“Please hurt me”: The Liberal Masochist syndrome.
Many conservatives for some time have made the argument that liberals are mentally ill. They are. The problem is they want us to suffer the results of their mental illness as well.
The current unrest in the Middle East is a perfect example of the instability of the left.
We are depending on foreign governments for our oil. We import over two-thirds of our oil. Not only are we dependent on foreign countries, but these are hostile regimes. It is not as though they are friendly to the United States and we are having an amicable exchange of commerce. These are countries that would like nothing better than to reduce the United States down to an economic non-power.
Today, oil prices rose 9% based on the unrest in Libya. Colonel Qaddafi says he will burn Libya’s oil resources if the opposition does not give up. That is not going to help the energy market and you can expect oil to go up and the stock market to go down because of this.
What is Obama regime’s reaction to this?
As dependent as this country is on foreign oil, the sane rational man would think the logical thing to do is stop being so dependent. America has vast resources of oil, coal, gas and other fuels. What could America do?
For starters, America could start drilling. America could start building more oil refineries. This makes sense. Even at this late date, if we start, we could at least mitigate some of the damage a foreign oil cutoff would cause. We could force the price of oil down because of increased supplies. We could help our economy grow by reducing the price of oil.
What does the Obama regime want to do? Just the opposite. Obama and his lunatic Secretary of the Interior have thrown up every possible roadblock to new energy development in this country. Drilling on Federal lands? Forget it. New coal plants? No, Obama has promised to put those out of business. Off shore drilling? The Department of the Interior has now twice been held in contempt of court by a federal judge for simply refusing to allow drilling. While oil workers lose their jobs, the off shore drills are being moved to places like the coast of Brazil, where the United States has back loans to allow Brazil to develop its energy resources.
Liberals want us to suffer. Liberals want America to be taken down a notch. Liberals believe America and its free market system is evil. Liberals believe that America did not achieve wealth through hard work and innovation. They believe America oppressed the world and stole its wealth. So America must be punished.
It is not simply with energy that liberals want to see America punished. They hate the military and want to see the military gutted as well.
Obama has done everything, including signing a treaty, to make it impossible for America to have missile defense. Let’s think about this one for a second. Stopping a ballistic missile before its warhead can hit our territory sounds like a pretty good idea. When you have nuts like Kim Jong “Mentally” Il, who have not only ballistic missiles, but nuclear weapons as well, this idea sounds really good. You have Iran developing both ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons too. Iran’s leaders believe there must be world chaos and then the Islamic Mahdi, the equivalent of the second coming, will appear. That missile defense sounds even better now.
Except, of course, to a liberal.
Liberals seem to love the idea of us being hurt and punished. I have an idea to hurt and punish liberals. Let’s kick them out of government. Let’s make it where liberals are never in a position of power in this government again. Let’s make sure liberals can never again damage this country the way they have since 2007.
Now, that’s what I call punishment!
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The Pathology of Some Liberals.
There is much discussion by political sages of the Right about the roots of liberalism being entwined with human weakness and pathology.
Some of the issues being raised are:
1. Guilt and self-loathing are woven into liberal philosophy and policy
2. Dependant personality types are drawn to liberalism
3. Marginalized groups and dysfunctional individuals are drawn to liberalism
4. Histrionic personality types are drawn to liberalism
5. Liberal values discourage people from acting in their own self interest
6. Liberals think of them selves as intellectually and ethically superior to conservatives
These are just a few of the indicators of “character disorders” seen in liberal thinking, feeling, and behaving. It is fascinating to me to look at “collective personality traits” and then diagnose them as if they were individuals. Buy yourself a DSM-IV (Diagnostic Service Manual) and have some fun. Another excellent book on pathological personality traits is “New Personality Self-Portrait” by John Oldham, M.D. who wrote the Personality Disorder section of the DSM-IV.
Personality disorders are different from other mental health problems. Personality disorders are extreme examples of traits we all have. For instance, if I carefully planned every detail of a trip I was taking and packed my suitcase in an orderly and through manner; I would just be a conscientious person. If I took so much time planning and packing that I missed my plane, I would be diagnosed as having obsessive/compulsive disorder.
Those drawn to definable political philosophies might also exhibit personality traits that become so extreme they could be called pathologies
In general the Liberals would represent the “weak” disorders. Liberals may be dependant, self-defeating, avoidant or passive-aggressive.
For those of you who care to further familiarize yourself with the “weak” disorders that characterize liberal pathologies, here are the names and a link for more information:
Dependent Personality Disorder – http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe09.html
Self Defeating Personality Disorder - http://www.psychnet-uk.com/clinical_psychology/criteria_personality_masochistic.htm
Avoidant Personality Disorder - http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe08.html
Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder - http://www.ptypes.com/passive-aggpd.html
One of the significant indicators of pathology of personality is an inability to act in one’s own self interests. This also has to do with self loathing. You can see this manifested in liberal “hate.” A good example is the left’s attitude toward President Bush. It seems to me that if one hates with that much venom one must have self hatred first. I may not be fond of the likes of Michael Moore or John Kerry, but I sure can't be bothered working up the energy to hate them like liberals hate “W.”
Many liberals seem to be unable to act in a clear path of self-interest, even the interest of their own country. Guilt contains some of the main elements of the "liberal" self loathing. I have had many clients raised in an atmosphere heavy on guilt; they had tremendous amounts of fear (fear of failing, fear of being found wanting, etc.) always a sort of low-level, non-specific sense of guilt. These are the perfect specimens to become card-carrying "liberals." I should feel guilty because there are others in need, I should feel guilty because my country is so much more prosperous than anyone else's, I should feel guilty because my army can beat up their army, etc. (The CIA sucks, we are stupid, we are evil, we are greedy.)
The liberals are a good example of insular thinking. They reinforce each other constantly, and instantly crush any idea competing with their “party line.” All “movements” do this, including the extreme right wing. This is another symptom of the “True Believers” pathology. This is one of the things that make political groups so dangerous. “All movements go too far.” Bertrand Russell. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
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