Conservatism a Sympton of Mental Illness
Whats Really Behind Conservative Politics
It's apparent in the recent discourse on health care reform, how they continually adhere to misinformation and lies that don't even make sense. Even when confronted with the truth, they deny it. The same happens with subjects like the death penalty. They continually believe, ideas different from theirs are causing America to deteriorate, even though history shows us that the most Liberal period of our history was filled with growth and advancement and prosperity on a far larger scale than seen since that time.
Even those things can be explained as blind philosophical fantasy. What is disturbing, is they all state ideas and opinions that reflect resentment and anger toward others. A lot of the comments are even buttered over with a rancid garnishment of bitterness. Feelings related to a unnatural fear of loss of control seems to drip from almost every comment
This almost rises, at times, to a level of paranoia. Some of this becomes so strong it borders on the delusional.
Distaste and disdain for almost every racial minority leaks from even the most benign of comments. It appears, fear of loss translates most often into greed but the self-centeredness seems to boil from deep within. Even, when not directly stated, it's obvious in how their principles lack respect or care for those less fortunate than they.
And like most unbalances, they seem to be wholly unaware of their condition, even to the point of incessant denial.
Is it really possible conservatism is the symptom of mental illness or an other wise unhealthy mental state? I know it has been debated for years, and conservatism has been around along time.. but this current epidemic seems be a particularly serious variety.
Unchecked, it appears the next level may grow into a syndrome fairly reminiscent of people like the Taliban who are political conservatives and the Conservative Germans and Italians in the 1930's to the 1940's, or as in the conservative movement of the Christian Reformation and Crusades. Throughout history you can trace conservative movements which eventually became violent and destructive. While we haven't experienced conservative violence outside of the Witch Hunts in New England and Genocide of the Native Americans and the Racial atrocities prior to the 1970's and the bombing of the Murray Federal Building, could this mental degeneration lead to the same or worse in our future?
Published by Dexter X South
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Post a CommentReally? We haven't experienced conservative violence? How about the Tiller assassination? Abortion clinic bombings? Killings of gay people? 9/11? The people behind those acts were conservatives.
I have a bone to pick with you, Dexter, about your title of this piece. I think it would be more appropriate to say that Conservatism IS a mental illness.
I have clinical depression, but I can assure you that I'm about as liberal as they get. With your title, you are implying that I (and others with similar health conditions) ought to be expressing conservative tendencies, which is a very incorrect assertion to make.
And while using "conservatism IS a mental illness" doesn't exactly help alleviate the negative stigma associated with mental illness, your title is far, far less helpful.
You have just insulted every person with a mental illness! I understand that the conservatives have the flaws you mentioned; however, it is in no way a mental illness to be an ignorant, close-minded conservative. Please give people with mental illnesses the credit they deserve. Most are intelligent, left-leaning, and opposed to the conservative rhetoric. I include myself in this group. There are treatments for mental illnesses. There is no treatment for being an ass.
conservatives are more charitable.
Wrong,
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=12&year=2008&base_name=do_liberals_hate_charity
and why tax cuts from such as JFK and Reagan caused a spur in the economy while tax hikes from Hoover to pay for programs, caused it to deteriorate into the Great Depression
Wrong. Clinton also raised taxes and created 22 million jobs, Bush lowered taxes and created 1 million jobs. Jobs growth is not impacted by tax cuts. EVER. Tax cuts are job neutral. Stop believing the right wing revisionists account of history.
Historians state FDR prolonged the Depression. If you looked at the unemployment rates of FDR and looked at the facts, you'll see that he's done nothing to fix the Great Depression.
I have looked and turns out FDR's new deal is responsible for America being the wealthiest nation in the world. He grew the middle class, when you do that then the overall wealth of the nation increases.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/01/02/sirota_fdr_depression
You're comment is bull!
"n fact, even famed conservative economist Milton Friedman admitted that the New Deal's Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was "the structural change most conducive to monetary stability since ... the Civil War.""
Bull. You've presented no facts here. You're going to have to explain why conservatives are more charitable, and why tax cuts from such as JFK and Reagan caused a spur in the economy while tax hikes from Hoover to pay for programs, caused it to deteriorate into the Great Depression and why historians state FDR prolonged the Depression. If you looked at the unemployment rates of FDR and looked at the facts, you'll see that he's done nothing to fix the Great Depression.
Fear of sharing or losing is what it's all about with most conservatives I've known. They're already in positions of privilege and don't want to have to compete over that privilege or share it with those viewed as their inferiors. Power devaluation theory suggests right wing political and social movements, such as the re-emergence of the KKK, come about in response to real or perceived threats to political power and/or economic access. That's why so many of the teabaggers are so nasty in their approaches. They just don't wanna' share - yes, it's like a childhood pathology.