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We Need to Have Empathy for Tea Partiers
http://www.psychologytoday.com ^ | by Michael Bader, D.M.H.

Posted on 03/05/2010 12:05:55 PM PST by Maelstorm

Edited on 03/05/2010 12:08:24 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: Maelstorm

“the Federal Reserve is our enemy and should be abolished, citizens should stock up on ammo, gold, and survival food in anticipation of an impending Civil War, states should “nullify” federal laws and even secede, medical records are being shipped to federal bureaucrats, the Army is seeking “Internment/Resettlement” specialists, Obama is trying to create crises in order to destroy the economy, convert Interpol into his personal police force, and create a New World Order. Conspiracy theories involving shadowy elites like the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations have resurfaced.”

There are many on this very forum who, for one reason or another, feel that if you believe any of the above *theories* you are either tragically uninformed or an imbecile.

Wonder if they realize how much like the good Doctor they are?


61 posted on 03/05/2010 12:54:10 PM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: spodefly
RE: "Bader was also a founder of the Institute for Change, a progressive think-tank focused on leadership development and currently associated with the Service Employees International Union."

spodefly, where did you get this information from? Do you have a link?

62 posted on 03/05/2010 12:54:53 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Maelstorm
"a spur to get our own house-and movement-in order

Take a laxative a VERY large dose!

63 posted on 03/05/2010 12:55:07 PM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: kcvl

How’d I know this nut was a homosexuality enabler?

This guy gives me the willies just looking at him.


64 posted on 03/05/2010 12:56:20 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
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To: ETL
"Just more paranoid conspiracy-mongering from the racist Right...." is what they would say, while refusing to address the veracity of your well-documented citations, before moving on to accuse you of questionable motives and associations.

That's why it's useless to argue with these people: they already know everything and refuse to question any of it. When you calmly challenge them on the facts, they interpret it as a personal attack and often lash out in anger. Hmmmmm; don't psychiatrists have a term for that?

65 posted on 03/05/2010 12:56:40 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: avacado

This guy needs professional help — physician heal thyself.


66 posted on 03/05/2010 12:57:16 PM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: Maelstorm
"The "problem" is that tea-party activists move from legitimate feelings and normal longings to paranoid political positions that are dangerous and cruel."

Nope! Not even close!

The problem is that you have made up your mind before studying the facts. You have attempted to fit what you think are the facts to your standard template. Your biggest problem will come for you about the 4th of November - and you won't be able to ignore it. In the meantime, please enjoy the music while we attempt to connect you with reality.

67 posted on 03/05/2010 1:01:13 PM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Maelstorm
My response on the Psychology Today website:

Paranoia and projection are clearly the hallmarks of Michael Bader's personal pathology. His paranoia is apparent when he sees people whom he opposes politically as "crazy f**kers" (He is gratuitously foul-mouthed as well. And using the word "f**ker" as a pejorative! Someone could write a doctoral thesis on this poor man's hatred/sexuality issues). Often, paranoids see themselves surrounded by those who are against them or trying to ruin their lives. Michael sees all those whom he personally opposes as both pathetically stupid and emotionally stunted, revealing his own clear narcissistic tendencies as well. Wow. Who is his therapist? Barack Obama?

Of course, finding patients for psychoanalysis in San Francisco is as easy as finding sand on a beach. When the market is so huge, one can expect to find plenty of bottomfeeders like Michael who slake their own psychological needs by projecting their illness onto others.

Having seen plenty of Tea Party media coverage, I have yet to view an event where the attendants were uniformly angry or bitter. They seldom resort to the F word as Michael does in his first sentence! In fact, most of the time these folks seem to be enjoying themselves often joking and laughing with each other.

This article reveals much more about the sad mental state of the writer than is does regarding Tea Partiers in general. Frankly, I would trust any one of them chosen at random to babysit my children over this apoplectically vituperative and self-consciously "progressive" stereotype, Michael Bader.

69 posted on 03/05/2010 1:02:47 PM PST by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: wolf24

From his Stalinist approach to the Tea Partiers, he probably sees 1984 as a guidebook, not a cautionary tale.


70 posted on 03/05/2010 1:03:01 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Maelstorm

Michael Bader, D.M.H. is a condescending little Pr!ck.


71 posted on 03/05/2010 1:06:07 PM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Well played, you bitter clinger! :)


72 posted on 03/05/2010 1:07:09 PM PST by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: Maelstorm

I have to wonder if this is part of the big counter-attack on the Tea Party that Bile Clinton talked about starting recently...


73 posted on 03/05/2010 1:09:48 PM PST by Paytriot (Never be afraid to try anything new, Remember amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titani)
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To: thecabal
Apparently, posting your condescending hatred for your patients on the Internet is considered acceptable behavior in this community of “doctors”.

Imagine how empowered wackadoodles like him will feel if Barama gets his government takeover of healthcare through?

75 posted on 03/05/2010 1:13:14 PM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: thecabal

I was holding my Bible and gun when I wrote it.


76 posted on 03/05/2010 1:17:41 PM PST by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Or, in many case, the person knows full well that what you say is a fact but lies and denies to cover for it because they are secretly of the same ideology themselves. Someone here posted that this doctor was a founder of a radical “progressive” think-tank known as the “Institute For Change”. “Change” is of course commie speak for Marxist transformation.


77 posted on 03/05/2010 1:18:34 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Very well said.


78 posted on 03/05/2010 1:23:25 PM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
My parents sent me to a psychologist when I was a teen.

I learned he committed suicide a few years later.

I like to think the two events are unrelated.

79 posted on 03/05/2010 1:29:46 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.)
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To: outofstyle

Michael Bader

Asst Dir, Inst For Change
Service Employees

2006 Salary Breakdown

$ 71,368 Administrative (100%)
$ 0 Contributions (0%)
$ 0 General Overhead (0%)
$ 0 Political (0%)
$ 0 Representational (0%)

$ 71,368 Total Earnings
Historical Salary Information
Year Salary % Raise Title
2006 $ 71,368 — Asst Dir, Inst For Change


80 posted on 03/05/2010 1:31:18 PM PST by kcvl
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