[Rhodes22-list] Brad, more reading material, (Political, Big Al delete)

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Thanks.  Dr. Sanity agrees (she's a shrink who used to work for NASA).  I
read her daily here-

http://drsanity.blogspot.com/

Dr. Rossiter writes a column that is often published in Townhall. I haven't
read his book yet but will put it on the list.

Brad

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:38 PM, tootle <tootle at charter.net> wrote:

> Brad:
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> Here is another book to explain the beliefs of some members of this forum:
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> Top shrink concludes liberals are clinically nuts!
> Makes case ideology is mental disorder
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> Posted: February 17, 2008
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> WorldNetDaily
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> 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.
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> "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."
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> 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."
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> 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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> 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.
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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."
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> Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of
> inferiority in the population by:
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>  a.. creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
>      .   satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and
> compensation;
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>      .   augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
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>  a.. 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 by Ed K
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