Is Leftism a Mental Disorder?
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I think it's a result of deliberate programming. All forms of media in the West (radio, news, tv, movies, music, social media, etc.) are used to create a false consensus that far left views are mainstream.
Most people don't get their views from internal dialogue and a careful consideration of the potential outcomes of a given worldview or the adoption of a given set of principles. Rather, they simply look around them for cues on what views to adopt. If they won't (or can't) arrive at their own conclusions, the safest move is to just adopt the majority (real or manufactured) position.
There are people who have a real interest in the destruction of the West and they know that leftism is the religion of self-hate and self-destruction. Forget traditional warfare. It's much easier to foment decadence, degeneracy and despair among the majority of people who cannot or refuse to think for themselves. To set forth a rot from within, until the structural integrity of the pillars upon which a society stands is so weakened that the entire thing collapses.
That's true.
However, I think there are layers.
Some become passionate SJWs because they've been abused as children and no one helped them, so they want to help everyone else.
And they look for an authority to step in where none did in their past.
Heal child abuse and you heal the world.