing CHRISTIAN, OR BUDDHIST....NOT A MUSLIM.


9 posted on 05/09/2025 8:20:58 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: MtnClimber

Much of this damage can be attributed to someone seeing the destruction of their god. Having lost their faith in the actual God of the Universe, these victims fixated on the offered new god, Government. Now, watching Trump and Musk expose the manifold faults and evils of government, they are left with no god whatsoever which is a real feeling of desolation and betrayal in this increasingly evil world. I think this is a core reason why they hate Musk as much as Trump.

I’m not hopeful of a turnaround until they again come to God and humble themselves which is hardly likely with the chorus of harpies screaming in their ears that truth is relative and feelings are paramount.


10 posted on 05/09/2025 8:35:15 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: MtnClimber

I do not need to read all that that!
Just watch the various videos of YouTube and see all those poor demented spoiled brats and their stupid ravings and nonsensical screaming at teapot frequency and decibels!


11 posted on 05/09/2025 8:46:04 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Sirius Lee

They’re the psychic wreckage of mass psychological warfare.

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MOB psychosis employed by the MOBocratic party.

All in the name of MOBocrocy


12 posted on 05/09/2025 8:57:30 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: MtnClimber

Related to that, maybe they stay single, because the anger and rage scare off potential dates? Nothing sexy about such a demeanor.


13 posted on 05/09/2025 9:12:38 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That is what I think.


14 posted on 05/09/2025 10:09:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
The surest sign that they're off their rocker is if they italicize everything they write.

WinkingDog

15 posted on 05/09/2025 11:02:59 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (You can question authority all you want but the cat's not going to answer.)
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To: MtnClimber

Most of my liberal friends are addicted to outrage and Hate.


16 posted on 05/09/2025 11:04:50 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt.

5.56mm


17 posted on 05/09/2025 11:08:12 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Democrats: Not self aware, hypocrites, lacking morals who believe history begins when they wake up)
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To: MikelTackNailer

I know I forgot to turn off italics at the end of the first paragraph. When I posted it was a big “Doh!” moment. How I wish there was a way to go back and edit after posting. I hope that does not make me an angry white woman because I don’t think I am a woman. But I am not a biologist so how could I possibly know.


18 posted on 05/09/2025 11:21:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Nice piece, thanks for posting. It amplifies certain facets of the strained polarization we are currently suffering - this in particular:

Contemporary progressive ideology thrives on a brittle dichotomy: victim versus oppressor.

That is a definitional characteristic of Critical Theory, codified by Max Horkheimer in the late 60's and whose two most prevalent offshoots are Critical Law and Critical Race theories; the last two not only informing the ideology of the Left but permeating it. "Social justice" consists of reversing the roles of oppressor and oppressed; eliminating the oppression altogether through a just society is impossible by definition. That's actually a pretty bleak social model but it appeals to the emotions of envy and resentment perfectly and its most satisfying expression is cathartic rage. That rage also happens to be emotionally corrosive as the author's statistics demonstrate.

It can be extremely difficult to reason its believers out of their convictions. One of its later acolytes named Althusser proclaimed that one must believe CT in order to understand it, a phrase he borrowed from St. Anselm that inadvertently reveals that it is more on the order of a religious conviction than a logical system. We sometimes speak of True Believers on the Left, which is literally the case. Don't hope to sway them by pointing out their logical inconsistencies. Quite a few of us have tried.

19 posted on 05/09/2025 12:05:31 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Destabilization starts with many when they enter the lemming trends.

I just want to be liked


20 posted on 05/09/2025 12:36:02 PM PDT by Vaduz
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