Reply #37: Noticed something in the seventies

[PATRICK]

The war had been and was still going on. After spending a bit of time outside the country and coming back... no even before when looking at American fellow travelers...the whole damned population seemed under some kind of crippling neurosis. I know that sounds odd and of course after settling back in I began not to notice it so much, but that was this depressed miasma, inability to think straight, anxiety, preference for dull colors, dull everything. Even some of the movies in their glamorous way had this gritty fog about them.

Then peace and disco hit. Carter mentioned malaise and got trounced. Apparently the bad stuff lingered on anyway.

Wasn't one study posted here that right wingers tend to exhibit some of these traits as opposed to liberals?