Category: Political Psychology
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Is it Rational to be Politically Ignorant?
I consider the question in today's Substack entry.
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Liz Cheney: Profile in Political Projection
Projection is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one attributes one's own unacknowledged feelings, desires, intentions, attitudes, etc. to others. Extending the notion into the political sphere, the political projector accuses the other side of doing what he and his ilk are doing but will not own up to doing. I happened across a very clear…
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Radical Islam’s Threat to the Left
Substack latest. Why don't leftists — who obviously do not share the characteristic values and beliefs of Islamists — grant what is spectacularly obvious to everyone else, namely, that radical Islam poses a grave threat to what we in the West cherish as civilization, which includes commitments to free speech, open inquiry, separation of church…
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Wolff on Israel
Robert Paul Wolff, 30 October 2023: I have found the series of comments on the Israeli situation interesting and helpful. I have not responded to them because I am so upset by what is happening that I can barely watch the news reports of it anymore. Let me make one small observation. There has been…
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#Walk Away Campaign
'Liberals' who have awakened from 'wokery.' Numerous interesting video testimonials. Plenty of data for political psychologists. Bro Joe recommends this one by a charming Los Angeles actress.
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Extremism and Leftist Projection: Capital Punishment
This is the second in a series. (The first is here.) You will have noticed that leftists call us extremists though there is nothing extreme about our views. They are all of them moderate. What our political enemies do is to project their extremism into us. Projection is a well-known psychological defense mechanism. What I…
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Extremism and Leftist Projection: The Border
Mainstream leftists promote extreme ideas and policies; mainstream conservatives do not. But this fact does not stop leftists from projecting their extremism into us. They call us extremists! Uncomfortable with their extremism, and not wanting to admit it, they suppress their awareness of their extremism by projecting it into us. There are numerous examples of…
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How Many Friends Have You Lost Over Politics?
I have lost about a half dozen. How about you? I am interested in your stories, but even more in your analysis. Austin Ruse bemoans friendships lost. His piece ends: Maybe my friend is right. Maybe we can’t be friends right now, maybe never. For me, though, that would be unspeakably sad. Message to my…
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Stackman Strikes Again!
Here
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Trump, Adultery, Morality, and the Alinskyite Left
Substack latest
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Expressive Individualism
Is Trump an example? Substack latest.
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The Toxic Racialist Obsessions of Joe Biden
Victor Davis Hanson makes many fine points, but fails to lay bare the root of Biden's racist flip-flopping, namely that the man is an utter phony and fraud who is rooted in no principle except that of self-promotion at all costs.
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Psychiatry as Ideology in the USSR
Sidney Bloch, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, OxfordJournal of medical ethics, 1978, 4, 126-131 I got the reference from an article on the defenestration of Jordan Peterson. Commentary on Bloch's paper from the same article: The Oxford psychiatrist Sidney Bloch’s classic 1977 academic paper “Psychiatry as Ideology in the USSR” demonstrated how psychiatry in…
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Sam Harris and the Higher Snobbery
A Substack article by Greg Nyquist, The Critical Realist.
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‘Democrats’ Aping National Socialists
Excellent commentary here: In two years, the Nazis went from being a fringe party to having a stranglehold on the German government and people. It was then that they unleashed their previously subdued anti-Semitism, from boycotts to book burnings to de facto discrimination to de jure separation (Nuremberg laws) and, finally, to the Final Solution.…