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Liberalism as mental illness

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#1 ·
Wonder if perhaps this shrink is correct?

Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill
Publishes extensive study on 'Psychological Causes of Political Madness'

WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."

For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.

Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by both Barack Obama and his Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton can only be understood as a psychological disorder.

"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

"The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."
Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill
 
#2 ·
I think this sums it up really well.

Of course the liberals in our midst will only whine that they're just doing good--and that the problem is that they haven't been given enough power and support to complete the tough tasks they've set themselves to--regardless of how devastating and complete their past failures.
 
#6 ·
A 3 year-old article on one of those paranoid conservative nut-o-sphere blogs is considered some kind of authoritative evidence for right-wingers? While on the blog I read about how to turn my home into a fortress and how Islamofascists are taking over America. I also watched an entertaining video by an evangelical arguing that Darwin's theory of evolution should be ignored because he attended a church. Whoh, slam-dunk, evolution is bunk!

Really KPS, if this book was anything more than a political rant written by a professional court witness for hire, don't you think it would have had seen a bit more publicity than to be buried on some crazy fringe blog? From the excerpts I've seen this book appears to be nothing more than a gigantic staw-man argument by a political hack with an agenda, not a scientist.
 
#9 ·
Well, come on now, there is a ring of truth to some it:

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.
 
#10 ·
kps, I know someone whose old granny would have gone totally mental if it hadn't been for the availability of free mental health counsellng, so this justifies the entire liberal master plan in all of its splendid failure!
 
#13 ·
what a steaming load of horsepucky from the anti-science quadrant....no surprise there

same muddled mindset that gave birth to this

 
#14 ·
I have never heard of the book, MacDoc, but it sounds excellent:

It's a message of perseverence and hope for young children moving into the rules and realities that are increasingly affecting their lives at younger and younger ages. Ms. DeBrecht sends the message that there is an elite class of people who continually think that they know what's best for other children and constantly stand in their way of free expression and enterprise.
I have just ordered one, so thanks for the recommendation. Buy for your children's Christmas here:

Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!: Amazon.ca: Katharine Debrecht: Books
 
#22 ·
mental defect perhaps in the contemporary crop of right wing whackos.....

prima facie evidence....

Bush, Palin, Limbaugh, Cain, RR, Doris ( walked with dinos) Day et al
 
#26 ·
isn't it funny, how when a right winger goes out and does crazy things, well he's no conservative, he's NUTS! But when a left winger does, well, liberalism/socialism is a disease.

Excuse me while I hold my belly have a good bah ha ha at the hypocrisy.

I'm well aware of the fact that not all conservatives are nuts. I know liberals are mentally defective either. And since I know kps I can take a ribbing about the liberalism defect stuff. But I see that some people really take it seriously and a poke back as a total affront.

It also didn't escape my notice that on a number of prominent conservative blogs, that incident wasn't even given a passing mention.
 
#29 ·
if that actually made any sense someone could decipher that word soufflé.

And yes Sinc, I do read conservative news, and blogs. Isn't that rather, remarkable? Imagine not just reading what agrees with you!

Sorry for the sarcasm really, but I don't know why anyone would be surprised that anyone would like to read different points of views.
 
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