Republicans Have Lost Their Grip on Reality and Are Disregarding the Constitution

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Republicans Have Lost Their Grip on Reality and Are Disregarding the Constitution

By: Rmuse
Aug. 21st, 2013


A mental or psychiatric disorder is a psychological pattern reflected in behavior that is generally not considered part of normal development. Generally, mental illness is defined by a combination of how a person feels, acts, thinks or perceives, and can be associated with particular functions of the brain that causes the sufferer to be hostile to or disruptive of the established social order and engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores. The danger is that the mentally afflicted believe their condition, regardless how severe, is normal and that anyone who disagrees with them is their mortal enemy including their allies; such is the current iteration of the Republican Party.

It is reasonable to assume that racism, extremist religion, and disbelief in reality are manifestations of Republican psychiatric disorders and they are particularly rampant in the extremist tea party wing. It is generally agreed by mental health experts that mental illness is not contagious, but they have not yet conducted in depth studies into the plague ravaging the Republican Party. It is unfair to blame the lunacy rampant in Republican ranks solely on delusional teabaggers because what was once regarded as extreme is the new normal for the GOP from the leadership to freshman representatives in Congress and state legislatures. It is true there are a small number of Republicans who have not yet fallen victim to teabagger insanity, but they are being called upon by the psychologically demented to either get out or they will be replaced.

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In the same manner that mental disorders are not contagious, they are not necessarily caused by any event. However, when the American people elected an African American man as President it drove the current crop of Republicans and their teabagger cohort mad, and like crazy people are wont, they took out their raging psychosis on innocent bystanders; the American people. President Obama is, at best, a left-leaning centrist, but he is a Black left-leaning centrist and his race drove the conservative movement’s decline into insanity with valuable assistance by non-stop ranting that this Black man was taking their guns and religious freedoms. There has been no dearth of paranoia that the President is on a crusade to destroy Christianity because of the religious right’s delusional belief he is a Muslim and it contributed to the rise of extremism that is now the Republican Party.

There are many on the left describing the mental state of Republicans and the resulting internal war to seize control of the conservative movement as the beginning of the end of the GOP’s relevance in American politics and that may be true. However, Republicans still control the nation’s purse strings and they are using their five week recess to marshal support for the upcoming budget and debt limit battles. The extremists are single-minded in shutting down the government and as dangerous as that prospect, the real peril lies in their threat to block a debt limit increase over funding the health law. There are some in Congress who suggest permanently denying a debt limit rise regardless the certain worldwide financial crisis that would ensue and it exposes them for the truly insane people they are.

Republicans have lost their grip on reality and it manifest itself their blatant disregard for the Constitution save the 2nd and 10th Amendments. Their obsession with the President has motivated them and their supporters to discuss impeaching Obama despite they have no grounds, and many of the lunatics still consider the ACA an unconstitutional breach of power. America likely had a few crazy politicians in office throughout its history, but the level of insane extremism has never permeated an entire party or posed a profoundly serious threat to the nation. There is no cure for mental illness and even if there were the insanity ravaging the conservative movement is as untreatable as it is boundless. Obviously, the majority of American people are not insane and certainly do not support the lunacy rampant in the conservative movement, but there is little they can do now and the GOP is just sane enough to prevent them from voting the crazy out of Congress and state legislatures in coming elections. Maybe the GOP insanity will be the party’s undoing, but in the meantime Americans are paying dearly for sitting home and allowing raving racists, disillusioned religiosos, Obamacare obsessed fanatics, and crazed economic extremists to rise to power.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Perhaps it would be best if the country got a divorce.

Irreconcilable differences sounds valid to me.

[JDPriestly]

5. My progressive democratic Congressman held a town hall meeting in our area and

had a very good reception. Everybody liked what they heard from what I could tell.

So, California, at least my area of it, is getting bluer all the time.

Our governor is a Democrat, and our legislature is democratic, and California is thriving with that combination.

[mindwalker_i]

8. Unfortunately, it's like a magnet

If you cut a magnet in half, you get two smaller magnets but each still has a north and south pole. I'm afraid that if the country were divided, each part would eventually come to a state where both "poles" were present and opposing each other.

That's not a bad thing normally. Unfortunately today south pole has become so extremely south that it believes God wants it to conquer the other half of the magnetic field.

[freshwest]

2. Rmuse nailed it again. Great post.

[byronius]

3. Just a mild case of treason, that's all.

Future Shock PTSD.

[meow2u3]

4. Shrinks would call it a shared psychotic disorder

Shrinks in the 19th century called it by its French name: folie à plusiers, or madness of many, a.k.a., mass insanity.

The Republican rank and file, the authoritarian followers, have lost their collective minds because they're under the spell of sociopaths with absolutely no conscience, who use mind control and propaganda to con them into believing outrageously delusional ideas with little or no basis in fact. This is the reason for such extremism.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. They've never wanted it as it is in their way. This is seriously nothing new; it is merely coming to

fruition.

[Joey Liberal]

7. Republicans have lost their minds

They lost their morals years ago.....