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Reply With QuoteYep, wanting good public services and decent safety nets is just borderline insanity.
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I have alleged for quite some time that liberals act on emotion and not logic. They respond to every issue with feelings and not thought. Maybe there is actually a medical reason for this.
Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr.,a forensic psychiatrist, explains the madness of liberalism in his new book The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.
The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness - Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD - [page]What the liberal mind is passionate about is a world filled with pity, sorrow, neediness, misfortune, poverty, suspicion, mistrust, anger, exploitation, discrimination, victimization, alienation and injustice. Those who occupy this world are “workers,” “minorities,” “the little guy,” “women,” and the “unemployed.” They are poor, weak, sick, wronged, cheated, oppressed, disenfranchised, exploited and victimized. They bear no responsibility for their problems. None of their agonies are attributable to faults or failings of their own: not to poor choices, bad habits, faulty judgment, wishful thinking, lack of ambition, low frustration tolerance, mental illness or defects in character. None of the victims’ plight is caused by failure to plan for the future or learn from experience. Instead, the “root causes” of all this pain lie in faulty social conditions: poverty, disease, war, ignorance, unemployment, racial prejudice, ethnic and gender discrimination, modern technology, capitalism, globalization and imperialism. In the radical liberal mind, this suffering is inflicted on the innocent by various predators and persecutors: “Big Business,” “Big Corporations,” “greedy capitalists,” U.S. Imperialists,” “the oppressors,” “the rich,” “the wealthy,” “the powerful” and “the selfish.”
The modern Liberal is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. OMD
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Yep, wanting good public services and decent safety nets is just borderline insanity.
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Wanting more than you can pay for is insanity.Originally Posted by PeterUK75
The modern Liberal is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. OMD
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The problem lies with both extremes.
The bloody Roman Empire wasn't Liberal.
You should always have an informed opinion, so after I inform you, please feel free to express my opinion...USCitizen
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It is when you bankrupt your country to achieve them.
U.S. Senator
I don't think owning and paying for billions of dollars worth of empty office buildings, sending government employees to lavish conferences all over the place every five minutes is good public service or a safety net. You can't tell me that there's not one thing this government can't cut, or one program that isn't necessary. I can look around my house and find 10 things that I spend money on that I can live without and save that money for a rainy day, but our politicians can't find one anywhere in the whole damn country? Pardon me, but bullshit. No effort being made at all, but back to the topic, the main theme to a liberal's mindset is ignorance and a lacking sense of reality as well as responsibility.
"Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away, what we have are privileges, temporary privileges" -- George Carlin
Vice President
Great...so how many representatives do we have that aren't Liberals?
More importantly, how many people will vote for a REAL non-Liberal?
You should always have an informed opinion, so after I inform you, please feel free to express my opinion...USCitizen
U.S. Senator
Too many liberals, too many moderates, not enough voters to get rid of them and not enough common sense to go around.
"Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away, what we have are privileges, temporary privileges" -- George Carlin
Vice President
I think Moderates are those who lack the nuance to realize they like Liberalism from the bottom up.
You should always have an informed opinion, so after I inform you, please feel free to express my opinion...USCitizen
U.S. Senator
Closet case liberalism, I can agree with that.
"Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away, what we have are privileges, temporary privileges" -- George Carlin
Speaker of the House
Which is why I don't vote Republican.
Legend of USPO!
ROFLMAO
So, you vote for the other party, which also spends far beyond our means?
“Well, congratulations, President Barack Obama, Conspiracy theorists who generally can survive in anaerobic environments have just had an algae bloom dropped on their fucking heads, thus removing the last arrow in your pro-governance quiver: skepticism about your opponents.” - Jon Stewart
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It's kind of funny, that theres a piece in townhall.com that says that Liberalism is madness.
Because in Psychology Today they describe conservatism as a mental illness.
They even list the symptoms
Conservatism as a Mental Illness | Psychology Today1) Denial: humans did not evolve; Obama is not a native-born American Christian
2) Delusion: climate is not changing
3) Hallucination: God ordained me to be President
4) Disordered Thinking: being for small government that's huge in the bedroom; being anti-contraception and anti-abortion
5) Anger: Newt Gingrich’s perpetual scowl
6) Anti-social Behavior: toward women, gays, minorities, anyone without an umbilical cord or trust fund
7) Sexual Preoccupation: a fervent compulsion to control when we can mate, with whom we can mate, and precisely how we are allowed to mate (which I lampoon in Why Do Politicians Want to Police Dick and Jane's Private Parts?)
8) Grandiosity: even Rick Santorum recognizes Gingrich’s “over the moon” grandiosity
9) General Oddness: Ron Paul
10) Paranoia: pretty much all of them, all of the time
Legend of USPO!
LOL. Almost as special as the folks who take the Onion as an actual source.
Of course, in the real world, neither political outlook is, in and of itself, a mental illness.
“Well, congratulations, President Barack Obama, Conspiracy theorists who generally can survive in anaerobic environments have just had an algae bloom dropped on their fucking heads, thus removing the last arrow in your pro-governance quiver: skepticism about your opponents.” - Jon Stewart
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Now that's an authority if I ever saw one.by Professor Barry X. Kuhle, Ph.D. in Evolutionary Entertainment
The modern Liberal is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. OMD
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