Posted on 03/22/2006 7:00:47 AM PST by sandbar
The inability to distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary. Psychosis is a term used to describe a severe mental illness. Psychotics are characterized by a variety of symptoms that most people consider abnormal. These include experiencing delusions, such as the notion that one is being persecuted or conspired against. Psychotics may see things which don't actually exist and hear Voices (i.e. God) when no one is around. They often exhibit compulsive, irrational, ritualized behavior, esp. when such behavior serves no purpose or is even harmful or disruptive to those around them. They show no concern for others but may exhibit total self-centered behavior. Includes sociopathy, schizophrenia.
DSM-IV
22,310 gun laws is not enough! We wont stop this senseless violence until we have 22, 311 gun laws! And a GPS installed in every gun! And we hang everyone who buys more than one gun a year! And we let convicted child molesters vote! I am the Walrus, Ko Ko Katchoo!
See, now there's a worthwhile study!
So, whiney, insecure adults, who run to government authority figures to solve every little quibble, were confident and secure as children? You've got to be kidding me.
BWWWWaaaaaaaahhaaaahhaaahaaaaa.
Wow. aint nobody any more insecure than a whiney, victimized, liberal *sshole.
Ahh! The Big Lie- A favorite of that other socialist, you know, the National one.
Go to the jails, the porn filming set, the rehab centers, the NAMBLA website, any communist or socialist website and count up the liberals vs. conservatives. I dare you.
That must explain all of the non-conforming liberals who challenge liberal orthodoxy. Oh, wait a minute, there aren't (m)any liberals who challenge liberal orthodoxy. Rather, the typical liberal is as intolerant as the typical Muslim cleric when confronted with anything that remotely challenges their cherished preconceptions. Both of them will go to extreme lengths to violently shout down the merest hint of heresy.
The authors look at liberals, a group of people who cling desperately to a single, narrowly-tailored ideology and will stifle any dissent from the true path, and somehow they manage to see those constipated souls as "non-conforming adults". No bias there, huh? This study is garbage.
I got beat up a lot in school. I became a conservative when I started fighting back.
I'm more interested in why certain people become involved in politics and others do not. Why are some people, liberal or conservative leaning, so passionately drawn to politics while I'd say 40% of the population couldn't care less? I can relate to people on either side of the spectrum because in terms of personality all politically active people have common traits. They care about things larger than their everyday concerns, they care what other people think and they feed off the competition of ideas. Personally I'm delighted to meet a person of any political stripe just so long as they're up for talking about current issues.
For the life of me I don't get politically apathetic people. I mean yeah I get people who made an effort to care at one point and then became disgusted but that's not most of em. Most of em just couldn't care and never did, more often they're women but not always. I'd like to see somebody study that, maybe figure out why half the country doesn't vote.
There. Fixed it.
This whole thing is a total lie based on a fase premise that liberals grow up.
If I were a conservative in Berkely, I'd feel like everyone was out to get me too.
FOXNEWS ran a story about a recent study that said little kids who picked their noses and ate it grew up to be more resistant to diseases and were overall healthier. GROSS!
This article, is about 2 degrees of separation from declaring conservatism a mental disorder. Soon, 'treatment' will be ordered for the 'disease'; something along the lines of what communists practice with their re-education' camps.
UC Berkeley professor.
Well yes that is certainly a credible disinterested source. That's like asking Jack Chick about the Catholic Church or Osama Bin Laden about the war in Iraq.
I would rely on his stats as much as I would rely on
" The Check Is In The Mail". If whiny kids grow up to be conservatives why don't conservatives continue the victim mentality through out life. Instead they are self reliant informed citizens who are beholden to no one for their life's successes. They also do not blame others for their life's failures. In short they GROW UP. Liberals never grow up but are always looking for a tit to suck ( pardon the expression but you know what I mean).
"The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests."
What spin!
Let's translate:
"The confident (cocky) kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose (doing nothing) , turning into bright (smart @ssed), non-conforming (has an arrest record)adults with wide interests (still aimless)."
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