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“The politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among U.S. adolescents by political beliefs,” was published in the journal “Social Science & Medicine — Mental Health” in December 2022. From 2005 to 2018, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone compared levels of depression between conservative 12th-graders who “support of individual liberty, right-wing social and religious values,” versus liberalism, i.e. support for “social justice” and other woke values. The research concluded that “conservatives reported lower average depressive affect, self-derogation and loneliness scores and higher self-esteem scores than all other groups.”

In “The Toxicity of Woke Culture,” Hermes Solenzol, professor of neuroscience at UCLA explained, “Chronic fear, manifesting as anxiety and depression, saps our energy and leads to despair. Woke culture weaponized fear in several ways: as a misguided way to motivate activists, to attack its enemies, and as to punish those who deviate from its dogmas.” Anger, Solenzol points out, is a form of stress and can be contagious. “Activists pass it from one another, leading to a political culture steep in anxiety and distress. Chronic anger also becomes indistinguishable from hatred… and often leads to violence.”

“In addition, when looking at all categories surveyed, researchers (Gimbrone) found that the more educated families were, the more likely their child was to be depressed.”

In other words, we are confronted with a sizeable group of rich, spoiled, enraged, self-pitying, scapegoating, violent thugs who blame you for their shortcomings instead of themselves.

But they are merely the puppets. “Progressive institutional leaders have specifically…

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