I said I would explain this. I won’t dig up the quotes, but roughly speaking, some kids, when confronted with emotional environments in which nothing makes sense, tend to internalize all the conflicts, and some tend to externalize them.
Internalizers are the empaths, who have a very, very hard time of it sometimes. There is so much going on, and none of it makes sense, and it takes a long, long time, often, for anyone to explain it all.
Externalizers tend to deal with it all by pushing it out, which makes emotions something out there, and people out there tools to be used to meet emotional needs, rather than emotional needs being something intrinsically their own. It is an immature behavior, and the root pathway to continuing the rot and trauma of the family system.
This is a very imperfect description, but I am tired of typing and have a long to-do list today.
Ponder all this. I am proposing that if we make something like Maturity, or Emotional Intelligence, a priority, that the downstream positive effects will be enormous; and that if we continuing empowering children to act like adults, and allowing adults to act like children, our demise is only a matter of time. Liberalism is only suitable for grown ass adults, who act like adults.