Leftist lunacy a bonafide disorder

This is no joke though some of us came to this conclusion long ago:

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.

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"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."

Regulars here at Brutally Honest have been exposed to the disorder time and again in the comments of this blog and now it's official. We've been dealing with some who are sincerely sick. Sadly, the author mentions no  cure and given what I've seen happen to the Republican Party of late, it's certainly contagious, so readers should be forewarned.  I imagine that constant exposure and a refusal to confront the idiocy with truth are contributing factors to the disorder's spread. 

But be re-assured.  The strain seems resistant to deft and repeated use of logic and critical thinking and is known to weaken, over time (sometimes a very long time), to the confident expression of self-evident truth and foundational, dare I say canonical, convention.

There is hope.  We can overcome.

Yes. We. Can.

H/T to Jay.

 

Comments

[Mike Mainello]

Very ironic post. I commented on something very similar on History News Network blog. It was written by a very liberal history professor.

Here is the title and the link. I enjoy your blog.

"Clintonites Need to Realize the Left Won the Debates of the 1960s"

http://hnn.us/articles/47398.html

[Instinct]

I try and give credit where it is due :)

I'm adding you to my blogroll if that's OK with you

[Arejaymack]

Maybe it can be declared a disease and we can get disability from it!