Otherwise, typical rightists. This guilt by association condemns all
rightist politicians and tv hosts forevermore and means that if you support
them, you are also Racists, NeoNazis, Communists, Rapists, Muslims,
Murderers & Pedophiles.
Another reason to support Obama.
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Wednesday August 13, 2003
The Guardian
A study funded by the Bush administration has concluded that conservatism can
be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and
aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's
four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing
talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same
affliction.
All of them "preached a return to an idealized past and condoned
inequality".
Mike Bennett 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."
I am the Sword of my Family
and the Shield of my Nation.
If sent, I will crush everything you have built,
burn everything you love,
and kill every one of you.
(Hebrew quote)