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Lucylastic -> RE: Romney presidency wrong for 40 million Americans (10/24/2012 12:51:55 PM)
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just offering up this lil tidbit, yanno , just to be "fair" http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-entertainment/201206/conservatism-mental-illness In Creationism as a Mental Illness, Robert Rowland Smith argues that creationists exhibit several signs of mental illness including denial, psychosis, and inability to grasp irony. The specter of mental illness does indeed loom large over creationists, but they are not alone. Signs of psychopathology can also be seen among their political bedfellows, conservative Republicans, especially when you consider a wide range of illness indicators. In his award-winning 2005 book Dr. James Whitney Hicks discusses 50 signs of mental illness including denial, delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior, sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness, and paranoia. Now I'm no clinician, but it seems that prominent Republicans have evidenced each of these ten telltale signs of mental illness over the past year: 1) 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 Regrettably, the Republican who least exhibits anti-science stances is the only one who (tongue-in-cheek) acknowledges his mental illness Seems Dr Hicks has more heft than Lyle Of course, then there is this...http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox A 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.
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