Progressivism Is a Mental Illness
Right-leaning news outlets frequently highlight instances of Democrats showing outright double standards and employing a method called psychological projection, where they associate their own actions to conservatives, such as accusing Trump and the GOP of abusing the legal system for political gain and meddling in elections, therefore weakening the democratic process.
In trying to understand the shambolic, emotion-driven mindset of Democrats, it is noteworthy that mental displacement is likewise a popular feature of the progressive state of mind. In psychology, displacement is when a person takes an unfavorable emotion (anger, frustration) and reroutes the emotion from its initial source to a less threatening recipient. An example of displacement would be a work supervisor who declines to face a bad, lazy staff member for fear of the worker’s reaction, and rather redirects the animosity to an excellent, high-performing employee whom the manager does not fear.
We observe a phenomenon of psychological displacement when liberal-minded individuals shift the responsibility for criminal behavior from the criminals to law enforcement, accompanied by calls to considerably decrease authorities funding, dismantle police departments, or perhaps commit violence against policemen.
Displacement is likewise observed when liberal white women or older Asians experience attacks or abrupt punches to the face by black males however pick not to accuse or otherwise acknowledge their attackers, whom they are afraid of. Instead, during interviews or on social platforms, they often place blame on white males, white “bigotry,” or some other unclear entity that does not instill worry in them.
In the context of the Israel-Hamas conflict, a troubling phenomenon is observed where blame is moved and misinterpreted. Particularly, the overtly hostile and violent intentions of Hamas towards Israel are improperly credited to Israel itself, while concurrently minimizing or ignoring Hamas’s actual terrorist actions and rhetoric.
Highly informed progressive white Jews, in particular, are purposely mindful that hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide desire violent actions upon Jews (based on edicts in the Koran mandating the murder of Jews). This is naturally and not surprisingly fear-inducing for progressive Jews to consider. However, the psychological coping system of displacement enables progressive Jews to redirect their worry of Muslims onto much safer ephemera that they do not fear– Christians, for example, who will turn the other cheek, or white male Gentiles, or Republican citizens who have done them no damage and are no danger to Jews.
According to the concept of psychological displacement, well-known filmmaker Steven Spielberg, a vocal fan of Joe Biden, can produce a film like Munich that downplays the brutality and mass killing of Israeli-Jewish athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics by Muslim Palestinian extremists. Rather than taking a strong moral stance, Spielberg’s technique in the film can be viewed as a form of evasion and ethical timidity, where he represents the Israeli secret service’s efforts to eliminate the terrorist suspects as being on the very same ethical plane as, or even more reprehensible than, the initial terrorist attack itself.
The idea of situational ethics is barely a unique phenomenon within the Democratic Party. Throughout the 1990s, the Clinton administration made use of federal agencies, such as the FBI and IRS, to target Republicans, triggering claims of abuse of power. Notably, the Democratic-aligned media outlets minimized these events, labeling them as baseless conspiracy theories or inconsequential scandals. In reaction, Republicans limited their objections to a timid letter-writing campaign, stopping working to mount a more robust obstacle.
In the same way, progressives downplayed Bill Clinton’s perjury and subornation of perjury in the 1990s by labeling it as insignificant due to being related to sex. However, when Donald Trump allegedly paid a porn actress to keep quiet about a consensual one-night encounter many years later, the narrative changed. This act was no longer viewed as almost sex, but rather as a complex chain of felonies that should have punishment to protect democracy.
Maria Ladenburger, a 19-year-old medical trainee, who were sexually assaulted and Germany. Her case acquired extensive attention unlike others, as her daddy was a prominent nationwide figure and a strong supporter of open borders.
After Maria was raped, tortured, and killed by an Afghan refugee, the progressive Dr. Clemens Ladenburger (now the deputy director-general of the European Commission’s legal division) did not rage against his child’s killer or the E.U.’s self-destructive refugee resettlement program.
No, Herr Ladenburger managed his sorrow through psychological displacement, inveighing at length against white Europeans’ supposed Islamophobia and xenophobia.
Not content merely to compromise his own child on the altar of his progressive ideology, Ladenburger demanded that the refugee program be significantly expanded, with unlimited varieties of African and Muslim refugees invited into Europe so that unknown thousands more could be raped, attacked, and killed, all for the greater moral good of Germany and the E.U.
Although a minority of whites are progressives, most progressives are whites.
Some progressive whites hold a simplified and prejudiced perception of blacks and other ethnic minorities, viewing them as fascinating yet vulnerable, powerless, and immature, doing not have autonomy, ethical direction, and self-regulation, which leads them to believe that these people are not liable for their own decisions and behaviors.
However, mentally juxtaposing black skin color with rampant crime and other social pathologies triggers cognitive harshness, because progressive whites simply can not abide, or perhaps acknowledge, the tip that they as progressive white Democrats might be racist (!).
Some liberal-minded individuals deal with the mental pain of acknowledging problematic habits within the African American neighborhood by moving the blame onto other white individuals, accusing them of being racist towards blacks. This phenomenon of self-directed regret and redirected bias likewise clarifies why some progressive whites exhibit strong animosity towards their racial group.
When Democrats lecture in their incoherent, high-pitched voices that Trump will kill democracy and end up being a totalitarian, it is because Democrats have currently been there, done that. When Democrats alert, without proof, that Trump will weaponize the justice system to pursue political opponents they have no coherent answer.
Were the outcome of elections and the instructions of society exclusively figured out by the merits of political platforms, those aligned with conservative ideologies would emerge victorious in every electoral contest.
By an overwhelming majority, the American electorate, even blacks, are desirous of a border wall with unlawful migration sharply curtailed. The public strongly prefers compulsory voter ID. The general public wants a stronger authorities presence to make sure less crime. A majority of voters choose lower taxes; school choice; and a colorblind, meritocratic society, rather than the race and gender-obsessed, tribalistic caste and spoils system the Democrats have forced upon us.
Sadly, numerous voters make their choices based on instinct and individual connection rather than carefully thinking about the problems, often swayed by who offers the most attractive advantages or who they’d most like to fraternize. This tendency might contribute to the electoral successes of Democratic prospects.
Democrats have made the individual political, injecting politics into all topic and all sectors of society, and know how to carve up the electorate by race, playing to ethnic citizens’ fears and animosities, irritating and after that rubbing each people’s erogenous zones.
The appeal of this play, which counts on emotion, is the reason why severe and bigoted individuals such as AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna influence on the Democratic voter base compared to ineffective and inept Republicans who struggle to get in touch with their own party fans.
Dry Republican policy prescriptions that would benefit the black neighborhood and greater society alike are no match for Democrats’ hysterical emotional appeals, continuously ululating about bigotry, so-called white privilege, genocide, and other progressive tropes and synthetic controversies.
Frustrating anecdotal proof suggests that people who determine themselves as progressive typically show behaviors particular to mental defense mechanisms, such as displacement and projection, which raises concerns about the mental health and wellness of those who subscribe to this ideology.
