I wouldn't call it a mental disorder, more like a state of mind...your expecting something to happen with or without your involvement. I'd call it a "daze" because your beliefs are at an all time high when you have hope but at the same time- without hope, your doomed for failure. Its not black or white- its in the gray side of life.

Damn,and here after all these years I thought everyone was nuts.

Thanks for posting this article,I needed a good laugh today.

I wonder if the next study will find a Liberal gene, or a conservative gene. Science and political bias should not mix, ever.

The Lack of Compassion of the evil right wing psychos is what is truly nuts.
The Psychiatric community is nuts. They do not know what the nature of the mind is.
I had a friend who's mother was the head of the Psychiatry Department at Harvard.
It was the most insane, suffering, dysfunctional family in the history of the Milky Way
galaxy. Most of these people who call themselves Psychiatrists are the biggest joke.
They don't not know anything about wisdom, they just make crap up. It's a sad cliche
that everyone knows the most mentally screwed up people tend to become Psych majors.
It's unfortunate that some of these people are motivated by how they can manipulate people
rather than heal them. Huge research grants are paid to universities to study how to coerce
people into buying crap or Psy-ops in the military. Why would anyone take their pathology
seriously? Most people who take the pharmaceuticals prescribed by these so-called professionals
end up worse off. They try to make a virtue out of depression. The Psychiatry profession in
America today is Medieval and hideous. Just full of nasty turds.

I AGREE. If you think I am giving up more of my hard earned money to support more social programs you are INSANE. I will stash my money in a # swiss bank account before that happens.

wow
just wow
a thread which facilitates liberal bashing, how nice


anyway.
i've heard that there are psychological differences between liberals and conservatives...but i've never heard anyone actually labeling one side as "functional" and the other "dysfunctional"

how shameful...
this guy is a quack.

Freedom within any "free" society is one of the most complex and delicate theoretical puzzles you could ever try to plot a system for.
Anyone who thinks they have THE answer is most certainly holding a delusion and that could very well lead you to label them delusional.
But the type of logic employed by Dr. Lyle Rossiter could be used to conclude that any belief system is actually the product of a mental disorder.
He may be good at winning debates, but just because you are better at arguing, it doesn't make you right.
Most Liberals (wikipedia explains there are a number of different types of Liberals) are wrong and believe things which are not true, but being wrong doesn't make you delusional.
Dr. Lyle Rossiter's belief seems impassioned and there is definitely some animosity there. Could it be that the political beliefs of Liberals are opposed to his own? A psychiatrist so biased commenting on the subject would be nothing more than a very skilled persuader.

I refuse to pay for someone else's healthcare. Period. I pay for my own, why should I pay for someone else's? Should I have to pay for the deadbeat dad's healthcare? Or the crackhead's healthcare? I dont think so.

What a crock... the fact that you guys beleive this nonsense puts your mental stablity into question, not mine.

Oh look, a book by a hack on WND.

Aren't there ATS rules against advertising or something? 'Cause that's what that WND article is... in fact that's what a good 3/4 of WND "articles" are.

He has no idea what he is talking about, like most head shrinks. If he thinks he can take half-baked psychological theories and apply them to geo-politics, he is a simpleton. If wanting a compassionate and responsible government is a mental dissorder, then what is wanting a cold and indifferent government that expects its citizens to fend for themselves and abandons them to survival of the least ethical, cut throat captitalism? What about a government that launches colonial wars for profit and to benefit the top 10% of its population? What about a government that is actively hostile to the environment? I guess those are halmarks of sanity.
Bravo idiot.

I wonder is this quack saying that people like Karl Rove are the norm. Is it normal to lie a nation into war like Bush, Cheney et.al? Are the actions of Skillings, Fastow and Ken Lay of Enron the example we are all to hold in esteem? If that's the norm give me the lunatic fringe.

Universal Health care would reduce fees paid to Drs. and Pharmaceutical companies and Health care in general. Why do we pay more for legal drugs that any other country in the world? Are we being gouged by medical care? It would pay for itself if Heath care was reined in but that would violate the free market wouldn’t it? But we'll bail out the sub prime lender? We already did bail out the BCCA, Chrysler Motor Company, United Airlines, Agribusiness and so much more. So I quess it's applied when it benefits the wealthy and not when it doesn't. That's a very sane approach.


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Wow what a one lined filled thread!

Ok lets back up and look at the big picture here people. "Liberals" are wrong for wanting too much out of the government.

"Conservatives" are wrong for wanting too little out of the government.

Middle ground yall middle ground.

Don't strip mine the government breaking the backs of taxpayers so that everyone has everything they want. Thats just silly. You got to work to get what you want.

Now on the other hand don't shut everything down cause it causes your personal taxes to go up cause some people (I SAID SOME) people need some help getting on their way.

Nether way is a disorder Nether way is completely wrong. We just have to come together and compromise and reach effective solutions to the nations problems and not be shelled into stereotypes. I don't want a huge government and I also don't want a government that is ineffective.

I want my guns, AND I want a woman to have the choice to be able to have an abortion. I want murderous criminals executed AND I want children to be able to go to college in order to better themselves.

It's all about compromise people. It's all about the pursuit of happiness, It's all about being near the middle and not falling for the garbage being spewed by the extremes at both ends.

Remember all things in moderation.

Wukky

[edit on 2/27/2008 by whatukno]