VETERAN
PSYCHIATRIST CALLS LIBERALS MENTALLY ILL
Publishes
extensive study on 'Psychological Causes of Political Madness'
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“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 new 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 more than 35 years 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 the kind of liberalism being displayed by both Barack
Obama and Hillary Clinton can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the
vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as
liberals do,” he says. “A political leader who understands human nature will
not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work
ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population –
as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create
an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s
citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as
liberals do.”
Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of
inferiority in the population by:
·
creating
and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
·
satisfying
infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
·
augmenting
primitive feelings of envy;
·
rejecting
the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the
government.
“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly
identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and
how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,”
he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages
against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons
competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes
painfully obvious.”