The Pathology of Liberalism
Health-and-science and feature writer Joan Swirsky is not only an award-winning medical professional, but is also the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards.
In The Pathology of Liberalism, she takes a clinical look at liberals:
Liberals, like children, live in a world of utopian dreaminess, clinging to a narrow, circumscribed reality and believing that if everyone would just be nice to each other – let’s talk, let’s chat – all the noisy death threats and pesky suicide bombings would go away, and all those grumpy grownups in the current administration would see the light.
Liberals yearn to be liked:
…the most cherished value in the life of children (read liberals) is to be “liked” by their peers, a theory that Judith Rich Harris has exhaustively documented in her best-selling and revolutionary book, The Nurture Assumption.
To be liked – according to the evangelical religion of liberalism – is not to engage in conflict, not to fight, not to judge, After all, if you fight with anyone, including Islamic terrorists, they won’t like you. And if you judge them as savages, murderers, enemies of democracy, they will fight you. So don’t judge them and they won’t fight you and everything will be hunky dory. Such are the fantastical fantasies of children (read liberals).
The liberal ego:
The reason why liberals have remained so intractably unhinged about President Bush is not because of their ideological differences with his conservatism. It is because of their collective inadequate egos. This is no surprise because children have “developing” egos, not fully-fledged senses of themselves, their places in the world, and their worth. Children are wildly egocentric, seeing themselves as the center of the universe and having no appreciation of the vast world that lies outside their limited awareness. In fact, they echo a saying from the Talmud: “We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.”Liberals entertain the conceit that they are quite evolved and superior, both morally and intellectually. In their childlike minds, they are “good” and the people who set limits, demand accountability, expect empirical results, fight their enemies and also make judgments about what is good and bad and right and wrong are “bad.”
Swirsky cites many more examples. Although I don’t have medical degrees, Swirsky confirms many of my own observations on the streets of Los Angeles and travels around the world. So damning is her report that liberals will likely begin start calling her names. I’d rather they just hold their collective breaths, take two reality pills and call me in the morning.
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February 8th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
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February 8th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
What does one call people with a child-like fear of the “Boogeyman?” The Boogeyman is the evilest evil they can imagine. Their only desire is for some strong parent-figure to promise to protect them from this terrifying terror. Their fear is so pervasive they will accept any silly notion (like removing your shoes to get on an airplane) to make them feel safer from the Boogeyman. They think the Boogeyman is everywhere, savagely wanting only to kill them. Their every waking moment is warped by fear of the Boogeyman.
What are they called? That’s right, Conservatives.
February 8th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Interesting. Likewise:
Of particular note, conservatives are xenophobic:
Conservatives, such as Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan, all have another common thread: thinking they’re better than everyone else:
And as for thinking outside of the box:
For example, if you take a look at the country by zip code and break it down along income and wealth lines, the richer an area the more likely it is to be conservative and Republican. Children born into this stratified world lack the capabilities of understanding that they have been born into wealth, and instead, look at the poor and not understanding how others may have been disadvantaged from day one, think they are less intelligent, less educated, and lazy. “If only they’d work harder!” conservatives think. Yet, conservatives revile the government when it attempts to level the playing field, and would rather donate huge sums of money to political causes that prevent those less fortunate from succeeding.
But such circular (and faulty) logic doesn’t end there. Conservatives like to start wars in order to push their world-view on everyone, which in turn, results in a swing to conservativism:
which creates a continual state of war. Sound familiar?
And so the question boils down to, do you want to take the conservative approach (be afraid, run from challenge, conform to a forced position — live under totalitarian rule, in other words — or take the liberal approach, live free, exercise personal liberty, and enjoy life — live under democratic rule, in other words?
Thanks, I’ll choose freedom.
Conservatives seem incapable of grasping the nature of our Consitutional Republic with its uncertainties (hence, constant fear mongering) , conflicts (hence, the need to put others down in a vain attempt at making themselves feel superior), and vagarities (hence, the constant charge that judges are writing their views into law rather than the messy, complicated and uncertain work in interpreting the Constitution).
And you call liberals pathological.
Read more here, and here.
February 8th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
C’mon girls, get a grip. The boogyman didn’t knock down WTC - Muslims did. Thanks for proving my point! cb
February 8th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
This whole topic is simply stupid and childish and not worth even discussing.
February 8th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
“Conservatives like to start wars in order to push their world-view on everyone…”
Kosovo, Operation Desert Fox, Somalia, etc… I guess Bill Clinton was a conservative. ha ha
February 9th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Read Michael Savage’s “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”.
February 9th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Umm… “youdouchbag” seems confused; all three were dumped in Clinton’s lap by Bush the Elder. Oh well, if you can’t spell douche bag I guess you can’t be taken seriously.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
“Liberals collective inadequate egos.”
Their inflated self importance. ha ha
they have no answers because theu worship at the alter of Islam…
Did you see them bowing their heads in prayer with the Islamic terrorist guy - those liberals are traitors.