Movement to Classify 'Liberalism' as Mental Disorder Gains Steam

[this_side_up]

http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/05/movement_to_cla.html

Think that some of President Bush's judicial nominees are 'out of the mainstream'? Worried that John Bolton may not have the temperament to represent the U.S. at the U.N.? If some Republicans get their way, there may soon be an official diagnosis of what really ails you: political paranoia disorder.


American Psychiatric Association approves the inclusion of "Political Paranoia" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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The therapist he consulted wrote Goodman a prescription for the social anxiety drug Paxil and encouraged him to spend less time reading left-wing Web logs and listening to Air America.

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Now a group of Republican lawmakers is hoping that they can do something about the problem. Early this summer, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define "political paranoia" as a mental disorder, paving the way for individuals who suffer from paranoid delusions regarding voter fraud, political persecution and FBI surveillance to receive Medicare reimbursement for any psychiatric treatment they receive.

[yella_dawg]

1. I'm litterally speechless.

I just do not know how to react to this.

[Just Me]

12. Laugh your ass off,....it's off-the-wall snot!!!!

Without us "libruls", the world wouldn't be a humane and decent and moral place for humanity, let alone earth.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Sounds like he's picking up hints from Stalin and other

Soviet leaders.
Or maybe he picked the idea up from Brave New World.

[UncleSepp]

3. This is a satire site... it's pretty funny imo

[BattyDem]

5. I like the Tom Cruise headline on the main page:

"Tom Takes Katie Home to the Mothership!" :rofl:

[salin]

6. hehe another title: Group Warns Spaying, Neutering Promote Pet Promiscuity

*snicker*

[Snotcicles]

4. Leave it to Frist to figure a new way to

funnel more Medicare money into The Frist family bank accounts.

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Please label your posts satire; humor confuses some.

They have a link to this thread, commenting about how some are taking this seriously. Although I read our thread as just a continuation of the satire.

Apparently, we need to label our comments as satire.:eyes:

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

8. no kidding

I took this seriously until I read down a few posts. The way things are
these days it's all too horribly possible.

[kiki]

9. Indeed...

Bushco: Blurring the line between satire and reality since 2000.

[Bluebear]

15. kt, if you told me in 1999 what would happen I would think it satire

This one got me, I would not have put it past Frist! :hi:

[Kerrytravelers]

24. I read it twice and looked at the rest of the site just to be sure!

I wouldn't put it past the twit, either!

[Just Me]

10. NOT!!! *LOL* Get the fuck outta' here!!! *LOL*

[wookie294]

11. U.S.-funded study concludes conservatism is a mental illness

Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve

Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday August 13, 2003
The Guardian

A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".

As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1017546,00.html

[Just Me]

14. Seriously,....there is a sociopathic element to these exploitative neoCONS

They justify lies, justify spending others' lives in order to empower and profit themselves.

Even in the most basic of philosophical tenets, such exploitation is considered evil.

[wookie294]

17. We must defeat Republican pedophilia, too

Look at all these Republican pedophiles....

http://www.armchairsubversive.com

[TalkingDog]

23. You know my husband made a great observation the other day....

We were discussing how restrictive the NeoCons are about...well, everything and he said: "They want to control everybody else so they don't have to bother controlling themselves."

So if there are no nipples on TV they aren't forced to control their urges to anally rape their wives. It makes perfect sense.

[this_side_up]

13. Ack! Not enough coffee. Sorry. Will alert

and see if it can be moved to lounge

[BigBearJohn]

16. I'll bet you Michael Savage will tout this all week long on his radio show

[Rex]

18. Citizen, you are suffering from political paranoia.

"Please follow your mental health agent to our new George Bush II Reeducation building immediately. Failure to repair will be met with criminal charges and a long prison term in our new Jeb Bush Penal Colony based somewhere in Iraq."

Have a nice day.

[sweetheart]

19. ... and remove their right to vote

Its just a matter of time until they try the old victorian methods
of declaring their opposition insane.

[tenshi816]

20. I don't get it - shouldn't this cut both ways?

What I mean is, the right-wingers, with their obsessive fascination with Bill Clinton's penis and everything us "godless baby killers" do, suffer far, far more from paranoia and delusions than anyone on the left I've ever encountered either personally or online.

Why aren't the Rush/Ann/Sean/Bill fans considered to be suffering from "political paranoia"? The term is a pretty damn good description of FR and all the other cesspits of irrationality out there on the internets.

[lonestarnot]

21. Wipe my ass with this!

[SoCalDem]

22. Reposting this... (definition of Liberalism)

SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-04-05 01:57 PM
Original message
Today's Left just wants "Normal" back. It's NOT radical.


Look at what we stand for. (not necessarily in order of importance)

Decent jobs that pay a living wage (not 3 part time benefit-less jobs that eat up 90 hours a week)

Equal rights for EVERYONE, not just the privileged few

Affordable "post-high school" education (to prepare for a decent job)

Health care when its needed ( you shouldn't have to mortgage your future because you need an operation)

Safe Schools for our kids that actually teach them (not just prepare them for a never-ending spate of tests)

Clean water

Clean air

Conserving what we have left of the wilderness areas. (just because WE may have already seen them,is no reason to clear cut it all...our descendants should have the opportunity as well)

Taxation that represents our demographics. (Have more??..pay more!..no exceptions)

A safe food and medicine supply (the time for "testing" is BEFORE the general public consumes them...not after)

A secure old age, after a lifetime of work (a smooth transition OUT of work is necessary to provide stability in our country)

The right to worship in your church/synagogue/temple/mosque/chapel or home(without ANY intervention by ANYONE...and to NOT be subjected to other people's dogma unless YOU choose to visit their place of worship...the "common", school or workplace is not the place for aggressive worship..by ANYONE)

The right to terminate a pregnancy (government should not interfere in a legal process)

The ability to hear all sides of any given issue over the airwaves that we supposedly OWN.

The right to vote, and KNOW that our vote was accurately recorded, and COUNTED.(the acrimony of today is directly related to the ambiguity of our recent elections...(people find it hard to have allegiance to a leader not "properly" elected.)

There are many more than these, but when you look at the totality of them, are these things really "radical"? These are all things that we once HAD, and have lost in varying degrees, over the past few decades.

Our current government tells us "we cannot afford these things", BUT...isn't a government's PRIMARY responsibility to its citizens? The right loves to remind us that we are a "representative republic,not a democracy", unless of course they are trying to overturn a longtime senatorial tradition..then they wrap themselves in the blanket of democracy..but for the most part they love to cling to the idea of republic.

Why WOULD the "republic" prefer that tax money sent in by citizens of the nation be spent to cause havoc and wars all over the world...instead of providing themselves with the benefits to society in general? Answer.. They would not. I would venture, that if you stopped people at random and asked them what they wanted for their families, a bloated military that attacks at will, using THEIR children, would not be very high on the list. They might also never get around to subscribing to the theological leanings of whatever "leader" happens to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The shift from the "common" to the "specific" is killing our nation. We no longer care for the best resource we have..our citizens. Citizenship of a nation comes with responsibilities, and we understand that, BUT with citizenship also comes benefits of citizenship.

People who come here illegally believe that once they have "blended in", and can somehow achieve their goal of citizenship, they too, can have the American Dream.. What they find out, is that it WAS all just a dream. All that citizenship seems to guarantee today, is that the class-ism that they left behind, is here waiting for them here, and that unless you have lots of protected family wealth behind you, you are likely to live the life of a "worker bee"..useful only as long as a rich person deems you useful. Once your tenure as a "useful citizen" is done, you are as important as a wadded up used Kleenex.



Our beliefs and hopes for our country are NOT radical. They are what used to pass for NORMAL.







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