Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Marc Siegel suggests “Clockwork Orange”-style “desensitization therapy” for Democrats
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From the October 18, 2024, edition of Fox News' America Reports
SANDRA SMITH (HOST): It almost sounded silly at first, but this is a very real thing. People are feeling anxious, they're feeling stressed. It's difficult to have cocktail conversations or a chat by the water cooler because so many people are fearing offending someone, right Dr. Siegel?
MARC SIEGEL (GUEST): Absolutely, Sandra. Look, this is a very tense election but it turns out election anxiety has been going on for time in memorial. What's different is more iPhone, more media coverage, more social media and obviously a very contentious election. I spoke to Dr. Kevin Smith, who's the head of -- who's a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska and he said it's like fight or flight reaction, which I wrote about in one of my books, where literally you're stressed and you want to fight or you want to flee but you can't, and you can't really unplug, and you feel the stress hormone release. Very unhealthy. But what's really interesting is Dr. Smith said it's not all created equal. Democrats and people on the left are more anxious than those on the right.
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Well, there's always exercise and there's always eating right and sleeping right. But what's fascinating here is that young people and, again, people on the left are bringing more anxiety to the table to begin with, according to Dr. Smith. And I would suspect that the answer might be alternate activities, like I said. But I'm sure you remember the movie Clockwork Orange. What about desensitization therapy, Sandra? What about putting up a picture of someone you hate and gradually getting you used to it by playing beautiful music in your ear?