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Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental

disorder

 

Posted: February 15, 2008

3:40 pm Eastern

© 2008 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.

 

" 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. "

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