Top shrink explains liberals... er, progressives: They're nuts!
Psychiatrist Dr. Lyle Rossiter has written a new book which explains a great deal about American politics.
His conclusion: Liberals are nuts.
"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," Dr. writes."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."
This insight raises an interesting question. Could the status of liberalism as a form of mental illness be one reason why so many on the Left- anxious to avoid the stigma mental illness regrettably still carries in our society- insist so loudly that they are not, in fact, liberals at all, but rather "progressives?" I've always wondered about their need to hide behind that euphemism. Perhaps Dr. Rossiter has the answer.
Dr. Rossiter, who lacks any particular links to the political Right, is a distinguished practitioner of his profession. He was trained at the University of Chicago, and has practiced for 35 years, treating over 1,500 patients and testifying as a forensic expert in the cases of some 27,000 civil and criminal trials.
Add to Dr. Rossiter's observations the paranoid tendency to see conspiracies and the large amount of barely contained anger and hatred exhibited by so many on the Left, and Dr. Rossiter may well have a candidate for a new diagnosis for DSM V.
His conclusion: Liberals are nuts.
"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," Dr. writes."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."
This insight raises an interesting question. Could the status of liberalism as a form of mental illness be one reason why so many on the Left- anxious to avoid the stigma mental illness regrettably still carries in our society- insist so loudly that they are not, in fact, liberals at all, but rather "progressives?" I've always wondered about their need to hide behind that euphemism. Perhaps Dr. Rossiter has the answer.
Dr. Rossiter, who lacks any particular links to the political Right, is a distinguished practitioner of his profession. He was trained at the University of Chicago, and has practiced for 35 years, treating over 1,500 patients and testifying as a forensic expert in the cases of some 27,000 civil and criminal trials.
Add to Dr. Rossiter's observations the paranoid tendency to see conspiracies and the large amount of barely contained anger and hatred exhibited by so many on the Left, and Dr. Rossiter may well have a candidate for a new diagnosis for DSM V.
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