Top Psychiatrist concludes Liberals clinically nuts....

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56494

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http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=258 ........book contents

http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=1 ........causes of Political Madness

Psssst! ..I think your off topic son....

are you a Liberal ...son?

BTW the articles are about Liberals not Conservatives...H U G E difference! BOY
Guess which one is insane?
check the topic and then come back...he he....boy



K Boy

How the Liberal Dogs Do Howl!!!!

Thanks BF...BTW

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This post has been edited by PLUs: Apr 22 2008, 11:25 AM

what about neocons like rachel marsden?

http://rachelmarsden.wordpress.com/

definitely this chica should dye her hair blonde, cos her opinions are not based on facts.

DocWatson = the new Idboinker

study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".

As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".

Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.

One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

The authors, presumably aware of the outrage they were likely to trigger, added a disclaimer that their study "does not mean that conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false".

Another author, Arie Kruglanski, of the University of Maryland, said he had received hate mail since the article was published, but he insisted that the study "is not critical of conservatives at all". "The variables we talk about are general human dimensions," he said. "These are the same dimensions that contribute to loyalty and commitment to the group. Liberals might be less intolerant of ambiguity, but they may be less decisive, less committed, less loyal." But what drives the psychologists? George Will, a Washington Post columnist who has long suffered from ingrained conservatism, noted, tartly: "The professors have ideas; the rest of us have emanations of our psychological needs and neuroses."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox

Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Different forms of liberalism may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for a number of principles, including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy, and a transparent system of government.

Sounds very good to me!


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Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favor tradition and gradual change, where tradition refers to religious, cultural, or nationally defined beliefs and customs. The term is derived from the Latin, com servare, to preserve; "to protect from loss or harm". Since different cultures have different established values, conservatives in different cultures have differing goals.

Sounds like crap to me, what morons would support this? No surprise that conservatives have a "us versus them" mentality, and are very divisive. If conservatives had their way, we would still have slavery.

Why are conservatives against prostitution? It must be a mental disorder to want to try to control what other consenting adults do with their own lives.

Oops, I left out the first two lines.

Liberalism refers to a broad array of related ideas and theories of government that consider individual liberty to be the most important political goal.[1] Modern liberalism has its roots in the Age of Enlightenment.

Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Different forms of liberalism may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for a number of principles, including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy, and a transparent system of government.

I'm a liberal who doesn't mind conservatives. But I don't like NeoCons, though. I think those people are the biggest assholes and war criminals on the planet. Both liberals and conservatives believe that their philosophies should be for the greater good; whereas neoCons want change that will benefit a few within the ruling elite. They truly don't care about the outcome and how it will impact people's lives as long as the benefit was accrued to them. An example of NeoConservatism in action is the Bush Administration in the States. Whereas Stepen Harper/s Conservative administration in Canada delivers budgetary surpluses and dolls out tax breaks it can only afford, the Republicans in the states pile up deficit after defict and gives out tax breaks which it clearly can't afford. What's so conservative about that? I thought conservatism means cautious, rational reasoned thought and conclusions reached through what's been proven to work in the past. So given the recklessness of the Bush administration in America, I am forced to conclude that these people are NeoConservatives, not Conservatives.

hey folks this is what conservatives are fighting against:


Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Different forms of liberalism may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for a number of principles, including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy, and a transparent system of government.


let us chant the stuff that cons are fighting against


Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Different forms of liberalism may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for a number of principles, including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy, and a transparent system of government.


AGAIN


Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Different forms of liberalism may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for a number of principles, including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy, and a transparent system of government.



proof that cons are a bunch of bloody fascists

Oh, do stop with that Klan s hit, of calling everyone you don't like as 'son' or 'boy'.

Only a redneck would call people "son".

DocWatson = NeoConservative

"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."

One could make the same case for conservatives. This guy is making sweeping generalizations to liberals which is rather short-sighted seeing as that liberalism, much like conservatism comes in various forms/degrees. Some people are more conservative than others, some adhere more to the literal world of the bible while others do not etc..etc...etc...

This so-called shrink obviously has his own political biases and we all know where they lie. Furthermore, what he's describing is not so much liberalism but more a type of permissive parenting which has been show to foster such "spoilted" behaviors. In other words this guy is talking out of his a*s.


So you have 1 guy who questions the liberal state of mind of out how many who don't? In fact, during my undergraduate studies at SFU I came across at least 5 reports demonstrating limited cognitive capacities of children raised in conservative families. You have to understand that the individual's who are more liberally minded are the ones who push socities boundaries (for better or for worse) and without these people there would be little to no change.

It also seems that conservatives are just as patient about their beliefs than the most die-hard of liberals and are willing to hijack REASON with EMOTIONALITY when it comes to heated topics such as abortion, assisted-suicide, gun ownership and the death penalty.

The only one who is NUTS (albiet, maybe not certifiably) is the guy who questions the sanity of liberal individuals.

Sad.

You can find a whole internet full of this crap against liberals and conservatives.
Both parties in the states have moved away from there core beliefs and will either change back or fall.

I personally see it like this the liberals/democrat party is becoming more socialist every day, even the last two presidential campaigns have had contributions from the socialist party.
The conservative/republican are splitting in two directions, as someone said Fascist, of course for the good of us all and the other liberals, even Romney is more liberal than most by his voting record.

Both still have a few real party traditionalist but not many, special interest and corporate financing are ruining things.
People keep voting party lines and not learning about there candidates, also voting for the popular schmo.

See that's where we differ dolt, I personally don't think all Conservatives are clinacally nuts and actually myself I am pretty Conservative in many ways, but the two or three idiots like yourself that like to draw lines and segregate ideas upon such infantile distinctions here on DV are a laughing stock for this site

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Why do you hate liberals so much? We don't hate conservatives. Honestly.

As a liberal, t's the NeoCons, which I truly f*cking hate--like the ones that are in the US White House right now. I'd shudder to think what those bastards would do to our country if they were in charge of it now. Actually, I'm quite impressed that Stephen Harper, a Conservative, would block the sale of a hitech company to an American corporations because Canadians would no longer have access to confidential information about the Arctic. That took balls. I'm also impressed that he has not yet run any deficits, and has produced surpluses. That's a conservative approach.

YOu see, liberals and even conservatives, don' think that piling up trillion dollar deficits and refusing to pay for them down makes any sense. That's just reckless stupidity. But that's a fixture of Neoconservatism not Conservativism. It's one of the major reasons that Ron Paul is at such great odds with his own party. He advocates old fashioned conservative ideals while his party does not. The Republican Party in the United States has turned into some NeoCon Monster that doesn't serve the will of the people.

Well judging by your behaviour I'd say that it would be you, who is certifiably crackers.

Perhaps one of the most intelligent things I've ever read in this forum. Bravo.

If he needs a second opinion maybe he can ask and answer with his imaginary friend.

Ron Paul is running as an independant [Libertarian] and isn't at all at odds..where do you get that?

Look back and you will see the liberal Democrats and liberal "UN." got us to this point from there actions and ideas.
Especially the UN. for not doing whats right and letting rogue states do what they please.
I wont take all the blame from the conservatives though, pressing there idealist agendas on the world.