" Thou shalt create an illusion of invulnerability shared by most members to foster excessive optimism and encourage extreme risks taking "
I must beg to differ on this point --
Liberals are congenitally fear-driven, and everything they do is aimed at eliminating every hint of 'risk' from the world.
From seatbelt/helmet laws to smoking and transfat bans to draconian global warming measures, they desperately try to control everything and everyone around them so that they can *feel* 'safe'.
And when confronted with a risk that they can't 'control', such as islamofascism and terrorism, they retreat into denial.
Liberalism is, indeed, a mental/emotional aberration.....
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus