Moderator,
I think this is a duplicate post.
nuconvert—
Did you search, first?
In any case, this psychologist agrees . . .
They are
—nuts
—spoiled brats or too often too easily willfully indigent
—rebellious
—traitorous
—clueless
—idiots.
Making money by stating the obvious.
surely it’s worth repeating.
I KNEW IT!!
Yeah, but they’re not ‘liberals’ now, they’re ‘progressives’.
Retitle that book.
I see 2 types - ones on angel dust and, lately, ones with Obama on pixie dust.
New Flash: Sgt_Schultze has discovered that bears isht in the woods.
A friend was told that the CIA had such a psychological profile of lefties back in the 60’s. As I heard it, the liberals are extremely upset that the real world does not match their utopian fantasies, or they are unable to recognize that the real world is imperfect and not the way they want it, whereas a healthy person understands that reality is not the way we all wish it to be.
Michael Savage has been right all along !
Here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971852/posts
FWIW.
I had to click on
find any word
and scroll down 3-4 pages worth to find it, though.
The title was a bit mangled originally, I think.
This was already know here.
I was always taught, "God helps those that help themselves." Of course, I was taught by strong, self-sufficient, hardworking folks.
.from the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
One the other day: we will never have peace on earth until the U.S. is diminished militarily and economically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological state that describes the uncomfortable feeling between what one holds to be true and what one knows to be true
In simple terms, it can be the filtering of information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce one's beliefs. In detailed terms, it is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, where "cognition" is defined as any element of knowledge, including attitude, emotion, belief, or behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance states that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions.
Social psychologist Leon Festinger first proposed the theory in 1957 after the publication of his book When Prophecy Fails, observing the counterintuitive belief persistence of members of a UFO doomsday cult and their increased proselytization after the leader's prophecy failed. The failed message of earth's destruction, purportedly sent by aliens to a woman in 1956, became a disconfirmed expectancy that increased dissonance between cognitions, thereby causing most members of the impromptu cult to lessen the dissonance by accepting a new prophecy: that the aliens had instead spared the planet for their sake.
Two important considerations:
1) Importantly, one of the fundamental properties of liberal socialism is herd-like behavior. Interestingly, this kind of behavior can also be found in many juveniles (think “peer pressure” and cliques), but is usually lost with the onset of adulthood. So could much of liberal socialism be caused by something, say a childhood illness, that inhibits full maturity? Note that this could be a condition of degree, with rabid socialists being the most brain damaged and least mature.
This would also highlight the differences between inherent leanings and learned leanings, like the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath.
2) Liberal socialists also strongly *embrace* immaturity, with a cult of youth and idealizations of childhood. “I don’t ever want to grow up”, is a common refrain. Interestingly, the difference between domestic and wild animals is that domestic animals do not reach emotional adulthood, and the individuality and aggressiveness that comes with it.
That being said, could liberal socialists be called “domesticated humans”, versus the “wild humans” (think Ted Nugent), who are oriented to independence and self-sustainment, individual success and failure.
3) The three factors that should be considered as possible causes are heredity, environment, and medical factors that could contribute to stunted growth.
However it happens, there is so much peculiar *uniformity* of liberal socialism that if you found several of them who had no exposure to liberal socialism’s philosophical underpinnings, they would still be able to reconstruct its bizarre principles, because they have such a similar mind-set.
This mind-set goes back to before the founding of the United States, and over time, from very divergent directions, it has been essentially reassembled as a philosophy, with an unnerving number of similarities.
Perhaps this is the reason that liberal socialists are so similar, even internationally and over perhaps 250 years?
Didn’t Savage scoop this guy?