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Good comments and questions. Obviously, there's always some percentage of the population that are emotionally dysfunctional, and all of their behavior (including their political behavior) flows from their dysfunction. Dysfunctional people function in crisis, and pretty much everything in their lives is in turmoil -- they tend to drag those close to them into crisis as well. On a national level, the dysfunctionals dragged the entire country into crisis by electing Bill Clinton, twice. I believe that the proportion of the population that is dysfunctional is higher today than it was a generation ago, and is pretty close to critical mass (past the ability to pull the society and the nation back from a kind of mass insanity).

It is often said (at least I often say it) that being a leftist is dangerous to one's mental health. I'm dead serious about this, because what one thinks actually affects brain physiology, neuropathways, and hence brain function. (For example, thinking depressing thoughts makes one depressed.) Leftist thought isn't so much an ideology as it is a worldview...it's a way that people understand the world, human nature, and the way the universe works.

A major characteristic of the leftist worldview is that it is essentially humanistic (secular), and has dismissed God from the equation. But if there is a God, and this God is the one revealed in the Bible (the basis of western values), then way a secular leftist views the world and human nature is tied to a set of assumptions that have no connection to the way human nature, the world, and the universe actually work -- their assumptions, or their "worldview" is in error. The more one sinks into their delusional, irrational worldview, unconnected to the way things really are, the more one is at risk for mental illness. This is where the left is today -- teetering on the edge of insanity. Consequently, I no longer look upon the Democrat Party as the "liberal" party in America, but as the "dysfunctional" party.

I think this is what is going on with the left in this country. They keep nominating and voting for psychologically damaged people because they are psychologically damaged themselves. And the fact that Kerry (up to now) has been either tied with Bush in the polls, or slightly ahead, is truly scary. But I think reason and reality will prevail in November -- perhaps bearly, but they will prevail.

Nevertheless, we live in dangerous times.

I agree with most of what you've written.

One thing bothers me tho...about both our statements...

Dysfunction and mental illness implies sickness, and thus unaccountability for the state these characters find themselves in.

No responsiblity...??? Absolutely not!

On last night's thread, the last thing I reported was all the good news Dubya got yesterday: Thune leading, Martinez winning, great convention, etc.

But there's more! Fox just reported the defeat in yesterday's Dem primary of THERESA LA PORE...she of "butterfly ballot" fame. LOL! (Actually, I always felt kind of sorry for her...attacked by her own party like that.)