VETERAN PSYCHIATRIST CALLS LIBERALS MENTALLY ILL

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://www.wnd.com/2008/11/56494/

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.”

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

If you believe this, you are mentally ill.

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't recognise his definition of a liberal. Anyone who does have the values he ascribes to a 'modern liberal' might be described as psychotic but I have no idea how he came up with the definition. Perhaps a political analyst will be able to explain to him that he has misdiagnosed the term

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

If you believe this, you are mentally ill.

I believe that someone wrote that article

[Peikko 1,575]

I believe that someone wrote that article

Quite, someone who is equally incapable of realising that the 'modern liberal' of Rossiter is a straw man argument. Unlikely though, clearly some right wing nutter has latched onto this as proof that liberals are bonkers. Education is a wonderful thing.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Rossiter needs a shrink!

[lostinblue 1,989]

Liberalism is an ideology for the pessimistic. Do not interrupt their bad attitude

[Peikko 1,575]

Liberalism is an ideology for the pessimistic. Do not interrupt their bad attitude

Slogans are such fun aren't they?

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Liberalism is an ideology for the pessimistic. Do not interrupt their bad attitude

The OP is an article written in 2008 about a book written by the author in 2006. It was a Right Wing response to an actual peer reviewed study which found Conservative thinking was, to use a colloquial term, nuts. The book in question was not based on a peer reviewed study but was instead a single author playing 'I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you' in a fit of pique.

The Right Wing echo chamber never ceases to amaze!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

The OP is an article written in 2008 about a book written by the author in 2006. It was a Right Wing response to an actual peer reviewed study which found Conservative thinking was, to use a colloquial term, nuts. The book in question was not based on a peer reviewed study but was instead a single author playing 'I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you' in a fit of pique.

The Right Wing echo chamber never ceases to amaze!

We aren't allowed to satire like the left ? I don't think any of us take the article serious.

[Peikko 1,575]

Yeah, satire, quite