Deranged Democrats Begin to Fret the Mental Health Gap

Democrat poll analyst Nate Silver notices that Democrats are winning with those with diagnosed mental illness.

And, on the other hand, are being trounced among the much larger group of people in good mental health.

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11

Nate Silver's latest blog post notes that conservatives are up 31 points among those with self-described excellent mental health, and down 26 among those with poor mental health.

Democrats have turned themselves into the party of the neurotic, the unstable, and the miserable.

If you're happy and well-adjusted, vote Republican.

It's almost as if the Democrat Party is the party of grievance and misery and mental illness and scapegoating others for your huge failures.

Below, he uses the term "Village Democrats." He doesn't mean that they're part of the Village People, who of course have realigned and now support Trump.

He uses the metaphor of "The Village" to describe risk-adverse, controlling people -- Democrat Establishment and Regime people -- and "The River" to describe risk-taking, entrepreneurial explorer types.

It turns out that young men are turned off by neuroticism, hysteria, weakling grievance-mumbling, and efforts to control them.

Meanwhile, unlike during the Bush Era, moderate men might think it's those Villagey Democrats who want to police their speech and their behavior. And that they're just generally unchill, turning everything into a "political conversation". Last year, Trump fared better among voters who don't consume a lot of political news, which liberals like to read as a sign that these voters were poorly informed. But that could also indicate that Trump was winning the more apolitical, "normie" vote.

Obviously, this mapping is far from perfect. Some Silicon Valley leaders are free speech hypocrites and they mix uncomfortably with other Republicans on issues like tariffs and immigration. And although some Riverians see themselves as classical liberals who want government to get out of the way, others are also not so keen on democracy. This faction of the River tends to believe in the "great man theory of history" and they don't want to let anything stand in their way.

Still, I don't doubt that some of Democrats' problem with young men is that they're seen as what in the poker world we'd call "nits": neurotic, risk-averse, sticklers for the rules, always up in everyone's business.

And it's almost as if people who are mentally healthy do not want mentally ill people making decisions on their behalf.

What an inversion -- remember when mentally sane people made decisions on behalf of their mentally-incompetent patients? Now it's literally the other way around. The lunatics run the asylum.

posted by Ace at 01:17 PM

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