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White Liberals More Likely to Have a Mental Health Condition

Posted by deleted 2 years, 9 months ago to Culture
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I once read a book written by a psychiatrist who noted that a majority of his patients were liberals. One of the reasons he stated was diet. Vegetarian-ism and especially vegan-ism causes a decrease in the amount of tryptophan in the diet if you're not careful. The best sources of tryptophan are from animals. The body uses tryptophan to make serotonin, the "feel good" neurotransmitter. That's just one biochemical connection between liberalism and mental disease, of course there are behavioral reasons too.

In college I was trying to fit in with the hippie crowd and I started eating a vegetarian. I didn't do a very good job and after a while I was severely depressed. Medication was tried and it was useless. A hamburger perked up my mood rather quickly. Problem solved.

But as the article poses, the philosophies in liberalism expose one to more risk of mental illness.

Liberalism is a mental disorder. We need to feed vegans and vegetarians beef jerky at the polls.


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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 years, 9 months ago
    I love Jordan Petersons discussion on this.

    There a GENETIC reasons for which side of the line we fall on. And fundamentally it can be seen as Hierarchy Versus Groups. We need Hierarchy to value/evaluate and to grown.

    But we also need "groups" so that we don't forget we have SOME responsibility for the damaged, old, and young.

    His point. Taken to an extreme... Hierarchy would kill without emotion for the "group".

    Where the group starts by asking for consideration for the weakest of society. But then taken to an extreme becomes the slaughtering of the most productive in society.

    In the TYPICAL Household, the father was a Capitalist and the Mother a Socialist.
    Mom was worried about FAIRNESS and INCLUSIVITY, and Dad was worried about Right/Wrong/Effort/Effect.

    It really puts a bow around it. We need the Creative and we need the Structure.
    We need to ensure our families survive. And we need to compete for food, resources.

    Start Trek Reference: Kirk was split into his 2 sides. Neither was good! LOL
    He needed some rule breaking and some rule following to be Captain Kirk!
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  • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You can thank Woodrow Wilson for that linguistic sleight of hand. Those Democrats who ran as Progressives in the early 1900's got stomped come election day because people were smart enough back then to recognize idiocy. In an effort to smooth the Party image, Wilson appropriated the word "liberal" to attempt to associate Progressivism with the Founding Fathers even though he wanted nothing more than an executive dictatorship. Unfortunately for America, the "liberal" label stuck with Democrats and we've been fighting it for 100 years now.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 9 months ago
    I'd suggest that it also comes from having a reason for a positive outlook on life. To leftists, the sky is perpetually falling and there's nothing to stop it and no hope for a better future. It's why they rely on a hookup culture for those brief stints at distracted pleasure.

    For those of us with a more conservative bent, we realize that there's something better waiting in the wings and that we can take steps toward it regardless of the lunacy going on around us. That brings inner peace and a stable mindset.

    https://youtu.be/GmmrrfJKY7I

    One part I don't understand about the Progressive mindset is how they can still pursue such an ideology in spite of its complete lack of positive results. It's so disconnected from reality! I mean mentally healthy people repeat behaviors because the outcomes bring them peace, stability, etc. These people seem to revel in masochism. Disturbing.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ROFL. I dunno. All that koolaid they drink to fuel a soul of bitterness probably leaches into their entire bodies...
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  • Posted by 2 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It kind of makes sense, if you're perpetually worried about the state of the world, every sad thing that happens and with your bleeding heart hurting all the time, you're gonna get depressed.
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  • Posted by 2 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think for italics
    you put asterisks around the words or double asterisks to make it bold.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    LOL, yeah, many ads for veggie burgers and people who eat them say they taste like real beef, meaning the veggies are processed to taste like beef. Hmmmm, cattle have been making veggies taste like beef for thousands of years.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 2 years, 9 months ago
    Well, when I was very young (about 12-14) I was a liberal. That is, the word comes from the same root word as "liberty", I believe, which comes from a belief in individual rights. But then I saw that the Democrats of the '60's seemed not to believe in individual rights at all, only group "rights". But I was not with the George Wallace-type "conservatives", although I admired Goldwater.After I thought about it, I was against the military draft also. It seemed to me that I was, politically, alone in the world, until (when I was 15) I came across Ayn Rand's "The Virtue of Selfishness" (I still have difficulty typing italics) on a trading bookshelf in the Waynesboro library. I traded "The Member of the Wedding" and got it. I knew that I was selfish, but didn't think it could be a virtue, and I expected to read cynical stuff in it. But, to my surprise, it made a lot of sense. I was afraid, and drew back, but about two years later, I came across "Who Is Ayn Rand?", (not on the trading shelf, this was a book to borrow), and I borrowed it, and I got interested in actually learning about Objectivism. I am white. But I think that maybe a lot of white "liberals" are "limousine liberals", like FDR, and are also educationist elitists.
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  • Posted by jack1776 2 years, 9 months ago
    Come to think about it, beef is a vegetarian animal so ""I started eating a vegetarian" make perfect sense. I love all animals; they are so tasty.
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  • Posted by VetteGuy 2 years, 9 months ago
    Reminds me of a comment by a co-worker regarding salads: "That's not FOOD. That's what food EATS!"
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