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.Ouch.
Truthiness hurts, don't it?
Who is this psychiatrist, so wise in the ways of science?Well he's been to medical school and he's licensed and he's a professional forensic psychiatrist who has lived "virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy." Virtually, that is.
Here's a snippet of his devastating clinical picture of the depraved liberal.
In addition to ranting on about non-existent victims and bullies we those damned liberals are developmentally stunted.
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.
Fascinating, ain't it?
Of course I am being sarcastic here. This is another "serious" report from the Netherworld the rightwing attack media coming out as our election season cranks up and a liberal agenda is FEARED to be the popular message to Americans this year.
But it's so funny.
I wonder if this well-trained forensic psychiatrist has ever heard of projection
a defense mechanism in which one attributes to others one’s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses/desires without letting the ego recognize them.
The rest of the article, from which I have likely already pinched too much, is a hoot of a read.
It's a blistering example of rightwing psychological projection. Everything this guy, who has "lived his life virtually free of activism", is trying to pin on "liberals" is amazingly similar to the rightwing corporate agenda.
Next thing they'll be saying we want to drown government in the bathtub, or attack sovereign nations just for their oil.