I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST Who Was the REAL St. Patrick? PLUS Is Leftism Bad for Your Mental Health?
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Mar 17, 2026 A lively dive into the real St. Patrick: his enslavement, dramatic return to Ireland, missionary work, use of the shamrock, and surprising abolitionist legacy. A separate segment explores why left-leaning ideology links to higher anxiety and depression, the brain’s “uh-oh” alarm, dangers of overgeneralizing trauma, and how therapy counters chronic fear.
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Leftism Correlates With Higher Mental Health Burden
- Leftist political beliefs correlate with worse mental-health outcomes in multiple studies. Frank Turek cites the General Social Survey and Columbia epidemiologists showing higher depression and mental illness among extreme liberals and liberal teen females.
- Thaddeus Williams argues leftist ideology politicizes and overgeneralizes trauma, rewiring the brain's "uh-oh center" into chronic fear and bypassing rational assessment.
How The Uh-Oh Center Creates Chronic Fear
- The brain's "uh-oh center" ignites fear and shorts out the assessment center, producing phobias and catastrophic thinking. Frank explains Thaddeus Williams' use of this neuroscience metaphor.
- Good psychologists use exposure and cognitive therapy to "ungeneralize" trauma so the assessment center can re-engage and correct overgeneralized fear.
Do Not Generalize From Viral Incidents
- Avoid overgeneralizing from individual incidents to entire groups; do good social science with random-sample survey data instead of viral videos. Frank warns against treating single social media clips as representative.
- Ungeneralize trauma by resisting ideological frames that claim a whole group is uniformly evil and by seeking balanced evidence before concluding systemic guilt.
