Ann Coulter & Michelle Malkin Have Been Saying This For Years

H/T Catholic Caveman

Many conservative writers like Michael Savage, Ann Coulter & Michelle Malkin have been crying out for years about liberalism being a mental illness. Now we have an eminent board-certified clinical psychiatrist & board-certified forensic psychiatrist presenting us with the evidence that what they have said is true. World News Daily reports on the release of a new book by Dr. Lyle Rossiter in which he makes the case that "that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder."

Dr. Rossiter has been practicing for over 35 years. He "has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago." Definitely no slouch. Given his education & experience he should know what he is talking about. (Check out his Curricukum Vitae here if you doubt me.) According to the article he has no history of political activism or links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."

In his new book "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." he 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."

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded. Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do. A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."

But what do liberals do instead. According to the book they come up with an agenda that: "preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:
1. creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;

2. satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

3. augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

4. rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government."

"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. 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."

This sounds like a book I am definitely going to have to get ahold of & read.

Source: Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts