Psychology Today: Conservatism as a Mental Illness

[Triana]

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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

THE REST:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-entertainment/201206/conservatism-mental-illness

[LWolf]

1. .

[colsohlibgal]

2. Agree, Something Is Wrong With Them Upstairs

I think more than a few of them are in reality sociopaths with a severe lack of empathy, an inability to put themselves in anyone else's shoes.

The US could be such a wonderful country but the plutocrats want theirs, the Hell with the planet and anyone else.

[NuclearDem]

3. Unrec.

If you're one word away from the title of a Michael Savage book, then you're wrong.

Conservatism is not a mental illness. Conservatism is irrational, founded on greed, hate, and confirmation bias, but it's not mental illness.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yup

was about to point to Michael Weiner's book. I refuse to refer to him by his chosen moniker though.

[freshwest]

4. As Jon Stewart expresses here, they're looking for Daddy, er, Vladdy:

Jon Stewart Blasts Fox New’s Traitorous, Hypocritical Praising of Putin



On The Daily Show Thursday night, Jon Stewart ripped the Fox News network’s near-orgasmic love-fest with Russian President Vladimir Putin and pointed out the hypocrisy of the GOP propaganda channel calling Putin a “real leader” while referring to President Obama as a “dictator” for supposedly doing the same sorts of things.

Stewart asked, “What happened to these people as children that has enabled this love-hate relationship with authoritarian figures and the inherent cognitive dissonance that goes along with such a schism?”

Stewart also highlighted the embellished stories about Putin’s supposed toughness, mentioning the story about Putin shooting a tiger that had been trapped and put to sleep.

“For God’s sakes,” he said. “How, in a 24-hour news cycle, do you upgrade Putin from wrestling bears to tigers, anyhow? By tomorrow, it’ll be, ‘Putin once smacked the teeth out of a great white shark and made it blow him, while Barack Obama just sat there, wistfully, wearing Capri pants and a baby bonnet.”

He then mocked Sean Hannity for fawning over a picture of a shirtless “big, strong muscular” Putin riding a horse while President Obama is pictured riding a bike with a safety hat on.

http://progressivepopulist.org/2014/03/07/stewart-blasts-fox-news-traitorous-hypocritical-praising-putin-video/

That paragraph there:

Stewart asked, “What happened to these people as children that has enabled this love-hate relationship with authoritarian figures and the inherent cognitive dissonance that goes along with such a schism?”

It's all you need to know. Yup, comething went wrong, and they are determined to pass the dysfunction to the whole world.

[backscatter712]

6. Classic case of authoritarian personality disorder. n/t