Republican fear factor

[Calamari]

Conservatives' paranoid alternate-reality can be explained by their brain chemistry -- and their media choices

Consider for a moment just how terrifying it must be to live life as a true believer on the right. Reality is scary enough, but the alternative reality inhabited by people who watch Glenn Beck, listen to Rush Limbaugh, or think Michele Bachmann isn’t a joke must be nothing less than horrifying.
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Perhaps the most frightening part of all of this for the true believers is that even though these things aren’t just fringe ideas circulating in forwarded emails – they’re discussed by influential politicians and on leading cable news outlets – the bulk of the media and most elected officials refuse to investigate what’s happening to this country.

That one ideological camp is so consumed with fear also has a lot to do with why conservatives and liberals share so little common ground. Progressives tend to greet these narratives with facts and reason, but as Chris Mooney notes, when your amygdala is activated, it takes over and utterly dominates the brain structures dedicated to reason. Then the “fight-or-flight” response takes precedence over critical thinking.

The middle portion of this article details the weird and scary conspiracy landscape that right wingers so often imagine themselves in. I hadn't really considered how pitiable it really is, and how much the right must be suffering with their paranoid delusions. That's one thing we can thank this article for, bringing us some empathy for these frightened folks.

[Troubadour]

Good article, but the crazy righties will be too afraid to read it.

[52Ravens20]

I'm more concerned with the brain chemistry that leads to thinking it is okay to murder a baby if the timing is inconvenient.

[bmorepunk]

Where will this thread go?

First we have a link posted that characterizes all as Republicans/conservatives as paranoid, chemically imbalanced maniacs.

Then we have anti-abortion guy pushing in his message that is completely unrelated to the link.

Your move, whoever you are that wants to do something silly next.

[AttackPlanR]

I'm more concerned with the brain chemistry that leads to thinking it is okay to murder a baby if the timing is inconvenient.

You should start a thread about it.

Don't be afraid.

[AttackPlanR]

My eleciton season avatar

[veritas]

More cephalopodic idiocy trying to pass itself off as reasonable discussion.

[slapshot]

More cephalopodic idiocy trying to pass itself off as reasonable discussion.

Ummm, no.

The GOP's reputation (right or wrong), as the "party of no", and the "party of fear" has long been the subject of countless news stories, blogs and commentaries.

So, if there's no truth to this....then why does this stereotype persist for so long? Why does this image have such staying power?

Maybe you would prefer this characterization...from your own party member:

http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news...61330453c.html

The party of stupid.

[SalisburySage]

Conservatives' paranoid alternate-reality can be explained by their brain chemistry -- and their media choices
The middle portion of this article details the weird and scary conspiracy landscape that right wingers so often imagine themselves in. I hadn't really considered how pitiable it really is, and how much the right must be suffering with their paranoid delusions. That's one thing we can thank this article for, bringing us some empathy for these frightened folks.

OH My God, I had to change my underwear I was laughing so hard. "Progressives tend to greet these narratives with facts and reason..." I died laughing. They are in a near worship status to the biggest fake, "man behind the curtain", made up fantasy public figure, liar in the history of the United States.

[Calamari]

OH My God, I had to change my underwear I was laughing so hard. "Progressives tend to greet these narratives with facts and reason..." I died laughing. They are in a near worship status to the biggest fake, "man behind the curtain", made up fantasy public figure, liar in the history of the United States.

That's a pitch-perfect example of the type of paranoid ideation described in the article. Thank you.

[slapshot]

OH My God, I had to change my underwear I was laughing so hard.

way more info than we needed....

[Grindelwald]

Government take-over! Sandy Hook conspiracy! Government wants to disarm! Government wants to destroy us! Government is in the hands of Satan!


On and on it goes..................................

[slapshot]

Government take-over! Sandy Hook conspiracy! Government wants to disarm! Government wants to destroy us! Government is in the hands of Satan!


On and on it goes..................................

And who can ever forget:

- Obama not a US citizen
- Obama never graduated from Harvard
- Obama is a Muslim (anti-Christian)

[TheResearcher]

"It’s also true that 84 percent of white murder victims are killed by other whites." Gee, he has links to LWNJ and RWNJ sites for a lot of his lyberal screed, but no links for this "fact". I'll match Dr. Rossiter's book against this tripe by a San Francisco-based AlterNet brain surgeon.

"On the Psychopathology of the Liberal Mind:
Rather, the adult drive toward omnipotent control of others, in any arena whatever, is rooted in fears of separation, abandonment loss or abuse--the residual effects of early attachment gone wrong. The need to dominate others arises from the tyrant’s need for absolute assurance that the catastrophic loss of dependency or the pain of abuse so devastating to him in his earliest years will not be repeated. In his determination to control the world, he constantly defends himself against what Karen Horney aptly described as the most basic of human fears: being alone and helpless in a dangerous, indifferent world, the nightmare of the abandoned, terrified child. Persons plagued with such fears easily conclude that it is in their greatest interest to dominate others, or to imagine that they can, and to set about achieving that goal through the manipulation of government power."
http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=257

[SalisburySage]

That's a pitch-perfect example of the type of paranoid ideation described in the article. Thank you.

What a moronic statement. How typical of the delusional leftist. It really is disgusting and sad that in the delusional leftist Universe no one is allowed to have an opinion unless it is in sync with their belief system. Leftist ideologues are almost always delusional; they hate without reason anyone who disagrees with their metaphsical certitude.

There is a certain segment of the "progressive" population succeptible to suggestive language if repeated enough times. Some take longer than once and if the Obamanites hear their God king often enough they believe anything he says. Obama is a domestic enemy of the Constitution as are his delusional leftist followers.

Spin all you want. Play the transference game all you want. "What Does It Matter" -LOL!

[Creekman]

More cephalopodic idiocy trying to pass itself off as reasonable discussion.

The bloviator attempting to wow us with big words. Too funny.

[Grindelwald]

What a moronic statement. How typical of the delusional leftist. It really is disgusting and sad that in the delusional leftist Universe no one is allowed to have an opinion unless it is in sync with their belief system. Leftist ideologues are almost always delusional; they hate without reason anyone who disagrees with their metaphsical certitude.

There is a certain segment of the "progressive" population succeptible to suggestive language if repeated enough times. Some take longer than once and if the Obamanites hear their God king often enough they believe anything he says. Obama is a domestic enemy of the Constitution as are his delusional leftist followers.

Spin all you want. Play the transference game all you want. "What Does It Matter" -LOL

Still waiting for that proof that Obama's attacking our 2nd Amendment, Sagey-King.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...mental-illness

[SalisburySage]

Still waiting for that proof that Obama's attacking our 2nd Amendment, Sagey-King.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...mental-illness

I answered that. Pity you don't have the intellectual capaciity to understand the response. Guess you'll wait for eternity. but hey What does it Matter. LOL.

[Grindelwald]

I answered that. Pity you don't have the intellectual capaciity to understand the response. Guess you'll wait for eternity. but hey What does it Matter. LOL.

I asked for proof and got a response like "Any fool can tell Obama's attacking the 2nd Amendment..." So how about some real proof rather than pathetic dodges? And speaking of intelligence, since when did the word "capacity" have two i's?

[songfourone]

I'm more concerned with the brain chemistry that leads to thinking it is okay to murder a baby if the timing is inconvenient.

And I am more concerned that you believe you have a right to control someone else's health care.