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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMental health officials identify new syndrome: "PDS"
Mental health officials have confirmed the identification of a new mental health disorder, a sister condition to ODS ("Obama Derangement Syndrome), which has been named, "Paul Derangement Syndrome" (PDS). The condition, afflicting certain factions of Democrats, is characterized by the rather curious belief that no opinion or position embraced by anyone with the last name Paul and first name of Rand or Ron could ever, under any circumstances, have any shred of validity, and therefore must be vigorously opposed, even if and when the opinion is one the syndrome sufferer might have supported prior to becoming aware that it was shared by Rand or Ron Paul. It is also marked by a tendency to reduce complex issues to simple, binary and logically fallacious choices and a firm disbelief in broken clocks.
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Mental health officials identify new syndrome: "PDS" (Original Post)
markpkessinger
Sep 2013
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leftstreet
(36,119 posts)1. LOL the Pauls owe DU big bucks for all the exposure
I don't know many people in the real world who've ever heard of them
But on DU they're everywhere!!
kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)2. As a minority I would never support the racist Paul family
markpkessinger
(8,409 posts)3. I'm not talking about supporting the Paul family . . .
. . . and I agree they are racist scum. What I am referring to is the tendency by some here to suggest that since Ron Paul is opposed to intervention in Syria, that all opposition to intervention in Syria must therefore be wrong, or that one must, by extension, be a Paul supporter if one opposes intervention in Syria.
kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)4. I get it now.
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