Good post Blair.
Cognitive dissonance has its consequences.
When repeated false information is accepted and reality is ignored it results in a distorted twisted perversion of reality. This is what magik is all about. Evil is very consistent.
Example : Trump manufactures crisis on the border,(he is trying to stop illegal crossings ) Trump is a xenophobe .(he has married two foreign born women)Trump is putting kids in cages at the border(use photo from Obama era detainment).Trumps detainment centers for illegal
Invaders are concentration camps.(Media complicit in mockingbird fashion airing these asinine statements) . This conflicting information
Creates an unease or dis ease in the brain.
Drinking or other drug use is used to cover up this uncomfortable contradiction.
This also leads to severe factoid intolerance.

There was a popular app for the Mac that involved different ways to kill Barney as he ran back and forth on the screen.

it was interesting as I wrote the list how some items were related to and emphasized some of the others.

A fantastic list. Thank you!

lol.

There was another version of a popular song applied to Barney. Something about "Open the door, get on the floor, everybody kill the dinosaur..." ;)

Dependency on others. Check.

Lack of self-esteem. Check.

"If you want your procedure you can keep your procedure..." I'm pretty sure I heard that from either Obama or Jonathan Gruber...

Definitely a lack of tolerance for competing ideas!

Yes, by any material measurement life is improving. But our media is filled with predictions of imminent climate disaster and kids are flooded with indoctrination that the world is going to become unlivable. Sadly many of them believe it.

And then there's Trump Derangement Syndrome...

Medicare/Medicaid..alias: obobo careless system covers NOTHING! They say they do but they don't and soak the crap out of you.
Had to sign up when I started SS, otherwise you couldn't even get into the hospital if you needed to...think I am going to register as an illegal alien!
If you want your procedure you can keep your procedure... as long as you pay for it yourself!

The children of the Boomers and those who came after I collectively call the "Bubble Wrap" kids. Because parents and teachers have been so concerned with promoting safety and protecting children from stress, they are not prepared to face reality.

Awards for participation that are an attempt to avoid any child being labeled a loser have given the BW kids the false impression that effort isn't necessary to get everything they want. When reality then slaps them in the face, showing them you get what you deserve, proportional to the effort, they don't have the mental tools to handle it.

The other factors noted in the study certainly play a part, but when you do everything possible to create several generations of helpless victims, you shouldn't be surprised by results that reflect you're a dumbass for doing so.

Dissolution of the family
2. Encouragement of mental illness by telling people with Homosexual or gender dysphoric tendencies that is is ok to indulge in them
3. Rewarding the above indulgences
4. mass media exposing people to dream lifestyles that make them feel like they will never acheve what appears to be the lot of everyone else.
5. Rewarding apparent mental illness and acting out at a very young age. Creating a situation where people learn to manifest mentally ill behaviors as a means to get ahead.
6. Helicopter parents
7. Excuses for all failures and as a result no one ever learns from them.
8. Trophies for everyone from a young age.
9. drugging children, especially boys, for normal behavior.
10. Allowing children to be closeted inside playing fantasy video games rather than running around outside running energy off and participating in the real actual world. [the result of this encourages #9]
11. Trying to make boys in to girls and failing to understand that the two are not the same. The result of which relates to problems 2, 3, 5 and 9.
12. I could go on....but I think you get the idea.

I don't know how this could be true given television's Barney The Purple Dinosaur telling our kids, "I love you, you love me; we're a hap-py fam-i-ly...."

National Socialism wasn’t enough. They won’t stop until they achieve global socialism, or burn it all down trying.

Definitely a mental health issue.

Add the self perpetuating (and Silicon Valley promoted) social media left-biased propaganda to tip the scales toward socialist fascism.

I think both internal and external factors can affect one's mind. Internal factors may include a failure to take responsibility for one's own actions, failure to grow a positive work ethic, failure to actively pursue truth, how one handles disappointment, etc. External factors may include failure of parents to instill proper values, any kind of abuse (mental, physical, emotional, sexual), mind-altering substances, etc.

How about more objectively, a damaged mind, like a shattered mirror, can multiply my terrors.

Begging the question, who or what damages minds?

So you are asserting that the overwhelming volume of propaganda influences how people think. Excellent. Thank you!

So one factor you are asserting is a disconnect from Reality and the Truth. Perfect! Thanks!

So one factor you are asserting is a degradation in true self-worth. Great! Thanks!

The cause is propaganda outlets, like Bloomberg.

I'm surprised that the statists haven't hired some "scientists" to declare all the "deplorables" who vote for Trump as mentally unsound.

One of my favorite Poe quote can easily be adjusted to show the show the fragile state of the contemporary snowflake generation. Unprepared by design, they cringe at realities unrelenting harshness.

POE
"The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow"

ADAPTION
"The mind, like a shattered mirror, multiplies my terrors"

The progressive left has worked for years to decrease the value of life from unborn infant to senior citizen and everyone in-between.
They so warped the sense of self-woprth that manyyour people have almost zero self-worth and any setback will push then over. The manner in which the older population is viewed also makes it easy for them to slide over the edge as well.
It is a shame but our society no longer values age and the accumulated wisbom of the older generation. A sad commentary on the USA and Western societies as a whole..

Well, in Postmodern society, if you truly believed you were Abraham Lincoln, the year was 1862, and you were President of the United States, you would be considered as sane and equal in every way as the next useful society worker.