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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
How did they ever get this through? Our nation’s colleges and universities today are radioactive wastelands of far-Left indoctrination. Demonization and defamation of patriots and others who tell truths about issues Leftists cover with lies is common to the point of being routine and taken for granted. A central element of this propaganda is bogus psychoanalysis purporting to show that to stand for freedom and love America is a clear sign of derangement, while believing that men can become women and that socialism is a viable political system are healthy indications of sanity. In that atmosphere, it’s astounding that this academic study was published at all. But it was, and it shows the truth: Leftism is driving people nuts. Literally.
The Left has been weaponizing psychology against patriots for decades. As far back as 1964, a magazine that called itself Fact but was actually unacquainted with anything deserving of the name published a cover story entitled “1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater is Psychologically Unfit To Be President!” Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater sued for libel and won, as none of the psychiatrists involved in the article had ever actually met him; they were all diagnosing him from a distance based on their political proclivities. This new study of the psychology of Leftism, however, is nothing like such political manipulation and hackery; it’s a genuine examination of the effect that Leftism has on a healthy mind.
The New York Post reported Thursday that “Left-wing extremism is linked to toxic, psychopathic tendencies and narcissism, according to a new study published to the peer-reviewed journal Current Psychology.” Anyone on the Right could have told you that after even the most cursory contact with Leftists, but its confirmation in an academic study is a major surprise. The study’s authors state: “Based on existing research, we expected individuals with higher levels of left-wing authoritarianism to also report higher levels of narcissism.” Of course. What else is it but narcissism to think that one is sufficiently knowledgeable and wise to dictate to others how they live, and control their choices so that they do not stray beyond what the Leftist authoritarians consider to be acceptable bounds?
Study authors Ann Krispenz and Alex Bertrams call this Leftist narcissism the “dark-ego-vehicle principle” and explain: “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.” What? You mean Leftists aren’t really interested in social justice and equality at all, but simply use such rhetoric to fool the uninformed, while actually pursuing their own “ego-focused needs”? Of course. Any examination of the Soviet Union or any other Marxist state, with its wealthy elites proclaiming themselves the vanguard of the proletariat and living high on the backs of the poor while proclaiming themselves their saviors from economic injustice, makes that abundantly clear.
The study adds that “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.” Right, that’s an academic way to say that Leftists love to engage in hypocritical virtue-signaling in order to manipulate others.
And the hypocrisy is indeed heavy: “Social justice is often used as a guise for these activists to behave unhinged, the research noted.” What’s more, a Leftist activist “might declare anyone to be ‘old fashioned’ who is opposing their own ‘progressive values,’ strive to suppress free speech to regulate the expression of right-wing beliefs in educational institutions, and even endorse the use of violence to reach their own political goals.” Of course. Because they think they know better, and must impose their superior knowledge upon the racist, redneck, right-wing yahoos who have the temerity to resist their wisdom and prefer their own stupidity.
This study doesn’t tell patriots anything they didn’t know already, but it is remarkable for its singularity, and for the very fact that it exists, and was able to be published in today’s academic environment. It could conceivably even represent a crack in the edifice, and evidence that the kneejerk Leftism that dominates American academia is finally beginning to recede. But for that, we’ll have to see how many years it will be before a similar study is published.
If you were to study the French Revolution of the late 1700s and the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917 you would see a common theme.
Both of those societies had explosions of irrational behavior and collective insanity that were previously unseen in their respective countries.
Periods strange and erratic behavior are a harbinger of the social upheaval to come.
The great writer Albert Camus speculated on all this in his book “The Rebel”.
One thing I found fascinating in Camus’ work was his account of ecological disaster by the radicals of the French Revolution.
In the late 1700s the French revolutionaries had all sorts of theories about natural forces destroying mankind through catastrophic climactic events.
Theories about the magnetic poles flipping their hemispheres and the axis of the earth going unbalanced were all the rage.
Sound familiar?
Our modern pagan yuppie Leftists think they invented “climate change”.
But they’re really just the recycled totalitarians from a previous era.
King Solomon was right.
Just how many Abortions are the same kind of persons who pour out the Milk at the stores to protests on what they call Animal Abuse and sit in trees to oppose logging and weep for the trees as well some crazy people have done it
Ecclesiastes 10:2
A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.
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I also have observed that leftist professors at my university tended to leave their emptied shopping carts on the grocery store parking lot without ever returning them to recycle carrels – a sure sign of deficient moral character.
So true. Most of the true believers know that true wisdom comes from God and the Holy Spirit. Non believers are not given that privilege, Even the smartest book learning scholar does foolish things because his opinions are from man, not from the Creator, its the laws of man and his arrogance and disregard for the Truth.
“Left-wing extremism is linked to toxic, psychopathic tendencies and narcissism…” Huh? She-it, you don’t need no shrink to know that. Just ask one why abortion is not killing, or how you can be a woman with a y-chromosome. Or show ’em a photo of Trump. Fun…
“psychopathic tendencies and narcissism” is what drives the leftist leaders like Sotis
I havent read the study but I AM shocked. I expect to hear that the authors were found hangin from a tree.
You have no idea how fundamentally biased in assumptions, language, labeling and emotionally laden presuppositions all social science and psychological research has been.
america is now under GODS judicial judgement and cannot be rescinded . it’s called a reprobate mind , in other words they are cursed with a mind that cannot think correctly . the nation of america and the west are now beyond redemption . embracing islam and left wing ideology will bring destruction , morally and politically . america is the modern day equivalent of the titanic . once thought unsinkable , deck chairs have been shuffled , distress flares have been sent , it is now a race to the bottom .
There are so many ways to prevent pregnancy these days so why don’t women use them and then they will not need an abortion, many preventative measures for men also.
In every sector where the Left rule with their ideology, the breakdown of society occurs. They aren’t rational, and they aren’t productive, they tear things down. The great shaking is going. on throughout the country and the world, Go Woke, Go Broke. These woke people are destroying their own prosperity, but they are too narrow minded to see what their ideas have brought them.
Not connecting with reality is mental illness…… in addition, the climate alarmists spew doom and hopelessness to our kids … of course there will be more depression and mental illness….left ideology is the contagion