Is Liberalism Political Madness?
Ellis Washington
Posted: November 15, 2008
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. ~ Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter Jr., M.D., "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness" (2008)
Are liberals clinically mad? This controversial question has been proposed and written about by many political pundits and conservative intellectuals, most notably, Dr. Michael Savage, a visionary radio talk show host from San Francisco, in his 2005 book, "Liberalism is a mental disorder." However, Dr. Rossiter, brings a solid background as a psychiatrist and non-partisan, and years of clinical experience dealing with mental disorders of every conceivable type – making his findings singularly unique, objective and difficult to ignore.
For 25 years, I myself have studied and written about political liberalism, which traces its origins to the 16th and 17th century and the Age of Enlightenment; particularly the writings of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Kant, Diderot, Jefferson and others.
Political liberalism continued to modern times in the politics and political writings of William James, Walter Lippman, Herbert Croly, Woodrow Wilson, FDR and LBJ, among others. I have also studied liberalism in all of its permutations and presuppositions, including democracy, natural law, natural rights, humanism, Marxism, utilitarianism, socialism, communism, progressivism, pragmatism, moderates, neoliberalism, conservative liberalism, the welfare state, etc.
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Recently, there was the suggestion that liberalism might be an aberrant state of mind, literally, a form of insanity.
This in turn raises the question, is it a pathology, that is, a neurological defect, or a sociopathy caused by indoctrination; or a combination of the two?
Clearly, liberal indoctrination from a young age can be a persuasive way to incorporate these beliefs in the vast majority of a population, with some number being less enthusiastic, and only a few openly in opposition. David Horowitz comes to mind as someone who while thoroughly programmed, overcame his programming to utterly reject the axioms of that belief system.
So it is harder to associate liberal-leftism with a known pathology, except by comparison between the other common pathologies of liberal-leftists apart from those found in the population as a whole.
For example, liberal-leftists commonly suffer both from severe feelings of inadequacy, yet that is expressed by vigorously asserting superiority. They feel week, ignorant, oppressed, victimized, ugly, poor, etc.; yet insist that they are brilliant, noble, worthy, and far better than everyone else.
In short, they imagine themselves as elitists, and sneer at those not of their kind as inferior. In academia, they are pseudo-intellectuals; in spirituality, of whatever form, they imagine their interpretations as far superior than anyone else. In art, they are both pretentious beyond belief, and consumed by their moral superiority.
Is Liberalism Political Madness?
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