Liberals – Underlying Psychological Problems?
Do liberals have some sort of underlying psychological condition that causes them to be liberals? I know this sounds like a “trolling” statement, but I think it bears examining. There’s more going on than mere political discourse. There’s a lot more.
- Paranoia – How many ways have we heard, from liberals, that George W. Bush and the Republican Party are out to get them? If you listen to the liberals, the GOP is out to destroy the environment, starve children, take away jobs, poison the air, poison the water, take away retirement benefits, control the media, and a LOT of other stuff that is demonstrably untrue. The generic statement from liberals is that “they” are out to get “us.”
- Inability to understand the concept of right and wrong – This is an important one. I can’t say how many times I’ve heard liberals say that right and wrong are relative concepts, and that we shouldn’t be making moral judgements. Meanwhile, psychiatrists are having people committed or put on medication if they can’t understand the concepts of right and wrong.
- Misunderstanding basic concepts – They refer to the Presiden’t plan to allow for a tiny percentage of a person’s Social Security tax payments to go into personal accounts as “privatization.” They refer to taxes as investments. When a majority of the voting population supports something they disagree with, they call it extreme. When a tiny percentage supports something they like, they call it mainstream. They speak of communist Cuba as if it were Paradise, and call Wal-Mart an enemy.
- Delusions, Hallucinations, Disordered Thinking, Emotional Unresponsiveness, and so on.
The problem is that liberals are all over the place. They’ll support one thing, only to oppose it when the Republicans start to support it on their own. Social Security reform and the filibuster are two great examples. Can they be both for and against an issue? Yes and no. They aren’t really for or against ANY issue. They’re FOR the liberals/Democrats, and against the conservatives/Republicans. This allows them to say things that aren’t true, and act like they believe them.
In the end, though, we have to ask ourselves if what they are saying IS true. If it isn’t, and they continue to support it, then the next question is WHY they support it. Do they really believe what they say, or do they just say it out of political expediency?
If it’s just political expediency, then they’re liars. If they really believe it, I’d argue that they’re crazy.
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I wish I had studied nerobiology, but I have gleaned some interesting tidbits from various sources, and what I have learned is enlightening. In Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan writes about the evolution of the human brain, and covers neuroanatomy and neurobiology quite thoroughly, though briefly, in relation to the larger context of the book.
Apparently, liberals are you typical right-brainers in that they exhibit all the symptoms of right-brain dominance. They are generally creative, emotional, and imaginative. Few people will debate this point, since most artists, poets, animal lover, environmentalists, peace activists and such are generally liberal beyond doubt. But right brain dominance also carries other traits, such as paranoia, schizophrenia, delusions of persection, and a propensity to believe in conspiracies. Apparently the creative side of the mind has a light side and a dark side.
Left dominant people, on the other hand, tend to be more humorless, analytic, dispassionate, logical, and pragmatic. The left side of the brain is not so much good vs. evil as it is practical, sometimes to a fault.
Most people are fairly balanced, but some, just a few, are unbalanced, and that’s where we get madness. And Democrats.