First Michael Savage claimed that liberalism is a mental disorder. Now we have Dr. Lyle Rossiter who has come out with a book entitled, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness."
Stories regarding this book came up on WorldNetDaily and a while ago on Townhall.com and News Blaze.
Here are a few quotes from the WorldNetDaily Article:
"Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder."
"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."
Dr. Rossiter is a Forensic Psychiatrist from the Chicago area and his credentials are impressive.
While I'm sure Dr. Rossiter's book is a great read, I'm not sure I'd learn anything that I don't already know.
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Looking forward to getting a copy of "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg (sp). Saw him on Glenn Beck last night as well as a couple of Youtube videos. Looks very interesting.
Cerebus,
Thanks much for leaving a comment. I have read some of Goldberg's previous books and I would recommend them. I also plan to read "Liberal Fascism."
I am about halfway through the book. It's serious and enlightening. If you can’t read the whole book, the first 50 to 100 pages are great. If you don’t have time to read, you can at least watch a video by Evan Sayet at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c
It's called "How Modern Liberals Think". Evan used to write for Bill Maher and he comes at the subject as an untrained observer. Rossiter seems to be an expert in the field and provides an intellectual framework to discuss it and advance. Evan’s talk is more of a subset, but it’s more accessible and easier to follow than Rossiter’s book.
Basically, between these two people and the others who have been on the edges of this, we now have a description and a good chunk of a theory of what makes a Modern Liberal tick. Knowing what drives this thinking will go a long way in fixing the problems.
The hard-core leftists will fight this logic, but there are probably plenty of people who will alter their views when presented with the information in Rossiter’s book and Sayet’s talk.
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