Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill
Here, several years after radio talker Michael Savage’s book Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, comes another book on the topic…this time from a non-political psychiatrist.
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.”
Once again the libDonks are reminded that “reality is a bitch” sometimes.
Me:
–liberal
–paying mortgage
–raising child
–shoveling snow
–paying taxes
Which “responsibilities of adulthood” am I rebelling against?
“Moonbattery”? You’re the one who sounds detached from reality, feeling the need to cast the people who disagree with you as mentally deranged rather than dealing with them as real fellow citizens. Always easier to build straw man, isn’t it?
Liberals are the ones willing to pay taxes for what the government does. I advocate universal health care, and I’m willing to pay the taxes to cover every citizen, even you. (Besides, it’ll be cheaper and better than the insurance premiums I’m throwing away on executive salaries.)
Interesting comment. I guess I reject the premise that it is the role of government to do all the stuff it does these days, so OF COURSE it shouldn’t be taxing for what is shouldn’t be doing.
Universal health care WITHOUT EXCEPTION has turned out to be universal health care rationing wherever it has been done. Canada and the UK come readily to mind, and Washington state’s version that offered a patient that they would pay for “Dr. assisted suicide” (euthanasia) instead of more expensive treatment. Thank you, I’ll fend for myself!
I think your reply is worthy of further comment, which will be in a later posting.
By the way, as an educator in one of the lowest paying (small rural) school districts, in the state with the lowest average teaching pay scale, I am FAR from being in the “investment grade” world.