Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder

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 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."
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

Michael Savage has been saying this for years. He even wrote a book called "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder." While we all recognize the truth in the good doctors statements I assure you he will be pilloried in the press as just part of the "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Thanks for the post SD! Very Happy

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject:

I am not a fan of liberals, but this is bs.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the post!

That's one of the best things I've read in weeks. Too bad this guy is going to get blasted for his statements, but he obviously knew that before he made them.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:31 am Post subject:

lol... that's awsome.

A "Parenting" government.. just love it. Please, you must pay out other peoples money to help the lazy... pay for my healthcare and give it to me free... gimme gimme gimme. The people aren't the government, it's a huge entity that looks like a giant T1000 on crack.

It blows my mind that many would call Ron Paul Liberal... I think this is all a conspiracy to confuse the masses so they don't know which way to go, or run. The sheep just keep spinning in circles until they hit a wall and fall down.
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