Think, for example, of their attitude toward the redefinition of marriage, or envy of the rich, or global warming.
Because they consult only their feelings, and their feelings are imbued with a kind of bogus omnipotence via an absence of higher reflection, mere sentiment is transformed into a categorical imperative. Then, the person who denies the imperative -- that would be us -- is rendered evil.
Yes, it is evil to transgress genuine moral imperatives. The left just substitutes the real ones with their feelings. -"Gagdad Bob"
These people don’t think, believe or reckon. They “feel like.” Listen for this phrase and you’ll hear it everywhere, inside and outside politics. This reflex to hedge every statement as a feeling or a hunch is most common among millennials. But I hear it almost as often among Generation Xers and my own colleagues in academia. -Molly Worthen
My best friend, with whom I typically hung out multiple times per week, was suddenly perpetually unavailable. Finally, on Christmas Eve, he sent me a long text, calling me a monster, asking where my heart and soul went, and saying that all our other friends are laughing at me.
I realized that, for the first time in my adult life, I was outside of the liberal bubble and looking in.
What I saw was ugly, lock step, incurious and mean-spirited.
Liberal, Character, Politics
Individuals with consistently liberal views “are more likely than those in other ideological groups to block or ‘defriend’ someone on a social network – as well as to end a personal friendship – because of politics,” according to a Pew Research study.
Liberals Higher in Average Neuroticism Than Conservatives...
The results are also consistent with another study using American data (and which I discussed in an earlier blog post) that found that people on the extreme political left reported higher rates of having mental disorders than people on the right.
As I noted, research on the “Big Five” traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience has found that people identifying as politically liberal tend to be higher on openness to experience and neuroticism and lower on conscientiousness than their conservative counterparts (Fatke, 2017; Gerber et al., 2011).
Liberal, Crazy
Survey data from a 2020 Pew poll indicates that white liberals disproportionately suffer from mental illness versus their conservative counterparts.
The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even “very liberal.”
Young white women suffered the worst. White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives.
"I have seen young people, and older people too, who are good democratic liberals, lovers of peace and gentleness, struck dumb with admiration for individuals threatening or using the most terrible violence for the slightest and tawdriest of reasons."
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell
Man of the Left Behind the Scenes
These people are no longer free-thinking individuals, capable of making decisions. They are, rather, individuals who have completely lost touch with reality.
Unable to cope with the weight of the world, they seek to unload it on others. It's your fault, not theirs.
Finally, The Truth Comes Out...
"We Choose Truth Over Facts."
They’re basically just mean people. The chief attraction of their politics is that it lets them feel virtuous and important about being mean. -Glenn Reynolds on Leftists
Puritans are unbending and uncompromising because they believe they alone know the truth and are intent on imposing their beliefs on everyone else.
-Harry Bulkeley
Why is it so hard for liberals to just argue the idea instead of judging a person’s entire earthly value based on a political opinion?
Liberals are perpetually offended by just about everything. Why? Because liberals have decided that being offended trumps logic, fact and every other argument that anyone can make. -John Hawkins