are Conservatives Mentally Ill
Editors Note:
This is Moon talking here, not me. As Mama Prosper always said, consider the source. Still I have to post it, if only just to thank Moon for introducing me to Kubie back during my psychology days.
As Lawrence Kubie once said (repeated from here)
“The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some ‘norm’),
the freedom to learn from experience…to be influenced by reasonable arguments…
and the appeal to the emotions…and especially the freedom to cease when sated.
The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable
patterns.” - Lawrence Kubie
If the study cited on HuffPo is true most of America’s conservative population suffers from low grade mental illness.
Given the shear obdurate stupidity of the breed this would not surprise me at all.
The thing is there is little we can do about it. They can’t change their minds and we can’t go around locking people out of the system because we don’t like what they believe or because they are stubborn to the point of stupid
All we can do is persuade the vast middle and make sure to check the stupid stuff they (and we on the left) do.