Freedom THREATENED By The GOP’s McCarthyesque MALIGNANT NARCISSISM

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The McCarthyesque Malignant Narcissism of the Republican Party Leaders


" We are in dark days. Historically, this time will go down with the Republicans on the wrong side of right, as they issue witch hunts, declare war on women, workers, the middle class, Muslims, the history of slavery, the accurate history of the founders, abuse the Christian religion, and so many more countless reckless and cruel abuses of humanity.


The leaders of the Party embody this darkness, as they all appear to suffer from malignant narcissism. Malignant narcissism is a theoretic syndrome consisting of a combination of narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder as well as paranoid traits. Joe McCarthy is an historical example of the sanctimonious, self-righteous, single-minded, dogmatic tells of malignant narcissism with an authority attachment complex.


In his 1964 book, “The Heart of Man”, social psychologist Erich Fromm first coined the term malignant narcissism, describing it as a “severe mental sickness” representing “the quintessence of evil.” Fromm attributed malignant narcissism as the “root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity.” Otto Kernberg further argued that malignant narcissists had a sadistic component, and resulted in often sadistic psychopaths.


There is, of course, a danger to playing armchair psychologist and we observe that the Right has been glibly trying to attach the label of “narcissist” and “arrogant” to President Obama since his run for office. However, there are psycho-diagnostic tools such as Robert D. Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) (1) used to diagnose patients by professionals. A few of the indicators (as determined by scale) are pathological lying, lack of remorse, serial short term marriage, lack of empathy, shallow affect, and failure to accept responsibility for own actions. - We do, of course, have endless proof of Sarah Palin’s pathological lying, lack of remorse (blood libel), lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility for her own actions. I’d say she rules the pack of modern day Republican leaders in the pathological lying category, although they seem to be in competition for who can be the most outrageous in their attempts to deny reality and culpability. Glenn Beck is running second with his calls to shoot liberals and subsequent denials of any culpability in the attempted murder and successful mass murders of many innocent Americans.



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http://www.politicususa.com/en/freedom-threatened-mccarthyesque-narcissism



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.. that article on Bush as a malignant egophreniac?

I do.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Rumsfeld and a mountain of misery

By AMY GOODMAN
SPECIAL TO THE P-I

Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, began life as a slave on Maryland's Eastern Shore. When his owner had trouble with the young, unruly slave, Douglass was sent to Edward Covey, a notorious "slave breaker." Covey's plantation, where physical and psychological torture were standard, was called Mount Misery. Douglass eventually fought back, escaped to the North and went on to change the world. Today Mount Misery is owned by Donald Rumsfeld, the outgoing secretary of defense.

It is ironic that this notorious plantation run by a practiced torturer would now be owned by Rumsfeld, himself accused as the man principally responsible for the U.S. military's program of torture and detention.

Rumsfeld was recently named along with 11 other high-ranking U.S. officials in a criminal complaint filed in Germany by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. The center is requesting that the German government conduct an investigation and ultimately a criminal prosecution of Rumsfeld and company. CCR President Michael Ratner says U.S. policy authorizing "harsh interrogation techniques" is in fact a torture program that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld authorized himself, passed down through the chain of command and was implemented by one of the other defendants, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller.

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http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/293201_amy22.html

which I'm sure is a coincidence. :sarcasm:

Some real pathos.

It isn't indicative of anything except other than being human.

It would be too easy to look at the hyperbole against Obama's predecessor concerning the stupid wars we're fighting all over the world for no real apparent reason. It got so bad people accused an idiot of being a clever mastermind who engineered the 9/11.

Of course the first reflex response to that is the wars are wrong and misguided and Bush had no good motive in mind.

OK. Fine.

But look at Obama and suddenly we have a president progressives believed in engaging in those same wars and even expanding them to certain regards. And he gets attacked with hyperbole as well even though the odds of him having been part and parcel of the grand neocon conspiracy are so remote as to be ridiculous. People will still scream and howl about war crimes, until their guy is supposed to go to the dock, and some real nasty allegations get thrown around.

DUers even attack DUers. I cannot imagine the bile that floats in front of the mods every day but judging from all the deleted sub-threads it must be fairly prolific and nasty.

What we have here is one side saying the other side is a threat and then the other side saying the first guy is a threat.

"Yeah, but they started it!" doesn't really cut it. Maybe I'm too much of a pacifist for my own good but when Allen West said "You attacked us first" the question in my mind was, "Even if true I want to know who will be brave enough to stop shooting first."

How do you get rid of Beck and Limbaugh in a free society? You either become the thing you claim to not want to be or you appeal to the public with superior ideas.