The Pathology of Liberalism
By Joan Swirsky
CanadaFreePress.com
From the inception
of psychology about 140 years ago,
medical conditions such as autism, schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder,
narcissism, Tourette’s syndrome, even stuttering,
were thought to be psychological in origin––and with
enough therapy, enough blaming inadequate parenting,
enough talk, enough delving into “feelings,” the
sufferer could be treated successfully or even
cured.
We now know––thanks to tools like PET
scans and pharmaceutical advances––that
these conditions are largely biological in nature,
more receptive to medications, augmented with
behavioral-therapy techniques, than to any of the
other “therapies” that were utilized so
ineffectually on multimillions of people over the
past many decades.
These scans, in fact, have revealed the
specific areas of the brain that show
increased activity during anger, revenge,
anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, stuttering,
pathological lying, cheating, manipulation,
obsessive-compulsive behavior, depressive disorders,
even cravings for chocolate!
NATURE OR NURTURE?
How do we know these conditions are for the most
part biological? Because in addition to the fact
that medications have treated them successfully––for
example, Haldol for psychoses, Lithium for bipolar
disorder, Lexapro for depression, Xanax for anxiety,
et al––they have identical symptoms––albeit some
more severe than others––in people raised in luxury
high-rises in Buenos Aires, slums in Los Angeles,
kibbutzim in Israel, huts in rain forests, and
penthouses in Manhattan.
And also in people raised in both harmonious and
dysfunctional homes.
What we also understand is that most intractable
mental conditions seem to be genetically driven,
rooted in centers of the brain that are still not
fully understood. Perhaps this is why political
affiliation––with exceptions, of course––seems
to run in families.
It is also true, as Linda Goudsmit––author of The
Book of Humanitarian Hoaxes: Killing America with
'Kindness'––points out, that both biology
(genetics) and the physical environment
(epigenetics)––including foods, chemicals, air,
water, and EMF pollution––have profound effects on
human pathology.
Whatever school––genes or environment or both––a
person subscribes to, the symptoms displayed by
liberals-leftists-progressives––whatever they’re
calling themselves today––are obvious to even the
casual observer.
SYMPTOM #1––THE GLUM FACTOR
Liberals are uniformly glum, both in their grim
demeanors and bleak outlooks. This is because their
worldview is invariably negative. When things are
good, they see only the bad and reach back decades
to invoke the Misery
Index cited routinely by Democrat
President Jimmy Carter and resurrected not only by
the dour wannabe-president–– and
today an alleged traitor––John Kerry in
2004, but in one way or another by every Democrat
presidential, congressional, and local candidate to
this day.
With liberals, the glass is always half empty, the
sky is always falling. When things could be better,
they see only that things could be worse.
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In the stellar economy that President Trump
created––with the GDP, employment, housing
sales, and consumer confidence at peak levels:
inflation, the trade deficit, and crude oil
down; employment of blacks, Hispanics, women and
youth sky high, and America achieving energy
independence for the first time in history––the
liberals among us were inconsolably miserable.
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In measurable and quite astounding educational
successes of blacks through Eva
Moskowitz’s 47 Charter schools in NY City,
liberals see only “too much testing” and a
threat to a huge source of their power and
income––unions!
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In the face of 3,000 lives being exterminated by
Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001, and
escalating Islamic terrorist attacks around the
world since then, leftists only see the
miniscule if
non-existent threat of white supremacists.
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Worse, they see that all of our country’s
problems, according to Mary
Eberstadt of The Wall St. Journal, are
the fault of––ta da––America!
SYMPTOM #2: THE DEPENDENCY FACTOR
Liberals
are emotional children––no matter their educational
pedigrees, fancy credentials, lofty titles,
prestigious positions, or economic well-being. That
is why they believe in and defend and work for and
donate money to and teach their children that there
is nothing quite as benevolent and important as Big
Government!
Proof is Joe Biden’s “American Families Plan” to
provide––Venezuela-style––federal entitlements
including two years of free universal
prekindergarten, free childcare for all, paid family
and medical leave, two years of community college,
on and on and on.
While liberals pretend to fight for the “little
guy,” those poor, oppressed illegal aliens, and
“people of color,” et al, it is they themselves who
feel needy and scared and inadequate and so project
their desires to be taken care of onto people they
believe have the same infantile needs.
Given their failure to grow up, it is almost
predictable––as
a Pew Research Center survey in March 2020 found––
that white liberals were “significantly more likely
than other racial and ideological groups to be
diagnosed with a mental health condition.”
The survey was inspired by an Evie Magazine article on
the possible "scientific correlation" between
progressive ideas and mental illness, and it noted
that liberal ideology often "forces its followers to
wallow in feelings of helplessness and victimhood,"
as opposed to "building resiliency against
hardship…"
SYMPTOM #3: THE INFANTILE FACTOR
Liberals, like the children they are, live in a
world of utopian dreaminess, clinging to an imagined
reality and believing that if everyone would just be
nice to each other, all the noisy death threats and
pesky suicide bombings would go away, and all those
grumpy grownups in Republican and especially
Conservative circles would see the light.
And so they do what children do when they’re angry
at grownups. They call names and have temper
tantrums.
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Who but an adult with a child’s mentality could
participate in the Women’s March on Washington
the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration and
think that wearing tasteless, cringe-producing
pussy hats and spewing vulgarities in front of
the entire world––and their own
daughters!––would inspire even one person on
earth to admire them, emulate them, and want to
join their ranks?
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Who but an adult with an angry child’s lack of
self-control would rip up a historical
document--President Trump’s 2020 State of the
Union speech–– as did Democrat House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi in the quintessentially
inappropriate temper tantrum of our century?
SYMPTOM #4––THE RAGE FACTOR
To understand the left’s treasonous rage, it is
important to understand that the most cherished
value in the life of children (read liberals) is to
be “liked” by their peers, a theory that Judith Rich
Harris has exhaustively documented in her
best-selling and revolutionary book, The
Nurture Assumption.
According to the evangelical religion of leftism, if
America were not so strong, so powerful, so rich, so
successful––so enviable to the rest of the
world––things would be better. This is because
liberals hate strength and power and wealth and
success, except, that is, when they are the
beneficiaries! It is significant to note that the
richest politicians in Congress are
Democrats!
This fantasy flourishes, says Evan Sayet, author of THE
WOKE SUPREMACY: An Anti-Socialist Manifesto,
because liberals are “wedded
to the childish philosophy of ‘multiculturalism’ …
the fantasy that all cultures are equally good. It
is why they “believe we should ‘celebrate
diversity,’ as if all differences––say freedom of
religion and massacring all infidels––are equally
worthy of celebration.”
“We laugh at the stupidity of the Democrats who go
after cartoon skunks, plastic potatoes and pancake
syrups,” Sayet continues, “wondering if anything is
too small for them not to be outraged about. The
answer is no. Totalitarian means total––right down
to the tiniest things. It's the way it was in Nazi
Germany, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, and every
other Leftist regime. It's the way it is with the
Woke Supremacist movement of today.”
The entire world, in fact, had a close-up view of
this ugly trait while witnessing the four years of
uncontrolled rage, fury, acting-out, and widespread
criminal acts after the election of Donald J. Trump
in 2016. This was the behavior of poor losers.
But even in the flush of electoral victories,
liberals are unable to conceal their endemic rage
and inevitably reveal themselves as sore winners!
Even today, six months after the, ahem, election of
Democrat Joe Biden, they’ve been unable to recover
from President Donald J. Trump! No surprise….they
still haven’t recovered from George W. Bush’s defeat
of Al Gore in 2000!
SYMPTOM #5: THE JEALOUSY FACTOR
Nothing is quite as potent as the second-most
powerful emotion on earth––jealousy! (The first, of
course is fear, as the recent pandemic proved beyond
a shadow of a doubt).
The Cancel Culture that liberals created is really
about not being able to win arguments about
political policy and philosophy with objective,
empirical evidence and being so envious of their
rivals that they resort to eliminating,
annihilating, guillotining every vestige of
opposition they face, or, as writer Larry
Greenfield documents,
“bullying, boycotting, pressuring, and punishing”
anyone who disagrees with them. It’s also about:
· Tearing
down historically important statues, including those
of black
heroes,
· Burning
books, the greatest offenders being Dr. Seuss and
Huckleberry Finn,
· Using
athletes like Colin Kaepernick to
take a knee and LeBron James to
threaten a heroic policeman ––both of
them, as my diplomatic late mother used to say, “not
overburdened with brains.”
· Applauding
and encouraging criminals from Antifa and Black
Lives Matter to continue to commit arson, theft,
assault and murder to further their cause.
But as journalist and author Parker Beauregard writes:
“If all blacks are oppressed, how did we get
a black president? Twice, for that matter? A black
female vice president? How come Al Sharpton, Jesse
Jackson, Patrisse Cullors, and Ben Crump are
millionaires while waging war in the supposed white
supremacist legal system? Oprah and LeBron are worth
billions. Throw in a few hundred-thousand other
examples, and suddenly the BLM contrivance is
absurdly debunked.
“The message by the fraudulent, deceptive, and
ultimately murderous black hustlers like Obama and
LeBron,” Beauregard continues, “is that the rest of
black America is poor and helpless, and need the
‘better’ blacks to lift them out. How has that been
going for the past half century?
“Instead of selling oppression, what these morally
bereft people should be packaging is the message
that ‘If I can do it, you can do it too – and here’s
how.’ How hard would it be for black leaders to
exhort other blacks to follow their lead of hard
work, perseverance, and goal orientation?’”
SYMPTOM #6: THE VICTIMS-R-US FACTO
In their childlike eyes, liberals consider just
about everyone––and often anything––as both needy
and helpless, including
a three-inch-long delta smelt in California which
inspired the insane leftist Democrats who run that
state to lock down billions of gallons of water to
its citizens for years to “protect”––instead of
relocate––this teeny tiny plankton-eating minnow!
But they don’t stop there! There is not a gay or
black or Hispanic or female or Muslim or illegal or
criminal who liberals don’t consider victims. It’s
an industry with them, revile as they do the
majority of Americans who value accountability,
independent problem solving, and the central role of
law and order in society instead of Big Government
dependency.
To paraphrase poet Kim Addonizio, it’s as if
liberals encourage the people they consider victims
to “sew rhinestones on their traumas so they can
wear them to a pain festival.”
This is because suffering, or perceived suffering,
animates them, makes them feel useful, like saviors,
and, of course, virtuous.
SYMPTOM #7: THE CONCEIT FACTOR
Liberals entertain the conceit that they are quite
evolved and superior, both morally and
intellectually. In their childlike minds, they are
“good” and the people who set limits, demand
accountability, expect empirical results, fight
their enemies and also make judgments about what is
good and bad and right and wrong are “bad.”
They also socialize with like-minded people and rely
on the same “experts” to guide their thinking and of
course feelings.
“Follow the science,” liberals bleat when anyone
challenges the lies they tell themselves and others
about man-made global warming––which has no science
behind it and which writer Guy K. Mitchell calls the
biggest scientific fraud in history!
In fact, it is why the editors at IssuesInsights.com write
of “the smug arrogance of the ‘science’ crowd and
say that “in reality, they are the Party of Science
Fiction,” and the reason they close down dialogue is
because “they know their ideas are empty of
substance and therefore need to shout down, cancel,
and indict those who dare think differently.”
“Listen to the experts,” liberals angrily dictate,
when anyone challenges the advice about the corona
virus given by the World Health Organization
(WHO)–– which
has admitted its erroneous pronouncements,
or of the
horrible choice of Dr. Anthony Fauci––who
is almost always wrong––to be the major spokesman
and “expert” about the Wuhan-generated pandemic, as
journalist Roger L. Simon spells out.
“It says in the NY Times,” liberals pronounce with
full intellectual pretense, and yet author Bob Kohn
has exploded the myth of this newspaper’s integrity
and accuracy in his blockbuster book, Journalistic
Fraud: How the New York Times Distorts the News and
Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted.
Yet these snooty children in adult clothing continue
to harbor the conceit that––in between their temper
tantrums––they are the embodiment of integrity and
righteousness. This comes, of course, with the
infantile proclivity for fooling oneself.
SYMPTOM #8: THE INTOLERANCE FACTOR
“Since Trump was elected, my childhood best
friend––going back 45 years––won’t talk to me,” a
friend confided. Others report that even once-close
family members sound more like CNN sound bites than
blood relatives. This is because children do not
know how to compromise or tolerate dissenting
opinions.
Not only do liberals call names, spew insults and
stamp their feet at any dissent, they also line up
allies in the leftist media, leftwing think tanks,
and Big Tech to crush any dissent to their
fantastical lies.
Much worse, they’ve aligned themselves with
America’s mortal enemies, as the Biden regime has
just done with Iran.
WATCH FOR YOURSELF
Happily, you don’t have to take my word for it. Just
turn to any of the network or cable news
channels––with the exceptions of Fox, OANN, and
Newsmax––and simply observe their commentators and
anchors and other talking heads display their rather
sinister pathology close up.
Observe the symptoms I’ve mentioned. Note the anger,
the pessimism, the negativity, the name-calling, the
bursts of rage, the gratuitous insults, the desire
to present an image of “goodness,” the transparent
attempt to be liked, the willingness to change an
opinion if the old one isn’t polling well, and the
eagerness to placate our enemies, the better to
avoid a fight so those enemies will “like” us.
Bottom line, the entire world is now witnessing a
regime of fixated Liberal-Leftist-Progressive
children trying to run the most powerful country on
earth, when what they really need is psychotropic
medication, behavioral therapy, and a Congress with
enough backbone to banish Voter Fraud forever!