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Posted on 03/07/2010 1:15:09 PM PST by Tzimisce
These tea-party folks seem to most liberals-well, to most of us who live in the "reality community," or, as I like to call it, "reality"-like crazy fuckers.
As a recent NY Times article reports, this hodgepodge of people and groups spout frankly paranoid beliefs as received wisdom, e.g. 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. Self-defense and armed resistance are frequently called for. Racist stereotypes, innuendo, and hostility run rampant. The Constitution is its sacred text and Glenn Beck its most beloved prophet. They don't usually wear aluminum hats but perhaps they should.
(Excerpt) Read more at psychologytoday.com ...
Lovely language from the “Psychology Today” folks...
“These tea-party folks seem to most liberals-well, to most of us who live in the “reality community,” or, as I like to call it, “reality”-like crazy fuckers.”
Sooooo, by this sentence, the author stating that only liberals live in “reality?”
Ok then.
More like Psychopath Today.
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Not all shrinks are crazy.
Yeah, it’s like “consider the source.”
D.M.H. appears to mean Department of Mental Health. I.e., he is some sort of government psychologist, presumably some state government.
I’d say that he is rather badly in need of psychiatric help.
By the way, Michael Bader, D.M.H. is based in San Fransisco. Surprised?
Sounds like the same cr*p that the old USSR use to do. If you didn’t think the government was the best thing since sliced bread and you had a beef with the way things were run. If you weren’t thrown in jail or killed, you were often labeled as paranoid and you’d find your self in a pshyc ward for a couple of years.
P.S. He is also (according to his website) a “Social Activist.”
Is that what Psychology Today considers unbiased medical contribution? A person who writes books about the psychology of sexuality (his only two books are about sex- “Male Sexuality” and “Arousal”) and a social activist to comment on a political movement?
Yeah, Psychology Today just showed themselves to be useless.
Sorry, more interesting stuff about Michael Bader:
from his “Politics and Me” page on his website.
Politics and Me
With two books about it under my belt (so to speak), I’ve written more words about sex than about politics. But politics and social change are closest to my heart at the moment, and I hope to redress the imbalance in my word count in the near future.
I was always a lefty. My father was the only liberal in a family and community of racist republicans. My older brother went to U.C. Santa Barbara in 1967 and gave an adoring younger brother regular reports from “the front.’ And I went to Berkeley from 1970 to 1976. ‘Nuff said.
At first, politics for me was all about the New Left, Marxism, and political economy. I was “out-there,” active in various extremist groups, and fully engaged at the same time with the counter-culture. Eventually, with the decline of the New Left, I gave up being active in the public political world and chose a profession—psychology. I never gave up my sentiments or beliefs, but couldn’t figure out how to blend them with my work, since I don’t believe that good therapy should have a political agenda in any way.
But then I started writing for progressive magazines and started to feel less divided within myself. Michael Lerner published me in Tikkun. Don Hazen did the same in Alternet. And, about six years ago, I helped form something called the Institute for Change, sponsored by the Service Employees International Union. The Institute has an interdisciplinary faculty, from shrinks to corporate consultants, to community organizers, to union activists, and we’re all dedicated to the aim of helping unions become more radical, more effective, more politically savvy, and more engaged with their members in order to help spearhead a progressive movement for social change. It’s been a life-changing experience for me. I feel blessed to have been given the opportunity to meet and work with so many extraordinary union leaders and to finally find a setting in which I can express and bring together the clinical, personal, and political passions that have always been inside me. I hope to reflect these experiences in my writings on this website.
As Savage says...liberalism is a mental disorder.
Oh yeah, and at the bottom of this Politics and Me page is an “activist” cube with a photo of Malcolm X. He’s a white San Fran liberal, but he has that on his page for whatever reason.
http://www.michaelbader.com/articles_politics_and_me.html
More more more!!
http://www.reasonandrant.blogspot.com/
This dimwit has a political blog!!!
I suggest you guys write to Psychology Today and let them know it’s not appreciated for a self described social and political activist to use their medical publication as a forum for denigrating an entire group of people because he disagrees with their politics.
Sickening.
The history of Shrinks that they don’t like to talk about, is that in the 40’s when the disgusting psychological bent of the Nazis (euthanasia, sterilizations etc) was also part of the Psychology community in the U.S.
In Fact it was started in the U.S. in the early part of the 20th Century. SOOOOO, shrinks can go pound sand.
You don’t have an illustrious History.
Also an apologist for SissyBoy Edwards:
Why We Should Stop Demonizing John Edwards
If the public wants to get to the bottom of Edwards’ affair we have to drop the moral platitudes and look at what led him to it.
LOL This was in 2008. Dr. Mikey needs to wipe the egg off of his face.
This is how the soviet union dealt with disagreement...they adjudicated people that disagreed were determined by doctors to be insane. The were sent to “mental hospitals†(prisons) to be cured. I have decided that physiologists know as much about what goes on in the human mind as they know about the constitution. Which is to say nothing.
From his web site:
Politics and Me
With two books about it under my belt (so to speak), I’ve written more words about sex than about politics. But politics and social change are closest to my heart at the moment, and I hope to redress the imbalance in my word count in the near future.
I was always a lefty. My father was the only liberal in a family and community of racist republicans. My older brother went to U.C. Santa Barbara in 1967 and gave an adoring younger brother regular reports from “the front.’ And I went to Berkeley from 1970 to 1976. ‘Nuff said.
At first, politics for me was all about the New Left, Marxism, and political economy. I was “out-there,” active in various extremist groups, and fully engaged at the same time with the counter-culture. Eventually, with the decline of the New Left, I gave up being active in the public political world and chose a profession—psychology. I never gave up my sentiments or beliefs, but couldn’t figure out how to blend them with my work, since I don’t believe that good therapy should have a political agenda in any way.
But then I started writing for progressive magazines and started to feel less divided within myself. Michael Lerner published me in Tikkun. Don Hazen did the same in Alternet. And, about six years ago, I helped form something called the Institute for Change, sponsored by the Service Employees International Union. The Institute has an interdisciplinary faculty, from shrinks to corporate consultants, to community organizers, to union activists, and we’re all dedicated to the aim of helping unions become more radical, more effective, more politically savvy, and more engaged with their members in order to help spearhead a progressive movement for social change. It’s been a life-changing experience for me. I feel blessed to have been given the opportunity to meet and work with so many extraordinary union leaders and to finally find a setting in which I can express and bring together the clinical, personal, and political passions that have always been inside me. I hope to reflect these experiences in my writings on this website.”
Sorry you beat me to it.
SEIU sychophant should have known.
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