Just In Time For The Election: Drugs That Change Your Political Beliefs

Washington, DC – Just in time for the election: drugs that change your political beliefs. No, we are not making this up. The headline is NOT misleading. Scientific American just published some data from a study, and this is a real thing. Can you guess if these drugs make you liberal or conservative?  

Before we answer that question, let’s get into the background of this. The drug(s) in question are magic mushrooms. Strangely and wrongly, Denver, Colorado, legalized magic mushrooms in 2019. Denver also elected a communist to its City Council that year. Coincidence?

So if you haven’t guessed yet, magic mushrooms can alter your political AND religious beliefs, according to a study. It’s a compound in the mushrooms called psilocybin that causes the change. In a related story, Joe Biden buys all swing voters pizza with mushrooms.

Just in time for the election: drugs that change your political beliefs.

Ok, let’s get into the science here. This is pretty scary, and if this study is confirmed, it could get bizarre and scary for the American People.

Advocates of psilocybin-assisted therapy tout it as the solution to the burgeoning mental health crisis. But, like MDMA, psilocybin is far from a culturally neutral drug, carrying both the shame of Schedule 1 status and a checkered social history. It too may need to build the kind of politically heterogeneous coalition of supporters that MDMA-assisted therapy enjoys.

Eddie Jacobs, What if a Pill Can Change Your Politics or Religious Beliefs?, Scientific American, October 11, 2020

Ok, so this may be useful for treating people with mental health problems. It does have a scientific application, but there’s always a catch – the catch is it will alter your political and religious beliefs. Would you choose to take a magic mushroom if you knew these were the side effects?

Here is the reveal:

But to generate a breadth of appeal, one challenge stands out: psilocybin seems to make people more liberal. Scientific reports associating psychedelic use and liberal values stretch back as far as 1971, and although these findings have been replicated more recently, a noncausal explanation is readily available. Those with conservative attitudes tend to look more disapprovingly on illicit drug use, making them less likely than liberals to try a psychedelic drug in the first place.

Eddie Jacobs, What if a Pill Can Change Your Politics or Religious Beliefs?, Scientific American, October 11, 2020

Just in time for the election: drugs that change your political beliefs.

Duh, most of us were taught that drugs are part of the counter-culture. The same pot-smoking hippies that have been messing up our country for decades. Well, at least the one that didn’t adapt during the Reagan years…

More from the study:

However, emerging evidence suggests the relationship could be causal, with clinically administered psilocybin actively shifting political values, just as it shifts many other nonclinical characteristics. Notably, one study of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression reported that the treatment decreased authoritarian political views in patients. That clinical trial also detected another effect that had previously been reported in healthy participants: psilocybin use leads to increases in the personality domain of openness, itself a predictor of liberal values.

Eddie Jacobs, What if a Pill Can Change Your Politics or Religious Beliefs?, Scientific American, October 11, 2020

We disagree with the assertion that openness relates to being liberal. Conservatives are very tolerant and open. Clearly, this author has NOT studied Trump Derangement Syndrome and the intolerant left. We also disagree that conservatives are authoritarian – it’s the socialists and commies who are authoritarian. Conservative love liberty and freedom, not control.

Just in time for the election: drugs that change your political beliefs.

We found this commentary loaded with a bunch of red flags:

If psilocybin does change political values, the significance of this effect goes deeper than which politicians or media outlets will seek to support or impede psilocybin-assisted therapy. A well-established consensus on the secular democratic state is that it should remain neutral and agnostic on a number of matters, allowing a diversity of values, political attitudes and religious beliefs among its citizens. Where such states have universal health care systems, is it permissible to not only endorse, but fund through taxpayer contributions, a treatment which shifts values in one direction?

Eddie Jacobs, What if a Pill Can Change Your Politics or Religious Beliefs?, Scientific American, October 11, 2020

Yeah, single-payer socialized medicine controlled by the government. How long until everyone will be required to take these magic mushrooms. The government is already trying to force vaccinations.

This is all scary stuff we think will be weaponized by the left. Maybe it already has; we’ve seen a drop in readership lately (that’s fake news; we’re growing!)

Just in time for the election: drugs that change your political beliefs. What do you think? Could these drugs be used and abused by the liberals and the government? Write your comments below and on social media.

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