Left-wing audiences avoid reading ‘negative’ news stories that make them feel bad. By Harry Howard.

Left-wingers are more likely to avoid reading ‘negative’ news stories because they could leave them feeling ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘carrying feelings of powerlessness’, research has found. 

Surveys of more than 93,000 people across 46 counties, found that political allegiances made a ‘striking difference’ to why people avoid news. …

They showed how almost half of Britons actively avoid the news, a figure which has doubled in the past five years. …

Meanwhile, those on the Right are ‘far more likely to avoid news because they think it is untrustworthy or biased’. …

Worldwide, around 43 per cent of so-called ‘selective news avoiders’ said they were put off by the repetitiveness of the news agenda, especially around politics and Covid-19.

Too many lefties are out of touch with reality and just want to hear that they are virtuous and better than average. Leftism is, for many, a psychological problem and a coping mechanism.

hat-tip Pierce