The Mental Illness of Modern Liberalism

Published on: 13th October, 2009

If you are a regular reader of these editorials, you know that it is a common theme – the insanity of liberalism. After much thought and consideration of the topic, I have concluded, based on personal experience, that modern liberalism is indeed a mental illness.

The Wikipedia definition:  Mental Illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern that occurs in an individual and is thought to cause distress or disability that is not expected as part of normal development or culture.  Yes, that explains modern liberalism, which is most definitely a psychological or behavioral pattern…that causes distress or disability and is not expected as part of normal development or culture.

Winston Churchill so eloquently and succinctly captured it with his quote – “If you are under 30 and a conservative, you have no heart;  if you are over 30 and a liberal, you have no brain.”  In other words, in normal development, there is a maturity that is expected to occur to bring one more in line with reality – it’s fine and dandy and normal if you are 20 and concern yourself, your time and your energy with things such as saving the whales, wiping out starvation, ridding the world of all injustice and unfairness. But as you grow, and your experience more of what life has to teach, you begin, or should begin, to learn that this is not a perfect world, it is not a fair world and saving the whales, while a noble cause, is not a priority. The trouble with liberals is that they never grow up.

And in their immaturity, they insist in inflicting on the rest of us their politically correct nonsense. In their warped reality, America is the enemy of all that is good in the world. Facts and statistics do nothing to dent their belief that the world is a great place, if not for the evil influence of America.

Mention the Marshall Plan, landing on the moon, billions upon billions of dollars in aid to the rest of the world, the salvation of Europe and Japan in WWII, the opportunities provided to millions upon millions to live the American dream through hard work, the brilliant foundation of America forged by the Founding Fathers called the Constitution – none of it mitigates their anti-Americanism. Michelle Obama, the benefactor of the dream that is America, figuratively bites the hand that feeds her by proclaiming her disgust with America before hubby ran for President. Obama’s constant and endless apologies to the rest of the world for America, the liberals’ aily assaults on American values and principles – all evidence of their mental illness known as modern liberalism.

It is indeed a mental illness. And those afflicted with it do their best to afflict it on the rest of us. And this is one conservative, proud of America, who has had his fill of the nonsense and tripe perpetrated by these people on a daily basis. Take one look, and listen for more than 5 seconds to Keith Olbermann, severely afflicted with the mental illness, and you will know exactly what I mean.

The silver lining in all of this is that the sleeping giant, America, has been awakened. And in 2010 and 2012, the awakened giant will strike back. And sanity will reign once again.

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