Message #15921

[Howey]

I know I've said this before, but this is the problem. Read the words next to O'Reilly.

What we have here is an institutionalized version of this classic psychological phenom:

   projection - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

We've been seeing it increasingly as the right drifts further and further into what can best be called institutionalized insanity. They cannot accept the fact that they lie, so they say the other guy lies. They cannot accept the fact that they're racist, so they say the other guy's racist. They cannot accept the fact that their financial plan is a failure, so they say the other guy's financial plan is a failure. They can't say their president is a failure, so they say the other guy's president is a failure.

Think of Hitler or Jim Jones. Each convinced masses of people that what they were saying was the truth and these masses of people threw aside rational thinking and stepped on the side of irrational thinking.

It's a condition that cannot be "cured". It's a condition that, one day, will implode within it's own delusion.