Paranoia: The Fuel of the Left?

American Thinker.com ^ | June 6, 2017 | J. A. Frascino, MD

[Kaslin]

Is liberal behavior reflective of an underlying paranoid personality trait?

Liberal candidate Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election because of lack of message, poor campaigning, and reliance on identity politics. She now agonizingly attributes her loss to falling victim to James Comey's incompetence, as well as to a vast right-wing conspiracy involving WikiLeaks, Russia, Macedonian hackers, an obscure English conspirator, and misogyny. Kathy Griffin promotes herself as a Trump hater in a macabre image of herself holding up his bloody, severed head. She responds to the appropriate backlash by weepingly announcing she is now the unfair victim of attacks by Trump and his family who are out to ruin her career. She mournfully relates enduring victimization and oppression (est. net worth $15-20m) by white males in the past. As with any victim, she requires the support of a lawyer, activist Lisa Cohen, at her side. Liberal college students cringe before the threat of occult trigger warnings and flee to safe spaces to avoid psychic and physical harm.

These victimization reactions represent somewhat extreme examples of the human response to perceived assault. But are they reflective of a more pervasive essence of liberal thinking? An alien psychiatrist circling earth in a UFO might wonder if such inane overt behavior by these earthlings stems from innate delusions of persecution. Is liberal behavior reflective of an underlying paranoid personality trait?

The "Paranoid Personality Disorder" section of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders contains this description:

[AZLiberty]

If would be Griffiphobia to criticize Kathy’s decapitation of Donald Trump, even if she were to do it for real.

[Huebolt]

Paranoia is a frequent by-product of weed smoking.

One could safely wager that over 50% of libtards inhale it bigtime. (Remember willie Clinton?)

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[Nateman]

[TChad]

Well, liberalism is a mental disorder. It's good to see an attempt to narrow down the diagnosis.

[stevem]

Everyone, including clinton, failed and fails to mention the main cause for her defeat: Hillary has all of the character and charisma of a water moccasin.

[central_va]

Trump won because he ran on core issues that have been ignored since Reagan. He beat her because of that.