posted on February 17, 2008 07:52:00 AM
Ideology motivating liberals is actually a mental disorder.
Top psychiatrist concludes liberals are nuts!
Makes case ideology is mental disorder
Posted: February 15, 2008
3:40 pm Eastern
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 the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination 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 [b]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.[/b]
"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."
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on February 23, 2008 08:50:12 PM
I've meant to tell you Bear, that I like your sig line, although I don't like to glorify war. I had a postcard sent by UK's Lord Kitchener during WW1. He wrote (excuse the caps):
WHEN I READ SIR JOHN FRENCH'S DISPATCH, I WAS TAKEN BY TWO CONTRADICTORY DESIRES, I WANTED TO KNOW THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHO FOUGHT MOST SPLENDIDLY. I ALSO WANTED NEVER TO KNOW THEM, GLORY IS A HAPHAZARD THING, ON A FIELD OF BATTLE IT'S A CASE OF ONE MAN BEING TAKEN AND ANOTHER LEFT, ONE MAN BEING REMEMBERED AND ANOTHER FORGOTTEN, PERHAPS THE MOST VALIANT SOLDIER IN THAT IMMORTAL RETREAT WAS A MAN WHOSE NAME WE SHALL NEVER KNOW.
posted on February 24, 2008 06:14:21 AM "When I read Sir John French's dispatch, I was taken by two contradictory desires, I wanted to know the names of the men who fought most splendidly. I aslo wanted never to know them, glory is a haphazard thing, on a field of battle. Its a case of one man being taken and another left, one man being remembered and another forgotten, perhaps the most valiant soldier in that immortal retreat was a man whose name we shall never know.
What a thoughtful and respectful remark. When you really think about it, each and every soldier on the battlefield is doing his job with as much skill and emotional fortitude that has been his fortune to learn throughout his lifetime and for that they all deserve rememberance and recognition.
