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   From: rockhudson@yahoo.com   
      
   Conservatism as a Mental Illness | Psychology Today   
      
   In Creationism as a Mental Illness, Robert Rowland Smith argues that   
   creationists exhibit several signs of mental illness including denial,   
   psychosis, and inability to grasp irony.   
      
      
   The specter of mental illness does indeed loom large over creationists, but   
   they are not alone. Signs of psychopathology can also be seen among their   
   political bedfellows, conservative politicians, especially when you consider   
   a wide range of illness indicators. In his award-winning 2005 book, Dr. James   
   Whitney Hicks discusses 50 signs of mental illness including denial,   
   delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior,   
   sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness, and paranoia. Now I'm no   
   clinician, but in my (admittedly biased brown) eyes it seems that prominent   
   Republicans have evidenced each of these ten telltale signs of mental illness   
   over the past year:   
      
   1) Denial: humans did not evolve;  Obama is not a native-born American   
   Christian   
      
   2) Delusion: climate is not changing   
      
   3) Hallucination: God ordained me to be President   
      
   4) Disordered Thinking: being for small government that's huge in the   
   bedroom;  being anti-contraception and anti-abortion   
      
   5) Anger: Newt Gingrich’s perpetual scowl   
      
   6) Anti-social Behavior: toward women, gays, minorities, anyone without an   
   umbilical cord or trust fund   
      
   7) Sexual Preoccupation: a fervent compulsion to control when we can mate,   
   with whom we can mate, and precisely how we are allowed to mate (which I   
   lampoon in Why Do Politicians Want to Police Dick and Jane's Private Parts?)   
      
   8) Grandiosity: even Rick Santorum recognizes Gingrich’s “over the moon”   
   grandiosity   
      
   9) General Oddness: Ron Paul   
      
   10) Paranoia: pretty much all of them, all of the time   
      
   Even (the not necessarily dumb) Pope Francis appears to recognize that “it is   
   a serious illness, this of ideological [conservative] Christians. It is an   
   illness, but it is not new, eh?”   
      
      
   https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-   
   entertainment/201206/conservatism-mental-illness   
      
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