{"id":1618,"date":"2012-03-30T09:19:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T21:06:56","slug":"the-cheney-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"The Cheney Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medical dictionaries define \u201csyndrome\u201d <\/strong>(s?n’dr?m’) as, \u201cA group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, a psychological disorder, or another abnormal condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is the most unlikely major political figure who anyone would ever expect to be the target of hatred.\u00a0 Yet, hatred of Dick Cheney among liberals and Democrats rises to the level of a syndrome, a psychological disorder.\u00a0 The reaction to his recent heart transplant is proof of that.<\/p>\n

One does not have to know Cheney personally to recognize that he is perhaps the kindest, the most decent, the most quietly competent public figure of the last century.\u00a0 By comparison, television\u2019s Mr. Rogers would be seen as an absolutely mean-spirited ogre.\u00a0 Yet, liberals and Democrats regularly say the most despicable things about Cheney.\u00a0 Their hatred of him borders on the pathological.<\/p>\n

So the question arises, does the \u201cCheney Syndrome\u201d say something important\u2026 anything at all\u2026 about Cheney, himself, or is it a mass psychological disorder peculiar to those who are infected with the disease?<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Today Show\u2019s<\/em> Matt Lauer, NBC\u2019s leftist chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who appears to be auditioning for a slot on one of Obama\u2019s \u201cdeath panels,\u201d said, \u201c…this has raised a lot of ethical questions, moral questions, about whether the Vice President, in fact, should have received his heart against \u2013 ahead of other people. \u00a0And, raises the question, how old is too old to receive such a precious transplant?\u201d<\/p>\n

MSNBC\u2019s unbalanced talk host Ed Schultz suggested in February of 2010 that Cheney\u2019s heart should be used as a “political football.”\u00a0 He said,\u201cWe ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked to comment on Cheney\u2019s transplant, Schultz said, \u201cYou\u2019re damn right, Dick Cheney\u2019s heart is a political football\u2026\u00a0 How come Dick Cheney\u2019s health care isn’t being dropped?\u00a0 Do you realize that if you had five heart attacks, hell, you wouldn\u2019t get past two heart attacks and they\u2019d dump you? \u00a0But because you\u2019re a war criminal and because you are on the take from Halliburton… you can get the best health care on the face of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daily Koz<\/em>, where the mentally unbalanced go to get their daily ration of heart-stimulating hate speech, quoted a number of liberals who expressed themselves in the only way they know how:<\/p>\n

@yokelesy tweeted, \u201cWhoever donated their heart to Dick Cheney: f_ _ _ you!\u201d \u00a0.<\/p>\n

@SolidGlo tweeted, \u201cCheney\u2019s black soul keeps rotting out his heart. \u00a0F_ _ _ that bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

@Jedimasterbator tweeted, \u201cI\u2019m glad Cheney survived his heart transplant because I\u2019ve always wanted him to die in a horrible fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

@HVonHankelton tweeted, \u201cAngry villagers have gathered outside of Inova Fairfax Hospital with torches and pitchforks demanding the monster be put to death!\u201d<\/p>\n

Clearly, the \u201cCheney Syndrome\u201d tells us nothing at all about the man, himself.\u00a0 In fact, those inflicted with the disease would have us believe just the opposite of what is true.<\/p>\n

In her February 5, 2007 dissertation, The Pathology of Liberalism, <\/em><\/strong>psychotherapist <\/strong>Joan Swirsky speculates that <\/em>at the core of liberal \u201cthinking\u201d is the \u201csame kind of pathology that characterizes other mental disorders, i.e., a glitch in the brain that produces \u2018feelings\u2019 and behavior over which liberals have no control\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason why liberals have remained so intractably unhinged about (Cheney) is not because of their ideological differences with his conservatism. \u00a0It is because of their collective inadequate egos. \u00a0This is no surprise because children have \u2018developing\u2019 egos, not full-fledged senses of themselves, their places in the world, and their worth. \u00a0Children are wildly egocentric, seeing themselves as the center of the universe and having no appreciation of the vast world that lies outside their limited awareness. \u00a0In fact, they echo a saying from the Talmud: \u201cWe do not see things as they<\/em> are; we see things as we<\/em> <\/strong>are.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiberals entertain the conceit that they are quite evolved and superior, both morally and intellectually. \u00a0In their childlike minds, they are \u2018good\u2019 and the people (such as Dick Cheney) who set limits, demand accountability, expect empirical results, fight their enemies, and also make judgments about what is good and bad and right and wrong, are \u2018bad\u2026\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Explaining why liberals and Democrats react to Cheney the way they do, Swirsky tells us that, \u201cAmong the many symptoms of liberal pathology is out-of-control anger. \u00a0When things aren\u2019t going their way, liberals behave much like any child who has not yet learned to debate and so resorts to his or her most primitive emotions\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cSimply, the liberals\u2019 childlike rage completely eclipses any semblance of rationality. \u00a0Their opposition to and obsession with (Dick Cheney) has frozen the higher centers of their brains, effectively preventing them from ever<\/em> <\/em>presenting any intelligent alternative to the domestic and foreign policy strategies they object to, outside of socialist let\u2019s-all-get-together ideas that eliminate capitalism, the competitive spirit, and American exceptionalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother symptom of liberal pathology is a deep identification with \u2018victims,\u2019 who to liberals are all women, all African-Americans, all Hispanics, all union members, and all denizens of Third World countries, as well as anyone else they perceive as being either \u2018victimized\u2019 by big, bad corporate America or by those (e.g. Dick Cheney) subscribing to conservative ideology.\u00a0 This is because suffering, or perceived suffering, animates them, makes them feel useful, like saviors, and, of course, \u2018good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In what he calls the psychopathology of the liberal mind, Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D., a psychiatrist and the author of The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness<\/em>,<\/strong> says this:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn his determination to control the world, (the liberal) constantly defends himself against the most basic of human fears: being alone and helpless in a dangerous, indifferent world, the nightmare of the abandoned, terrified child. \u00a0Persons plagued with such fears easily conclude that it is in their greatest interest to dominate others, or to imagine that they can, and to set about achieving that goal through the manipulation of government power.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the road to unfettered government power is not an uncluttered freeway.\u00a0 Liberals are generally enraged by the thought of inconvenient obstacles\u2026 such as the U.S. Constitution, and principled men such as Dick Cheney\u2026 standing in their way.<\/p>\n

The liberal, Rossiter suggests, is \u201cnot called to maturity but is instead invited to begin a second childhood. \u00a0Like the child at play, he is given, or at least promised, ultimate economic, social, and political security without having to assume responsibility for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

To the liberal mind there are no absolutes, no imperatives\u2026 everything is relative.\u00a0 Liberals much prefer that all political decisions, all moral dilemmas, and all constitutional questions must be relative\u2026 relative to whose ox is being gored on any particular day.\u00a0 That is why they despise men such as Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n

To the liberal mind, it is all about \u201cfeelings,\u201d as Joan Swirsky suggests, and feelings must be displayed with passion, not quiet resolve.\u00a0 They despise Cheney because they see him as a man with an unshakeable set of values, a man who knows that absolutes exist and is not afraid to stand by them, a man who stands by his beliefs quietly and dispassionately\u2026 and that<\/em> they cannot stand.<\/p>\n

Hatred of Dick Cheney is a mental illness.\u00a0 Fortunately, it is not a condition that is covered by Obamacare because it is so common among liberals that the country could not afford to treat it.\u00a0 But one thing is certain: there is a fifty-fifty chance that the Cheney heart transplant denied a functioning heart to a liberal hater, and for that we must be thankful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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