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Do we have another pandemic?! 😧

Is Leftist Disease going undetected? Could this explain what's stalking our country and causing so much human suffering?

When a normal healthy brain is damaged with brain disease, it sometimes leads to a pathological "liberal shift" or a reduced tendency to logic and reason in political ideology.

From the National Institute of Health:

[quote]Differences in political ideology are a major source of human disagreement and conflict. There is increasing evidence that neurobiological mechanisms mediate individual differences in political ideology through effects on a conservative-liberal axis. This review summarizes personality, evolutionary and genetic, cognitive, neuroimaging, and neurological studies of conservatism-liberalism and discusses how they might affect political ideology. What emerges from this highly variable literature is evidence for a normal right-sided "conservative-complex" involving structures sensitive to negativity bias, threat, disgust, and avoidance. This conservative-complex may be damaged with brain disease, sometimes leading to a pathological "liberal shift" or a reduced tendency to conservatism in political ideology.[/quote]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28264633/
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Marga · 18-21, F
In the United States the conservatives have their voter base geographically centered exactly where education is poorest and religiosity is highest. This is evidence for conservatism exacerbating a very delusional thus harmful state.
funfan · 46-50, M
@Marga M, I like the way you think and the fact that you're unafraid to express yourself. Are you a student of politics, so to speak?
@Marga Yet, science suggests just the opposite. Can someone afflicted with a pathological "liberal shift" incurred from a damaged, diseased brain even think rationally? 🤔
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Marga · 18-21, F
@funfan I'm largely disinterested in politics. I'm more interested in the various adverse effects on society from believing in magic.
Marga · 18-21, F
@DffrntDrmmr I think that whomever linked liberalism to brain disease isn't much of a scientist.
@Marga Houdini lived!
@Marga We've already discussed that. You can't trust your own mind or perceptions. Who knows how advanced the disease is. We'll leave such matters to the proper authorities — such as the National Institute of Health.
Marga · 18-21, F
@DffrntDrmmr Religion is an excellent example of conservatism. Pure delusion.
@Marga See, there you go again! That's not true.

Atheism is pure delusion, though. Even without a diseased liberal brain.
Marga · 18-21, F
@DffrntDrmmr You speak from personal preference. There is no rational basis for believing in magical solutions to our problems.
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@Marga I agree with that. Rationality and reasoning ability is provided by our creator.
@Marga You know, if I thought you would actually remain rational I could get you to agree there is God. Thing is, if your thing is going about trying to impress others how you're so smart you know God doesn't exist, your mind or morality isn't of the quality needed for you to do that. You literally wallow in evil.

I'm not religious, by the way. 😉
Marga · 18-21, F
@DffrntDrmmr You made a big mistake. You interpreted the forgetting of social convention due to an already physically diseased mind as something that can be used to attack liberalism. And your thinking I'm evil and pretentious is ridiculous.
@Marga [quote]You interpreted the forgetting of social convention due to an already physically diseased mind as something that can be used to attack liberalism.[/quote]

Please rephrase that one.
Marga · 18-21, F
@Marga I don't blame 'ya. I couldn't figure it out, either. 😁
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Marga · 18-21, F
@DffrntDrmmr You called me evil because I don't believe in God. Don't compare yourself to me.
@Marga So you believe in evil. Do you believe in God?

One way I might describe evil is intentionally dividing. Anti-wholesome, you might say. Choosing to seperate others from what gives them comfort, connection and meaning in life is evil.

I didn't say it with animosity.
@Marga We have one thing in common. I believe in rationality. Fact and reason. I used fact, reason, or rational thought, and came up with the certain conclusion that there [i]is[/i] God, you see.

As I said, I'm not a Christian, or adherent of any religion.
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@Marga God is only one name or description among many I'm apt to use. I don't consistently assign gender, either. It's only used due to language.