"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule". -Friedrich Nietzsche.

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[–]chadwickofwv 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Insanity in individuals is no longer rare. Over 50% of Democrat voters are on some type of psychiatric medication. That is what we call very common.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Over 50% of Democrat voters are on some type of psychiatric medication.

Got a source for that? Because it kinda sounds like "over 50% of Republican voters are addicted to opioids".

50% is a lot. Overall, the use of psychiatric meds in America is about 17%, and it's mostly whites (one in five) who take them.

Without a reliable source showing different, I don't think it is credible that the use of brain candy will be exceedingly different between D and R voters. Maybe Dems would use more anti-depressants and Republicans more pain killers but I wouldn't want to put money on that.

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Most of the manipulation the groups in power come from manipulating the masses. This quote from Nietzsche touches upon the subject.

Nietzsche thought that despite the idea that individual people are usually thought as being "crazy", it is kind of common in history to see how degenerate groups of people can get.