Nobody cares about mental health more than progressives, Democrats, and Liberals, they say. The political Left has long urged universal health care, including mental health care. It’s the Left that’s most strongly advocated for the humane treatment of the mentally ill since the 19th Century. In the 1960s, progressives advocated for residential care and a move away from the giant and often cruel asylums. During the same period, it was liberals and progressives who pioneered the human potential and self-help movements. And it’s been Democrats in the US, Liberals in Canada, and Left-wing parties in Europe that have advocated for greater compassion, humanity, and nuance in the treatment of people with both serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and more curable psychiatric disorders such as ADHD, OCD, and depression.

And yet nobody is inflicting more cruelty, barbarism, and inhumanity upon people with mental illness and psychiatric disorders than liberals, progressives, and the political Left. Across the Western world, progressive politicians, mental health care advocates, and leading liberal experts are affirming and worsening, rather than properly treating, suicidality, anxiety, depression, addiction, and gender dysphoria.

[That’s because progressivism consists mainly of nihilism and narcissism in its rejection of reality and objective truth. They seize on these issues not to solve them but to further their goals of deconstructing Western civilization into a chaotic mess that will require their leadership to resolve, at least in theory. Unfortunately, we are watching it play out in practice now. — Ed]