Infantile Rage on the Left

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December 27, 2016
Infantile Rage on the Left
By James Lewis

It was Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud's daughter, who first described the most common ego defenses in detail.  Later, scientists and clinical psychiatrists expanded the list of accepted defense mechanisms and did much improved research, like Harvard's George Vaillant.  There is good agreement on a basic set of ego defenses, like denial, displacement (blaming), and rationalization.

Ego defenses distort reality in some way, from very mild defenses like rationalization to "primitive" defenses like massive denial of reality and fantasy-driven thinking.  These defenses are fairly easy to spot when people can't cope or feel very anxious or overwhelmingly confused.  Ego defenses protect us from excessive fear, uncontrollable rage, shame, guilt, and other painful emotions.  Some adults retreat into the safety of childhood and even infancy, feeling protected by an all-powerful mother or father substitute.

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[Oceander]

This brings me to modern liberals.  This country used to have mainstream liberals who faced reality, like Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, JFK, and more recently Joe Lieberman and a few others.  But today, the radical left controls the Democrats, which is why I believe they lost the election.  And they can't cope with losing.

Donald Trump used hints and half-sentences that might have come from Rush Limbaugh to signal the voters that he was on their side.  Because liberals have filtered out conservative thinkers like Limbaugh for all these years, they simply did not get what Trumps was plainly saying to most Americans.  Trump's rhetoric became a kind of secret code, not because conservatism is a conspiracy, but rather because ordinary liberals simply need to escape from ordinary conservative ideas.  They created their own cult of silence when it came to sensible conservative ideas, which they experience as intolerably scary.  It's a kind of normal-phobia.

Normal Americans never wanted to crush the coal industry or squeeze our domestic oil supply to please fantasy-driven greens, constantly screaming that the world is coming to an end.  Obama's idea that he would personally "stop the rising of the oceans" makes our eyes roll.  The fantasy left has taken over the Democratic Party, and a lot of American voters see that.  But we can't speak out because the nearest commissar of the left will jump on our sensitive parts.  We've all had that experience.