Imagine you’re a psychiatrist with decades of experience. In recent years, you’ve noticed a new category of patients who possess all of the following traits:
- They’re well educated, often with a master’s degree or more.
- They’re gainfully employed, often in prominent positions.
- Politically, they are always Left of Centre.
- When significant political events occur, which they don’t support, they embark on a tirade of expletives on social media, demonizing their political opponents.
- The aforementioned outbursts causes them to:
- Lose their jobs.
- Delete/Hide/Protect their social media.
The most recent example of this is Laura Helmuth, editor-in-chief of Scientific American. Her LinkedIn profile is still up but her Twitter page is now locked down. Young people are supposed to look up to the best and brightest, but then some of them publicly share things like this. Perhaps this episode exposed that she was neither the best, nor bright? Perhaps it’s proof positive that she was hired for reasons other than being intelligent and competent? Unfortunately, her tenure at Scientific American has destroyed the reputation of this once highly regarded magazine.
It’s easy enough to conclude that people like her are infected with TDS or the Woke Mind Virus but a new term is surely waiting to be launched, to describe such hateful, insane people. Do share your best ideas!