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Why Are Young Liberals So Depressed?

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  • Why Are Young Liberals So Depressed?

    And conservative kids not so much?

    Earlier this month the CDC released the results of its Youth Risk Behavior Survey of American teenagers. The findings have been much discussed, with the focus largely and understandably on the fact that teenage girls are suffering from extraordinarily high levels of sadness and depression. But I think the conversation has overlooked a few things.

    But I want to talk about something Goldberg mentions but doesn’t focus on: a 2021 paper by Catherine Gimbrone, Lisa Bates, Seth Prins, and Katherine Keyes titled “The politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among US adolescents by political beliefs.” The CDC survey doesn’t ask teens about their political beliefs, but Gimbrone et. al. find not only divergence by gender, but divergence by political ideology. Breaking things down by gender and ideology, they find that liberal girls have the highest increase in depressive affect and conservative boys have the least. But liberal boys are more depressed than conservative girls, suggesting an important independent role for political ideology.

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    https://www.slowboring.com/p/why-are...s-so-depressed
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    Well the liberal kids are being told they are all racists if they are white and that the world is going to end in 10 years and that everyone is out to get them. Who wouldn't be depressed. They are living in a dystopian fantasy nightmare.
    Last edited by Sparko; 03-09-2023, 02:14 PM.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      Well the liberal kids are being told they are all racists if they are white and that the world is going to end in 10 years and that everyone is out to get them. Who wouldn't be depressed. They are living in a dystopian fantasy.
      Right, I think they have unrealistic view of the world. What the world should be...
      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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      • #4
        It is inherent in liberals to be unhappy. Even if they were magically given everything they (think they) want, they would just find something else to grouse about. It's a rather classic victim mentality.
        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
        Than a fool in the eyes of God


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        • #5
          Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
          It is inherent in liberals to be unhappy. Even if they were magically given everything they (think they) want, they would just find something else to grouse about. It's a rather classic victim mentality.
          From the link:

          Some of it might be selection effect, with progressive politics becoming a more congenial home for people who are miserable. But I think some of it is poor behavior by adult progressives, many of whom now valorize depressive affect as a sign of political commitment. The thing about depression, though, is that it’s bad. Separate from the Smith/Levitz project of arguing about recent political trends, I think we need some kind of society-level cognitive behavioral therapy to convince people that whatever it is they are worried about, depression is not the answer. Because it never is.
          Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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          • #6
            Probably high internet usage is the mediating effect in all the OP findings. Social media is having an infamously harsh effect on teenage girls in particular.

            Conservative yokels in their own bubbles probably aren't using the internet much.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Starlight View Post

              Conservative yokels in their own bubbles probably aren't using the internet much.
              It seems that that is a good thing, a very good thing...
              Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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              • #8
                Correlation does not equal causation. Maybe depressed people are more likely to be liberal because of some third factor?Or they go to therapy, and the counselor is a liberal that lets that bias impact what they say?
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  Probably high internet usage is the mediating effect in all the OP findings. Social media is having an infamously harsh effect on teenage girls in particular.

                  Conservative yokels in their own bubbles probably aren't using the internet much.
                  And yet, you think that the Russian misinformation machine on Facebook and Twitter was able to influence them?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                    Probably high internet usage is the mediating effect in all the OP findings. Social media is having an infamously harsh effect on teenage girls in particular.

                    Conservative yokels in their own bubbles probably aren't using the internet much.
                    Or from what I have seen, they use the Internet but not much (or any) social media.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                      Well the liberal kids are being told they are all racists if they are white and that the world is going to end in 10 years and that everyone is out to get them. Who wouldn't be depressed. They are living in a dystopian fantasy nightmare.
                      To be liberal these days means to be ever-angry. Even if you have to gin-up something to be angry over. Long gone are the days of the "happy warriors" on the left. I would think that staying mad at everything all the time is depressing.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by CivilDiscourse View Post
                        And yet, you think that the Russian misinformation machine on Facebook and Twitter was able to influence them?
                        OP groups would have been too young to vote. Boomer conservatives are infamous users of facebook and naive believers in every fake news article they see on it.
                        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
                          Correlation does not equal causation. Maybe depressed people are more likely to be liberal because of some third factor?Or they go to therapy, and the counselor is a liberal that lets that bias impact what they say?
                          Liberal politics are simply depressing.

                          But I think politics are often handed down from one generation to the next. I've met people who never question their politics or religious beliefs, they just follow family tradition.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by CivilDiscourse View Post

                            And yet, you think that the Russian misinformation machine on Facebook and Twitter was able to influence them?
                            Perhaps it influenced liberals (i.e. getting them to stay home).

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                            • #15
                              Could be that the composition of the Supreme Court is depressing liberals.

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