Why Liberalism is a mental disease

[wehrmacht]

Ted Kaczynski, who was a genius math professor before he started blowing people up, explains how modern liberalism and leftism is more of a psychological illness than an ideology:

7. But what is leftism? During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists, "politically correct" types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these movements is a leftist. What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much a movement or an ideology as a psychological type

9. The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call "feelings of inferiority" and "oversocialization." Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.

10. By "feelings of inferiority" we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self-hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.

11. When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities and about anything that is said concerning minorities. The terms "negro," "oriental," "handicapped" or "chick" for an African, an Asian, a disabled person or a woman originally had no derogatory connotation. The negative connotations have been attached to these terms by the activists themselves. Some animal rights activists have gone so far as to reject the word "pet" and insist on its replacement by "animal companion." Leftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the world "primitive" by "nonliterate." They seem almost paranoid about anything that might suggest that any primitive culture is inferior to our own.

13. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems.

14. Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may not be as strong and as capable as men.

15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They say they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them

16. Words like "self-confidence," "self-reliance," "initiative," "enterprise," "optimism," etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone's problems for them, satisfy everyone's needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

18. The leftist's feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual's ability or lack of it (collectivism). Thus if a person is "inferior" it is not his fault, but society's, because he has not been brought up properly.

19. His feelings of inferiority are so ingrained that he cannot conceive of himself as individually strong and valuable. Hence the collectivism of the leftist. He can feel strong only as a member of a large organization or a mass movement with which he identifies himself.

21. Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principles, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type. But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism. Hostility is too prominent a component of leftist behavior; so is the drive for power. Moreover, much leftist behavior is not rationally calculated to be of benefit to the people whom the leftists claim to be trying to help. Helping black people is not their real goal. Instead, race problems serve as an excuse for them to express their own hostility and frustrated need for power.

[Rilkean]

hey bro, tl;dr

[Potus]

tl;dr

If you hate liberals you should leave the United States since it's founded on liberalism.

[DetroitVelvetSmooth]

You are a bad person.

[naez]

politics are great and all except most people who think they know something don't even know what planet they're on


simple things like private banks print the money and enslave everyone

simple things like Clinton is a transnational agent

[wehrmacht]

Originally Posted by Potus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

tl;dr

If you hate liberals you should leave the United States since it's founded on liberalism.

Edited original post down in size and large words. American Idol fans will now find it legible.

You already know as well as I do that modern day liberalism/leftism have nothing to do with the word "Libertarianism" except they all start with the letter L. Libertarianism is individualistic and all the other L words that you love so much are collectivism. I hope this guy isn't really a school teacher as he claimed.

[Bodeanicus]

Originally Posted by naez [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

politics are great and all except most people who think they know something don't even know what planet they're on


simple things like private banks print the money and enslave everyone

simple things like Clinton is a transnational agent

Yeah, we could talk about important shit, like basketball. Nothing more important watching grown men make millions playing a child's game.

[Potus]

Originally Posted by wehrmacht [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You already know as well as I do that modern day liberalism/leftism have nothing to do with the word "Libertarianism" except they all start with the letter L.

America wasn't founded on Libertarianism and you said Liberalism.

Do big words not make sense to you? Perhaps I could find a picture book on the founding fathers.

[Rilkean]

Originally Posted by Bodeanicus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, we could talk about important shit, like basketball. Nothing more important watching grown men make millions playing a child's game.

So tired of the liberal chocolate NBA, man.....

[naez]

Sports were child's play until the early 1900's. It was engineered by the elite so basic human tribalism would be directed towards sports instead of politics.