Are Liberals Solipsist? (UPDATED 02/17/08: Dr. Lyle Rossiter Confirms that Liberals are Clinically Nuts!)

WorldNetDaily reports:

WASHINGTON – 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.”

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to “the vast right-wing conspiracy.” (more)

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Original post, 12/10/07: I have given much thought to this notion that liberals just might be solipsists. What is a solipsist? A solipsist or “solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the philosophical idea that ‘My mind is the only thing that I know exists’. Solipsism is an epistemological or metaphysical position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist” (Wikipedia.com)

Nothing to a solipsist, and equally to a liberal, exists, outside their own mind. To liberals and solipsists, their views are truth and no others need be considered because they could not possibly be true. Conservative, Libertarian, Republican, and Constitutional views are non-existent to liberalism / solipsism.

Possibly the most controversial feature of the solipsistic world view is the denial of the existence of other minds. Conservatives, on the one hand, understand that liberalism exists and left to its own bizarre devices, would be dangerous. But liberals do not see another viewpoint but there own. They are in their own world. We conservatives have tried to make sense of their nonsense but we were left scratching our heads at their absurdity and lack of what appears to be basic reality. The answer — solipsism and liberalism are one and the same. Both hold to these fundamental doctrines:

1. Nothing exists;
2. Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and
3. Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can’t be communicated to others.

It all makes sense now. When I thought liberals were stupid, irrational, and senseless, they were just lost in their own solipsist mind of nothing exists outside their own mental state. Once I came to this realization, it was easier to understand a liberal. Maybe I shouldn’t use the world understand — PITY is a better word.