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They’re All Crazy

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A research paper published in March tells an interesting story. “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism” explores “relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment.” In an interview last month with PsyPost, a psychology and neuroscience news website, the authors said they had “introduced a new contribution to the literature on dark personality traits, coining the term dark-ego-vehicle principle.”

“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.”

As it turns out  – and this should be to absolutely no one’s surprise – “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.”

Now we have an explanation for the Democratic Squad, Antifa, global warming foolishness, the disturbing obsession with wokeness and destruction, censorship, forced compliance, and a dictator’s lust for dominance on the left. More

8 Comments on They’re All Crazy

  1. Rush used to say that liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. If he were alive today he would amend this a bit to include anything “woke”. The target audience is the same, the lazy and the stupid, and the euphoric payoff is also similar- feeling good about oneself, requiring no effort or accomplishments.

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  2. Now we have an explanation for the Democratic Squad, Antifa, global warming foolishness, the disturbing obsession with wokeness and destruction, censorship, forced compliance, and a dictator’s lust for dominance on the left.

    We’ve had that explanation all along. It takes a uniquely professorial form of blindness, laziness, and/or self-deception not to see it until now.

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  3. They hate God because He’s God and they aren’t.
    So they pretend at being god.
    All-knowing, all-powerful, contemptuous of mere mortals, and lusting to destroy all that God has created.

    “For only in destroying I find ease …”
    (probably a paraphrase – Satan, from “Paradise Lost” by Milton)

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  4. @Uncle Al ~ remember, this is just an editorial about a research paper.

    & further down it states: ” … we’ve known that since the 2016 election, when Trump Derangement Syndrome ripped through the Democratic Party and its many collaborative groups.

    But it was merely confirmation of what we first suspected then were convinced of for many years before that: The worst in our society, the unstable, the cranks, the neurotic, the egomaniacs who feed on attention, the ruthless power seekers are drawn to the Democratic Party.”

    btw, you can download the research paper here:
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-023-04463-x#Sec37

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