Top shrink concludes liberals clinically nuts

Top shrink concludes liberals clinically nuts
Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder

WorldNetDaily

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.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals
relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our
freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new
book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political
Madness." "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."

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made
similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a
life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing
conspiracy."

For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500
patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more
than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic
psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the
University of Chicago.

Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major
candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only
be understood as a psychological disorder.

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"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 over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts
their character and reduces them to wards of the state - as liberals
do."

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.
"The roots of liberalism - and its associated madness - can be clearly
identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to
adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational
beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind
whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and
seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run
their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully
obvious."

This is what conservatives have known all along.
.

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