I & I Editorial BoardWe’ve noted before that today’s Democrats are operating with a mental deficit. A new poll further confirms they are a broken people. While it’s good for a cheap laugh, because they are often smug, condescending and hateful to those who disagree with them, their fragile psychological state poses a threat to the republic.
A Rasmussen poll released Monday found that 60% of Democratic voters still believe “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.” As disturbing as that is, 69% of those who self-identify as “liberals” believe Donald Trump conspired with Moscow to beat Hillary Clinton.
The poll indicates that Trump Derangement Syndrome is not limited to the Democratic side: 45% of moderates also believe in the Russia hoax, while 27% of conservatives hold the same view. (Are there really that many Never Trumpers on the right?)
For the record, the Trump-Russia partnership was a fabrication set loose by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and a number of Democratic Party minions. More than two years ago, special counsel John Durham released a report, compiled over three years, that, according to CNN, “concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.”
The FBI probe, said Durham, was based on “raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence” and corrupted by “confirmation bias.”
In other words, there was nothing to investigate, because the entire rancid stew was concocted to drive Trump from the presidency. “President Obama” and then-CIA Director John Brennan “knew before the FBI opened up on that information that this was a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton,” says John Solomon, chief executive and editor in chief of Just the News.
Much of the blame for the Democrats’ belief in the myth goes to the press, which put its full faith in the fraudulent story and convinced tens of millions of readers, viewers and listeners that Trump was, if not a Russian agent, a collaborator with Moscow in a plan to ensure his election. Two legacy outlets, the New York Times and Washington Post even shared a Pulitzer Prize for covering a lie as if it were the truth. They won’t return the prize and the craven Pulitzer board won’t rescind it.
Of course the Democrats chose then as they choose now to believe a big lie. It’s consistent with their dark personality qualities, their “high narcissistic and psychopathic traits,” their penchant for always looking for “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.”
Democrats even admit they need help – 45% of those who say they’re liberals believe they have poor mental health. Only only one in five say their mental health is excellent and just one in four say it is very good.
Conservatives, on the other hand, are more stable. Nine in 10 self-report their mental health to be excellent (51%) or very good (39%).
Our republic can never function in a healthy manner when half of the two-party system is institutionally unbalanced. Rather than throw tantrums, actively divide the nation and live well beyond the fringe, Democrat leaders need to focus on restoring the mental health of their candidates, officials and voters. It’s their obligation to the country.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
‘Liberalism’ is the last sanctuary for the slower classes.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a form of ignorance that is coincident with a modern, non-inquiring, individualism. To call it a type of mental disorder does not illuminate its philosophic ground. The philosophic essence of the left-liberal world view/consciousness has to be inquired into in order to challenge and/or be released from it.
Conservatives and liberals have not sufficiently explored and articulated the historical and essential philosophic grounds of liberalism, left-liberalism, and conservatism.
To raise the level of political discourse a reengagement with inquiry into political philosophy, with ideology, and the nature of consciousness, is needed.
Here are five classic and essential works to engage in inquiry:
1’. The Counter-Renaissance’ by Hiram Hadyn, see pp.14-16 on difference between Romanticists and Classicists, then ch. 5 for essential account of the consciousness and relation to identity and knowledge that gave rise to and defined the West and how this met challenge and critique by counter-Renaissance thinkers, such as Montaigne. The fundamental shift from the classical and Christian worldview, with its belief in the universal and the belief in the congruence between the ideal and the actual, to critique and disbelief in the universal and disbelief in the congruence between the ideal and the actual, is addressed in ch. 3. Mastering this essential and historical difference between Romanticists and Classicists is crucial because these correspond to liberalism and conservatism respectively.
2. ‘The Great Chain of Being’ by Arthur Lovejoy. See especially ch. XI, where the shift from the universal to the particular as what is regarded as defining reality is addressed.
3. ‘Natural Law and Human Rights’ by Pierre Manent, and all of Pierre Manent’s works.
4. ‘The Meaning of the Common Man’ by Aurel Kolnai, in Kolnai’s ‘Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy’. This classic essay should be better known, it is a goldmine of concentrated insight into left-liberalism. See especially Daniel Mahoney’s masterful introduction which outlines Aurel Kolnai’s analysis of the utopian mind. Left-liberals today are disillusioned utopian romanticists, ‘Common Man ideologues’, how and why that is so will be evident by reading Haydn’s and Kolnai’s work.
5. The masterful introduction, by Daniel J. Mahoney, to ‘Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy’, by Aurel Kolnai. How left-liberals are utopians, and what this means, should be focused on over and over. It’s not that difficult to tie left-liberalism to a mindset that is characterized by the denial of, and lack of grounding in an objective shared reality, a common world, that is ‘given’ to and not made by man.
There is no cure. Most of them have personify disorders which means facts don’t register with them if said facts conflict with their already held ideas, they tend to get off on making others suffer and they cannot be fixed/cured.
“It’s their obligation to the country.” True, but unrealistic. Democrats feel no obligation or fealty to the country at all. They are truly the party of treason.
I posit the old, tried and true shock therapy for the mentally unstable…
Conservatives are more stable because they… Self report being stable. Outstanding reporting. You guys deserve a Pulitzer, LOL
You mistake mutual patriotism and respect for our Constitutional Republic, with a “syndrome.” In stark contrast, the unhinged anger, rage, and violence of TDS-suffering leftists, involves their deeply-flawed emotional instability. Today’s “liberals” are actively promoting “government” control and dependence on a staggering scale.
I voted for Trump, once, until OWS. Now I am wondering what can be done about Trump Worship Syndrome, it is even more disgusting to me than the liberals. We are supposed to be level headed, using God’s Given Wisdom and Knowledge for Discernment. But NOoooooooo.
“Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder” – Michael Savage.
What is the cure for unhinged Democrats?
Give them an injection of the COVID vax.
If they don’t succumb quick enough, give them 2 or 3 more.
“Is There No Cure For Democrats’ Derangement?”
Who cares if there is. Having proven beyond any doubt that the democratic party is the party of hate, evil, violence, terrorism, racism and fascism we should all hope for its complete demise.