Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

I read this and although i understand that people supporting obama may be called cult like, i wonder do they want us to be total zombies.

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.

Do you guys think something like HOPE is a mental disorder?

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The source is WND. 'Nuff said.

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I know, the article is based on a book released, so i assume some will read it.

Do you guys think that liberals are nuts, is there any way you could justify that statement?

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Nah, don't think I'll be reading it. He already made a silly sweeping generalization-all liberals expect sweeping cradle-to-grave services from the government. Lots of liberals who wouldn't qualify for these programs based on their personal wealth still support them because they believe they are good for society as a whole.

Cool... I wonder if it's a disability? There might be gold in that there theory I bet a Liberal Conspiracy Theorist diagnosis might be worth some moola!

Thanks for the OP... I needed a good laugh

Haha! It's hillarious because it's true.

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.

Couldn't agree more. Liberals are always saying that things (i.e. money) need to be distributed more equally among the majority of people; that a few men who are too powerful have imposed their will on people long enough and need to be stopped. It's completely contradictory! Liberals just want to impose their own will on you and your wallet, and crown themselves the owners of the moral high road so they can justify stealing your money and freedom and redistribute it to people who they think are too incompetent to care for themselves. It's insulting that these people think everyone in the country is too freaking stupid to lead a productive life without having their hand held.

People who share these beliefs might be delusional, insulated, irrational, impractical, and locked in some magical fairy land that never has and never will exist but I wouldn't call it a disorder.

Every so often something like this comes out trying to pain liberals as lunatics then a few weeks/months down the road another study/finding/paper comes out trying to paint conservatives as lunatics.

It's all crap. Frankly the DSM is a fantastic work of fiction cover to cover IMO.

Liberals may be a bunch of misguided pie-eyed goof-balls who do everything they can to deny reality and shelter people from the consequences of their own actions but it's not a disability.

If it was a genuine disability don't you think liberals would have found a way to exploit some entitlement benefits to themselves? After all it's not their fault. They're disabled.

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Nope. But a case could be made that conservatives are nuts, most certainly

J.

ROOOOOOOOOFLMAO

I always knew liberals were completely nuts.

Bonkers!!

Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
People who share these beliefs might be delusional, insulated, irrational, impractical, and locked in some magical fairy land that never has and never will exist but I wouldn't call it a disorder.

Sounds like the religious right to me.

I would also call it a disorder with them.

We don't have to worry the pharmas will create a pill to cure this disorder.

Then everyone will be normal.

Originally posted by ATruGod
We don't have to worry the pharmas will create a pill to cure this disorder.

Then everyone will be normal.

Hmmm...but who defines 'normal' exactly? What IS normal? What's AB-normal?
All these definitions are simply a matter of opnion...

J.

Originally posted by Flyer

Sounds like the religious right to me.

I would also call it a disorder with them.

Yeah that does sound like the religious right. In fact it sounds like anyone whose ever tried to impose their beliefs on how their lives should be lived onto any other group of people.

That's the real disorder.

"Liberals" (in quotes because there is no liberty as the name may suggest) love to force their will through legislation from making me wear a seatbelt/helmet to telling me I can't own a gun to forcing me to support somebody else's kids, and the fundie religious think they need to force everyone to pray to their god.

Both are wrong.

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As long as the government has the duty to respond to the scene of the crash, there will be a strong reason for helmets and seatbelts to be required because costs need to be controlled and it costs more, on average, to respond to an accident where these things were not used.

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There's no "duty" to respond to the scene of a crash.

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There is by the government just about everywhere, provided emergency services are notified.

Originally posted by chromatico
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There is by the government just about everywhere, provided emergency services are notified.

That's the caveat. You can't get into a fender bender without some dependent clown calling 911.

Dependence breeds more dependence and statements like "government has the duty to respond" full of semi-truth and assumption makes the situation that much worse.

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Where's the shame in taking advantage of it? It's what you pay your taxes for.

Great just what we need, partisan psychiatry. Lets just brand everyone who does not feel the same way as you about political issues a nutjob.

One step away from locking someone up for their beliefs. This guy should be locked up for promoting medical fraud.

Way to divide and conquer!

Let's swallow it hook, line and sinker.