Yet another interesting article came out today by Shankar Vedantam of the Washington Post delving into the psychological profile of our President and his Administration. Of course his article was basically a review of the thesis made in a new book titled, "Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me!)" by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
They make a good case about the cognitive dissonance suffered by this Administration and try to pick through the rationale that Bushco employs on different subjects.
I can remember some on the right trying to manipulate the media and cherry pick psychological arguments about 'Bill Clinton the Womanizer' or 'Bill Clinton the Pathological Liar' but honestly I cannot recall a President or a group core of people that encapsulates so many mental problems as Bush and his Neo-Con/Right Wing followers. Their completely disturbing alternate reality has really gotten psychologists everywhere jumping at the chance to study their behavior. 
I happen to own a pretty terrific book on this topic entitled, "Bush On The Couch", which tries to dissect the thought process and emotional state of the Bushies. I encourage you all to check it out.
While both books look fantastic (I have not read 'Mistakes' yet), there are other studies that have been released that seem to back up the theory that there are serious mental issues with right wingers and they appear to begin in childhood.
I figured with the new article I could throw out some extra links for you here to help jumpstart your own studies and give you more info to draw your own conclusions from on this very topic.
-The Hartford Advocate, Dec. 7, 2006 reported: "Study Finds Link Between Bush Supporters and Mental Illness" (article is no longer on their site, here is a reprint of the article)
-Psychology Today, Dec. 22, 2006 published a study entitled, "The Ideological Animal" that studied the differences in personalities and goes through tendencies of people of the conservative and liberal persuasions, it also discusses a 2003 study and is a huge source of information on why conservatives are the way they are.
-LiveScience, May 24, 2007 put out a short article entitled, "Political Preference is Half Genetic" linking political belief to genetics. They also have a brief link to an older study about happiness that mentions that Republicans are happier than Democrats. Of course they are! For the most part Republicans care mostly about themselves (as we have seen with their hatred of social programs to help the poor and needy versus saving extra tax dollars for themselves or Bush's wars). Ignorance is bliss after all. It also was taken before the American public tossed the Republican congress in the trash in the 2006 midterms so take it for what you will.
Now the following two articles are my own personal links to the type of insanity that I find encapsulating the Right Wing.
First, Bush's Administration and their hatred for Gays is amazing. He tried to push an anti-gay marriage amendment, kicks gays out of the military at a time when our recruitment levels are putrid, and then these two articles come out. One is certainly Bush's fault, the other is not but is symbolic of the people that vote for him, the Christian Right, and their own lunacy. Both are great study cases in the psychological study of why the Right is as crazy as it is.
-Pentagon spends $7.5 million on "Gay Bomb".
I shit you not. Listen to the premise from this article:
Just this month, the government confirmed that an Ohio Air Force laboratory had asked for $7.5 million to build a nonlethal "gay bomb," a weapon that would encourage enemies to make love, not war. The weapon would use strong aphrodisiacs to make enemy troops so sexually attracted to each other that they'd lose interest in fighting.
Yep, Gay people can be created in a chemical lab apparently and once someone "becomes" gay, they will drop arms and not fight because apparently gay people are 'pussies'. What kind of dumbasses are in charge here? Oh wait, stupid question. We know already.
-Catholic Church is against destroying Human-animal hybrid embryos.
That's right, gay sex = evil and wrong. Priests having sex = evil and wrong. But embryos with human and animal egg and sperm combinations, they should be kept alive and fought for by the parents! The church is fucking nuts. The issue revolves around destroying any embryos and my guess is they want to be consistently against destruction of embryos because otherwise stem cell research isn't a bad idea and their whole "it's the same thing as abortion" argument gets exposed for the bullshit it is.
But hey, if the Religious Right wants to condone bestiality babies they should consult Rick Santorum and get their talking points straight. After all he opposed gay marriage on the grounds that it was like, "man on dog sex".
Anyway now that we've established through a multitude of medical experts and studies that the right is completely fucking wacko, can we get to impeaching and throwing these people out of office already? After all, their concept of America is clearly a delusion related to their mental condition and we cant allow their delusions to override our reality and destroy 200+ years of democracy.
-Rp
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