Understanding a "Liberal Democrat"

From the inception of psychology over 100 years ago, conditions such as
autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder,
narcissism and Tourette's syndrome were thought to be psychological in
origin - and that with enough therapy, enough blaming inadequate parenting,
enough talk, enough delving into "feelings," the sufferer could be treated
successfully or even cured.

We now know - thanks to tools like PET scans, MRIs, and pharmaceutical
advances - that these condition are all biological in nature, more receptive
to medications, augmented with behavioral techniques, than to any of the
other "therapies" that were inflicted so ineffectually on millions of people
over the past many decades.

The scans, in fact, have revealed the specific areas of the brain that give
rise to anger, revenge, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, stuttering,
pathological lying, cheating, manipulation, obsessive-compulsive behavior,
depressive disorders, even cravings for chocolate!

How do we know these conditions are biological? Because in addition to the
fact that medications have treated these mental disorders successfully (for
example, Haldol for psychoses, lithium for bipolar disorder, Wellbutrin for
depression, and Xanax for anxiety), they have identical symptoms (albeit
some more severe than others) in people who are raised in luxury high-rises
in Buenos Aires, slums in Los Angeles, kibbutzim in Israel, huts in rain
forests, and penthouses in Manhattan. And also in people raised in both
happy and dysfunctional homes.

What we also understand is that most intractable mental conditions seem to
be genetically driven, rooted in centers of the brain that are still not
fully understood. Perhaps this is why political affiliation - with
exceptions, of course - seems to run in families.



Liberal Pathology

I suspect that at the core of liberal "thinking" is the same kind of
pathology that characterizes other mental disorders, I.e., a glitch in the
brain that produces "feelings" and behavior over which liberals have no
control.

For instance, liberals are uniformly glum, not only in their grim demeanors
and persistent anger, but also in their outlooks. Even in the flush of their
midterm victory, they could hardly conceal their endemic rage, in spite of a
brief moment of toothy, appliquéd smiles.

"Liberals, like children, live in a world of utopian dreaminess, clinging to
a narrow, circumscribed reality and believing that if everyone would just be
nice to each other - let's talk, let's chat - all the noisy death threats
and pesky suicide bombings would go away, and all those grumpy grownups in
the current administration would see the light. And so they do what children
do when they're mad at grownups. They call names."

This is because their worldview is uniformly negative. When things are good,
they see only the bad and invoke the Misery Index cited routinely by Jimmy
Carter and resurrected by the dour wannabe president John Kerry. When things
could be better, they see only that things could be worse. When their
theories are refuted by hard fact, they are unable to process the true from
the untrue because their feelings tell them otherwise. For instance:

In an unprecedented stellar economy - with the GDP, employment, and low
inflation, liberals see only the "threat" of recession.

In measurable improvement in education, liberals see only "too much
testing."

In the face of 3,000 lives being exterminated by Islamic terrorists on
September 11, 2001, liberals see a non-existent threat.

In the Iraq war, which has liberated 25 million people, liberals see, to
quote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "not a war but a situation" and a
"catastrophe."

Worse, the liberals among us see that all of our country's problems are the
fault of, yes, America!
Who but an out-of-control child - who didn't know any better - would compare
our heroic fighting troops to Nazis? Liberal Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) did.

Who but a bully of a child would say that the head of his household (in this
case his country) was a liar? Liberal Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) did.

Who but a spoiled "princess" would call the leader of her country a failure,
a fraud, and incompetent? Liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did.

Who but a snobby and vacuous little brat would badmouth the president on
foreign soil while our troops were in harm's way? Liberal Senator John Kerry
(D-MA) did, as did liberal former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

And who but a jealous tomboy would insist, again in a time of war, that the
Commander in Chief is the worst president in our nation's history? Liberal
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has done just that.

All of these children - er, politicians - have gone to great lengths to
undermine President Bush, often in foreign countries and always in
contradiction to the unspoken but historically honored rule to support a
president in time of war - or at least to refrain from insult.


A Rage That Knows No Bounds.

Children take things personally. "My father is bigger (stronger, smarter)
than your father" is just about intolerable to the average child. "Is not!"
"Is too!" is an exchange that inevitably results in either tears or fists.
In 2000, when George W. Bush ascended to the presidency, the initial despair
of liberals quickly morphed into childlike, irrational anger, which has
obsessed them for the past 7 years.
Not only have they called names, spewed insults and stamped their feet, but
they've also lined up like-minded friends in the liberal media and leftwing
think tanks to do the same. Much worse, they've aligned themselves with
America's mortal enemies.

According to Vasko Kohlmayer in World Defense Review, "the affection in
which [liberals] are held by our foes is neither unjustified nor surprising.
They have more than earned it by systematically subverting this country's
war effort while simultaneously proffering assistance to those who have
pledged to destroy us." Kohlmayer lists some highlights of liberal
treachery:

They have tried to prevent us from listening in on terrorists' phone calls

They have sought to stop us from properly interrogating captured terrorists

They have tried to stop us from monitoring terrorists' financial
transactions

They have revealed the existence of secret national security programs

They have opposed vital components of the Patriot Act

They have sought to confer unmerited legal rights on terrorists

They have opposed profiling to identify the terrorists in our midst

They have impugned and demeaned our military

They have insinuated that the president is a war criminal

They have forced the resignation of a committed defense secretary

They have repeatedly tried to de-legitimize our war effort

They want to quit the battlefield in the midst of war.

If nothing else proves the rigidity - indeed the pathology - of the liberal
brain, it is what Kohlmayer says of liberals today: "Almost all of the
current democratic leadership was actively involved in [the Vietnam
anti-war] effort. Bill and Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Howard
Dean, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi were all in one way or
another personally engaged in the anti-war movement. And when at last it
bore its disastrous fruit, they gloated and danced in the streets.
Exhilarated and jubilant, they deemed America's disgrace their finest hour.
In their skewed world, America's defeat came to represent their personal
triumph."


Fathoming Liberal Rage.

To understand the left's treasonous rage, it is important to understand that
the most cherished value in the life of children (read liberals) is to be
"liked" by their peers, a theory that Judith Rich Harris has exhaustively
documented in her best-selling and revolutionary book, The Nurture
Assumption.
To be liked - according to the evangelical religion of liberalism - is not
to engage in conflict, not to fight, not to judge, After all, if you fight
with anyone, including Islamic terrorists, they won't like you. And if you
judge them as savages, murderers, enemies of democracy, they will fight you.
So don't judge them and they won't fight you and everything will be hunky
dory. Such are the fantastical fantasies of children (read liberals).

They are fantasies that flourish, says writer Evan Sayet, because liberals
are "wedded to the childish philosophy of 'multiculturalism' . the fantasy
that all cultures are equally good and equally right. It is why liberals
"believe we should 'celebrate diversity,' as if all differences - say
freedom of religion and massacring all infidels - are equally worthy of
celebration."

It is also why liberals, like children, are driven so compulsively by
emotion that they simply don't have the ability to apply rational thought
when it comes to George W. Bush. To them, he is still the stronger father to
whom they continue to insist: "Is not!"


Rage Trumps Rationality.

The reason why liberals have remained so intractably unhinged about
President Bush is not because of their ideological differences with his
conservatism. It is because of their collective inadequate egos. This is no
surprise because children have "developing" egos, not fully-fledged senses
of themselves, their places in the world, and their worth. Children are
wildly egocentric, seeing themselves as the center of the universe and
having no appreciation of the vast world that lies outside their limited
awareness. In fact, they echo a saying from the Talmud: "We do not see
things as they are; we see things as we are."
Liberals entertain the conceit that they are quite evolved and superior,
both morally and intellectually. In their childlike minds, they are "good"
and the people who set limits, demand accountability, expect empirical
results, fight their enemies and also make judgments about what is good and
bad and right and wrong are "bad."

But Rabbi Aryeh Spero says that liberals are "morally inferior, given their
lack of heartache over what grieves normal people - the actual torture of
our soldiers, the real beheadings, the tearing of Israelis limb by limb, and
the burning and dragging of American, British, and Israeli half-dead. Their
silence shows their amorality; their selectivity proves their concern is not
with human dignity but tarnishing their country's image." He calls this
thinking "a psychological aberration."

This, again, is no surprise, given that children cannot be expected to have
fully actualized moral compasses. Or egos. Which is why it was a mortal
wound to the egos of the monumentally egocentric and childlike liberals in
our midst that a Southern-drawling, non-King's-English-speaking Texan could
possibly defeat - not once but twice - the collective forces of a
hot-air-spewing Al Gore, the Vietnam war traitor John Kerry, and a liberal
media of such great numbers that it would not even fit into the vast acreage
of Guantanamo Bay!

But liberals are educated, you may say, credentialed, accomplished, smart in
all areas of life - business, the arts, medicine, law, even politics. Which
only goes to prove what most people know instinctively: Emotion always
trumps rationality!


Symptoms of Liberal Pathology

As I've mentioned, liberals want to be liked. They believe that if America
were not so strong, so powerful, so rich, so successful - so enviable to the
rest of the world - things would be better. This is because liberals hate
strength and power and wealth and success, except, that is, when they are
the beneficiaries! It is interesting to note here that the richest
politicians in Congress are liberal Democrats. Think Kennedy, Rockefeller,
Reid, Byrd, the list goes on and on.
In our nation's Mecca of Liberalism, Hollywood, those who announce the
Oscars always refuse to say, "And the winner is ." Instead they say, "And
the Oscar goes to ." This is because liberals don't like the concept of
winning or losing - someone might feel bad and get angry and pick a fight .
and then they won't like me! In the world of liberalism, it's always all
about me!

Among the many symptoms of liberal pathology is out-of-control anger. When
things aren't going their way, liberals behave much like any child who has
not yet learned to debate and so resorts to his or her most primitive
emotions. Here's a very brief sample, provided by conservative columnist JB
Williams:

Liberal columnist Jonathan Chait: "I hate President George W. Bush. I hate
the way he walks. I hate the way he talks. I even hate the things that
everybody seems to like about him."

Liberal DNC Chairman Howard Dean: "I hate Republicans and everything they
stand for."

Liberal Michael Moo "The Patriot Act is as un-American as 'Mein Kampf.'"

Liberal Al Go The Bush administration "works closely with a network of
'rapid response' digital brownshirts."

Simply, the liberals' childlike rage completely eclipses any semblance of
rationality. Their opposition to and obsession with President Bush has
frozen the higher centers of their brains, effectively preventing them from
ever presenting any intelligent alternative to the domestic and foreign
policy strategies they object to, outside of socialist let's-all-get-together
ideas that eliminate capitalism, the competitive spirit, and American
exceptionalism.

Raymond S. Kraft, who has written at length about American exceptionalism,
cites those who "want an American retreat, defeat, and surrender in Iraq: Al
Qaeda, Hezbollah, Iran, Muqtada al Sadr, and Osama bin Laden . and America's
Democrats." [Read liberals].

That is why the only liberal "plan" for Iraq is cutting and running. Hillary
Clinton spoke for all liberals when she said she "resented" the president's
saying that the next president would have to withdraw troops from Iraq. In
essence, she was whining: How dare he inflict me with that adult
responsibility?

And on the domestic front, liberals offer no better plan for education than
more unions, no better plan for the economy than raising taxes, no better
plan for Supreme Court justices than more rule-from-the-bench liberals, and
no better plan for healthcare than socialized medicine.

In addition, liberals are intellectually lazy. Like the children they are,
their feelings supersede their self-described much-vaunted intellects,
rendering them biologically incapable of objective thought or reasoned
debate. So controlled are they by the emotional centers of their brains that
when President Bush says we must defend our country with every means
possible - diplomatic, strategic, and military - liberals figuratively say,
or rather screech, "I don't like those rules, Dad!" and then they have
pathological temper tantrums.

Another symptom of liberal pathology is a deep identification with
"victims," who to liberals are all women, all African-Americans, all
Hispanics, all union members, and all denizens of Third World countries, as
well as anyone else they perceive as being either "victimized" by big, bad
corporate America or by those subscribing to conservative ideology.

This is because suffering, or perceived suffering, animates them, makes them
feel useful, like saviors, and, of course, "good." The most dramatic example
of this symptom is the left's unanimous embrace and support of Israel when
that fledgling state was born in 1948, comprising largely the bedraggled,
starving, half-dead Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. When Israel won her
first war against seven Arab states, liberals cheered for little David
against Goliath.

But then Israel began to flourish, to prosper, to develop superior military
and intelligence systems, to thrive as a capitalist society - in fact, to
resemble America in ways that offended leftists, who historically have
loathed anything resembling strength, because strong people are not victims!

And so today, when Israel is once again under siege, assailed by a new wave
of international anti-Semitism, surrounded by sworn enemies and threatened
by Iran with annihilation, American liberals are thunderingly silent.

Yet another symptom of liberal pathology is childlike insecurity. Adults, to
be sure, have insecurities and go about dealing with them in adult ways, for
instance taking courses or acquiring skills to become more proficient in
this or that area. But adults don't routinely ask 100 people what they think
before making a decision, then act on that collective decision, then change
their minds if they get a different consensus based on another 100 opinions.

Liberals do! In fact, wasn't it Bill Clinton who elevated polling to an art
form? Wasn't it John Kerry who placed the word "flip-flopping" into the
lexicon? And isn't it Hillary Clinton who in a recent two-day time span told
different audiences that (1) she was, in essence, a dove who would "end the
war" in Iraq if she were elected president, and (2) she was, in essence, a
hawk, who thought that Iran "cannot be allowed" to acquire nuclear weapons
and that we "shouldn't take any option off the table"?


Diagnosing Liberal Pathology

In what he calls the psychopathology of the liberal mind, Lyle H. Rossiter,
Jr., M.D., a psychiatrist and the author of The Liberal Mind: The
Psychological Causes of Political Madness," says:
"In his determination to control the world, [the liberal] constantly defends
himself against what Karen Horney aptly described as the most basic of human
fears: being alone and helpless in a dangerous, indifferent world, the
nightmare of the abandoned, terrified child. Persons plagued with such fears
easily conclude that it is in their greatest interest to dominate others, or
to imagine that they can, and to set about achieving that goal through the
manipulation of government power."

And what does this domination and manipulation lead to? Rossiter says it is
nothing less than the "liberal agenda's principles of coercive collectivism
[in which] the citizen's choices will be influenced by ideals of
entitlement, welfare dependency, state regulation [and] moral relativism."

The liberal, Rossiter adds, is "not called to maturity but is instead
invited to begin a second childhood. Like the child at play, he is given, or
at least promised, ultimate economic, social and political security without
having to assume responsibility for himself."

Rossiter's "diagnoses" complement those found in the diagnostic and
statistical manual (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association.

In narcissistic personality disorder, people feel they are special and
therefore entitled to the things they want at the exact moment they want
them. When denied, narcissists become irrationally angry and lash out with
personal attacks. But because they crave adulation, they can become
irresistibly charming in the very next minute.

Sound familiar? For eight long years, President "I feel your pain" Clinton
failed to pass a law to provide senior citizens with prescription drug
relief, failed to muster up the morality to pass a law banning
third-trimester abortions that kill fully formed babies on the very verge of
birth, failed to free the black people in this country from the slavery of
welfare until a Republican Congress accomplished this sea change in America's
landscape. But he did not fail cut and run from Somalia, bomb an aspirin
factory or wage an air war against people who were no threat to the United
States, or to ignore numerous Al Qaeda attacks on our country and throughout
the world, effectively setting the stage for the devastation of September
11.

Narcissism, in fact, is at the root of liberals' embrace of abortion. While
"power to the powerless" is their anthem, no legislation has ever been more
passionately embraced than the abortion-on-demand law of 1973 that allows
all "caring" liberals to kill the most powerless among us. Of course, this
does not conflict with their horror at the deaths of minks, because in their
minds these rodents are already here while developing embryos - with
heartbeats and nervous systems, eyes and ears - are simply "tissue." Nor
does it conflict with their horror at "civilian" deaths, even when they
result inadvertently from American military forces.

Borderline personality disorder is characterized by a complete inability to
tolerate the gray complexion of life - or politics. Liberals always cast
those who disagree with them in stark shades of black and white and often
resort to "scorched earth" retaliation. They also go out of their way to
conceal the fact that, like other sociopaths, they have no consciences and
no remorse - except for the likes of minks, of course.

Such is the nature of liberals, whose identification with and empathy for
our enemies is a hopeless muddle of self-congratulatory "understanding" and
hatred of authority. Instead of seeing the epic struggle we are now engaged
in as an opportunity to stand with America for the spread of freedom and for
defeating our enemies, liberals choose to stand against everything that is
good and great and exceptional about our country.

To most people, this is self-defeating, irrational, even dangerous behavior.
But remember, that's how some children are! However, when fully grown adults
act this way, in spite of the fact that they're fixated between the ages of
6 and 12, such behavior is not only treasonous, it's also pathological.

So the next time you're watching or listening to a liberal, observe the
symptoms I've mentioned. Note the anger, the pessimism, the negativity, the
name-calling, the bursts of rage, the gratuitous insults, the desire to
present an image of "goodness," the transparent attempt to be liked, the
willingness to change an opinion if the old one isn't polling well, and the
eagerness to placate our enemies, the better to avoid a fight so that those
enemies will "like" us.

Ask yourself: Is this behavior different in any way from a child's behavior?
Then ask yourself: Do I want a child to be the President of the United
States and the Commander in Chief in a time of war?

Mitch_A wrote:

> From the inception of psychology over 100 years ago,

Sigh...

Gone off your meds AGAIN, Mitch??

-Moo!

--
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it’s just a goddamned piece
of paper!" - George W. Bush.

t (Greg Campbell) wrote:

> Gone off your meds AGAIN, Mitch??

The USA as a whole is slowly, but steadily recovering from its entirely
understandable post-911 nervous breakdown. However some seem to have
been permanently damaged. I wish them well on their continuing journey
towards recovery, education, and humility. Even Mitch... though I admit
the humility thing might be asking a bit much in his case.

Andrew McP

Mitch_A wrote:
> From the inception of psychology over 100 years ago, conditions such as
> autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder,
> narcissism and Tourette's syndrome were thought to be psychological in
> origin - and that with enough therapy, enough blaming inadequate parenting,
> enough talk, enough delving into "feelings," the sufferer could be treated
> successfully or even cured.
>
> We now know - thanks to tools like PET scans, MRIs, and pharmaceutical
> advances - that these condition are all biological in nature, more receptive
> to medications, augmented with behavioral techniques, than to any of the
> other "therapies" that were inflicted so ineffectually on millions of people
> over the past many decades.
>
> The scans, in fact, have revealed the specific areas of the brain that give
> rise to anger, revenge, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, stuttering,
> pathological lying, cheating, manipulation, obsessive-compulsive behavior,
> depressive disorders, even cravings for chocolate!
>
> How do we know these conditions are biological? Because in addition to the
> fact that medications have treated these mental disorders successfully (for
> example, Haldol for psychoses, lithium for bipolar disorder, Wellbutrin for
> depression, and Xanax for anxiety), they have identical symptoms (albeit
> some more severe than others) in people who are raised in luxury high-rises
> in Buenos Aires, slums in Los Angeles, kibbutzim in Israel, huts in rain
> forests, and penthouses in Manhattan. And also in people raised in both
> happy and dysfunctional homes.
>
> What we also understand is that most intractable mental conditions seem to
> be genetically driven, rooted in centers of the brain that are still not
> fully understood. Perhaps this is why political affiliation - with
> exceptions, of course - seems to run in families.
>
>
>
> Liberal Pathology
>
> I suspect that at the core of liberal "thinking" is the same kind of
> pathology that characterizes other mental disorders, I.e., a glitch in the
> brain that produces "feelings" and behavior over which liberals have no
> control.
>
> For instance, liberals are uniformly glum, not only in their grim demeanors
> and persistent anger, but also in their outlooks. Even in the flush of their
> midterm victory, they could hardly conceal their endemic rage, in spite of a
> brief moment of toothy, appliquéd smiles.
>
> "Liberals, like children, live in a world of utopian dreaminess, clinging to
> a narrow, circumscribed reality and believing that if everyone would just be
> nice to each other - let's talk, let's chat - all the noisy death threats
> and pesky suicide bombings would go away, and all those grumpy grownups in
> the current administration would see the light. And so they do what children
> do when they're mad at grownups. They call names."

Or, as I like to say, liberals think that if all these bad people
(Ahmedinijad, Bin Laden, when we find him, Kim Jong-il, etc., would just
sit down and sing a few choruses of "Kum Ba Ya," that they would all
kiss and make up and everything would be fine. Well, to paraphrase
Burgess Meredith from Rocky III, "They ain't gonna KISS us, they gonna
KILL US, you know that?"

Liberals, obviously, don't.

Bob

"Mitch_A" > wrote in message
.. .
> From the inception of psychology over 100 years ago, conditions such as
> autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder,
> narcissism and Tourette's syndrome were thought to be psychological in
> origin - and that with enough therapy, enough blaming inadequate
parenting,
> enough talk, enough delving into "feelings," the sufferer could be treated
> successfully or even cured.
>
> We now know - thanks to tools like PET scans, MRIs, and pharmaceutical
> advances - that these condition are all biological in nature, more
receptive
> to medications, augmented with behavioral techniques, than to any of the
> other "therapies" that were inflicted so ineffectually on millions of
people
> over the past many decades.
>
> The scans, in fact, have revealed the specific areas of the brain that
give
> rise to anger, revenge, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, stuttering,
> pathological lying, cheating, manipulation, obsessive-compulsive behavior,
> depressive disorders, even cravings for chocolate!
>
> How do we know these conditions are biological? Because in addition to the
> fact that medications have treated these mental disorders successfully
(for
> example, Haldol for psychoses, lithium for bipolar disorder, Wellbutrin
for
> depression, and Xanax for anxiety), they have identical symptoms (albeit
> some more severe than others) in people who are raised in luxury
high-rises
> in Buenos Aires, slums in Los Angeles, kibbutzim in Israel, huts in rain
> forests, and penthouses in Manhattan. And also in people raised in both
> happy and dysfunctional homes.
>
> What we also understand is that most intractable mental conditions seem to
> be genetically driven, rooted in centers of the brain that are still not
> fully understood. Perhaps this is why political affiliation - with
> exceptions, of course - seems to run in families.
>
>
>
> Liberal Pathology
>
> I suspect that at the core of liberal "thinking" is the same kind of
> pathology that characterizes other mental disorders, I.e., a glitch in the
> brain that produces "feelings" and behavior over which liberals have no
> control.
>
> For instance, liberals are uniformly glum, not only in their grim
demeanors
> and persistent anger, but also in their outlooks. Even in the flush of
their
> midterm victory, they could hardly conceal their endemic rage, in spite of
a
> brief moment of toothy, appliquéd smiles.
>
> "Liberals, like children, live in a world of utopian dreaminess, clinging
to
> a narrow, circumscribed reality and believing that if everyone would just
be
> nice to each other - let's talk, let's chat - all the noisy death threats
> and pesky suicide bombings would go away, and all those grumpy grownups in
> the current administration would see the light. And so they do what
children
> do when they're mad at grownups. They call names."
>
> This is because their worldview is uniformly negative. When things are
good,
> they see only the bad and invoke the Misery Index cited routinely by Jimmy
> Carter and resurrected by the dour wannabe president John Kerry. When
things
> could be better, they see only that things could be worse. When their
> theories are refuted by hard fact, they are unable to process the true
from
> the untrue because their feelings tell them otherwise. For instance:
>
> In an unprecedented stellar economy - with the GDP, employment, and low
> inflation, liberals see only the "threat" of recession.
>
> In measurable improvement in education, liberals see only "too much
> testing."
>
> In the face of 3,000 lives being exterminated by Islamic terrorists on
> September 11, 2001, liberals see a non-existent threat.
>
> In the Iraq war, which has liberated 25 million people, liberals see, to
> quote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "not a war but a situation" and a
> "catastrophe."
>
> Worse, the liberals among us see that all of our country's problems are
the
> fault of, yes, America!
> Who but an out-of-control child - who didn't know any better - would
compare
> our heroic fighting troops to Nazis? Liberal Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)
did.
>
> Who but a bully of a child would say that the head of his household (in
this
> case his country) was a liar? Liberal Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) did.
>
> Who but a spoiled "princess" would call the leader of her country a
failure,
> a fraud, and incompetent? Liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did.
>
> Who but a snobby and vacuous little brat would badmouth the president on
> foreign soil while our troops were in harm's way? Liberal Senator John
Kerry
> (D-MA) did, as did liberal former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill
Clinton.
>
> And who but a jealous tomboy would insist, again in a time of war, that
the
> Commander in Chief is the worst president in our nation's history? Liberal
> Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has done just that.
>
> All of these children - er, politicians - have gone to great lengths to
> undermine President Bush, often in foreign countries and always in
> contradiction to the unspoken but historically honored rule to support a
> president in time of war - or at least to refrain from insult.
>
>
> A Rage That Knows No Bounds.
>
> Children take things personally. "My father is bigger (stronger, smarter)
> than your father" is just about intolerable to the average child. "Is
not!"
> "Is too!" is an exchange that inevitably results in either tears or fists.
> In 2000, when George W. Bush ascended to the presidency, the initial
despair
> of liberals quickly morphed into childlike, irrational anger, which has
> obsessed them for the past 7 years.
> Not only have they called names, spewed insults and stamped their feet,
but
> they've also lined up like-minded friends in the liberal media and
leftwing
> think tanks to do the same. Much worse, they've aligned themselves with
> America's mortal enemies.
>
> According to Vasko Kohlmayer in World Defense Review, "the affection in
> which [liberals] are held by our foes is neither unjustified nor
surprising.
> They have more than earned it by systematically subverting this country's
> war effort while simultaneously proffering assistance to those who have
> pledged to destroy us." Kohlmayer lists some highlights of liberal
> treachery:
>
> They have tried to prevent us from listening in on terrorists' phone calls
>
> They have sought to stop us from properly interrogating captured
terrorists
>
> They have tried to stop us from monitoring terrorists' financial
> transactions
>
> They have revealed the existence of secret national security programs
>
> They have opposed vital components of the Patriot Act
>
> They have sought to confer unmerited legal rights on terrorists
>
> They have opposed profiling to identify the terrorists in our midst
>
> They have impugned and demeaned our military
>
> They have insinuated that the president is a war criminal
>
> They have forced the resignation of a committed defense secretary
>
> They have repeatedly tried to de-legitimize our war effort
>
> They want to quit the battlefield in the midst of war.
>
> If nothing else proves the rigidity - indeed the pathology - of the
liberal
> brain, it is what Kohlmayer says of liberals today: "Almost all of the
> current democratic leadership was actively involved in [the Vietnam
> anti-war] effort. Bill and Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Howard
> Dean, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi were all in one way or
> another personally engaged in the anti-war movement. And when at last it
> bore its disastrous fruit, they gloated and danced in the streets.
> Exhilarated and jubilant, they deemed America's disgrace their finest
hour.
> In their skewed world, America's defeat came to represent their personal
> triumph."
>
>
> Fathoming Liberal Rage.
>
> To understand the left's treasonous rage, it is important to understand
that
> the most cherished value in the life of children (read liberals) is to be
> "liked" by their peers, a theory that Judith Rich Harris has exhaustively
> documented in her best-selling and revolutionary book, The Nurture
> Assumption.
> To be liked - according to the evangelical religion of liberalism - is not
> to engage in conflict, not to fight, not to judge, After all, if you fight
> with anyone, including Islamic terrorists, they won't like you. And if you
> judge them as savages, murderers, enemies of democracy, they will fight
you.
> So don't judge them and they won't fight you and everything will be hunky
> dory. Such are the fantastical fantasies of children (read liberals).
>
> They are fantasies that flourish, says writer Evan Sayet, because liberals
> are "wedded to the childish philosophy of 'multiculturalism' . the fantasy
> that all cultures are equally good and equally right. It is why liberals
> "believe we should 'celebrate diversity,' as if all differences - say
> freedom of religion and massacring all infidels - are equally worthy of
> celebration."
>
> It is also why liberals, like children, are driven so compulsively by
> emotion that they simply don't have the ability to apply rational thought
> when it comes to George W. Bush. To them, he is still the stronger father
to
> whom they continue to insist: "Is not!"
>
>
> Rage Trumps Rationality.
>
> The reason why liberals have remained so intractably unhinged about
> President Bush is not because of their ideological differences with his
> conservatism. It is because of their collective inadequate egos. This is
no
> surprise because children have "developing" egos, not fully-fledged senses
> of themselves, their places in the world, and their worth. Children are
> wildly egocentric, seeing themselves as the center of the universe and
> having no appreciation of the vast world that lies outside their limited
> awareness. In fact, they echo a saying from the Talmud: "We do not see
> things as they are; we see things as we are."
> Liberals entertain the conceit that they are quite evolved and superior,
> both morally and intellectually. In their childlike minds, they are "good"
> and the people who set limits, demand accountability, expect empirical
> results, fight their enemies and also make judgments about what is good
and
> bad and right and wrong are "bad."
>
> But Rabbi Aryeh Spero says that liberals are "morally inferior, given
their
> lack of heartache over what grieves normal people - the actual torture of
> our soldiers, the real beheadings, the tearing of Israelis limb by limb,
and
> the burning and dragging of American, British, and Israeli half-dead.
Their
> silence shows their amorality; their selectivity proves their concern is
not
> with human dignity but tarnishing their country's image." He calls this
> thinking "a psychological aberration."
>
> This, again, is no surprise, given that children cannot be expected to
have
> fully actualized moral compasses. Or egos. Which is why it was a mortal
> wound to the egos of the monumentally egocentric and childlike liberals in
> our midst that a Southern-drawling, non-King's-English-speaking Texan
could
> possibly defeat - not once but twice - the collective forces of a
> hot-air-spewing Al Gore, the Vietnam war traitor John Kerry, and a liberal
> media of such great numbers that it would not even fit into the vast
acreage
> of Guantanamo Bay!
>
> But liberals are educated, you may say, credentialed, accomplished, smart
in
> all areas of life - business, the arts, medicine, law, even politics.
Which
> only goes to prove what most people know instinctively: Emotion always
> trumps rationality!
>
>
> Symptoms of Liberal Pathology
>
> As I've mentioned, liberals want to be liked. They believe that if America
> were not so strong, so powerful, so rich, so successful - so enviable to
the
> rest of the world - things would be better. This is because liberals hate
> strength and power and wealth and success, except, that is, when they are
> the beneficiaries! It is interesting to note here that the richest
> politicians in Congress are liberal Democrats. Think Kennedy, Rockefeller,
> Reid, Byrd, the list goes on and on.
> In our nation's Mecca of Liberalism, Hollywood, those who announce the
> Oscars always refuse to say, "And the winner is ." Instead they say, "And
> the Oscar goes to ." This is because liberals don't like the concept of
> winning or losing - someone might feel bad and get angry and pick a fight
..
> and then they won't like me! In the world of liberalism, it's always all
> about me!
>
> Among the many symptoms of liberal pathology is out-of-control anger. When
> things aren't going their way, liberals behave much like any child who has
> not yet learned to debate and so resorts to his or her most primitive
> emotions. Here's a very brief sample, provided by conservative columnist
JB
> Williams:
>
> Liberal columnist Jonathan Chait: "I hate President George W. Bush. I hate
> the way he walks. I hate the way he talks. I even hate the things that
> everybody seems to like about him."
>
> Liberal DNC Chairman Howard Dean: "I hate Republicans and everything they
> stand for."
>
> Liberal Michael Moo "The Patriot Act is as un-American as 'Mein
Kampf.'"
>
> Liberal Al Go The Bush administration "works closely with a network of
> 'rapid response' digital brownshirts."
>
> Simply, the liberals' childlike rage completely eclipses any semblance of
> rationality. Their opposition to and obsession with President Bush has
> frozen the higher centers of their brains, effectively preventing them
from
> ever presenting any intelligent alternative to the domestic and foreign
> policy strategies they object to, outside of socialist
let's-all-get-together
> ideas that eliminate capitalism, the competitive spirit, and American
> exceptionalism.
>
> Raymond S. Kraft, who has written at length about American exceptionalism,
> cites those who "want an American retreat, defeat, and surrender in Iraq:
Al
> Qaeda, Hezbollah, Iran, Muqtada al Sadr, and Osama bin Laden . and
America's
> Democrats." [Read liberals].
>
> That is why the only liberal "plan" for Iraq is cutting and running.
Hillary
> Clinton spoke for all liberals when she said she "resented" the
president's
> saying that the next president would have to withdraw troops from Iraq. In
> essence, she was whining: How dare he inflict me with that adult
> responsibility?
>
> And on the domestic front, liberals offer no better plan for education
than
> more unions, no better plan for the economy than raising taxes, no better
> plan for Supreme Court justices than more rule-from-the-bench liberals,
and
> no better plan for healthcare than socialized medicine.
>
> In addition, liberals are intellectually lazy. Like the children they are,
> their feelings supersede their self-described much-vaunted intellects,
> rendering them biologically incapable of objective thought or reasoned
> debate. So controlled are they by the emotional centers of their brains
that
> when President Bush says we must defend our country with every means
> possible - diplomatic, strategic, and military - liberals figuratively
say,
> or rather screech, "I don't like those rules, Dad!" and then they have
> pathological temper tantrums.
>
> Another symptom of liberal pathology is a deep identification with
> "victims," who to liberals are all women, all African-Americans, all
> Hispanics, all union members, and all denizens of Third World countries,
as
> well as anyone else they perceive as being either "victimized" by big, bad
> corporate America or by those subscribing to conservative ideology.
>
> This is because suffering, or perceived suffering, animates them, makes
them
> feel useful, like saviors, and, of course, "good." The most dramatic
example
> of this symptom is the left's unanimous embrace and support of Israel when
> that fledgling state was born in 1948, comprising largely the bedraggled,
> starving, half-dead Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. When Israel won her
> first war against seven Arab states, liberals cheered for little David
> against Goliath.
>
> But then Israel began to flourish, to prosper, to develop superior
military
> and intelligence systems, to thrive as a capitalist society - in fact, to
> resemble America in ways that offended leftists, who historically have
> loathed anything resembling strength, because strong people are not
victims!
>
> And so today, when Israel is once again under siege, assailed by a new
wave
> of international anti-Semitism, surrounded by sworn enemies and threatened
> by Iran with annihilation, American liberals are thunderingly silent.
>
> Yet another symptom of liberal pathology is childlike insecurity. Adults,
to
> be sure, have insecurities and go about dealing with them in adult ways,
for
> instance taking courses or acquiring skills to become more proficient in
> this or that area. But adults don't routinely ask 100 people what they
think
> before making a decision, then act on that collective decision, then
change
> their minds if they get a different consensus based on another 100
opinions.
>
> Liberals do! In fact, wasn't it Bill Clinton who elevated polling to an
art
> form? Wasn't it John Kerry who placed the word "flip-flopping" into the
> lexicon? And isn't it Hillary Clinton who in a recent two-day time span
told
> different audiences that (1) she was, in essence, a dove who would "end
the
> war" in Iraq if she were elected president, and (2) she was, in essence, a
> hawk, who thought that Iran "cannot be allowed" to acquire nuclear weapons
> and that we "shouldn't take any option off the table"?
>
>
> Diagnosing Liberal Pathology
>
> In what he calls the psychopathology of the liberal mind, Lyle H.
Rossiter,
> Jr., M.D., a psychiatrist and the author of The Liberal Mind: The
> Psychological Causes of Political Madness," says:
> "In his determination to control the world, [the liberal] constantly
defends
> himself against what Karen Horney aptly described as the most basic of
human
> fears: being alone and helpless in a dangerous, indifferent world, the
> nightmare of the abandoned, terrified child. Persons plagued with such
fears
> easily conclude that it is in their greatest interest to dominate others,
or
> to imagine that they can, and to set about achieving that goal through the
> manipulation of government power."
>
> And what does this domination and manipulation lead to? Rossiter says it
is
> nothing less than the "liberal agenda's principles of coercive
collectivism
> [in which] the citizen's choices will be influenced by ideals of
> entitlement, welfare dependency, state regulation [and] moral relativism."
>
> The liberal, Rossiter adds, is "not called to maturity but is instead
> invited to begin a second childhood. Like the child at play, he is given,
or
> at least promised, ultimate economic, social and political security
without
> having to assume responsibility for himself."
>
> Rossiter's "diagnoses" complement those found in the diagnostic and
> statistical manual (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association.
>
> In narcissistic personality disorder, people feel they are special and
> therefore entitled to the things they want at the exact moment they want
> them. When denied, narcissists become irrationally angry and lash out with
> personal attacks. But because they crave adulation, they can become
> irresistibly charming in the very next minute.
>
> Sound familiar? For eight long years, President "I feel your pain"
Clinton
> failed to pass a law to provide senior citizens with prescription drug
> relief, failed to muster up the morality to pass a law banning
> third-trimester abortions that kill fully formed babies on the very verge
of
> birth, failed to free the black people in this country from the slavery of
> welfare until a Republican Congress accomplished this sea change in
America's
> landscape. But he did not fail cut and run from Somalia, bomb an aspirin
> factory or wage an air war against people who were no threat to the United
> States, or to ignore numerous Al Qaeda attacks on our country and
throughout
> the world, effectively setting the stage for the devastation of September
> 11.
>
> Narcissism, in fact, is at the root of liberals' embrace of abortion.
While
> "power to the powerless" is their anthem, no legislation has ever been
more
> passionately embraced than the abortion-on-demand law of 1973 that allows
> all "caring" liberals to kill the most powerless among us. Of course, this
> does not conflict with their horror at the deaths of minks, because in
their
> minds these rodents are already here while developing embryos - with
> heartbeats and nervous systems, eyes and ears - are simply "tissue." Nor
> does it conflict with their horror at "civilian" deaths, even when they
> result inadvertently from American military forces.
>
> Borderline personality disorder is characterized by a complete inability
to
> tolerate the gray complexion of life - or politics. Liberals always cast
> those who disagree with them in stark shades of black and white and often
> resort to "scorched earth" retaliation. They also go out of their way to
> conceal the fact that, like other sociopaths, they have no consciences and
> no remorse - except for the likes of minks, of course.
>
> Such is the nature of liberals, whose identification with and empathy for
> our enemies is a hopeless muddle of self-congratulatory "understanding"
and
> hatred of authority. Instead of seeing the epic struggle we are now
engaged
> in as an opportunity to stand with America for the spread of freedom and
for
> defeating our enemies, liberals choose to stand against everything that is
> good and great and exceptional about our country.
>
> To most people, this is self-defeating, irrational, even dangerous
behavior.
> But remember, that's how some children are! However, when fully grown
adults
> act this way, in spite of the fact that they're fixated between the ages
of
> 6 and 12, such behavior is not only treasonous, it's also pathological.
>
> So the next time you're watching or listening to a liberal, observe the
> symptoms I've mentioned. Note the anger, the pessimism, the negativity,
the
> name-calling, the bursts of rage, the gratuitous insults, the desire to
> present an image of "goodness," the transparent attempt to be liked, the
> willingness to change an opinion if the old one isn't polling well, and
the
> eagerness to placate our enemies, the better to avoid a fight so that
those
> enemies will "like" us.
>
> Ask yourself: Is this behavior different in any way from a child's
behavior?
> Then ask yourself: Do I want a child to be the President of the United
> States and the Commander in Chief in a time of war?
>
>

It's been a few years since I checked in with the newsgroup, I think it
centered around March 19, 2003. I coundln't believe that we would throw our
full military force against a country we had held in a box for 12 years that
had NO existential theat to our country.

It's sort of funny that a forum for racing simulations has become an outlet
for political viewpoints, but I can understand that any "community" will be
drawn to discussing issues that affect the entire "community". As it stands
right now, it's costing us more than $3800 per second to wage the war in
Iraq and what has it accomplished?

I'm a liberal and damned proud of it. This country was founded on liberal
philosophy and my faith drives my liberal viewpoint. My liberal viewpoint
would protect your ass from any threat from anywhere. I have to admit that
I'm curious how you came to be such a fearful, paranoid person? I've lived
and worked with people with many different belief systems and cultural
backgrounds and one thing becomes apparent, We all want to live our lioves
in peace and prosperity and provide our children with a better world than we
were given.

Mitch, I wish you well and want you to know thar I've got your back. We
may not agree on many things ,but we're still in this fight together.

Jeff

Hi,

More about narcissistic cultures and societies - click on these links:

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/14.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal87.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/lasch.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal62.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal63.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq47.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/15.html

For a more detailed view of pathological narcissism and the
Narcissistic
Personality Disorder (NPD) - click on these links:

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/npdglance.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/...ismglance.html

Other Personality Disorders

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faqpd.html

Take care.

Sam