Posted on 09/06/2008 6:07:46 AM PDT by NoobRep
On the Madness of Modern Liberalism: The egalitarianism and welfarism of modern liberal government are incompatible with the facts of human nature and the human condition. But the rise to power of the liberal agenda has resulted from the fact that the people of western societies have irrationally demanded that governments take care of them and manage their lives instead of protecting their property rights. This misconception results in massive violations of those rights while permitting government officials to act out their own and their constituents psychopathology. The liberal agenda gratifies various types of pathological dependency; augments primitive feelings of envy and inferiority; reinforces paranoid perceptions of victimization; implements manic delusions of grandeur; exploits government authority for power, domination and revenge; and satisfies infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation.
Modern liberalism rejects, to one degree or another, the competence and sovereignty of the common man and subordinates him to the will of governments run by liberal elites. The western worlds twentieth century capitulation to this philosophy is obvious--and the implications for liberty are ominous. But the history of the world also documents the heroic struggles of human beings to escape from tyrannies of all types, whether imposed by the brute force and declared entitlement of a dictator, or falsely justified by economic, religious or political sophistries. The science fiction of Marxian economic evolution, the grandiose fantasy of a New World Order, the utopian dreams of The Great Society, the myth of the divine emperor, have all had their turns on center stage in irrational mans attempts to legitimize government control and deny individual liberty. The realities of the human condition, especially the inherent sovereignty of individuals and their inevitable differences in choice and preference, render all collectivist doctrines absurd.
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Amazing, I used to be very well acquainted with a couple of psychologists (Masters level, not Doctors) and they were very mixed up people. I didn’t know there was a psychiatrist who could actually write in meaningful language understandable to those of us who went to the school of hard knocks. I would like to know this man’s history.
Amazing, I used to be very well acquainted with a couple of psychologists (Masters level, not Doctors) and they were very mixed up people. I didn’t know there was a psychiatrist who could actually write in meaningful language understandable to those of us who went to the school of hard knocks. I would like to know this man’s history.
Liberalism encourages mediocrity.
Very nice! Thanks for posting this.
Spot-on article.
Most liberals in government I know are foul-mouthed, have a psychotic delusion that they’re superior to everyone and believe they’re entitled to steal from productive people. In other words, they’re welfare bums.
http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=236
Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago and served for two years as a psychiatrist in the United States Army. He is currently in private practice in the Chicago area.
Dr. Rossiter is board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry. For more than forty years he has diagnosed and treated mental disorders, with a special interest in personality pathology and its developmental origins.
He has been retained by numerous public offices, courts and private attorneys as a forensic psychiatrist and has consulted in more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases in both state and federal jurisdictions. Dr. Rossiter has lectured to various groups on subjects ranging from psychotherapy to the prevention of suicide.
For more information about Dr. Rossiter’s forensic psychiatry practice, visit www.forensicpsychiatrist.com
In the broader context, Dr. Rossiter actually proves that liberalism is a psychological disorder. As he says, only someone irrational would trade their freedom for government dependence.
“The liberal cure for this endless malaise is a very large authoritarian government that regulates and manages society through a cradle to grave agenda of redistributive caretaking. It is a government everywhere doing everything for everyone. The liberal motto is In Government We Trust. To rescue the people from their troubled lives, the agenda recommends denial of personal responsibility, encourages self-pity and other-pity, fosters government dependency, promotes sexual indulgence, rationalizes violence, excuses financial obligation, justifies theft, ignores rudeness, prescribes complaining and blaming, denigrates marriage and the family, legalizes all abortion, defies religious and social tradition, declares inequality unjust, and rebels against the duties of citizenship. Through multiple entitlements to unearned goods, services and social status, the liberal politician promises to ensure everyones material welfare, provide for everyones healthcare, protect everyones self-esteem, correct everyones social and political disadvantage, educate every citizen, and eliminate all class distinctions. With liberal intellectuals sharing the glory, the liberal politician is the hero in this melodrama. He takes credit for providing his constituents with whatever they want or need even though he has not produced by his own effort any of the goods, services or status transferred to them but has instead taken them from others by force.”
A good article. I must admit, I have had a pretty clear idea of why these people are the way they are for some time. College, a long professional career and now academia, brings me into to contact with far too many of them.
As to those jammie-clad, basement dwellers, living with Mom and blogging on MoveOn, Kos, etc. all day while collecting their SS payments for unidentified “back injuries”? Does ANYONE, anywhere imagine that THESE trolls are “normal” in ANY sense of the word?
I think we know...
How about “protesters” who throw bleach on 82 year old women at conventions? Normal?
ANY group that, collectively, accepts murderers (like Kennedy), Liars and frustrated condo-commandos (like Biden), self-agrandizing greek-god-wanna-bes and empty suits (like Obama), criminals (like BOTH Clintons) and dances them out there as “leaders”- Normal?
“In a competent society the principles of ordered liberty guide the citizen throughout the life cycle. They inform him and his children and the community of the rules by which human beings make good lives for themselves. Because the rights, laws and duties of the competent society are all of a piece and reflect the bipolar nature of man, the entire ensemble of individual citizen, family, community, society and institutions forms a coherent whole in support of life, liberty, social cooperation and the pursuit of happiness. Under the rules that govern ordered liberty, the human organism and its physical and social environment are in harmony to the maximum extent possible given the turbulent nature of man. “
Stating the obvious, so eloquently.........a great post!
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I print only one or two articles from the internet each year. I printed this on.
on = one
I’ve been meaning to buy the book for a while now.
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