Why Progressives And Leftists Are Dangerous

Michael Savage once described a liberal-progressive as someone who “would break your legs in order to give you crutches.” I didn’t fully understand what he meant until I discovered the writings of Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist, who founded the school of Analytical Psychology. His understanding of the psychology of many of his patients effectively explains the mindset of liberal-progressives but, particularly, leftists, which all posses one identical trait, what Jung termed “shadow projection.”

The trait manifests itself when someone begins projecting their dark energy onto others with the absolute conviction of being righteous. This characteristic doesn’t announce itself through obvious aggression or toxic behavior. It’s far more subtle and that’s precisely what makes it so nefarious. They appear as normal, even charming people, who seem completely harmless on the surface and genuinely caring of others. But this is a deception. But here’s what most people don’t understand about shadow projection. it’s not just psychological theory, it’s a demonstrable phenomenon.

In 1913, Jung treated a patient who would forever change his understanding of the danger within the human psychic. This patient was charming, articulate, very well educated and seem genuinely concerned about others. But Jung notice something that shook him to the core. Every person this individual disliked, shared identical traits to that which Jung, recognized as the patient’s own denied characteristics.

Jung’s patient wasn’t just mistaken about people. He was systematically projecting his shadow– dark energy, onto the target of his psychosis. This patient had destroyed three relationships, gotten colleagues fired, and driven his own brother to a nervous breakdown. All while maintaining a genuine claim of innocence and believing himself to be the victim.

Jung realized he wasn’t dealing with simple misunderstanding. He was witnessing the most dangerous psychological mechanism in human relationships, unconscious shadow projection, combined with absolute conviction. But, that’s not the most disturbing part. The most concerning part is what modern neuroscience has revealed about this process. When someone projects their dark energy with conviction, their brain literally “rewrites reality” to support their distorted perceptions. Sounds familiar? It should. You see it everyday in liberal-progressives and leftists’ absurd perspectives.

Research has showed that during intense projection episodes, the same neural networks activate as during delusional states. The person isn’t consciously lying, their brain has actually altered their perception of reality to validate their views. This explains why shadow projectors are so convincing to others. They genuinely believe their distorted perceptions because their neural filtering system has been hijacked by their unconscious mind. But here’s where it gets truly dangerous. The projector’s conviction creates what psychologist call “reality distortion fields.” They don’t just see you incorrectly. They convince others to see you through their distorted lens.

Jung documented case after case, where shadow projectors destroyed reputations, relationships, and entire social networks simply by spreading their unconscious projections with absolute conviction. Think about the last time someone accused you of motivations you never had, emotions you never felt, or intentions you never possessed? If they did it with complete certainty, immune to any evidence you provided, you were experiencing shadow projection in real time.

Here’s what makes shadow projection so insidious. The stronger the projection, the more convinced the projector becomes of its self-conceived fantasy. It’s a psychological feedback loop that can trap entire families, the workplace, communities and societies. Ancient wisdom traditions understood this phenomenon long before Jung articulated it scientifically. Buddhism speaks of the dark mirror that reflects one’s own impurities as foreign objects. Christianity warns about seeing the splinter in another’s eye while ignoring the beam in your own.

But Jung went deeper. He discovered that shadow projectors don’t just perceive reality, they create alternate realities that feel completely real to them and increasingly real to others too. The warning sign appears when you notice a complete disconnection between how someone describes you and your actual internal experience, they attribute thoughts, feelings, and motivations to you that exist nowhere in your consciousness and they do it with such certainty, that you start questioning your own reality. That’s shadow projection.

This psychological gaslighting is an unconscious reality distortion that can drive targets to genuine psychological breakdown, but the projection itself isn’t the real danger. The real danger of shadow projectors is the recruiting of others into their distorted reality collective. Of entire groups seeing the world through one person’s dark projections. Think Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Dr. Leon Festinger‘s research on “cognitive dissonance,” explains how this happens. When someone presents their projections with absolute conviction, others experience psychological pressure to align their perceptions with the projector, rather than trust their own contradictory observations.

This is how families turn against scapegoated members. This is how our workplace turn against innocent employees. This is how our communities destroy individuals based on projected accusations that have no basis in reality in which the projector, becomes the center of a psychological storm, unconsciously or purposely organizing others into attacking the very qualities they cannot accept in themselves.

Jung observed this pattern in his most dangerous patients. They didn’t just project their shadows, they created entire social systems around their projections. The victims of these projections became isolated, gaslit and eventually, psychologically broken by the collective delusion.

Jung also discovered that the shadow projections were found in both sexes, but was more prevalent in women than men. This can serve as an explanation as to why a disproportionate amount of educated women, who identify as single, feminists, Democrat, liberal and progressive, are the loudest megaphones of absurdities in American politics and the biggest consumers of psychotropic drugs in our country.

Jung recorded how no amount of rational explanation, clarification or contrary evidence to a projector’s belief, could shake their perceptions. They interpret your attempts to correct their misperceptions as further proof of the accuracy of their own perceptions. Another phenomenon associated with shadow projectors was their strong emotional reactions to perceived slides or behaviors, that others found minor or nonexistent.

Shadow projectors subtly, and sometimes overly, try to get others to see you the way they do often through seemingly concerned conversations about your character or behavior, in which case, you’re not dealing with simple misunderstanding or personality conflict, you’re facing unconscious shadow projection that will escalate until it destroys something. Your reputation, your relationships, your spirit or your sanity.

Shadow projection follows a predictable escalation pattern that Jung mapped through decades of clinical observation: Stage one, initial projection. Subtle accusations, or attributions, that don’t match your reality, which you dismiss as innocent misunderstandings. Stage two, conviction crystallization. The projections become more frequent, and certain with the projector showing no doubt about their perceptions, despite your attempted corrections.

Stage three, reality distortion. The projector begins interpreting everything you do through their projection filter. Neutral actions become evidence of malicious intent. Stage four, social recruitment. They begin sharing their concerns about you with others, always from a place of caring. Stage five, collective possession. Others begin seeing you through the projector’s lens and you find yourself defending against accusations that seem to come from nowhere. Stage six, systematic exclusion. The group organizes around the shared projection, systematically, excluding or attacking you for characteristics that exist primarily in the projector.

But shadow projection isn’t the only dangerous sign identified by Jung. He discovered an even more dangerous psychological state: ego inflation. While shadow projectors are unconsciously dangerous, inflated individuals are consciously convinced of their own righteousness, while being completely blind to their shadow. They identify with archetype energies that exceed their personal capacity for integration and unlike obvious narcissists, who are easily spotted, inflated individuals often appear spiritually evolved, morally superior or intellectually enlightened.

This egotistical dynamic makes shadow projectors infinitely more dangerous, particularly, those who gravitate toward political office. They can cause enormous damage to national institutions, societies and entire nations through their absolute conviction in their own righteousness, in a sort of Manifest Destiny, the term coined sometime before 1820. Manifest Destiny is the idea that the individual or entity, is destined by whatever power they believe in, to fulfill their purpose and too many people willingly submit to their authority.