Why the Left Is the Way they Are

Here is a brilliant description of the left.

I know the author in passing; we’ve exchanged comments in a discussion forum. She’s an excellent sci-fi author and, as you’ll be able to tell from the article, pretty good at political analysis. And here she’s absolutely correct.

I’ve suffered from depression for decades, maybe since birth. I know what it’s like to be truly suicidal. The people on the left aren’t. Not even close. They’re sad, and miserable, but depression isn’t sadness. It’s difficult to describe to those who have never experienced it (and if you don’t immediately recognize what I’m about to say, you haven’t).

Depression is like a cold, heavily weighted blanket laid over your mind. Like a fog you cannot find the end of. You can’t think of what to do next, nor why you should bother. You can’t think of why you should do anything. Often you can’t think at all. You feel a mental pain at all times. And when you reach the suicidal stage, that pain is so bad that you just want to make it stop, RIGHT NOW!, by any means possible.

This pain isn’t anything like physical pain – the brain has no pain receptors so its pain is expressed differently than the rest of the body. Many physical injuries make it difficult if not impossible to move the affected body part. Depression does that to the mind. Just like physical pain, the more you try to mentally “move,” the worse the pain gets. And sometimes you feel like the only way to stop the pain is to “amputate.”

People on the left aren’t experiencing that. (Well, no doubt some actually are but that has nothing to do with their politics.) They’re experiencing self-loathing. While they can coexist in the same person, self-loathing is independent of depression; they don’t have the same cause or effects, and neither is the cause of the other.  Even at my most suicidal I never hated myself. I just wanted the pain to stop.

Since they’ve always felt it, they think the feeling of of self-loathing is normal. Worse, they believe they deserve it. So they assume that everyone else feels the same. Based on that assumption, they loathe other people, believing that others loathe themselves and deserve that loathing like they believe they themselves do.

They also think that you loathe them. Since, in their minds, everyone feels that way, they believe that you’re just like them and must think and do exactly the same. That’s why they project their thinking and actions on everyone else.

Outwardly, self-loathing takes many forms but almost never a realization of the self-loathing itself. The sufferers are unable to identify it and they don’t know how to express it because it is to them like water is to fish, they’re unaware that they’re immersed in it. It emerges as anger and hatred aimed at whatever causes discomfort to them, no matter how small. That’s why they scream at you if you don’t wear a mask, if you have something they don’t, if you try to explain to them a store policy that inconveniences them, or anything else that they feel (not think – that distinction is vital) is somehow “in their way.”

Anyway, read the article. The author really knows what she’s talking about.