Just gonna copy and paste my response from the thread that i'm pretty sure inspired this one:

It's cool as hell thar liberals have weaponized therapy speak in order attack others, manipulate people and avoid self reflection. It's dressed up ableism and also a more clear cut abuse tactic than what they're trying to pin on Trump here. Also they actually are doing the thing, Trump wasn't part of the taking away as far as I'm aware.

Liberals are just another Measurhead with updated lingo.

Chuds (the other flavour of liberal) do this too, they say anyone left of them is "mentally unwell" etc. etc.

Liberal ideology hinges on the idea that competing interests do not exist. Rather, there are people who are confused or they're malicious. The ideology proposes that liberalism is the correct political arrangement for everyone, regardless of position or status, and that falling out of the system is either a problem that can be tweaked or personal failure.

Liberals believe their worldview is like gravity. If you're not a liberal, then you're confused, stupid, or lying. They literally cannot fathom that a capitalist would have a different set of interests than the working class. They can't fathom what imperialism is.

The only thing they can fathom are personal failures or things they see as clouding a person's proper judgement. A liberal is a type of person who believes if you show enough charts and graphs to someone, they'll align themselves politically with the liberal project. If they don't, they can be written off as an aberration or a saboteur

libs have been doing shit like this for a few hundred years at this point. othering those who would criticise their ideology by saying they are childish, mentally deficient, etc. i imagine since the "end of history" it has intensified a huge amount.

Perfect thread to recommend "Empire of Normality" by Robert Chapman

This self-contradictory "mental health culture", where libs celebrate self-acceptance and the aesthetics of getting help, while at the same time they pathologize "bad" people/behaviour and reduce bad people/behaviour to diagnostic labels aligns perfectly with neoliberalism.

At a fundamental level, neoliberalism is incompatible with mentally ill/mad/neurodivergent liberation. To the masses, having a mental illness or being neurodivergent means being defective (and to the capitalist class, defective (non-exploitable) labour), so getting help means getting fixed and getting back to work. Pathologizing people and reducing them to a diagnostic label means erasing everything else about that person, particularly their social/historical context, so that being defective (at an individual level) is the sole explanation for their being or behaviour.

It is a way for libs to avoid having to do a material analysis. Making one would make the ideological similarity between libs and chuds too apparent for their own comfort so instead they turn to all sorts of pseudo-explanations, pathologising being one of them.

"Who hurt you?"

ooh i hate that, i can feel the smugness drip through the screen

Like I get the desire to get mad at boomers as a whole

I've been guilty of this on occasion, maybe because a lot of the boomers I work with are really annoying.

Guess I've got to kill the liberal in my head.