So, Dr. Rossiter has concluded what conservatives have been
    saying for a long, long time -- that liberalism is nothing 
    more than politics practiced by someone with a mindset of a
    five-year-old, immature and emotional.

    Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying
    themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is 
    making the case that the ideology motivating them is 
    actually a mental disorder. 

    "Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, 
    modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important 
    principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. 
    Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: 
    The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like 
    spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal 
    responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental 
    government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

    ...

    Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the
    two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential 
    nomination can only be understood as a psychological 
    disorder.

    "A social scientist who understands human nature will not 
    dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary 
    cooperation and moral integrity - as liberals do," he 
    says. "A political leader who understands human nature will
    not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, 
    personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose 
    economic and social equality on the population - as 
    liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature 
    will not create an environment of rules which over-
    regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts 
    their character and reduces them to wards of the state - as
    liberals do."

    Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and 
    feelings of inferiority in the population by:

       * creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;

       * satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence
         and compensation;

       * augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

       * rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating
         him to the will of the government. 

    "The roots of liberalism - and its associated madness - can
    be clearly identified by understanding how children develop
    from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development 
    produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he 
    says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary 
    victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above 
    all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their
    own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes 
    painfully obvious."