A clinical psychiatrist has a new book out, just in time for this year's elections. (Thanks to directorblue over at Astute Bloggers for this):

Clinical psychiatrist: modern liberalism is a mental disorder Dr. Lyle Rossiter's new book makes a compelling case that liberalism really is a mental 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."

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."

For more than 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.

Rossiter 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.

"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "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."

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

* creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
* satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
* augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
* 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," he says. "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."

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it soundf like Dr. Lyle Rossiter hav e mental ill or he want Mccain t o win.
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I am about halfway through the book. It's serious and enlightening. If you can’t read the whole book, the first 50 to 100 pages are great. If you don’t have time to read, you can at least watch a video by Evan Sayet at YouTube: It's called "How Modern Liberals Think". Evan used to write for Bill Maher and he comes at the subject as an untrained observer. Rossiter seems to be an expert in the field and provides an intellectual framework to discuss it and advance. Evan’s talk is more of a subset, but it’s more accessible and easier to follow than Rossiter’s book.

Basically, between these two people and the others who have been on the edges of this, we now have a description and a good chunk of a theory of what makes a Modern Liberal tick. Knowing what drives this thinking will go a long way in fixing the problems.

The hard-core leftists will fight this logic, but there are probably plenty of people who will alter their views when presented with the information in Rossiter’s book and Sayet’s talk.