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Psychiatrist Calls Today's Left Mentally Ill
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| 8-26-2018
| WND
Posted on 08/27/2018 7:26:59 PM PDT by Main Street
'Liberal Mind' author's extensive study explains 'Psychological Causes of Political Madness'
With the American left, the Democratic Party and the establishment news media displaying ever-more bizarre symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome, here comes a veteran psychiatrist making the case that the mental-emotional world of leftists really is tantamount to a mental disorder.
Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded, says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the acclaimed book, The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.
While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to the vast right-wing conspiracy.
For decades he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.
Rossiter says todays liberalism, as displayed by the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton throughout the previous administration, as well as by todays Democratic Party leaders and they increasingly hysterical mainstream media, can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 45communistgoals; democrats; jonathanhaidt; left; liberalism; libtardation; sociopathology; tds; unhinged; walkaway
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To: Main Street
The word I have long used is “solipsism” . . . the inability to see an objective reality outside one’s own view of the world around you, a view rooted in self-absorption, in emotion instead of reason. Leftists have become snowflakes, and the Media has become all-emotional yellow journalism. Facts and trust are not important.
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posted on
08/27/2018 8:14:10 PM PDT
by
MrChips
("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
To: stubernx98
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posted on
08/27/2018 8:14:59 PM PDT
by
navymom1
To: Main Street
Oh wow, I gotta get me this book.
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posted on
08/27/2018 8:20:20 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: stubernx98
So which ones get the job?
To: All
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posted on
08/27/2018 8:22:57 PM PDT
by
Main Street
(Stuck in traffic.)
To: Main Street
Leftism is definitely a mental disorder. As far as I’m concerned; it’s settled science.
Now we just need a cure. Something that can be put into the water so it fixes every last one of them.
I’m still not opposed to frontal lobotomy’s if needed though.
Let’s start with Mad Maxine and her ilk and the severely impaired like the leftist billionaire Tom Steyer.
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posted on
08/27/2018 8:23:45 PM PDT
by
Boomer
(Beware The Obsessed Leftist Pit Bull Hater Threads on FR. Same as Gun Grabbers.)
To: Main Street
Some are mentally ill.
The Democrat leaders are just dirty thieves.
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posted on
08/27/2018 8:26:37 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Main Street
Well, in order to support the leftist "liberal" agenda they have to be either congenital/pathological liars or wildly delusional and disconnected from reality. Perhaps a combination of both. The leftist "liberal" world view and the ideas and ideals they espouse are simply irrational, inconsistent, hypocritical, and just plain stupid and destructive. No sane, rational person could support them.
It doesn't take a degree in psychology to figure that out, though I'm glad to see a professional confirm what we already know.
To: Main Street
Oh yes I like this! Hell yes this will be posted on my favorite leftist sites and I’ll sit back with the popcorn watching the heads expode! LOL LOL LOL!
To: Main Street
he reason that the left has so many unstable people is they are easier to manipulate when you know what buttons to push.
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posted on
08/27/2018 8:33:52 PM PDT
by
PCPOET7
To: stubernx98
"Drive (accomplishment), Influence (control over others) Compliance (following the rules) Security (action taken to prevent the unexpected), Energy level and IQ (least important)." Jordan Peterson mentions in some of his lectures the "Big Five Personality Traits" and how various combinations, combined with IQ, can lead to success or lack therof.
Attempting to map your characteristics, I ended up with the following:
Drive (accomplishment) = conscientiousness
Influence (control over others) = extraversion
Compliance (following the rules) = agreeableness
Security (action taken to prevent the unexpected) = neuroticism
Energy level = openness to experience
Not a bad match up. What do you think?
To: eyeamok
Their constituencies will just steal them
Like theyre doing anyway
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posted on
08/27/2018 9:08:20 PM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
To: call meVeronica
To: the_daug; mowowie; chief lee runamok; Electric Graffiti
TDs is so bad need a drug to prevent it,. How about cyanide?
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posted on
08/27/2018 10:16:28 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: Main Street
This is a old story. Rossiter's book was published in 2006. He has not published any other books or given any interviews since 2008.
To: Deplorable American1776
So true ... as the good Dr. Savage has pointed out well over the past decade. Nice to see this serious condition formally acknowledged in the profession.
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posted on
08/27/2018 10:20:52 PM PDT
by
glennaro
To: Main Street
I read it; this guys just now coming to a conclusion that we all reached 40 some years ago?
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posted on
08/27/2018 10:25:09 PM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: Main Street
VERY important book.
It’ll be ignored by the media, of course.
To: Main Street
Libtardation is a real mental illness.
It’s also contagious, but can often be cured by sustained and intensive exposure to Reality, facts, and logic.
Unfortunately, the condition is also highly resistant to treatment.
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posted on
08/27/2018 11:27:04 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: lightman
That is as funny as hell.
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posted on
08/28/2018 12:01:32 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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