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Flying Monkey JoAnn via neon:
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If you read Lyle Rossiter’s book The Liberal Mind, The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, you’ll understand how and why liberals are sick.
Anybody ever read this book who kin give me the thumbnail dx of my liberal madness according to Rossiter?

meh. I always ignore such writings. On both sides.
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.
Jost JT, Glaser J, Kruglanski AW, Sulloway FJ.
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Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California 94305, USA.
jost_john@gsb.stanford.eduAbstract
Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psychological variables predict political conservatism: death anxiety (weighted mean r = .50); system instability (.47); dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity (.34); openness to experience (-.32); uncertainty tolerance (-.27); needs for order, structure, and closure (.26); integrative complexity (-.20); fear of threat and loss (.18); and self-esteem (-.09). The core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality and is motivated by needs that vary situationally and dispositionally to manage uncertainty and threat.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12784934Psychology Today:
Is Political Conservatism a Mild Form of Insanity?
Death Fear (among other unsavory attributes) Predicts Republicanism
Published on September 6, 2008 by William Todd Schultz, Ph.D. in Genius and Madness
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gen ... m-insanityConservatism a Sympton of Mental Illness
Whats Really Behind Conservative Politics
Dexter X South
Dexter X South, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Aug 31, 2009
http://voices.yahoo.com/conservatism-sy ... 72119.html