Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded said veteran forensic psychiatrist Dr. Rossiter.
Read more~
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116644 (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116644)
Dont you guys find Dr Rossiter's points interesting? I mean, we all know it to be factual, but I love how he words the prognosis of the liberal disease!
to quote him once again....
"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 overregulates and overtaxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."
Read more: Top shrink: Leftists are mentally ill http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=116644#ixzz1FMwjWYhk (http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=116644#ixzz1FMwjWYhk)
I may have to buy his 5 dollar book!
The have an ingrained Stockholm Syndrome. If you want a lib to be your friend, point a gun at him or her.
Quote from: taxed on March 01, 2011, 09:59:10 AM
The have an ingrained Stockholm Syndrome. If you want a lib to be your friend, point a gun at him or her.
Or beat them profusely about the head, and if that fails, it was still fun trying. :D
Haha @ Solar!
Quote from: taxed on March 01, 2011, 09:59:10 AM
The have an ingrained Stockholm Syndrome. If you want a lib to be your friend, point a gun at him or her.
Point a gun at a lib and he will be my friend? That's the trick because I sure do rub them wrong!
The good doctor has a point. I think that liberals, progressives, whatever they're calling themselves these days, argue from emotion. Facts don't matter to them. Logic and common sense are thrown out the window. IMHO, liberals suffer from terminal PMS (oh, yeah, and lib females too). :))
Ya know what created more libs than anything else?
The media, from print to TV, they made a concerted effort to feminize male America.
The best way to combat it, is to call it where you see it, if a man is being overly emotional, or caught up in the latest trend (clothing cologne etc) tell him to grow a set and be a man.
And if anyone gives you any lip, tell them I said to take it up with me. :D
Quote from: Solar on March 01, 2011, 11:23:48 AM
Or beat them profusely about the head, and if that fails, it was still fun trying. :D
That is very therapeutic...
Yes it is. 8)
Quote from: Solar on March 01, 2011, 02:55:49 PM
Ya know what created more libs than anything else?
The media, from print to TV, they made a concerted effort to feminize male America.
I figured it was the education system in this country that created more liberals than anything else... Oh well...
Quote from: U_Kay on March 01, 2011, 09:29:50 PM
I figured it was the education system in this country that created more liberals than anything else... Oh well...
Quote from: U_Kay on March 01, 2011, 09:29:50 PM
I figured it was the education system in this country that created more liberals than anything else... Oh well...
An even uglier truth MIGHT be that if your kid turns out in adulthood to be a liberal, then you failed to properly raise him. Isn't the home where liberals all say our education truly begins?
If you have a family raising future parasites, you have a nation educated only to the notion that SOMEONE ELSE will pay for whatever they want.
Quote from: quiller on March 03, 2011, 11:32:16 AM
An even uglier truth MIGHT be that if your kid turns out in adulthood to be a liberal, then you failed to properly raise him. Isn't the home where liberals all say our education truly begins?
If you have a family raising future parasites, you have a nation educated only to the notion that SOMEONE ELSE will pay for whatever they want.
I am so using that... "If your kids are liberals, then you are a failure as a parent!"... hahahahahaha
Quote from: Solar on March 01, 2011, 02:55:49 PM
Ya know what created more libs than anything else?
The media, from print to TV, they made a concerted effort to feminize male America.
The best way to combat it, is to call it where you see it, if a man is being overly emotional, or caught up in the latest trend (clothing cologne etc) tell him to grow a set and be a man.
And if anyone gives you any lip, tell them I said to take it up with me. :D
Speaking of growing a set and being a man, Charlie Sheen has become the modern Hollyweird-wreckage-in-progress --- what manhood in America has come down to. His kids have been taken away, his publicist went AWOL, and the media is obsessed with whatever newest verbal outrage Sheen produces against the hand (TV studio) which formerly has fed him --- and a WHOLE bunch of others.
California and the west coast in general has long had a more permissive idea of families, and a higher number of divorces as a region over most every other in the U.S. To
their view --- what we see in Hollywood films --- the typical family is a loser ex-husband or boyfriend or totally clueless jerk with no social graces whatsoever.
Nice role model to be sending out in syndication, to all those foreign countries.
Quote from: taxed on March 03, 2011, 11:34:30 AM
I am so using that... "If your kids are liberals, then you are a failure as a parent!"... hahahahahaha
I'll see if I can work up an image on that. ;D
Quote from: quiller on March 03, 2011, 11:32:16 AM
An even uglier truth MIGHT be that if your kid turns out in adulthood to be a liberal, then you failed to properly raise him. Isn't the home where liberals all say our education truly begins?
If you have a family raising future parasites, you have a nation educated only to the notion that SOMEONE ELSE will pay for whatever they want.
Q, I have 3 kids. 1 is definitely conservative. The other two are still full of mush. My only political gripe with them is their love for John Stewart. I continually tell them he is grossly misrepresenting the conservative perspective. His spin is always twisted mentally.... Again, libs are mentally ill, eh?
If either of these two boys become liberals, I will definitely go on strike with them! They will feel the pain. They wont eat the same food as I do and they will have to find a new washer woman. I mean all of this. No bluffing.
Quote from: U_Kay on March 03, 2011, 11:49:41 AM
Q, I have 3 kids. 1 is definitely conservative. The other two are still full of mush. My only political gripe with them is their love for John Stewart. I continually tell them he is grossly misrepresenting the conservative perspective. His spin is always twisted mentally.... Again, libs are mentally ill, eh?
If either of these two boys become liberals, I will definitely go on strike with them! They will feel the pain. They wont eat the same food as I do and they will have to find a new washer woman. I mean all of this. No bluffing.
Jon Stewart himself flatly told his viewers (in a recorded spot run many times) that ANYONE who depends on the Daily Show for their sole news source is as wrong as it ever gets. This is provable fact. He is a satirist, not a news anchor.
Intellectually it was sheer hell watching Lewis Black from 10 feet away, telling me what was wrong with Bush's America. I still laughed when he was funny, which the Daily Show is not.
American political humor as we've seen from John Billings, Will Rogers, and even H.L. Mencken (a devout leftist) all ring true today. Great humor focuses on the universal. Today's humor (particularly by leftists) is mean-sprited and sells its targets far short.
Quote from: quiller on March 03, 2011, 11:32:16 AM
An even uglier truth MIGHT be that if your kid turns out in adulthood to be a liberal, then you failed to properly raise him. Isn't the home where liberals all say our education truly begins?
If you have a family raising future parasites, you have a nation educated only to the notion that SOMEONE ELSE will pay for whatever they want.
Well stated!
Thats why parents need to draw a strong line between Right and wrong and set a good example of morals.
Then at least the kids have a fighting chance in life, and should always be able to make the right decision.
Remember when we were growing up, we all sat around the TV and discussed the moral of the story when the program was over?
Now days, the TV is a baby sitter, the kids haven't got a chance.
The View...etc....
Quote from: quiller on March 03, 2011, 11:44:59 AM
I'll see if I can work up an image on that. ;D
hahaha yes!
Speaking of doing your job as a parent to not bring up welfare recipients,etc...
During the 2008 election, unbeknown to me, my boys were promoting Obama at schoo. How so? By wearing Obama buttons. (Geez!) Thank God they couldnt vote in 2008's election!
I had no idea they were politicking at school! You know what I began doing to them after he became president?
I would head straight to thehill.com and every time there was an article proving how sorry Obama's job performance was, I would print the article out and post it on my refrigerator with a magnet! I explained to them "The Hill is left leaning all the way! They are trying to protect Obama, but read this one sentence that I have hi-lited! This means you will have to pay more taxes than Dad and I do because he is adding to the debt by allowing a turtle tunnel to be built in Florida!"
The above was only 1 example of the articles I placed on the refrig. Those articles didnt go unnoticed!
By May of 2009, both boys were against Obama completely! Yes, it is important to teach your kids.
You can have Dr. Rossiter, U_Kay.
Anyone who has some familiarity with reality of mental illness knows being a lefty isn't a form of mental illness so Dr. Rossiter is either wrong, in which case who cares what he thinks, or he's trying to appeal to conservative conceits, in which case who cares what he thinks?
Some lefties are smart although they're rarely as smart as they think they are. Most lefties are functional. They can hold down jobs, raise kids, order from a menu so they're not nuts.
No, lefties aren't nuts. They just work from different assumptions then conservatives.
Lefties live to tell their inferiors how to live but they also live to submerge themselves into something bigger then they are, and by doing so, become bigger and more important then they are. Lefties are the royalists of the Revolutionary War and the proportion of royalists then is about the same as lefties now.
Another view of lefties is that they're emotionally stunted. They stopped growing, emotionally, about the age of seven or eight.
The world revolves around them and all they're concerned with is getting their demands satisfied. They're unconcerned with who satisfies their demands or how they're satisfied just as long as they get what they want. They don't want to hear about any downside or objections. Don't tell them that there's some reason why they can't have what they want.
Does this sound familiar oh mother of three?
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Calvin and Hobbes, in one true thing about liberalism.
And then there's these....
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Quote from: arpad on March 03, 2011, 01:10:19 PM
Another view of lefties is that they're emotionally stunted. They stopped growing, emotionally, about the age of seven or eight.
The world revolves around them and all they're concerned with is getting their demands satisfied. They're unconcerned with who satisfies their demands or how they're satisfied just as long as they get what they want. They don't want to hear about any downside or objections. Don't tell them that there's some reason why they can't have what they want.
Does this sound familiar oh mother of three?
Perhaps, Dr Rossiter and you are not so far apart. I didnt read into his perspective as though the liberals are nuts. Did you read the link I gave in my first posting? Sounds as though you two have similar opinions of the lefties.
I'll keep him, thanks. I really like him... lots. ;)
Quote from: arpad on March 03, 2011, 01:10:19 PM
You can have Dr. Rossiter, U_Kay.
Anyone who has some familiarity with reality of mental illness knows being a lefty isn't a form of mental illness so Dr. Rossiter is either wrong, in which case who cares what he thinks, or he's trying to appeal to conservative conceits, in which case who cares what he thinks?
Some lefties are smart although they're rarely as smart as they think they are. Most lefties are functional. They can hold down jobs, raise kids, order from a menu so they're not nuts.
No, lefties aren't nuts. They just work from different assumptions then conservatives.
Lefties live to tell their inferiors how to live but they also live to submerge themselves into something bigger then they are, and by doing so, become bigger and more important then they are. Lefties are the royalists of the Revolutionary War and the proportion of royalists then is about the same as lefties now.
Another view of lefties is that they're emotionally stunted. They stopped growing, emotionally, about the age of seven or eight.
The world revolves around them and all they're concerned with is getting their demands satisfied. They're unconcerned with who satisfies their demands or how they're satisfied just as long as they get what they want. They don't want to hear about any downside or objections. Don't tell them that there's some reason why they can't have what they want.
Does this sound familiar oh mother of three?
LOL, you just described "
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)I think that qualifies as a mental illness. ;) ;D
I definately agree that liberalism starts at home and in school....also what kids see on TV...
My parents are both republicans, and if it weren't for them I would have ended up a flaming liberal...my teachers in hawaii were always pushing liberalism, same with the teachers in California... but my parents always set them straight...
Now that I have kids, I see the same thing happening with their teachers...I watch the Disney Channel with them and I can totally see Disney pushing the liberal agenda,...I always point it out to my kids so they can be aware of it as well.
Quote from: Josie on March 03, 2011, 01:34:53 PM
I definately agree that liberalism starts at home and in school....also what kids see on TV...
My parents are both republicans, and if it weren't for them I would have ended up a flaming liberal...my teachers in hawaii were always pushing liberalism, same with the teachers in California... but my parents always set them straight...
Now that I have kids, I see the same thing happening with their teachers...I watch the Disney Channel with them and I can totally see Disney pushing the liberal agenda,...I always point it out to my kids so they can be aware of it as well.
Are you serious? Disney is pushing liberal political views? :o Wow!!
@ Solar, I noticed Arp was discribing a mental issue, thanks for explaining which one. :P
Quote from: Josie on March 03, 2011, 01:34:53 PM
I definately agree that liberalism starts at home and in school....also what kids see on TV...
My parents are both republicans, and if it weren't for them I would have ended up a flaming liberal...my teachers in hawaii were always pushing liberalism, same with the teachers in California... but my parents always set them straight...
I had a teacher actually say that Hitler had a good plan, he just didn't implement it correctly.
Now that I have kids, I see the same thing happening with their teachers...I watch the Disney Channel with them and I can totally see Disney pushing the liberal agenda,...I always point it out to my kids so they can be aware of it as well.
Walt is turning in his grave at how the left have destroyed all that he worked so hard for.
Ahh, "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".
OK, maybe not so far apart although I still reject the characterization of liberals as mentally ill. Maybe I've got too high a standard for dysfunction but most liberals as I wrote above, are functioning individuals. They hold jobs, carry out responsibilities and display other characteristics of a functioning brain.
In fact, you could make a case for the liberal mind being a survival advantage in an authoritarian situation.
Whose going to do better in feudal society? Someone who's thrilled when the lord of the manor goes riding by, seeing comforting evidence that the superior are seeing to their faithful vassals or the stiff-necked son of a bitch who's of the opinion that if the lord of the manor has to take a dump every day maybe the similarities between his lordship and the common folks are more important then the differences?
I wonder how much of America's success comes from convincing the latter group that America's just going to be a better place for them then the old country?
Quote from: Solar on March 03, 2011, 01:30:13 PM
LOL, you just described "
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)I think that qualifies as a mental illness.
Right out of the DSM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders).
All that means is that a bunch of over-educated, over-paid mental health professionals cast their vote a certain way. I think I'll wait until the mental health profession discovers the scientific method before I give that document much credence.
Quote from: arpad on March 03, 2011, 01:48:48 PM
Ahh, "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".
OK, maybe not so far apart although I still reject the characterization of liberals as mentally ill. Maybe I've got too high a standard for dysfunction but most liberals as I wrote above, are functioning individuals. They hold jobs, carry out responsibilities and display other characteristics of a functioning brain.
In fact, you could make a case for the liberal mind being a survival advantage in an authoritarian situation.
Whose going to do better in feudal society? Someone who's thrilled when the lord of the manor goes riding by, seeing comforting evidence that the superior are seeing to their faithful vassals or the stiff-necked son of a bitch who's of the opinion that if the lord of the manor has to take a dump every day maybe the similarities between his lordship and the common folks are more important then the differences?
I wonder how much of America's success comes from convincing the latter group that America's just going to be a better place for them then the old country?
Right out of the DSM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders).
All that means is that a bunch of over-educated, over-paid mental health professionals cast their vote a certain way. I think I'll wait until the mental health profession discovers the scientific method before I give that document much credence.
Knuckling to authority abdicates personal responsibility. The same over-educated, over-paid mental health professionals got to where they are by avoiding having to take responsibility. It's endemic to the educational system.
I do disagree on regional grounds with....
QuoteOK, maybe not so far apart although I still reject the characterization of liberals as mentally ill. Maybe I've got too high a standard for dysfunction but most liberals as I wrote above, are functioning individuals. They hold jobs, carry out responsibilities and display other characteristics of a functioning brain.
Try numbed by constant bombardment, in your urban setting!
Arp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You may be shocked to learn many mental illnesses are diagnosed with what you are describing...
The ability to be very crafty and manipulative so the the mentally ill patient gain what he or she really wants... That is not uncommon with some illnesses. Also, some of them can and do hold jobs and are functioning well enough.
I have a brother who is schizophrenic... You should have been in the Dr's. office when the Dr was sharing the symptoms... You would have learned that some patients really are similar to what you describe.
Quote from: arpad on March 03, 2011, 01:48:48 PM
Ahh, "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".
OK, maybe not so far apart although I still reject the characterization of liberals as mentally ill. Maybe I've got too high a standard for dysfunction but most liberals as I wrote above, are functioning individuals. They hold jobs, carry out responsibilities and display other characteristics of a functioning brain.
In fact, you could make a case for the liberal mind being a survival advantage in an authoritarian situation.
Whose going to do better in feudal society? Someone who's thrilled when the lord of the manor goes riding by, seeing comforting evidence that the superior are seeing to their faithful vassals or the stiff-necked son of a bitch who's of the opinion that if the lord of the manor has to take a dump every day maybe the similarities between his lordship and the common folks are more important then the differences?
I wonder how much of America's success comes from convincing the latter group that America's just going to be a better place for them then the old country?
Right out of the DSM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders).
All that means is that a bunch of over-educated, over-paid mental health professionals cast their vote a certain way. I think I'll wait until the mental health profession discovers the scientific method before I give that document much credence.
Don't over think it, I believe there is a part of liberalism that is a mental dysfunction, like never growing into a mature adult, willing to accept responsibility for ones own actions.
On the other hand, some people just like the party atmosphere of the left, like jumping on the bandwagon of hope and change, which has probably created more thinking liberals than we could have hoped for.
Consider how many of them thought Utopia was just around the corner, only to discover they were nothing more than useful idiots for the socialists.
Husein probably and unknowingly created more Conservatives in the last two years than anything in the last 20 years.
Quote from: Solar on March 03, 2011, 02:03:49 PM
Don't over think it, I believe there is a part of liberalism that is a mental dysfunction, like never growing into a mature adult, willing to accept responsibility for ones own actions.
On the other hand, some people just like the party atmosphere of the left, like jumping on the bandwagon of hope and change, which has probably created more thinking liberals than we could have hoped for.
Consider how many of them thought Utopia was just around the corner, only to discover they were nothing more than useful idiots for the socialists.
Husein probably and unknowingly created more Conservatives in the last two years than anything in the last 20 years.
And it's offset by liberal media geared specifically to blaming Bush, Palin, or anyone else
BUT the party and people actually running up the deficit we Boomers blithely expect the Gen X,Y,Z'ers to actually pay.
I don't think any liberal under about age 40 has even tried to understand how maliciously and with great forethought they have been misled. They stood with their hand out, and now the bill is coming due and THEY will lead America, they can't quite grasp the true horror their greed has caused us.
A Solar~ Yeah, I think Arp is over thinking this one.
I have often said Obozo is the reason for the big win in Nov! The Repubs didnt actually deserve that win!
Obozo made more conservatives than anyone or anything.
Quote from: quiller on March 03, 2011, 02:12:42 PM
And it's offset by liberal media geared specifically to blaming Bush, Palin, or anyone else BUT the party and people actually running up the deficit we Boomers blithely expect the Gen X,Y,Z'ers to actually pay.
I don't think any liberal under about age 40 has even tried to understand how maliciously and with great forethought they have been misled. They stood with their hand out, and now the bill is coming due and THEY will lead America, they can't quite grasp the true horror their greed has caused us.
Sooo true, and at that point, they will become "fiscal Conservatives". 8)
Quote from: U_Kay on March 03, 2011, 02:15:01 PM
A Solar~ Yeah, I think Arp is over thinking this one.
It's a design feature, not a product flaw.
QuoteI have often said Obozo is the reason for the big win in Nov! The Repubs didnt actually deserve that win!
Obozo made more conservatives than anyone or anything.
And what does this milquetoast bunch of old groaners have to offer as the Next GOP Messiah? If they allow that preaching posturing Gingrinch in the door, we can be 100% sure Obama will get elected.
The GOP farm team just never got enough legroom to get known to the voters now expected to elect them. It's a catastrophe in the making.
Quote from: quiller on March 03, 2011, 02:35:11 PM
It's a design feature, not a product flaw.
And what does this milquetoast bunch of old groaners have to offer as the Next GOP Messiah? If they allow that preaching posturing Gingrinch in the door, we can be 100% sure Obama will get elected.
The GOP farm team just never got enough legroom to get known to the voters now expected to elect them. It's a catastrophe in the making.
I am very nervous about that right now...
Quote from: taxed on March 03, 2011, 02:37:49 PM
I am very nervous about that right now...
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Consider her the U.S. voter in the missionary stew. All hail Hussein the Magnificent™, Defender of Islam!
Quote from: U_Kay on March 03, 2011, 01:43:10 PM
Are you serious? Disney is pushing liberal political views? :o Wow!!
Yup...mostly about the planet...~ they are even telling them to ask that cashier to not give a reciept to save paper... http://disney.go.com/projectgreen/takeaction.html (http://disney.go.com/projectgreen/takeaction.html)
Quote from: Josie on March 03, 2011, 03:31:44 PM
Yup...mostly about the planet...~ they are even telling them to ask that cashier to not give a reciept to save paper... http://disney.go.com/projectgreen/takeaction.html (http://disney.go.com/projectgreen/takeaction.html)
lol More like save money.
Quote from: Solar on March 03, 2011, 01:48:30 PM
I had a teacher actually say that Hitler had a good plan, he just didn't implement it correctly.
Now that I have kids, I see the same thing happening with their teachers...I watch the Disney Channel with them and I can totally see Disney pushing the liberal agenda,...I always point it out to my kids so they can be aware of it as well.
Walt is turning in his grave at how the left have destroyed all that he worked so hard for.
OMG I can't believe a teacher can get away with that...
I had a history teacher that would give the whole class B's even if we did nothing at all in his class.... he said and I quote "I hate egg heads and show off's".... He gave them B's even when they deserved A's...that always stuck in my head.
Quote from: quiller on March 03, 2011, 01:58:18 PM
Knuckling to authority abdicates personal responsibility. The same over-educated, over-paid mental health professionals got to where they are by avoiding having to take responsibility. It's endemic to the educational system.
And if those who knuckle to authority survive, even prosper given the right situation, who's functional and who's dysfunctional?
Quote from: U_Kay on March 03, 2011, 02:00:52 PM
Arp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You may be shocked to learn many mental illnesses are diagnosed with what you are describing...
The ability to be very crafty and manipulative so the the mentally ill patient gain what he or she really wants... That is not uncommon with some illnesses. Also, some of them can and do hold jobs and are functioning well enough.
I have a brother who is schizophrenic... You should have been in the Dr's. office when the Dr was sharing the symptoms... You would have learned that some patients really are similar to what you describe.
Why would you think I'd be surprised at anything that comes out of the mental health profession?
If I didn't make the inference strong enough my skepticism about the mental health profession is honestly earned. I've seen ineptitude and incompetence by people who really did care. They're just undercut by the lack of any underlying science.
But "dysfunction" means something's broken. That something isn't operating the way it would if it weren't broken. I just don't think lefties are dysfunctional and that to say that lefties are nuts is self-indulgence; if lefties are nuts then conservatives are sane. They're damaged goods and we're the way it's s'pozed to be. That's just so convenient it makes me uneasy and I reflexively reject the too convenient solution.
Quote from: Solar on March 03, 2011, 02:03:49 PM
Don't over think it, I believe there is a part of liberalism that is a mental dysfunction, like never growing into a mature adult, willing to accept responsibility for ones own actions.
On the other hand, some people just like the party atmosphere of the left, like jumping on the bandwagon of hope and change, which has probably created more thinking liberals than we could have hoped for.
Consider how many of them thought Utopia was just around the corner, only to discover they were nothing more than useful idiots for the socialists.
Husein probably and unknowingly created more Conservatives in the last two years than anything in the last 20 years.
Sorry, I can't help but over-think it. When you have such a mighty, impressive organ - I'm referring to my massive brain fer gosh sakes! - it's an unavoidable danger. Ba-dum-bum.
I was thinking that lefties remind me of nothing so much as the Lost Boys from Never Never Land. The villains are unequivocally, if not too threateningly, evil, the Lost Boys and Peter Pan are unequivocally good and nothing too serious ever occurs. I suppose you could call that a form of mental illness but you can call anything anything. But if the definition doesn't get you something, if it doesn't capture some essential quality then it's just a sticker you've stuck onto something you don't understand to differentiate it from all the other things you don't understand.
Quote from: taxed on March 03, 2011, 02:37:49 PM
I am very nervous about that right now...
I'm very angry about that right now. Taxed, is he in Atlanta right now? Is there any way you can sort of keep him there? Maybe send him a message that Al Gore is heading to Atlanta to see him about a campaign contribution?..... ;)
Josie, thanks for the link. I am gone to check it out!
@ Quiller~ I hope I didnt come across as putting Arp down for over thinking on this.
@ Arp~ Imo, there has to be something wrong with conservatives. Their form of logic makes very little, if any sense, to me. Dr Rossiter pointed this out in the link I provided.
If you are uncomfortable with calling them ill, I will double up on crowing this point. ;) I've got you covered!
MM, I cant figure Newt out. Sometimes he seems as though he is a conservative, sometimes he's a liberal.
Quote from: Josie on March 03, 2011, 03:35:50 PM
OMG I can't believe a teacher can get away with that...
I had a history teacher that would give the whole class B's even if we did nothing at all in his class.... he said and I quote "I hate egg heads and show off's".... He gave them B's even when they deserved A's...that always stuck in my head.
He didn't get away with it, I told my dad and he drug his ass into the principals office and chewed his ass a new one.
But that was the 60s, and commies weren't welcome in the school system.
Like they are today. :(
Quote from: U_Kay on March 03, 2011, 05:06:08 PM
Josie, thanks for the link. I am gone to check it out!
@ Arp~ Imo, there has to be something wrong with conservatives. Their form of logic makes very little, if any sense, to me. Dr Rossiter pointed this out in the link I provided.
If you are uncomfortable with calling them ill, I will double up on crowing this point. ;) I've got you covered!
Oops!! :-[ Serves me right for not proofing my posts! I meant to say there has to be something wrong with liberals for their logic makes little sense or no sense all too often.
It is as though their logical reasoning side of their brain is twisted. Dr. Rossiter hit on this point in the WND article in my first post in this thread. I dont think he means to claim liberals are dysfunctional, or needing institutionalizing. They arent that bad off mentally. I also didnt get the impression Dr Rossiter intends for us to feel sorry for liberals. He simply sees where their thought patterns do not add up in certain respects. I will bring forward a quote from Dr Rossiter to explain his example of this point.
Here is what Dr Rossiter stated:
Rossiter explains with great clarity why the kind of liberalism being displayed by Barack Obama can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Rossiter. "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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In other words, the disconnect liberals have with reality astounds me!
Quote from: arpad on March 03, 2011, 03:44:16 PM
And if those who knuckle to authority survive, even prosper given the right situation, who's functional and who's dysfunctional?
Why would you think I'd be surprised at anything that comes out of the mental health profession?
If I didn't make the inference strong enough my skepticism about the mental health profession is honestly earned. I've seen ineptitude and incompetence by people who really did care. They're just undercut by the lack of any underlying science.
But "dysfunction" means something's broken. That something isn't operating the way it would if it weren't broken. I just don't think lefties are dysfunctional and that to say that lefties are nuts is self-indulgence; if lefties are nuts then conservatives are sane. They're damaged goods and we're the way it's s'pozed to be. That's just so convenient it makes me uneasy and I reflexively reject the too convenient solution.
Sorry, I can't help but over-think it. When you have such a mighty, impressive organ - I'm referring to my massive brain fer gosh sakes! - it's an unavoidable danger. Ba-dum-bum.
I was thinking that lefties remind me of nothing so much as the Lost Boys from Never Never Land. The villains are unequivocally, if not too threateningly, evil, the Lost Boys and Peter Pan are unequivocally good and nothing too serious ever occurs. I suppose you could call that a form of mental illness but you can call anything anything. But if the definition doesn't get you something, if it doesn't capture some essential quality then it's just a sticker you've stuck onto something you don't understand to differentiate it from all the other things you don't understand.
I know what you mean, and I don't think all liberals are mentally ill, but its the hardcore lib that tends to create the stereo type, a small percentage, but a very vocal group.
Think about all the political rallies with the nuts they attract, the ones calling for death of those that don't agree with them.
They could easily quell these nuts, but for some reason it doesn't seem to bother them.
Solar, I wonder if this article proves your point?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/03/gop-lawmakers-probe-alleged-threats-thomas-scalia/#ixzz1Fb5YkIuC (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/03/gop-lawmakers-probe-alleged-threats-thomas-scalia/#ixzz1Fb5YkIuC)
Toward the end of the article, you will read of the cutting off of toes and hanging of Clarence Thomas!