There is growing evidence that the percentage of young Americans experiencing mental health problems is on the rise. And the rise appears to be particularly stark among white women who identify as ‘liberal’ (which basically means ‘Left-wing’). Could Left-wing politics be causing mental health problems? It’s a real possibility.
The tendency for young, white, female liberals to report mental health problems at higher rates than other groups was discovered by political scientist Zach Goldberg. Analysing data from a Pew Research survey carried out during the pandemic, he found that 56% of white, liberal women aged 18–29 had ever been diagnosed with a mental health condition by their doctors – that’s more than half!
Goldberg recently shared some charts (see below) that show exactly how the mental health of different groups of American 12th graders (those aged 17–18) has changed over time. The graphs are based on data from the Monitoring the Future – a repeated survey of young Americans that’s been going since the mid 1970s.
The first chart plots males and females; the second plots male liberals, female liberals, male conservatives and female conservatives; the third plots the difference between males and females, as well as the difference between liberals and conservatives.
Looking at the first chart, both males and females have seen an increase in mental health problems – though the increase is much larger for females. Turing to the second chart, the increase among females is overwhelmingly driven by female liberals. (And the somewhat increase among males is driven by male liberals.)
The third chart confirms that the divergence between liberals and conservatives is actually greater than the divergence between males and females. As of 2020, liberal 12th graders are 17 percentage points more likely to have seen their doctor about mental health problems in the past 12 months.
So what explains these trends? One possibility is that people who had mental health problems to begin with have become less likely to identify as conservative and more likely to identify as liberal. But this is clearly not the case. If it were, the lines for conservatives would go down just as much as the lines for liberals have gone up. But in fact, none of the lines have gone down. There’s been an overall increase in the number of young people with mental health problems.
Is it possible that left-wing ideas themselves are to blame for worsening mental health? That was the argument Jon Haidt and Greg Lukianoff made in their influential 2015 essay ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’.
Of course, they weren’t talking about traditional Left-wing ideas like nationalising companies and giving rights to workers. They were talking about modern Left-wing ideas. Specifically, Haidt and Lukianoff argued that many prescriptions of woke ideology are the exact opposite of what cognitive behavioural therapy recommends for patients with anxiety or depression.
For example, CBT advises patients to avoid catastrophising and emotional reasoning, while encouraging them to ‘face their fears’. By contrast, woke ideology tells young people (especially young women) they should always trust their feelings, even innocuous things like words can harm them, and the best way to deal with sources of anxiety is to avoid them completely.
One might add: telling young people that they may have been born in the ‘wrong body’, or that the world is about to end because of catastrophic climate change, can’t be good for their mental health either.
More research is needed on Haidt and Lukianoff’s ‘reverse-CBT’ hypothesis, but it strikes me as a plausible explanation for the divergence between liberals and conservatives we’ve seen over the last decade.
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What the whole sorry saga also exposes is the extent to which the judiciary in the UK has become – or perhaps always has been? – corrupt and complicit in stripping people of their rights and transferring power to the state.
At least in the past they mostly managed a veneer of legality.
Whilst the government’s response to the Covid crisis revealed its hidden but latent totalitarian instincts, the response to the Southport murders revealed its raw, unflinching nature.
The Covid crises made society to dig its own grave, Southport made society line up in front of it for execution.
Surely the this information can be subpoenaed, and Starmer and the Police are possibly guilty of withholding evidence?
But the legal system is corrupt right to the top, look at the Simon Dolan challenge thrown out TWICE.
I think the riots/protests would still have gone ahead even if the government had been straight with the public from the outset about this ”Christian, UK-born Welsh boy” being a radicalized Muslim, but the vast majority of British patriots would not have been able to have been jailed because what was needed for that to happen was the lie and false narrative that they didn’t know the motive and it wasn’t terrorism-related, then the subsequent mass cover-up ensued. What is also noteworthy are the lies by the courts for the justification for sending these people down. The judges were accusing all that they sentenced of ”inciting violence/hatred” of others, but how can somebody expressing their sentiments as posts on social media platforms be proven to do this?
If I write words on a screen I am not then responsible for how anybody else interprets these words, let alone how they might subsequently act as a result, so where was the proof that anybody ( particularly the ”keyboard warriors”, who never even attended a protest ) caused anybody else to go out and loot shops or burn buildings? These people have been sent to prison on false allegations. If this ”inciting hatred/violence” is indeed a thing, why has Nick Lowles not been even questioned by police for his blatant lie about a Muslim woman having acid chucked on her? Is this less bad than calling police ”scum” or insisting the attack was indeed a terrorist attack?
”By now we should all know how the leftist playbook works. It is entirely predicable how the narrative will go. First, there is some horrific attack on innocent civilians somewhere in the West. Then the authorities and media will instantly insist that it was not terrorism. And it certainly was not Islamic terrorism.
The usual claim will be, “We do not yet have any motives for this attack.” Anyone who suggest that it sure seems like terrorism and Islamic terrorism are instantly branded as racists, Islamophobes and the rest. But if proof is there (eg., the guy’s name is Muhammad, and he shouted out “Allahu Akbar” as he carried out his assault), then the spin will continue. We will be told that he was obviously mentally ill, and moreover, he of course acted alone.
And then there is the other side of this tired narrative. If anyone does such an attack who is white, or a white conservative, or worse yet, a white conservative Christian, the authorities and the media will be all over it – immediately and passionately. “See, this is what ugly white nationalism is all about. See, this is conservatism in action. We must clamp down on racist Christianity now….”
The double standards here are as plain as day. But we see these scenarios being played out over and over again. I have documented all this dozens of times on my website. But consider the latest example of this. A horrific terror attack had occurred in late July in Southport, England where three children were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. At the time a 17-year-old male suspect was arrested. But once again, any talk of this being an Islamic terror attack was quickly squashed by police, the elites, and the mainstream media.
And when large groups of concerned citizens protested this and other attacks happening so often, they were met with a huge police response, plenty of arrests, and the media condemning them as stirring up trouble and engaging in ugly racism. Yep, the same old same old.”
https://billmuehlenberg.com/2024/10/31/covering-up-terrorism/
Except that, come the trial, this little runt is going to make his motive for the attack known: he knows he’s toast anyway and he’ll be a proud Jihadi. Keep the powder dry, but once the case is concluded Starmer and Cooper need to be pinned down and forced to admit whatbthey knew, and when.
And I swear to god, if they allow him to hide behind a mask or in any way cover his identity when he’s on the stand, or even in the courtroom at all, I’ll bust a flaming blood vessel because that is unacceptable on every level. Plus, we know about the ricin and we know about the terrorist training manual, but isn’t it interesting there’s been nothing forthcoming from his own mouth as to his motives on why he did what he did yet? Either it’s because he’s not made a comment or it’s just one big media blackout at the behest of Starmer.
Not necessarily.
For example, I wouldn’t be surprised if the government came up with some reason why the trial must not be conducted in public, let’s say for reasons of national security.
The other thing we might need to consider is that the suspect might be trained what to say. This was a classic method used during the Stalinist show trials where the accused just effectively regurgitated a prepared script. All those months in custody, who knows what’s going on.
Not really, they need to go up against a wall.
This is what I was reading on Twitter just after it happened, but there was no credible source so I didn’t share. All coming out now though;
”This is @HowardCCoxof of FairFuelUK Campaign who tells @danwootton
that the accused in the Southport murders of the three girls, at the time of his arrest used a Jihadi chant.
It seems the cover up by Starmer & Cooper knows no bounds.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1853723321029763450
He knew it wasn’t “inflamed by disinformation” from an early stage. It was merely an opportunity to demonstrate what happens to dissenters from the replacement, I mean diversity plan.
And because all of our institutions are completely captured – totally and utterly lost – it worked.
The Globalists won. The last few governments have largely destroyed the fabric of the nation off the votes of the gullible and ignorant. Personally, my priority is to bank as much as I can while I am still working and then get out and go far away at the earliest opportunity. Too late for salvation now.
Asserting that some case is already lost is a typical tactic of those who are increasingly afraid that they might eventually actually lose it themselves and this case is going to become ever more loster the more they have a reason to be afraid of that. Everything humans did other humans can undo, ie, there are no lost causes for mankind.
Well, I admire the optimism, and certainly over a long enough time frame all that we see happening around us may indeed be undone, but I think that timescale will be too long for me. My kids might see better days though and I have to live with that hope.
The Free World rests on Trump!
And while I am most definitely not of the opinion that he is some sort of Messiah, I also have no doubt that his opponents will stop at NOTHING to ensure he is not elected/does not take power.
Kier-Ching! lied …. and he is a coward, hiding behind “the law; hate speech and Parliamentary procedures.”
The Speaker “has form” when it comes to making Parliamentary rulings that suit the Labour Leadership and which are intended to appease the Top Tier Muslim citizens in this Two-Tier country.
As far as I’m concerned Peter Lynch’s blood is on his hands.
It’s worth repeating that Starmer’s statement about this not being a time for “politics” and about respect for the grieving relatives of the victims instead of … were virtually identical to statements made (in German) by the mayor of Nürtingen, a town of about 50,000 in southern Germany (Baden-Würrtemberg), when a murdered woman was discovered there on 27th of October who had been a language teacher for ‘refugees’ and an Iranian man she had been teaching was arrested as prime suspect.
It’s obviously possible that the guy just copied Starmer but given the many parallells (down to the wording) between statements by English and German authorities during the so-called Pandemic, I still strongly suspect that there’s some central coordination behind government responses to events endangering this or that woke narrative. Ie, that – somewhere – there’s a set of PR professionals coming up with canned responses expected to ‘work’ in face of such occurences which are then handed down to the participating governments and other public institutions.
Thanks for this info.
It seems that we have a system which is coordinated across the West – whenever the imported people murder, rape, or rob our citizens – to divert our attention from the facts, distract us with lies, and deny the reality of what’s actually happening. Obviously this system of organised lying is designed to protect the imported people at all costs. At the same time it places the native peoples of the West in very great danger.
I have been stating for many months that our politicians are not running the country and are in fact being run from elsewhere.
“Nevertheless, he insisted, it was “part of a spider’s web of disruption which caused riots”
And Palestine Marches (some called them hate marches) is not part of a “spider’s web”?
“. The claim that these riots were directly caused by disinformation was always a bold sociological hypothesis at best; thanks to Starmer and his lackeys, it was treated as self-evident.”
That’s why people should always plead NOT GUILTY like the guy did the other day, and got it thrown out.
I’m no fan of Boris but the stopped clock analogy applies; He called Starmer an agent of the ‘Deep State’ before leaving Parliament.
” “whether my dad should’ve been there in the first place”.
They will grow up knowing who the enemy is!
Good.
Lenin, God rot the barsteward understood well enough, the worse it is the better it is.
Even normies are increasingly finding it hard not to see the cesspit of corruption that is the british state nowadays.
After just 100 days it is possible to look back on the 14 years of Conservative misrule that enabled the disaster of labour’s election win, as a quaint incompetent yet well meaning (it wasn’t really) interlude in the journey down the pan begun by the loathsome blair.
Can I ask if there is any news about the Soldier Stabbed outside his barracks just before the Southport outrage ! How is he & what’s happened to the murderous alien who did it ??????
The gist of the riots is obviously the thing that matters for anyone interested in maintaining the health of the country and they know what the gist is, comprised of many factors, and they do everything they can to obfuscate the real gist. These people are worse than complicit. Just think about how much misery they are generating on every level. I have every sympathy with a person who feels that they can’t take it anymore.
How can asking questions about what and when Starmer and Cooper knew prejudice the trial?
I just stumbled on this article about the UK Liebour Government and its wide ranging dystopian plans it has for us. Fits in with the narative being discussed ATL.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/just-how-dystopian-can-starmers-britain-become