How Crazy are you?

[bryant69]

Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD has written a book about Liberalism, in which he, as a trained Doctor, tries to explain liberalism as a mental disease. They excerpted a bit at Townhall today, and it's about as bad as you would think. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LyleHRossiterJrMD/2006/12/04/the_liberal_mind_the_psychological_causes_of_political_madness

But the faulty conceptions that lie behind these passions cannot be viewed as mere cognitive slippage. The degree of modern liberalism’s irrationality far exceeds any misunderstanding that can be attributed to faulty fact gathering or logical error. Indeed, under careful scrutiny, liberalism’s distortions of the normal ability to reason can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche. The modern liberal mind, its distorted perceptions and its destructive agenda are the product of disturbed personalities.

So my question to you is, How Crazy are you?

Bryant
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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Wow, I've never seen a doctor exclude himself from being allowed to practice before

by writing an article. I mean, if you're going to misuse medical terms that much, and declare a significant proportion of the population 'insane' against all medical reality (even writing a whole book about it), you shouldn't be allowed to practice with the public, should you? It's like the Soviet Union putting dissidents in mental hospitals for holding views against the Communist Party.

It's one thing for a hack like Coulter to abuse medical terminology; for someone putting 'MD' after his name is awful. Any professional bodies he belongs to ought to be looking at expelling him.

[trof]

2. If you substituted "neo-con" or "right-wing conservative"

for "liberal" then I think you'd be a lot closer to the truth.

[Mist]

3. This sounds like the RW's response to the study released recently

that shoiwed a correlation between extreme conservative thinking and psychological problems.

[Alamom]

19. and this makes sense. n/t

[Demeter]

4. 7 out of 10 Doctors Agree.....

Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr is no doctor!

[rock]

5. Alghough I'm not crazy enough to be hauled away

I shouldn't visit any mental institutions as they may not let me leave.

[Deep13]

6. Crazier than an outhouse rat.

Dancing with the goofies.

A few loose boards in the attic.

Half a bubble off plumb.

A few degrees from firing on top dead center.

Nuttier than a Goo-Goo Cluster.

[bryant69]

7. A Goo Goo Cluster isn't that nutty

if you don't count the nuts.

[bryant69]

11. Self Indulgent Kick

Sorry.

Bryant

[DeSwiss]

8. Awwww that's just wingnut sour grapes....

The wingers are mad because a legitimate study was done that found "actual" mentally ill outpatients favored Bush. Like they did when this study was done in 1977 and they like Nixon.

So the nutters have made up a "doctor" to try and counter this study. Pretty much like they do with reality in general when you think about it....

Bush Nuts
Are George W. Bush lovers certifiable?
November 23, 2006
By Andy Bromage

A collective “I told you so” will ripple through the world of Bush-bashers once news of Christopher Lohse’s study gets out.

Lohse, a social work master’s student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush.

Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during the 2004 presidential election. Lohse’s study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person’s psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.

more: http://www.ctnow.com/custom/nmm/newhavenadvocate/hce-nha-1123-nh48bushbash48.artnov23,0,1695911.story

[yurbud]

9. you left off a gump option: "Sometimes it's hard for me to follow what that signing gorilla says.

She's purty smart..."

[Nickster]

10. Well, you can always give him a call and discuss things with him.

http://www.forensicpsychiatrist.com/

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[porphyrian]

12. Rossiter is too crazy to realize his book merely exposes his own insanity.

Stupid fucking conservatives.

[rinsd]

13. Ugh I hate the categorizing of political thought as some mental problem

It makes me cringe even more when I see someone liberal do it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2856926

[bryant69]

15. I agree

I mean there are some that I feel ok doing it to, like COulter, but condemning the whole group of thought as crazy seems beyond the pale.

Bryant

[rinsd]

16. Coulter's insanity is a separate issue

;-)

[Az]

14. I couldn't find the slot to put the scissors in

Yeah... I'm that crazy.

[Taxloss]

17. What, no option for "The voices told me to vote this way"? n/t

[Deja Q]

18. Depends on the issue.

:)

[Orsino]

20. He probably thinks...

...that homosexuality is a disease too, along with being "colored" and having a vagina.

[novalib]

21. THEY Are Watching ME!

And YOU'RE NEXT!!!!!!

YOU ARE NEXT!!!!!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

22. Even the trees have eyes...

[VOX]

23. This quack would have been a good fit as Herr Doktor for the Third Reich brass...

The first step to disposing of a mass segment of society is to "otherize" them, declare them mentally unsound, and categorize them as a threat to the precious purity of the uber-volk.

Any shrink who would actually write a book like Rossiter did is highly suspect, and probably unbalanced himself. :grr: