May we please stop stigmatizing mental health care in this country with threads in which DUers

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34. Indoctrinated is accurate without any reference to

mental health. Anyone in the right set of circumstances can be indoctrinated. People under emotional stress or with poor critical reasoning skills can be vulnerable to it and not be mentally ill.

And mentally ill people can function well and rationally in society without becoming indoctrinated beyond reason by hate messages.

Indoctrination seems to be the appropriate term to use regarding MAGAs. I believe that many of them get sucked into the MAGAverse to satisfy some emotional need. Hatred toward others can be a means of dealing with insecurity and low self esteem. That us vs. them thing is a way to be assured of being in the "us" category by hating and dehumanizing the "them" people. It is twisted "thinking" based on emotions, but is not mental illness.

I have been guilty of using the term "nut cases" a few times, but in the future will not be so lazy about choosing more accurate language for people whose political ideas show evidence of indictrination combined with poor critical reasoning skills and an emotional need to hate.