Posted on 02/16/2008 8:03:31 AM PST by Kaslin
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
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
In other news, there are fish in the ocean.
“Liberism is a mental Disorder”
Chaulk up another one for the Savage doctor!
Years ahead of his time yet again..
Just wait.
Within a few years, this liberal mental disorder will be added to the hate crime laws, American with Disabilities Act and the list of disabilities payable under Social Security.
Rush has been saying this for years.
“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.”
So what?
Most of us weren’t up at midnight to read that post.
“”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.”
Boy he nailed that one!!!!
bwaahah well said a/r well said...
“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.”
jees b/l what a great defination of american liberals where’d that come from...?
I suspect that within months a liberal shrink will write a book claiming conservative have a mental illness. That is the typical way they respond. One study faults them, the next faults us.
It’s from the article my FRiend.
One more Doctor stating the obvious!!!
To his credit, the one who has been all over this is Savage:
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595550062/
Brilliant... and self evident to anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together.
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