What started as a joke is no longer a laughing matter: Leftism is a mental illness whose sufferers include an inordinate number of narcissists and psychopaths.  Anybody who has endured a leftist mob knows this to be true.  In the name of “racial justice,” “climate justice,” “trans justice,” “justice for ‘Palestine,’” or whatever other cause du jour the woke-sters have adopted as the next life-or-death “social justice” fad, leftists block drivers on busy highways, scream in the faces of wary pedestrians, set fire to businesses and cars, and terrorize civilians.  They threaten and harass strangers to promote “justice.”  It’s moonbat crazy.

One of the defining characteristics that separate leftists from rational people is their proclivity for completely reordering their worldview in order to conform with every tenet that reigning leftist authority figures pronounce as a new sacred “truth.”  

Twenty-five years ago, practicing leftists had no problem differentiating between men and women.  “Gender fluidity” was nothing more than an intellectual abstraction discussed vapidly among self-indulgent undergrads in “women’s studies” seminars on overpriced college campuses.  Had someone suggested to a leftist back then that men should be permitted to compete in women’s sports and change clothes in women’s locker rooms, the typical leftist would have gone on a righteous feminist rant defending women’s private spaces from male intrusion.  Yet all that conviction disappeared in a puff of smoke as soon as leftist priests told their congregants, “Yes, Virginia, men are women, too!”  Prominent institutions now describe criticism of “transgenderism” as evidence of “far-right extremism”!

Mentally stable people don’t change their belief systems on a dime.  They don’t passionately warn about “global cooling” one decade before passionately warning about “global warming” the next.  They don’t argue for a “color-blind” society capable of seeing past a person’s race only to decide that the color of a person’s skin is more important than anything else.  They don’t staunchly defend free speech before staunchly defending the censorship of anything designated as “disinformation” or “hate speech.”  But leftists do turn their entire worldviews upside down whenever the leftist priests in charge of their movement arbitrarily rewrite the commandments of the leftist faith.  Leftist orthodoxy remains in continual flux.

Leftists have plenty of excuses for their constant epistemological rewrites.  They say things such as, “We’re working at the speed of science,” to justify why everything they believed yesterday is now false and why everything they believe today will likely be false tomorrow.  One of leftists’ favorite “scientists,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, has made an absolute boob of himself trying to explain that humans only recently discovered that males and females are merely two social constructs within a much larger universe of “gender” identities.  The “science” of biological sex magically changed this century, and anybody who doesn’t get onboard hates “science”!

Tyson’s loony quackery resembles the pseudoscientific proclamations of COVID chameleon Dr. Anthony Fauci.  The man who worked to censor scientists who correctly concluded that the virus came from a bioweapons lab in Wuhan, China, erroneously promised that the mRNA “vaccines” were “safe and effective,” and daily justified any number of ridiculous COVID rituals for neurotic hypochondriacs — including triple-masking while alone in a personal vehicle — infamously insisted, “I am the science.”  Even after testifying that the authoritarian COVID rules mandated during the great viral scare campaign of 2020 weren’t actually based on scientific principles, the fraud-supporting doctor continues to claim that “attacks” on him are “attacks on science.”  It must be so nice to be a leftist “scientist.”  You can get away with spouting bull**it from one day to the next, and legions of devout leftist acolytes say your name with reverence, light incense in your honor, and sleep on pillows with embroidered images of your face.

Yes, leftism is a cult and a mental disorder.  Even more alarming, however, leftism promotes psychological abuse.  Perhaps you’ve heard that public officials in the United Kingdom have spent the last two decades actively covering up an epidemic of Pakistani Muslims “grooming” and gang-raping white girls in immigrant-dominated cities.  As the former head of the Crown Prosecution Service in charge of investigating one child “grooming” scandal, the current prime minister has been accused of hiding critical facts from the public.  

How has the British government responded to the crisis of foreigners raping vulnerable children?  Prime Minister Starmer’s Labour Party has blocked an inquiry into the prime minister’s questionable conduct and pushed to criminalize the discussion of Pakistani “grooming” gangs as illicit “hate speech.”  In the name of fighting “racism” and “Islamophobia,” leftists in the U.K. are committed to protecting child rapists.

As if that weren’t bad enough, though, Prime Minister Starmer and his government have decided to muddy the waters completely by pretending that the real problem isn’t Islamic immigrants raping British women and children but rather the “radicalization” of white British boys who have learned to mistreat women from viral content on social media.  That’s right, rather than recognizing that mass immigration from collapsed third-world hellholes and Islamic societies that condone rape is a recipe for national suicide, British authorities have decided that the U.K. desperately needs a public program to save white boys from the nefarious influences of online misogyny.  Instead of deporting Islamic pedophiles, the prime minister intends to re-educate British lads showing “signs of misogyny.”  As “Tyler Durden” concludes on ZeroHedge, “like racism, children in the U.K. will be programmed to believe they’re guilty of another ‘original sin,’ while rape gangs from foreign lands continue to abuse young British girls.”

Only leftists work this hard to protect violent foreigners while victimizing their own citizens over and over again.

In the land down under, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is following the U.K.’s cowardly example by punishing law-abiding citizens for the actions of ISIS-inspired Pakistani terrorists.  After two Pakistani migrants murdered at least fifteen people and wounded forty more during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, Albanese publicly declared that guns are to blame.  While ignoring the reality that Australia has some of the most stringent restrictions on gun ownership in the West, the prime minister promises to confiscate and destroy hundreds of thousands of firearms in the hands of native Australians.  

It’s not the Islamic terrorists’ fault that Jews were murdered!  It’s not the Australian government’s fault for preventing citizens from arming and defending themselves!  No, the fault lies entirely with responsible gun owners who must be scapegoated for the government’s own policy failures.  

Just as the United Kingdom protects Islamic pedophiles and demonizes white British boys for the harms of mass immigration, Australia will blame Islamic terrorism on law-abiding Australian gun owners.  Both incidents represent nothing less than the malicious targeting of innocent civilians and government-sanctioned psychological abuse.

This is how leftists habitually operate.  “Transgenderism” doesn’t constitute a mental health issue.  It is a problem only when mentally healthy people object to grown men using the same restrooms as little girls.  Abysmal math and reading scores among minority students in inner-city schools don’t represent a cultural crisis that must be remedied.  Instead, studying is a “white habit,” demands for good grades are a form of “white supremacy,” and widespread academic decline reflects the “disparate impacts” of a society steeped in “systemic racism.”

Leftists diagnose the wrong problems and blame the wrong people.  It’s what they do.  It would be easy to say that’s just one more symptom of the mental illness we know as leftism.  But doing so would tacitly excuse leftism’s persistent psychological abuse.  Leftists aren’t all insane.  Many know exactly what they’re doing when they blame innocent people for causing harm.  By excusing perpetrators and vilifying victims, leftists drown society with their own delusions.

Hat tip to the one and only “Full Strength.”

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