drsanity.blogspot.com/2004/11/ps … atred.html
Some of his political stuff I don’t agree with, because I just don’t want to believe that Bush was anything else than the antichrist, but maybe I have a touch of this too. Hell, we all do. It’s a scary world. This article is very good read and too long to post in its entirety, but I’m posting some excerpts because I see a lot of people I know in this. Especially my delusional 9-11 conspiracy nut friend, and another friend who is so obsessed with Bush he still wants to watch Bush speeches and talk about them like he gets a high from it.
We all know people like this. Let’s discuss them.
[quote]Take, for example, France. In that country, the citizens as well as their leaders welcomed Yasser Arafat as some sort of folk hero; and even go to the ends of the earth to protect him after death. They also welcomed Robert Mugabe the Zimbabwe dictator, responsible for untold deaths. Yet they have made it clear that President Bush is not welcome in their country, burned him in effigy and insisted he stand trial for “war crimes”.
Take Canada. LGF links to an article detailing how the enlightened “Peace Activists” of Canada, cannot rule out violent acts when Bush visits their country in the next week. And these are just a few countries that pretend to be “friends” of the U.S. [/quote]
[quote]What makes Bush Hatred completely insane however, is the almost delusional degree of unremitting belief in Bush’s evil; while simultaneously believing that the TRUE representatives of evil in the world are somehow good and decent human beings with the world’s intersts at heart.
This psychological defense mechanism is referred to as “displacement”. One way you can usually tell that an individual is using displacement is that the emotion being displaced (e.g., anger) is all out of proportion to the reality of the situation. The purpose of displacement is to avoid having to cope with the actual reality. Instead, by using displacement, an individual is able to still experience his or her anger, but it is directed at a less threatening target than the real cause. In this way, the individual does not have to be responsible for the consequences of his/her anger and feels more safe. How else to explain the remarkable and sometimes lunatic appeasement of Islamofascists by so many governments and around the world? (e.g. here)
A very good example of displacement that comes to mind is the plot of an old movie called “The Seven Percent Solution”,which is about Sherlock Holmes’ intense obsession with Moriarity. In Holmes’ mind (distorted somewhat by the use of cocaine) Moriarity is the master criminal who must be stopped at all costs. He is evil incarnate, and the source of all the diabolical events of the world (sound familiar?).
Not until the end of the movie, under hypnosis by Sigmund Freud, do we discover that in truth, Mr. Moriarity was Sherlock’s hopelessly mundane math teacher, who happened to be having an affair with Holmes’ mother and escaped when Holmes’ father murdered her (with the young Sherlock looking on). This event in his youth apparently traumatized Holmes to such an extent, he was eventually driven to using drugs to eradicate it from his memory. And pursuing the mythical genius of crime–instead of holding his father or his mother to account.
I submit to you that this is exactly the same process going on now in the minds of many of the Bush Haters. They want desperately to forget that there is a tidal wave of terror reverberating around the world and to pretend that everything is America and Bush’s fault. So what do they do? They lionize terrorists like Arafat. They explain away the horror and brutality of Zarqawi and his followers. They support Palestinian suicide bombings and vote for resolutions agains Israel. They believe that Osama is a reasonable person, but that Bush is not. They threaten violence toward Bush and hold demonstrations; and implement Sharia Law in their country without a qualm. Hundreds of their fellow countrymen are murdered by terrorists, but they demand that their troops be pulled out of Iraq (thinking that if they hadn’t cooperated with the evil BushHitler, their countrymen would have been spared).
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Read the whole article at the link, it’s worth it. While it’s obvious that this guy’s politcal bias is to the right, he hit the nail on the head. This describes so many people I know. Let’s talk about it and become less insane.