PJ Media

Since shrinks are flawed human beings like the rest of us, many of the critiques here ring true, but that is not to say that the supposedly more conservative desire to acquire success, material wealth, and “something to pass on to one’s family” is neurosis free. Can we face the fact that the “what’s mine is mine” and no guvment can take it from me by force” mindset has its own (or maybe the same) set of issues? Some people have this (what seems to me) instinctive, even driven, sense of reactinging” when they perceive that ANYTHING is being taken away from or charged to them or their family, reactions which amaze me (which is only to say that there are different kinds of folks out there.) Whether my tax rate is 25% or 28% in any given year does not occupy my mind much at all, but it seems to drive many folks up the wall and evoke all sorts of bluster. Was it our toilet training which was different, our religious training, or whether or not people would fall down after we threw our left hooks? Someone has already suggested that having been stuffed into a locker in high school is a lefty shrink thing, leaving us to wonder what the politics of the people stuffing them in the lockers has turned out to be. The only thing that bothered me as much as being worried that my kids might get piked on, was worrying that they might be bullies.

It would be fascinating to see if lefties and righties, are, or are not, gratified by the same basic human needs…and then where the significant differences (if any) are. And finally, I’m not at all sure that it is a lefty righty thing. I would speculate that DRIVEN righties and lefties have much more in common than they would with easy-going, loosey goosey folks on their own side of the political spectrum, but that is just a speculation.