I think the rePukes are functionally insane. Do you?

[Tyler Durden]

The level of delusion shown by the Reactionary Right is approaching the "Napoleon" level of nuts in my not so humble opinion. The Greedy guys think the Jesus guys will make it possible for them to stay rich and get richer; the Jesus guys figure they're getting help from the Greedy guys and maybe Jesus will turn their hearts, yada yada yada.

I vote #5

[tom_paine]

1. Withing the last 15 years, driven clinically insane

Just like the Germans were in the 30s.

As disconnected from reality as ANY 1930s Nazi or 1950s Commie.

It wasn't always like that. But it is now.

[morgan2]

2. they're no more nutty than most people

I mean at least Bush is a real person, believing in him makes more sense than believing in some all powerful being that created everything but is some kind of invisible voyeur who just likes to see things play out. Everyone has their mental crutches..

[patcox2]

4. For some, the crutch is believing themselves superior.

Belittling the beleifs of others, how nice. Religious people are worse than Bush supporters. Wow.

[morgan2]

7. great attempt to misrepresent what I said

I claimed that both are irrational beliefs. I never said one was better or worse. I never said religious people are bad. I used religion as an example. I said everyone has their mental crutches. I love how everytime someone makes a comment about religion, someone has to come out of the shadows and try and defend it. And the "wow" at the end, acting shocked that someone would dare criticize religion.. Keep propping yourself up.

[patcox2]

3. Many hold an irrational beleif in "the one" will either save or destroy.

Bush "true beleivers" with their unshakeable faith in Bush are irrational, but not insane.

People of all shapes and sizes fall into the "cult of personality" way of thinking. I personally beleive that the beleif in heros and villains is almost always irrational, no matter who and what and where. Hitler was not uniquely evil, (thats what the expression the "banality of evil" is all about, the lesson of the holocaust is not that the germans were uniquely, superhumanly evil, but that they were rather all too human). Likewise, the elevation of almost anyone to heroic status is likewise irrational. Probably leftover instinctive behavior from our primate past when we lived in troops with a "leader" and a strict hierarchy.

So, Deaniacs and Naderites are as irrational as Bushies, Deaniacs for example refusing to beleive the demonstrable fact that Dean is no progressive, Naderites believing in the face of all evidence that Nader is sane.

The only rational people are the democrats who hold their nose and say "Hey, not my first choice, but beats the alternative," and the equal or greater number of republicans who will hold their nose and say "hey, he sure has flaws, but he's better than the democrats." These people are at least basing their decision on rational weighing of the facts as they perceive them to be.

But, as I say, irrational and insane are very very far from being synonyms. Most of what makes life worth living is irrational.

On the other hand, demonizing and dehumanizing those you disagree with (as by saying they are "insane") does noone any good. Jon Stewart actually showed me something the other day. Crossfire is indeed a sham, but so is most of the so-called debate that goes on here. Childish name-calling, party-line, lockstep thinking (I love when DU-ers actually literally ask for their marching orders, those threads that start with "what should we think of ...?").

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. ABSOLUTELY!

I'm waiting for a Jim Jones Kool-aid suicide when the idiot loses. They won't be able to handle it, mentally.

[Sugarbleus]

8. Hehee, your assessment is close to my own..

The people aren't crazy like in Mental illness, schizophrenia but they are psychologically unbalanced for certain.

I too, can see many of these types going right over the cliff because their evil leader tells them to. It's CLEAR to me, that this is possible; that mentality isn't a "healthy one".


IT IS LUCKY FOR RULERS WHEN PEOPLE DON'T THINK...Adolf Hitler

[Zorra]

6. Completely out of touch with the natural world. The very fact that they

support Bu$h, a man bent on destroying their own environment is evidence enough for me that "crazy as a shithouse rat" is a good description.

They are turning my earth into a shithouse.

Pretty damn crazy.