WEBVTT 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.160 You are listening to No PC Allowed, aka No Political 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:07.860 Correctness Allowed, and I am Mac Iverson. The 00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:10.240 coming liberal -to -conservative sonic boom is 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:12.859 inevitable. Considering all the energy that has 00:00:12.859 --> 00:00:15.960 been coming from not only President Trump, but 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:17.780 also from Charlie Kirk's and Scott Pressler's 00:00:17.780 --> 00:00:20.699 organizations, college campuses are abuzz with 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:23.379 activism and enthusiasm for the future like never 00:00:23.379 --> 00:00:26.660 before. As a counter, liberals have never been 00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:29.420 more depressed than now. That's no exaggeration. 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:32.619 And when things get so lopsided, something has 00:00:32.619 --> 00:00:36.479 to give. It's called FOMO, or the fear of missing 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.579 out. And with the prevalence of viral memes and 00:00:39.579 --> 00:00:42.299 podcasts, this may happen a lot faster than anyone 00:00:42.299 --> 00:00:44.659 thinks. One thing's for certain. When life gets 00:00:44.659 --> 00:00:47.039 bad enough, desperate measures will be taken 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:50.439 by many on the left to abandon the dark side. 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.140 In the following moments, we will examine the 00:00:53.140 --> 00:00:56.539 fascinating psychology of liberal darkness and... 00:00:56.890 --> 00:01:00.149 if there may be a probability of change for their 00:01:00.149 --> 00:01:03.270 eventual happiness. Liberals saw for themselves 00:01:03.270 --> 00:01:05.689 how quickly perceptions changed literally overnight 00:01:05.689 --> 00:01:08.030 for conservatives in November. They want that 00:01:08.030 --> 00:01:10.650 same success for themselves, obviously. Not all, 00:01:10.730 --> 00:01:12.870 but many, will do everything in their power to 00:01:12.870 --> 00:01:15.670 make sure they experience the same thing. So 00:01:15.670 --> 00:01:18.349 the challenge before them is obvious. First, 00:01:18.489 --> 00:01:21.010 to fully change, they must reconcile what they 00:01:21.010 --> 00:01:22.790 are convinced are their deepest held beliefs 00:01:22.790 --> 00:01:24.930 when they simply don't square with objective 00:01:24.930 --> 00:01:28.189 reality anymore. In fact, they never did. It's 00:01:28.189 --> 00:01:30.349 just that these children of a lesser god, that 00:01:30.349 --> 00:01:32.730 being leftism, are starting to yawn and rub the 00:01:32.730 --> 00:01:35.890 sleep from their eyes. Part of their saving grace 00:01:35.890 --> 00:01:38.189 is that because they view life as subjective 00:01:38.189 --> 00:01:40.530 or you create your own reality through how you 00:01:40.530 --> 00:01:43.670 think, that's what multiculturalism is mainly 00:01:43.670 --> 00:01:46.420 about. then likewise, it should be easy for them 00:01:46.420 --> 00:01:49.200 to imagineer their way into a new conservative 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.760 reality. In other words, libtards don't have 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:54.500 those pesky morals that prevents conservatives 00:01:54.500 --> 00:01:57.480 from following whatever airhead notion that happens 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.719 to be in fashion. So, if liberals can change 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.260 to our way of looking at life, and we've all 00:02:04.260 --> 00:02:05.900 heard the studies that conservatives are much 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:07.900 happier than liberals, then that should make 00:02:07.900 --> 00:02:10.610 their transition just a bit more enticing. Not 00:02:10.610 --> 00:02:12.689 only do they step away from their other imposed 00:02:12.689 --> 00:02:15.449 mental illness and into a philosophy based on 00:02:15.449 --> 00:02:19.129 sane, objective reality, they will also become 00:02:19.129 --> 00:02:22.509 much happier as a side benefit. But back to reality 00:02:22.509 --> 00:02:25.509 now. All that's much easier said than done. We 00:02:25.509 --> 00:02:27.650 all know that once you fall in love with an exceptionally 00:02:27.650 --> 00:02:29.930 dangerous, addictive, self -destructive, and 00:02:29.930 --> 00:02:32.789 false belief system, such as liberalism, it's 00:02:32.789 --> 00:02:35.330 almost impossible to break free. This is what 00:02:35.330 --> 00:02:38.050 I call being stuck on our stupid human nature. 00:02:38.289 --> 00:02:40.900 People don't like change. It's funny that liberals 00:02:40.900 --> 00:02:43.719 are supposed to be open -minded and love social 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.719 changes. In reality, they fear real, personal 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:50.240 change the most. That's why their thinking is 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:52.819 emotion -based, and they are full of fear, as 00:02:52.819 --> 00:02:55.240 opposed to logical and more rational -like conservatives. 00:02:55.939 --> 00:02:59.319 But, again, if they are able to make the leap 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:01.919 over to our side, this makes their lives so much 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.939 easier in the long term, but any major change 00:03:04.939 --> 00:03:07.199 makes life much more difficult in the short term. 00:03:07.900 --> 00:03:10.639 Because, as liberals, they never had to agonize 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:12.620 over changing their minds about multiples of 00:03:12.620 --> 00:03:14.960 issues. And that's because they were programmed 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.139 like lemmings to simply follow the crowd. They 00:03:17.139 --> 00:03:19.740 simply wanted to have opinions from some bought 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:22.319 -off so -called experts provided for them. If 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.080 they had to examine evidence and use some common 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.479 sense on climate change, for example, you know, 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.560 having to actually think about life's macro issues, 00:03:29.819 --> 00:03:32.280 they would have been instantly, from day one, 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.740 skeptical and questioning of all these climate 00:03:35.740 --> 00:03:38.360 change experts. And we would have never gone 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.900 down the endless rabbit hole that we did, clutching 00:03:40.900 --> 00:03:42.939 their fake pearls over a little bit of carbon 00:03:42.939 --> 00:03:45.719 dioxide. What a ridiculous waste of time, energy, 00:03:45.900 --> 00:03:49.080 and taxpayer money. Conservatives instantly know 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:53.139 that science is not consensus from a bunch of 00:03:53.139 --> 00:03:54.919 sellouts all lining up at the pig trough full 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.840 of government grants and subsidies. Science is 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:01.240 about facts only. That's why the climate change 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.280 hysteria has finally crashed and burned. But 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:06.939 if Lidtards see themselves as mere helpless innocent 00:04:06.939 --> 00:04:09.599 children in the universe and they see the expert 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.039 class as the authority figures, then they don't 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.659 have to worry about their hair turning gray over 00:04:13.659 --> 00:04:15.840 having to figure out all the mysterious issues 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.779 of life. Liberals tend to have a love affair 00:04:18.779 --> 00:04:21.199 with technology. Many simply want to plug into 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:23.259 a virtual reality with lots of free healthcare, 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.000 free public transportation, low -cost housing, 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:28.220 a government -bought bag of chips and a diet 00:04:28.220 --> 00:04:31.350 Pepsi. and all the other easily gained accoutrements 00:04:31.350 --> 00:04:34.850 of a stress -free socialist lifestyle. Their 00:04:34.850 --> 00:04:37.689 childish wants soon becomes a need for the government 00:04:37.689 --> 00:04:40.689 to protect them from difficult reality. Again, 00:04:40.790 --> 00:04:43.110 in the past, liberals could actually change on 00:04:43.110 --> 00:04:45.050 a dime much easier than conservatives because 00:04:45.050 --> 00:04:46.670 they didn't have to wade through the discomfort 00:04:46.670 --> 00:04:48.810 of having to sift their beliefs through objective 00:04:48.810 --> 00:04:51.069 reality. Most of them believe what they believe 00:04:51.069 --> 00:04:53.250 simply because they've been told what to believe 00:04:53.250 --> 00:04:55.490 by teachers and parents and the media from when 00:04:55.490 --> 00:04:57.949 they were toddlers until now. In other words, 00:04:58.009 --> 00:05:00.470 liberals aren't deep enough to be overly disturbed 00:05:00.470 --> 00:05:02.930 by the world's events long term. It does not 00:05:02.930 --> 00:05:04.790 matter that the climate hysteria has collapsed. 00:05:05.209 --> 00:05:07.230 As soon as they receive new marching orders from 00:05:07.230 --> 00:05:10.009 the boss man in the fake news media, they're 00:05:10.009 --> 00:05:12.290 off to the races once again. Instead of believing 00:05:12.290 --> 00:05:14.610 there are one trillion different genders, it 00:05:14.610 --> 00:05:16.069 could be something else entirely different, but 00:05:16.069 --> 00:05:19.050 equally as nuts. The reason why the fake media 00:05:19.050 --> 00:05:21.269 can rely on this is because they will need their 00:05:21.269 --> 00:05:23.509 useful idiots back in full force eventually to 00:05:23.509 --> 00:05:25.970 vote the way they are told by the likes of Rachel 00:05:25.970 --> 00:05:28.790 Madcow and all the rest of the dumb, cud -chewing, 00:05:28.810 --> 00:05:30.610 overpaid talking head spokeshole representatives 00:05:30.610 --> 00:05:32.990 of the deep state. And because their viewers 00:05:32.990 --> 00:05:35.050 lack critical thinking skills or even a reasonable 00:05:35.050 --> 00:05:37.709 hold on reality, they will dust off their depression 00:05:37.709 --> 00:05:40.350 and jump back into the fray to do whatever they're 00:05:40.350 --> 00:05:43.269 told. If the media tells them to be happy, then 00:05:43.269 --> 00:05:45.610 they will scrounge up enough joy juice to get 00:05:45.610 --> 00:05:47.680 them through the day. just as long as they vote 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.040 the way the mafia media bosses tell them to. 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.519 That is the story of the modern liberal useless 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:57.379 monkey. My point is, a large minority will come 00:05:57.379 --> 00:05:59.339 over from the dark side to being more conservative, 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.160 but most probably will not, because they will 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.939 feel they cannot. It will be too much effort 00:06:04.939 --> 00:06:07.240 for them, or so they will tell themselves. That's 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:09.939 because liberals are lazy. Their socialist values 00:06:09.939 --> 00:06:12.620 do not include a personal work ethic. It's much 00:06:12.620 --> 00:06:14.959 easier to just rob hard -working Peter to pay 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.600 lazy Paul. So where does this leave Democrats? 00:06:18.019 --> 00:06:21.500 They have two obvious choices. They either push 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:23.379 the woke envelope to even greater heights of 00:06:23.379 --> 00:06:26.120 stupidity, or they try to put the brakes on the 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:28.300 woke stupidity. Either choice has a guaranteed 00:06:28.300 --> 00:06:30.319 outcome. Again, that being either number one, 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:32.980 further alienation from the coming dawn of conservative 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:35.420 reality if they push the envelope towards woke, 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:38.720 or number two, a massive schism and a break in 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.459 liberalism if the most influential leaders say, 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.220 wait a second, we've pushed this woke stupidity 00:06:44.220 --> 00:06:47.449 way too far. If that side wins power, then more 00:06:47.449 --> 00:06:49.689 than half of the current Democrats will become 00:06:49.689 --> 00:06:51.990 completely alienated and cut off because that's 00:06:51.990 --> 00:06:54.850 the exact opposite of the pushing of the envelope 00:06:54.850 --> 00:06:57.750 as far left as possible ever since Trump first 00:06:57.750 --> 00:07:00.490 entered the political scene. Either scenario 00:07:00.490 --> 00:07:03.050 can only benefit conservative Republicans. Now, 00:07:03.129 --> 00:07:05.670 regarding this liberal psychological darkness, 00:07:06.009 --> 00:07:08.709 there has been a sick, even sexualized fetishization 00:07:08.709 --> 00:07:11.449 regarding children's oppression. And there is 00:07:11.449 --> 00:07:14.370 nothing sicker and more depraved than this. First 00:07:14.370 --> 00:07:15.910 of all, as a Christian, I believe demons are 00:07:15.910 --> 00:07:18.790 real. They cannot possess the saved, but these 00:07:18.790 --> 00:07:21.870 unsaved lost souls are all fair game. Just look 00:07:21.870 --> 00:07:24.589 at the crap Western youth is consumed by. Much 00:07:24.589 --> 00:07:26.629 entertainment is full of overt demonic influence 00:07:26.629 --> 00:07:28.589 which just jumps out at me whenever I see it, 00:07:28.629 --> 00:07:31.689 whereas I am quite certain that those who live 00:07:31.689 --> 00:07:34.110 on a steady diet of it may barely even notice 00:07:34.110 --> 00:07:36.769 its ubiquitousness. It's almost cool for these 00:07:36.769 --> 00:07:40.120 sad kids to say, I battle with depression. Like 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.199 they're all middle -aged housewives trapped inside 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:44.360 the Beverly Hills mansions waiting for the cheating 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.100 husbands to stagger home drunk after midnight. 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.800 It's tragically funny because they're far too 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:51.180 young and inexperienced to have earned the right 00:07:51.180 --> 00:07:53.759 to be that jaded, spoiled by their unripened 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.040 lives, and drunk on the Parisian ennui once only 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.060 reserved for the elites who have seen and done 00:07:59.060 --> 00:08:01.759 everything. But I'm waxing too poetic here. Think 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.540 about how sick these liberal kids are. Many believe 00:08:04.540 --> 00:08:07.759 in crap like microaggressions. You know who also 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.000 rails against microaggressions? Drunks who lose 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:12.779 it all in a dime and explode over some perceived 00:08:12.779 --> 00:08:15.439 trivial microaggression and then quickly proceed 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.399 to beat the holy crap out of their helpless, 00:08:17.540 --> 00:08:20.240 terrified children. Anyone who cowers before 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.180 any infantile accusation of being called a microaggressor 00:08:24.180 --> 00:08:27.420 is literally like the drunk's codependent enabler 00:08:27.420 --> 00:08:29.720 wife who just steps aside and allows this child 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.580 abuse to grow and fester. Loser lefties find 00:08:32.580 --> 00:08:35.580 themselves unable to shake off the yoke of extreme 00:08:35.580 --> 00:08:37.320 hardship in life because they strongly tend to 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.320 believe in the following three outrageous lies 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.519 that any happy conservative would instantly recognize 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.340 as childishness in the extreme. These from John 00:08:45.340 --> 00:08:47.899 Haight on AfterBattle .com. Number one, what 00:08:47.899 --> 00:08:51.179 doesn't kill you makes you weaker. Number two, 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.940 always trust your feelings. Number three, life 00:08:53.940 --> 00:08:55.779 is a battle between good people and evil people. 00:08:56.259 --> 00:08:59.559 These libtard beliefs should all be seen as obvious 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:02.669 foolishness. But again, number one, what doesn't 00:09:02.669 --> 00:09:05.429 kill you makes you weaker. Then how can one even 00:09:05.429 --> 00:09:08.929 live if one views life's trials as torture? Number 00:09:08.929 --> 00:09:12.610 two, always trust your feelings. No, this isn't 00:09:12.610 --> 00:09:15.570 Star Wars. Trust God, the Bible, and your own 00:09:15.570 --> 00:09:18.149 conscience, and you will be one trillion times 00:09:18.149 --> 00:09:21.549 better off than trusting your feelings. And number 00:09:21.549 --> 00:09:23.799 three. Life is a battle between good people and 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:27.419 evil people. This one's way off. Way off. The 00:09:27.419 --> 00:09:30.159 assumption is that liberals are good and conservatives 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.120 are evil. This is why liberals have such massive 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.700 egos, because their politics massively benefits 00:09:35.700 --> 00:09:38.559 their selfish psychology. By the way, there may 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:41.179 be no good people in the world. I don't know 00:09:41.179 --> 00:09:44.100 if I've ever met one. Don't get me wrong. There 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:47.120 is good in all people, but that is God -given. 00:09:47.220 --> 00:09:50.639 So, if we're honest... We are all ruled by selfish 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:53.220 desires, and that does not qualify to make us 00:09:53.220 --> 00:09:56.940 good. God is good. The following advice would 00:09:56.940 --> 00:09:59.639 do liberals a lot of good. In an article on AfterBabble 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.139 .com by John Haidt, it's important to reframe 00:10:02.139 --> 00:10:03.779 your emotional response as something that's under 00:10:03.779 --> 00:10:06.580 your control. Stop saying, so -and -so made me 00:10:06.580 --> 00:10:09.200 angry by doing X. Instead say, so -and -so did 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:12.100 X, and I reacted by becoming angry. Same article. 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:14.720 How a phone -based childhood breeds passivity. 00:10:15.230 --> 00:10:17.330 There are at least two ways to explain why liberal 00:10:17.330 --> 00:10:19.929 girls became depressed faster than other groups 00:10:19.929 --> 00:10:22.669 at the exact time around 2012, when teens traded 00:10:22.669 --> 00:10:24.950 their flip phones for smartphones and the girls 00:10:24.950 --> 00:10:27.970 joined Instagram en masse. The first and simplest 00:10:27.970 --> 00:10:29.870 explanation is that liberal girls simply use 00:10:29.870 --> 00:10:32.350 social media more than any other group. How to 00:10:32.350 --> 00:10:34.169 Understand the Well -Being Gap Between Liberals 00:10:34.169 --> 00:10:37.059 and Conservatives by Musa al -Gharbi. In a recent 00:10:37.059 --> 00:10:39.159 essay for Social Science and Medicine, mental 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.799 health epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.139 co -authors identified a significant gap in depressive 00:10:44.139 --> 00:10:46.100 attitudes between liberal and conservative teens. 00:10:46.379 --> 00:10:49.320 This gap was present in all years observed in 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:52.320 the study, 2005 -18. It grew significantly starting 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.980 in 2012. However, as depressive effect unilaterally 00:10:55.980 --> 00:10:58.629 spiked among liberals, Three years later, conservatives 00:10:58.629 --> 00:11:01.289 also began reporting increases in depression, 00:11:01.549 --> 00:11:03.730 although that rise tapered off relatively quickly 00:11:03.730 --> 00:11:05.889 while the increases among liberals continued. 00:11:06.470 --> 00:11:08.769 Other studies have found that people who score 00:11:08.769 --> 00:11:12.110 highly on dark triad characteristics, narcissism, 00:11:12.110 --> 00:11:14.549 psychopathy, Machiavellianism, may be especially 00:11:14.549 --> 00:11:16.649 likely to gravitate towards certain strains of 00:11:16.649 --> 00:11:20.860 social justice ideology. Likewise, with many 00:11:20.860 --> 00:11:24.720 inclined towards authoritarianism. However, positing 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.440 that the Great Awakening may have influenced 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.299 levels of reported mental distress seems to beg 00:11:30.299 --> 00:11:32.620 a more fundamental question. Are there compelling, 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:36.019 empirically -based reasons to suspect that liberalism 00:11:36.019 --> 00:11:38.419 does not just correlate with adverse psychological 00:11:38.419 --> 00:11:41.379 states, but might actually exacerbate depression, 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:43.759 anxiety, and other problems among those who embrace 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:47.629 it? The short answer is yes. Cross -cultural 00:11:47.629 --> 00:11:50.289 studies have shown that more liberal countries 00:11:50.289 --> 00:11:52.570 and more liberal regions within countries tend 00:11:52.570 --> 00:11:55.350 to have higher rates of mental disorders. Aha! 00:11:55.629 --> 00:11:58.570 It's been theorized that reduced levels of social 00:11:58.570 --> 00:12:01.090 constraints may be a key factor driving this 00:12:01.090 --> 00:12:03.409 pattern. In contexts where traditional forms 00:12:03.409 --> 00:12:05.070 of life, traditional social roles, and social 00:12:05.070 --> 00:12:08.490 structures are undermined, the acts of self -presentation, 00:12:08.529 --> 00:12:10.490 self -management, and self -creation become much 00:12:10.490 --> 00:12:13.580 more demanding and fraught. This... it has been 00:12:13.580 --> 00:12:16.019 argued, contributes to heightened anxiety and 00:12:16.019 --> 00:12:20.080 depression within liberal areas. You don't have 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.240 to read too much between the lines here to note 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.179 that if you are free to just do whatever you 00:12:24.179 --> 00:12:27.279 want, whenever you want, there is an anti -social 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:31.240 price tag attached. People are social animals. 00:12:31.620 --> 00:12:34.659 I discovered long ago, it is impossible to be 00:12:34.659 --> 00:12:37.200 truly happy when you're stone cold alone all 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.440 the time. Unless, of course, your past was filled 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.220 with psychopaths. This study's obvious conclusion. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.019 Liberals are far more likely to be depressed, 00:12:45.220 --> 00:12:48.179 anxious, or otherwise neurotic compared to conservatives. 00:12:48.659 --> 00:12:51.740 From David Craig in Columbia Magazine. American 00:12:51.740 --> 00:12:54.059 adults who identify as politically liberal have 00:12:54.059 --> 00:12:56.120 long reported lower levels of happiness and psychological 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.360 well -being than conservatives, a trend that 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:00.379 mental health experts suspect is at least partly 00:13:00.379 --> 00:13:02.419 explained by liberals' tendency to spend more 00:13:02.419 --> 00:13:04.720 time worrying about stress -inducing topics like 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.320 racial injustice, income inequality, gun violence, 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.379 and climate change. Unquote. This is what I call 00:13:11.379 --> 00:13:14.279 no -shaving -cream Sherlock. Notice the fascinating 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:17.360 string of the aforementioned air quotes pathologies. 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.779 Every single one will not add one nanosecond 00:13:20.779 --> 00:13:23.480 of sleeplessness to any conservative worthy of 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:26.600 the name. That's because they're all fake. Every 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:30.600 single one. Again, the list. Racial injustice, 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:32.620 income inequality, gun violence, and climate 00:13:32.620 --> 00:13:37.059 change. In other words, libertards are sociopathologically 00:13:37.059 --> 00:13:40.840 worried about and completely consumed over Eh, 00:13:40.980 --> 00:13:44.679 not much. From Matthew Iglesias on slowboring 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:47.799 .com, some of it might be selection effect, with 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.159 progressive politics becoming a more congenial 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.820 home for people who are miserable. But I think 00:13:52.820 --> 00:13:55.539 some of it is poor behavior by adult progressives, 00:13:55.580 --> 00:13:58.960 many of whom now valorize depressive effect as 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.240 a sign of political commitment. The thing about 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:04.000 depression, though, is that it's bad. He continues, 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.360 whatever it is they are worried about, depression 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:11.289 is not the answer. because it never is. In keeping 00:14:11.289 --> 00:14:13.450 with that, the Politics of Depression authors 00:14:13.450 --> 00:14:15.710 seem very interested in the idea that liberal 00:14:15.710 --> 00:14:18.049 teens are depressed because they correctly perceived 00:14:18.049 --> 00:14:22.629 injustice in the world. Unquote. That's an odd 00:14:22.629 --> 00:14:25.330 statement. Conservatives don't perceive injustice 00:14:25.330 --> 00:14:27.629 in the world? Isn't that the very thing that 00:14:27.629 --> 00:14:29.830 Christians are hyper -aware of because it is 00:14:29.830 --> 00:14:33.029 a central tenet in our faith? The key difference 00:14:33.029 --> 00:14:36.169 is that we know why it's here, and we also know 00:14:36.169 --> 00:14:39.059 the answer to that injustice. That being acceptance 00:14:39.059 --> 00:14:42.220 of Christ. Liberals' answer was always the devil's 00:14:42.220 --> 00:14:45.940 answer. That being socialism. Time magazine recommends 00:14:45.940 --> 00:14:49.179 group crying and forest bathing to help cope 00:14:49.179 --> 00:14:51.799 with conservative success. Sounds great. Group 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:54.740 crying and forest bathing. Oh, sounds so nice 00:14:54.740 --> 00:14:56.799 and relaxing. Because there ain't nothing else 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.320 they can do. A fascinating study was done. When 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:01.899 liberals needed to survive, then mysteriously, 00:15:01.899 --> 00:15:04.620 they quickly did conservative things. But when 00:15:04.620 --> 00:15:07.419 it comes to saving America... Well, just act 00:15:07.419 --> 00:15:10.460 as careless as you want. It's okay. So how do 00:15:10.460 --> 00:15:13.460 libtards start to grow up? The root of happiness 00:15:13.460 --> 00:15:16.700 is contained within the gift of hardship. This 00:15:16.700 --> 00:15:19.419 from the Epoch Times. Stanford University's Emma 00:15:19.419 --> 00:15:22.100 Sapala writes that embracing hardship rather 00:15:22.100 --> 00:15:24.279 than just merely accepting hardship is actually 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.460 the secret to living a happy life. The Chinese 00:15:26.460 --> 00:15:30.139 say, Chi ku chi fu. Eating bitterness is good 00:15:30.139 --> 00:15:33.000 fortune. Highlights the idea that there is the 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:34.980 opportunity for wisdom and growth in suffering, 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:38.720 she wrote. The key is to view it like a Stoic. 00:15:38.980 --> 00:15:41.259 Ancient China was not the only traditional culture 00:15:41.259 --> 00:15:43.620 to embrace the inevitability of suffering. The 00:15:43.620 --> 00:15:45.159 Stoics of ancient Greece and Rome understood 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.559 this as well. Isaac Witchley, of the site Unbounded 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:50.120 Wisdom, discovered the importance of embracing 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:53.299 hardship in order to obtain inner peace. Through 00:15:53.299 --> 00:15:55.179 experience, he came to appreciate the wisdom 00:15:55.179 --> 00:15:57.419 of Stoicism as he discovered that no one can 00:15:57.419 --> 00:15:59.440 escape suffering and hardship no matter how hard 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.100 they may try. Hardships are, therefore, part 00:16:02.100 --> 00:16:03.860 of the flow of life, he said. Accepting them 00:16:03.860 --> 00:16:06.120 results in inner peace because we'll stop worrying 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:08.480 when we anticipate hardships and we'll never 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.240 be depressed or stressed when hardships arrive. 00:16:10.539 --> 00:16:13.240 The article continues, they exhibit many admirable 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:15.440 characteristics, such as a sense of personal 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:17.720 responsibility, humility, frugality, and a strong 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:20.120 work ethic, commitment, integrity, and self -sacrifice, 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:22.960 all traits of a strong moral character. Maybe 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:24.980 enduring hardship actually is good for us, unquote. 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:28.820 Please note that every single trait is anti -liberal. 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.740 By today's definition, from the Epoch Times, 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:34.259 doom scrolling has been linked to existential 00:16:34.259 --> 00:16:36.980 anxiety, pessimism, and a grim outlook on one's 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:39.080 life and future. This from the same article, 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:40.940 and honestly, I find it impossible to believe, 00:16:40.980 --> 00:16:43.039 but I'll quote it anyway. Each day, the average 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.440 person spends about 108 minutes scrolling on 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.740 social media. In that time, one's thumb travels 00:16:47.740 --> 00:16:51.679 approximately 38 ,880 centimeters, roughly the 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:54.379 height of the Empire State Building. I don't 00:16:54.379 --> 00:16:56.259 believe it, but okay, there it is. So why is 00:16:56.259 --> 00:16:59.500 this? Negativity is incentivized. Anxiety and 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:01.740 fear direct our attention. Media leverages these 00:17:01.740 --> 00:17:04.019 emotions to drive consumption. An analysis published 00:17:04.019 --> 00:17:06.839 in 2023 in Nature Human Behavior demonstrated 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.400 that headlines with negative words were directly 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.259 correlated to increased open rates. The researchers 00:17:12.259 --> 00:17:14.339 determined that each additional negative word 00:17:14.339 --> 00:17:18.400 increased the click -through rate by 2 .3%. We 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:20.799 only have the illusion of control. The human 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.480 brain has a natural negativity bias, meaning 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:26.079 it is more attuned to negative stimuli, a trait 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:28.880 that once helped our ancestors survive by prioritizing 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:30.680 potential threats and danger in their environment. 00:17:31.099 --> 00:17:33.619 Social media platforms exploit these instincts. 00:17:33.940 --> 00:17:37.119 Unquote. Action step. Everything in the liberal 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:40.339 tool chest embraces mental and spiritual frailty, 00:17:40.380 --> 00:17:44.099 even slavery. Satan's main goal is to deceive. 00:17:44.750 --> 00:17:47.410 These poor liberal victims have no anchor to 00:17:47.410 --> 00:17:50.569 reality. They're like ghost ships lost on stormy 00:17:50.569 --> 00:17:53.529 seas. Like the prodigal son, we must pray for 00:17:53.529 --> 00:17:56.130 their safe return. But even praying is not enough. 00:17:56.309 --> 00:17:58.269 The more freedoms we retrieve through the Trump 00:17:58.269 --> 00:18:01.589 administration, the more it's on us to maintain 00:18:01.589 --> 00:18:05.369 these freedoms. John Adams wrote, Our Constitution 00:18:05.369 --> 00:18:08.109 was made only for a moral and religious people. 00:18:08.250 --> 00:18:11.690 It is wholly inadequate to the government of 00:18:11.690 --> 00:18:14.730 any other. This can only mean that we must reform 00:18:14.730 --> 00:18:17.789 our churches as soon as possible. Don't attend 00:18:17.789 --> 00:18:20.809 any even remotely vocified church. Only attend 00:18:20.809 --> 00:18:22.809 chapter -by -chapter, verse -by -verse teaching 00:18:22.809 --> 00:18:25.349 churches. And the very best churches strongly 00:18:25.349 --> 00:18:29.009 encourage citizen activism. You've been listening 00:18:29.009 --> 00:18:31.970 to No PC Allowed. I am Mac Iverson. We will meet 00:18:31.970 --> 00:18:33.269 again next week and every week.