New research finds that left-wing authoritarians — people that support socialist dictators … people that support censorship … [who] think there should be a committee to decide what you should be allowed to say — that it’s almost identical with narcissism. And you can sort of see why, which is that you have a strong sense of entitlement. I see this on the censorship stuff all the time. “Of course we — we the good people — should decide what you’re allowed to say and hear on social media platforms.” That’s a sense of entitlement; a sense of grandiosity; and then there’s a kind of psychopathy, or anti-social part of it, which is that they don’t even care or even think about the impact on other people.… They say they do. But really it’s about feeling powerful and domineering. So, lo and behold, the ideology that claims to be more caring and compassionate for the vulnerable actually ends up caring the least about them.
Michael Shellenberger on the Winston Marshall podcast, #009, “Worst Medical Scandal in History.” 1:57 mark or thereabouts.
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