Should conservatism be classified as a mental disorder?

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73. Think of re-education camps when you think of how the right would "fix" the Left's pathology.

Isn't that what the Leftist Mao did? When you think of pathologizing as "acceptable," think of ways that people construct reality by consensus, which we often construe as a "bubble." That way, the "acceptable" idea has limited boundaries. People will use medical metaphors for others' beliefs -- "cancer," "sick," "crazy." Don't take those too literally.

We shouldn't really go down the "politics as pathology" road, or else all connected views, from even fact-based personal opinions to fact-based world views or other current belief systems that don't support left wing politics, can get thrown into that diagnosis.

Doctors need much longer time to diagnose mental disorders than this campaign affords us laypeople, so my view is that we laypeople shouldn't diagnose politics as a mental disorder.

That is the way of fascists. For example, ask Trump who he thinks is "sick."