autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder,
narcissism and Tourette's syndrome were thought to be psychological in
origin - and that with enough therapy, enough blaming inadequate parenting,
enough talk, enough delving into "feelings," the sufferer could be treated
successfully or even cured.
We now know - thanks to tools like PET scans, MRIs, and pharmaceutical
advances - that these condition are all biological in nature, more receptive
to medications, augmented with behavioral techniques, than to any of the
other "therapies" that were inflicted so ineffectually on millions of people
over the past many decades.
The scans, in fact, have revealed the specific areas of the brain that give
rise to anger, revenge, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, stuttering,
pathological lying, cheating, manipulation, obsessive-compulsive behavior,
depressive disorders, even cravings for chocolate!
How do we know these conditions are biological? Because in addition to the
fact that medications have treated these mental disorders successfully (for
example, Haldol for psychoses, lithium for bipolar disorder, Wellbutrin for
depression, and Xanax for anxiety), they have identical symptoms (albeit
some more severe than others) in people who are raised in luxury high-rises
in Buenos Aires, slums in Los Angeles, kibbutzim in Israel, huts in rain
forests, and penthouses in Manhattan. And also in people raised in both
happy and dysfunctional homes.
What we also understand is that most intractable mental conditions seem to
be genetically driven, rooted in centers of the brain that are still not
fully understood. Perhaps this is why political affiliation - with
exceptions, of course - seems to run in families.
Liberal Pathology
I suspect that at the core of liberal "thinking" is the same kind of
pathology that characterizes other mental disorders, i.e., a glitch in the
brain that produces "feelings" and behavior over which liberals have no
control.
For instance, liberals are uniformly glum, not only in their grim demeanors
and persistent anger, but also in their outlooks. Even in the flush of their
midterm victory, they could hardly conceal their endemic rage, in spite of a
brief moment of toothy, appliqud smiles.
"Liberals, like children, live in a world of utopian dreaminess,
clinging to a narrow, circumscribed reality and believing that if everyone
would just be nice to each other - let's talk, let's chat - all the noisy
death threats and pesky suicide bombings would go away, and all those grumpy
grownups in the current administration would see the light. And so they do
what children do when they're mad at grownups. They call names."
This is because their worldview is uniformly negative. When things are good,
they see only the bad and invoke the Misery Index cited routinely by Jimmy
Carter and resurrected by the dour wannabe president John Kerry. When things
could be better, they see only that things could be worse. When their
theories are refuted by hard fact, they are unable to process the true from
the untrue because their feelings tell them otherwise. For instance:
? In an unprecedented stellar economy - with the GDP, employment, housing
sales, and consumer confidence up, and inflation, the trade deficit, and
crude oil down - liberals see only the "threat" of recession.
? In measurable improvement in education, liberals see only "too much
testing."
? In the face of 3,000 lives being exterminated by Islamic terrorists on
September 11, 2001, liberals see a non-existent threat.
? In the Iraq war, which has liberated 25 million people, liberals see, to
quote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "not a war but a situation" and a
"catastrophe."
? Worse, the liberals among us see that all of our country's problems are
the fault of, yes, America!
Liberals are Like Children
Liberals, like children, live in a world of utopian dreaminess, clinging to
a narrow, circumscribed reality and believing that if everyone would just be
nice to each other - let's talk, let's chat - all the noisy death threats
and pesky suicide bombings would go away, and all those grumpy grownups in
the current administration would see the light.
And so they do what children do when they're mad at grownups. They call
names.
? Who but an out-of-control child - who didn't know any better - would
compare our heroic fighting troops to Nazis? Liberal Senator Dick Durbin
(D-IL) did.
? Who but a bully of a child would say that the head of his household (in
this case his country) was a liar? Liberal Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) did.
? Who but a spoiled "princess" would call the leader of her country a
failure, a fraud, and incompetent? Liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
did.
? Who but a snobby and vacuous little brat would badmouth the president on
foreign soil while our troops were in harm's way? Liberal Senator John Kerry
(D-MA) did, as did liberal former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
? And who but a jealous tomboy would insist, again in a time of war, that
the Commander in Chief is the worst president in our nation's history?
Liberal Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has done just that.
All of these children - er, politicians - have gone to great lengths to
undermine President Bush, often in foreign countries and always in
contradiction to the unspoken but historically honored rule to support a
president in time of war - or at least to refrain from insult.
A Rage That Knows No Bounds
Children take things personally. "My father is bigger (stronger, smarter)
than your father" is just about intolerable to the average child. "Is not!"
"Is too!" is an exchange that inevitably results in either tears or fists.
In 2000, when George W. Bush ascended to the presidency, the initial despair
of liberals quickly morphed into childlike, irrational anger, which has
obsessed them for the past six years.
Not only have they called names, spewed insults and stamped their feet, but
they've also lined up like-minded friends in the liberal media and leftwing
think tanks to do the same. Much worse, they've aligned themselves with
America's mortal enemies.
According to Vasko Kohlmayer in World Defense Review, "the affection in
which [liberals] are held by our foes is neither unjustified nor surprising.
They have more than earned it by systematically subverting this country's
war effort while simultaneously proffering assistance to those who have
pledged to destroy us." Kohlmayer lists some highlights of liberal
treachery:
? They have tried to prevent us from listening in on terrorists' phone calls
? They have sought to stop us from properly interrogating captured
terrorists
? They have tried to stop us from monitoring terrorists' financial
transactions
? They have revealed the existence of secret national security programs
? They have opposed vital components of the Patriot Act
? They have sought to confer unmerited legal rights on terrorists
? They have opposed profiling to identify the terrorists in our midst
? They have impugned and demeaned our military
? They have insinuated that the president is a war criminal
? They have forced the resignation of a committed defense secretary
? They have repeatedly tried to de-legitimize our war effort
? They want to quit the battlefield in the midst of war.
If nothing else proves the rigidity - indeed the pathology - of the liberal
brain, it is what Kohlmayer says of liberals today: "Almost all of the
current democratic leadership was actively involved in [the Vietnam
anti-war] effort. Bill and Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Howard
Dean, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi were all in one way or
another personally engaged in the anti-war movement. And when at last it
bore its disastrous fruit, they gloated and danced in the streets.
Exhilarated and jubilant, they deemed America's disgrace their finest hour.
In their skewed world, America's defeat came to represent their personal
triumph."
Fathoming Liberal Rage
To understand the left's treasonous rage, it is important to understand that
the most cherished value in the life of children (read liberals) is to be
"liked" by their peers, a theory that Judith Rich Harris has exhaustively
documented in her best-selling and revolutionary book, The Nurture
Assumption.
To be liked - according to the evangelical religion of liberalism - is not
to engage in conflict, not to fight, not to judge, After all, if you fight
with anyone, including Islamic terrorists, they won't like you. And if you
judge them as savages, murderers, enemies of democracy, they will fight you.
So don't judge them and they won't fight you and everything will be hunky
dory. Such are the fantastical fantasies of children (read liberals).
They are fantasies that flourish, says writer Evan Sayet, because liberals
are "wedded to the childish philosophy of 'multiculturalism' . the fantasy
that all cultures are equally good and equally right. It is why liberals
"believe we should 'celebrate diversity,' as if all differences - say
freedom of religion and massacring all infidels - are equally worthy of
celebration."
It is also why liberals, like children, are driven so compulsively by
emotion that they simply don't have the ability to apply rational thought
when it comes to George W. Bush. To them, he is still the stronger father to
whom they continue to insist: "Is not!"
Rage Trumps Rationality
The reason why liberals have remained so intractably unhinged about
President Bush is not because of their ideological differences with his
conservatism. It is because of their collective inadequate egos. This is no
surprise because children have "developing" egos, not fully-fledged senses
of themselves, their places in the world, and their worth. Children are
wildly egocentric, seeing
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