Posted on 07/06/2009 12:47:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Being a conservative, I naturally spend an inordinate amount of time attempting to psychoanalyze left-wingers, trying to figure out what makes them tick. God knows I’m not bragging. It is, after all, time I could otherwise devote to alphabetizing my canned goods or trying to make contact with Harry Houdini, but I know from the large number of emails I receive that I’m not alone. The lunacy on the left is enough to turn a lot of us into little Sigmund Freuds.
For instance, why is it that lefties are so puzzled or pretend to be so puzzled that conservatives who are in favor of capital punishment are opposed to abortions -- particularly the 60,000 late-term abortions performed by the late unrepentant serial killer, George Tiller? Even a left-winger should be able to tell the difference between executing a cold-blooded murderer and sucking the brain out of an innocent little human being.
I’m wondering when the Mafia will officially ask for a government subsidy. Yes, I know it’s a criminal organization, but so is ACORN, which faces indictments for voter fraud in several states, and yet Obama and his Democratic cronies are funneling them millions of dollars.
Perhaps if liberals were merely wrong on all the issues, it would be easier to forgive them. But it’s their arrogance and self-righteous attitude that puts them beyond the pale. How often have we heard them claim that they’re being deprived of their right to free speech when what they’re actually complaining about isn’t censorship, but merely that a clear-thinking conservative has refuted some of their inane hogwash? Only liberals actually believe that if you disagree with them, you’re trampling on the 1st Amendment. For good measure, many of them -- including a number of pettifoggers in Congress -- are on an unholy mission to bring back the totalitarian device known as the Fairness Doctrine.
Speaking of fairness, I have come to see that Fox News is something like our own version of Radio Free Europe, getting the truth to those of us behind the Obama Curtain. What is ironic about the way that liberals carry on about TV Free America is that Fox has a large number of liberals on the payroll, including Greta Van Susteren, Bob Beckel, Geraldo Rivera, Alan Colmes, Chris Wallace, Juan Williams, Kirsten Powers and a few others, whereas CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times and the Washington Post, collectively, have only one non-liberal on salary and that’s John Stossel, who doesn’t even identify himself as a conservative, but as a libertarian.
A question nobody has ever answered to my satisfaction is how it’s possible that media people such as David Corn, Eleanor Clift and Ellis Henican, who do nothing but parrot the same insipid DNC talking points as Charles Rangel, Barbara Boxer and Patrick Leahy, are able to make a decent living without at least having to run for office and win an election.
I’m not an expert on body language, but my attention has been called to the fact that when he was on the phone with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Obama was photographed with his feet on the desk in the Oval Office, and when he took his photo op tour of Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel, he had his hands in his pockets. Yet in the august presence of King Abdullah, he bowed respectfully.
Finally, we were told that the world’s leaders were going to cooperate with Barack Hussein Obama in a way they never had with his predecessor. Well, so far, they’ve all refused his invitation to send troops to Afghanistan and, just in case he didn’t get the message, they’ve all refused to take 241 Muslim terrorists off his hands.
Now, we have Newsweek’s managing editor, Evan Thomas, grandson of the former grand Poo Bah of the Socialist Party, Norman Thomas, telling us with a straight face that Obama is greater than God. It appears, however, that the world’s leaders don’t even think he’s greater than George W. Bush.
to psycho analysis leftist
leftists are like kids who haven’t grown up, ya know kids are generally lefitst. Leftist don’t like a society in which there a consequences of mistakes, wheres there is punishment. They dislike responsibility thus to protect themselves they erect this myth that government should be their parents to protect them from everything
to psycho analysis leftist
leftists are like kids who haven’t grown up, ya know kids are generally lefitst. Leftist don’t like a society in which there a consequences of mistakes, wheres there is punishment. They dislike responsibility thus to protect themselves they erect this myth that government should be their parents to protect them from everything
also I believe leftists are anti-human. Theres varies degrees of anti-human to outright hatred to being prejudice towards humans. They believe humans are ill of all things in this world, want a smaller world population
Good one, Kaslin.
Good night, to all.
I’d like to know why after owning the White House and both houses of Congress they’re still so angry.
I can't stand seeing that.
My mother raised me better.
Why all the fuss and muss about a bunch of psychotic, adolescent, mal-adjusted, hateful people? (Not to mention ill-mannered, greedy, mean and insufferable.)
IMHO
Great post, Kaslin.
Liberals and Psychology: Cognitive Dissonance Explains Liberal Anger
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term describing the uncomfortable tension that may result from having two conflicting thoughts at the same time, or from engaging in behavior that conflicts with one’s beliefs, or from experiencing apparently conflicting phenomena.
In simple terms, it can be the filtering of information that conflicts with what you already believe, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce your 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. Experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive. Some of these have examined how beliefs often change to match behavior when beliefs and behavior are in conflict.
I can't stand seeing that. My mother raised me better.
Obama does that subconsciously but subconsciously-on-purpose. He really does give "tells" like that to his attitude toward people and groups (the suppression of which, in favor of civic peace, is the whole point of "courtesy" and "manners", as your mom pointed out to you I'm sure).
Fox's dramatic series with Tim Roth, Lie to Me, nailed both Obama and Slick Willie -- Willie's famous finger-wag, with his eyebrows raised and his eyes sliding off to one side, and Obama's digital unseemly gesture to McCain during one of the presidential debates. Obama should have lost the presidency right there, but people have sunk so low that they ignored the signal and elected him anyway. Well, the liberals and swing voters did.
Obama has sent out numerous clear signals that he scorns our friends and defers to other people, as Prelutsky points out. I think it tells us a lot about what he thinks of us as well.
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