I Believe Conservatism Is A Mental Illness
Insanity Of The Right Wing
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 Republicans, 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 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 **** 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
Insanity Of The Right Wing : I Believe Conservatism Is A Mental Illness Story & Experience