If smoking, depression, insomnia, and narcissism are disorders requiring treatment according to the WHO, there’s no reason socialism shouldn’t make the list. A new study explores whether conservatives are mentally healthier than progressives. Conducted by researchers from Tufts and Yale universities with 60,000 participants, it reveals a striking finding: Conservatives reported 20 to 25 percent more positive self-assessments of their mental health compared to liberals. No surprises there!
I guess it’s hardly shocking that people who promote abortion, euthanasia, the mutilation of minors’ sexual organs, secularism, multiculturalism, high taxes, homosexuality, environmentalism, green fees, paper straws, big government, Islamism, antisemitism, feminism, envy, and who idolize European social democracy are mentally unwell.
On the other hand, some might be surprised to find that people who defend traditional family values, place their hopes in God and trust in His mercy, freely practice charity, promote human values, bring children into the world, work honestly to earn their keep without asking for handouts, support life, take pride in their nation and culture, love low taxes and small government, and cherish the freedom and a lifestyle historically represented by the United States are happier.
An interesting question is whether liberals are sadder because they’re liberal, or more liberal because they’re sadder. In my view, it’s not a matter of causality but rather a vicious cycle, like in certain diseases. If your life’s ideal is defending the killing of babies, you’ll never sleep soundly without hearing their voices in the back of your head. If your thing is getting your balls chopped off, pumping yourself full of hormones, and demanding to be called “she,” you can’t look in the mirror without feeling dissociated from yourself. If you believe that forcing the West to make enormous sacrifices will save the planet while the rest of the world — like India and China — couldn’t care less, you’re completely insane. And if, as a woman, your goal is to reach old age alone, surrounded by sex toys and cat food, let me warn you: You’re in dire need of therapy.
If you think robbing those who work the hardest and most effectively to give to those who produce the least is heroic, your soul is rotten. And if you dare deny that a significant portion of subsidies from those thefts, called taxes, encourages the recipient to remain perpetually unproductive instead of incentivizing them, your disease is called incompetence, and you have zero understanding of human nature.
Here’s another interesting point. The Left believes humans are inherently good, so every time they watch the news, their expectations of happiness are shattered, and their frustration festers in their disappointed hearts. The Right, however, doesn’t trust in humanity’s natural goodness — first, because we know better, and second, because Christian tradition reminds us of an inevitable inclination toward evil. As a result, conservatives aren’t the least bit shocked by human savagery. In fact, we know every person is capable of the most horrifying atrocities. That’s probably why we value freedom tied to responsibility — or, failing that, freedom tied to law and order. And education in values, which helps tame the beast within us.
No matter how you look at it, socialism, like communism or whatever the Democrats are now, is rooted in a lie and drowns in a pile of deceptions. It’s a threat to mental health. It’s a system that doesn’t work — from Cuba to Soviet Russia — so it can only generate frustration, not to mention poverty, which doesn’t exactly help mental balance either.
I’m not remotely suggesting we send all socialists to the psychologist, as that would tank our economies too. But it wouldn’t hurt to stop treating socialism as a legitimate ideological movement and start seeing it as a disorder with serious social and psychological consequences — unless you want to call smoking an interesting and original contribution to human breathing.
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