Posted on 05/01/2005 1:24:15 AM PDT by stm
According to psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank, writing in his book, "Bush on the Couch: Inside the mind of the President," Dubya not only suffers from a "sadistic streak," and "megalomania" and "grandiosity," but while "his alcoholism [may have] been arrested," it nevertheless remains "untreated." You have to wonder, don't you, if old Dubya hasn't merely swapped one addiction for another - one opiate for the enthralling enamor of God?
Professionals working in the field of recovery have often observed the addicted personality turn towards God as their savior. Typically, though, they, like Dubya, are merely substituting one addiction for another. It's hard to argue that God isn't really better for them than their drug - be it alcohol, or cocaine, or whatever - but individuals usually get hooked on drugs for a reason and by finding God addicts frequently postpone, or oftentimes permanently pass over, the opportunity for truly coming to grips with and resolving their own personality problems. That person then becomes what is known as a "dry drunk:" one who is sober, or straight, but isn't really in recovery. Their problems frequently come back to haunt them in inexplicable ways.
As for Dubya; we know he was a drunk, he's admitted as much on several occasions; we know at least once he was picked up, arrested, and booked for driving under the influence; and although the complete details haven't really been forthcoming, we also know he most likely dabbled in the use of other substances, such as marijuana and cocaine. Let's face it, Dubya was a party animal and while his businesses kept collapsing around him, he was out there having himself a pretty good time. He was also in fairly deep denial, evidently, until his wife laid down the law. Either Dubya had to stop drinking, or she was going to leave him. Much to his credit he managed to get off the booze, but then immediately screwed up again by not taking the path to true recovery, which would have required that he face himself and his numerous shortcomings. Much to the rest of our chagrin, he has now become Leader Maximus, and doubly (or is that Dubyaly) insists upon avoiding self-examination and self-criticism. Neither, apparently, will he allow others to do it for him.
All of that, of course, explains his complete and total lack of sympathy for other human beings. He knows he was a screw-up, but as he has never come to grips with that part of himself, a very substantial part of himself, he proceeds now to, in effect, deny that part ever existed. He hates who and what he was, and the moment he catches a glimpse of such an individual his own defense mechanisms harden, and he instinctively turns away from them, as if in disgust of his own reflection. Hang em, get them out of my sight, show them no mercy, he says as appeal after appeal comes before him for judgement; and rather than judge such instances based upon the merits, he judges based upon his own loathing of the pitiful creature he once was. Otherwise, he might show some sympathy and understanding for those who, like himself, are facing some fairly rough times.
Dubya's escape from his past was to immerse himself in the never-never-land of Christian conversion. He overcompensates and sees himself as some great avatar of God. The conquering hero (which he surely never was) come to save humanity from itself. The only saving that needs done is to save the rest of the planet, including our now hapless selves, from his over-proselytizing zeal. The man has gone gaga over some conception of Jesus or Yahweh that never was. There is no fool like a newly converted fool, however, and Dubya provides the archetypical example! Holier than thou, fire and brimstone, this nut-case now stalks the planet seeking out ways to complete the conversion of the heathen - to bring them liberty, and freedom (which, truth be told, are the last things he wants them to have).
In his evangelical lust, and Draconian self-hatred, he has given license to all sorts of nut cases who now roam America beseeching the faithful to stone the sinners, and purify the weak. Kick out, or - may the gods forbid - murder the liberal judges, and cleanse the temples of all whose faith varies from that of the self-proclaimed righteous. Cast out all images that reflect the wounded and insecure and immature Dubya of his youth (which lasted until he was 40), and, showing no quarter, institute that which is harsh and severe and ruthless lest any remnant remain to remind him of who and what he once represented.
As it now stands, the world is left to behold this paragon of over-simplicity, this puppet of the Sanhedrin, this anti-Christ come lately who now has up to 100,000 murders to his discredit. The legions of Empire rage on, and George Dubya, the ne'er do well alcoholic from Texas, leads from the rear, and from the flight deck of a carrier sequestered somewhere a few miles off the coast of sunny California.
May the gods save us from this bringer of democracy and peace who now strips the land of its treasure, fortifies the well-to-do, and obtusely refuses to take responsibility for his own seething self-hatreds and shortcomings.
"Are we to gather that being a "Partisan Zealot" is a bad thing?"
It's like "The Force," since it can be used for good or evil. Conservatives use it for good and Liberats, for evil. ;o)
I`ve had some people on Freep actually suggest to me that he has a skin condition like edema or psoriasis. What are they kidding me? I told them to go down to any AA meeting or any hospital ward treating alcoholics, and you`ll find people who have the same face as Ted Kennedy, and those are the hard core alcoholics. They`re not the ones who have a few drinks a day. To get a face like the one Ted Kennedy has, we`re talking a couple of quarts a day of hard liquor. I use to work in a hospital. I`ve seen them all, the ones with jaundice, hepatitis, yellow skin all because the liver is shot and the blood capillaries all busted open under their skin. This is the kind of guy the people of Massachussets keep re-electing for Senator every six years for the past 43 years. Ted Kennedy should be in a hospital and nowhere near a Senate seat, but liberals just don`t care about that.
Ha ha, good point!
It's been said that psychiatrists catch their own diseases.
agree , the man's an ass. Typical double speak . He also dosen't know much about how recovery ACTUALLY work. Major assumptions in that article. OK , here's the email addy of the editor editor@progressivedailybeacon.com .Anyone want to join me in writing to them abou ttheir crap article.
"God addicts" is a newly discovered personality problem ?
Hey, that's it we're not bad, we're just sick.
This is politically-driven hate masquerading as professional analysis.
Ever note how psychiatry indulges in what is logically known as ad hominem arguments?
Well I guess if you had to have an addiction, the best possible one would be an addiction to God.
Wow! Washington and Lincoln must have been major alchies too. In fact, this nation must have been founded by recovering alcoholics.
Well, in the morning a drunk will wake up sober. The Liberal a$$hat that wrote this piece (OS) will still wake up a Liberal.
Indeed- I've seen several variants of this theme, by different writers, for at least five years. It grew stale long ago.
Unoriginal and false.
Right out of the Liberal Playbook.
I believe the only cure for liberalism is the on Hunter S. Thompson finally found.
LOL
This guy is straight out of the DU fever swamps. It must really suck to be such a cliched stereotype of a nutball loser.
I'd settle for chasing 'em around the block while beating them with a whip-- but they'd probably enjoy that...
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