Posted on 04/27/2012 6:57:39 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
April 27, 2012
I deal on a regular daily basis with self-identified conservatives all across America who are addicted to the Republican Party. And when it comes to the impending nomination by their party of the most liberal governor in U.S. history, Mitt Romney, their reactions are overwhelmingly in line with the classic symptoms described below. We can't make them face reality, of course. All we can do is to keep pointing it out to them, in the sincere hope that they will recover in time to help save the country.
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From Wikipedia :
Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may use:
The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality. Where denial occurs in mature minds, it is most often associated with death, dying and rape.
In this form of denial, someone avoids a fact by lying. This lying can take the form of an outright falsehood (commission), leaving out certain details to tailor a story (omission), or by falsely agreeing to something (assent, also referred to as "yessing" behavior). Someone who is in denial of fact is typically using lies to avoid facts they think may be painful to themselves or others.
This form of denial involves avoiding personal responsibility by:
Someone using denial of responsibility is usually attempting to avoid potential harm or pain by shifting attention away from themselves.
For example: Troy breaks up with his girlfriend because he is unable to control his anger, and then blames her for everything that ever happened.
Denial of impact involves a person's avoiding thinking about or understanding the harms of his or her behavior has caused to self or others, i.e. denial of the consequences. Doing this enables that person to avoid feeling a sense of guilt and it can prevent him or her from developing remorse or empathy for others. Denial of impact reduces or eliminates a sense of pain or harm from poor decisions.
This type of denial is best discussed by looking at the concept of state dependent learning. People using this type of denial will avoid pain and harm by stating they were in a different state of awareness (such as alcohol or drug intoxication or on occasion mental health related). This type of denial often overlaps with denial of responsibility.
Many who use this type of denial will say things such as, "it just happened". Denial of cycle is where a person avoids looking at their decisions leading up to an event or does not consider their pattern of decision making and how harmful behavior is repeated. The pain and harm being avoided by this type of denial is more of the effort needed to change the focus from a singular event to looking at preceding events. It can also serve as a way to blame or justify behavior (see above).
This can be a difficult concept for many people to identify with in themselves, but is a major barrier to changing hurtful behaviors. Denial of denial involves thoughts, actions and behaviors which bolster confidence that nothing needs to be changed in one's personal behavior. This form of denial typically overlaps with all of the other forms of denial, but involves more self-delusion. Denial at this level can have significant consequences both personally and at a societal level.
Harassment covers a wide range of offensive behaviour. It is commonly understood as behaviour intended to disturb or upset. In the legal sense, it is behaviour which is found threatening or disturbing.
DARVO is an acronym to describe a common strategy of abusers: Deny the abuse, then Attack the victim for attempting to make them accountable for their offense, thereby Reversing Victim and Offender.
Psychologist Jennifer Freyd writes:
...I have observed that actual abusers threaten, bully and make a nightmare for anyone who holds them accountable or asks them to change their abusive behavior. This attack, intended to chill and terrify, typically includes threats of law suits, overt and covert attacks on the whistle-blower's credibility, and so on. The attack will often take the form of focusing on ridiculing the person who attempts to hold the offender accountable. [...] [T]he offender rapidly creates the impression that the abuser is the wronged one, while the victim or concerned observer is the offender. Figure and ground are completely reversed. [...] The offender is on the offense and the person attempting to hold the offender accountable is put on the defense.
Thanks, I strive to be awe-inspiring.
One of two people will be elected this November. I’m voting for the one who isn’t Obama.
I’d vote for you if you were the other person.
I will not be complicit in the destruction of the country.
Romney is uncomfortable, but is not inviting the Jihadis in.
Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may use:
- simple denial: deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether
- minimisation: admit the fact but deny its seriousness (a combination of denial and rationalization)
- projection: admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility.
The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality. Where denial occurs in mature minds, it is most often associated with death, dying and rape.
Denial of fact
In this form of denial, someone avoids a fact by lying. This lying can take the form of an outright falsehood (commission), leaving out certain details to tailor a story (omission), or by falsely agreeing to something (assent, also referred to as "yessing" behavior). Someone who is in denial of fact is typically using lies to avoid facts they think may be painful to themselves or others.
Denial of responsibility
This form of denial involves avoiding personal responsibility by:
- blaming: a direct statement shifting culpability and may overlap with denial of fact
- minimizing: an attempt to make the effects or results of an action appear to be less harmful than they may actually be, or
- justifying: when someone takes a choice and attempts to make that choice look okay due to their perception of what is "right" in a situation.
Someone using denial of responsibility is usually attempting to avoid potential harm or pain by shifting attention away from themselves.
For example: Troy breaks up with his girlfriend because he is unable to control his anger, and then blames her for everything that ever happened.
Denial of impact
Denial of impact involves a person's avoiding thinking about or understanding the harms of his or her behavior has caused to self or others, i.e. denial of the consequences. Doing this enables that person to avoid feeling a sense of guilt and it can prevent him or her from developing remorse or empathy for others. Denial of impact reduces or eliminates a sense of pain or harm from poor decisions.
Denial of awareness
This type of denial is best discussed by looking at the concept of state dependent learning. People using this type of denial will avoid pain and harm by stating they were in a different state of awareness (such as alcohol or drug intoxication or on occasion mental health related). This type of denial often overlaps with denial of responsibility.
Denial of cycle
Many who use this type of denial will say things such as, "it just happened". Denial of cycle is where a person avoids looking at their decisions leading up to an event or does not consider their pattern of decision making and how harmful behavior is repeated. The pain and harm being avoided by this type of denial is more of the effort needed to change the focus from a singular event to looking at preceding events. It can also serve as a way to blame or justify behavior (see above).
Denial of denial
This can be a difficult concept for many people to identify with in themselves, but is a major barrier to changing hurtful behaviors. Denial of denial involves thoughts, actions and behaviors which bolster confidence that nothing needs to be changed in one's personal behavior. This form of denial typically overlaps with all of the other forms of denial, but involves more self-delusion. Denial at this level can have significant consequences both personally and at a societal level.
Romney is the destruction of the country. You're in denial.
When someone tells me to pick my poison, I simply say “no.”
Then someone else will step up to the plate and choose it for you. You still get poisoned and it’s your own fault.
Kind of like a 2 year old who refuses to eat anything you offer him for lunch, then cries saying that he is hungry.
>>Romney is the destruction of the country.<<
Bull.
He is a RINO lib but isn’t inviting Muslim Brotherhood members to advise our security. Nor playing footsie with the Russians.
You’re in denial. You need to talk to some Chaldeans and some Eastern Europeans. They will tell you the signs that are already in place.
That's a Red Herring, since as governor, Romney never had a chance to get involved with the Brotherhood.
But, I have no doubt that he would be kissing their fannies if it meant him getting election.
I do not yet know what I will do except voting conservative down ticket. I will not vote for Romney. Frankly, I am more concerned about any attempts to water down and or pervert the GOP platform during the 2012 convention than I am concerned about the RINO 'conservative' figurehead they are propping up.
Yes, the FR collectivists tend do this even when you face them with facts and even when they know the facts.
They have cognitive dissonance - discomfort caused by holding conflicting ideas, beliefs, values, etc.
You’ll have to help me out here. I don’t understand the “hardcore leftist” assertion. I’ve heard a lot of soundbites that can make him sound good or bad on either side. But I’m trying to look at what our future compares to between the two of them and can’t accept that Obama is no worse.
Pitifully, you are in denial of the situation, EV.
While those who are choosing the non-Communist/non-muslim loving Marxist, see exactly who we are forced to choose, you are in total denial about the situation we will be in if Communist loving/Muslim loving Marxist Obama continues his Presidency.
I did my time as the Office Manager for Psychiatrists. Sometimes there is denial and sometimes there is projection. Those who won’t look at the big picture and scream “denial” while seeing the situation with tunnelvision, are projecting.
Rinos chose the blue pill, Conservatives chose the red
We see the machine is the monster, and the America we remember is dead
No popularity contests...but a lifelong war we will endure...
GENTLEMEN. Our Kings are Corrupt. So then, let Our Revolution be Pure. :^)
Nonsense. Romney has already signaled what sort of people would work for him in the areas of foreign policy and defense. And these are not folks who are going to go against the latest destructive liberal fad.
Romney hires openly gay spokeman
Again, you're in denial.
Yup.
Considering that voting for either extremist Leftard for POTUS is a wasted vote you gotta find someone to write in. Might as well be the only viable alternative - Sarah.
>>But, I have no doubt that he would be kissing their fannies if it meant him getting election.<<
They are in the administration now.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=255538&R=R4
Your #71 is a great post. Thanks.
LOL!!!
So gays are communists and Jihadis?
On what planet?
On this planet. The exact same people in Washington who kiss up to the homosexuals kiss up to the jihadis.
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