Looking For Liberal Mental Health

The most fun thing about liberals is their overuse of the psychological defense known as projection.

If you want to know what they’re really up to, listen to what they’re accusing you of and voila! It’s actually a confession. Andrew Klavan at Pajamas Media has noted this:

"In an op-ed in last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, I teasingly challenged liberals to—gasp!—actually listen to Rush Limbaugh with an open mind. The reaction was predictable, but no less hilarious for that. Email after email practically boiling with viciousness, foul language and hate, accused Limbaugh—and me—of being vicious, foul-mouthed and hateful. Don’t these people own mirrors? I mean, don’t they ever look at their reflections and think, 'Wait… Limbaugh does a radio show about public figures and ideas… Klavan writes an op-ed in a newspaper… then I send a personal email full of four-letter words, ad hominem attacks and vitriol… Oh, hey, I get it… the real shmuck here… is me!!!'”

The other side of that coin is the need to project an image of themselves that typically has no resemblance to the reality of who they are or what they do:

"Leftists have always confused their good intentions with actual virtue. The tyranny allowed to spread by left wing appeasement, the neighborhoods and families destroyed by their corrupt welfare programs, the millions of lives snuffed out by environmentalist hysteria—these don’t show up on their moral scorecards because they meant so very well.

Indeed, so swathed are they in the warm glow of their purposes, any question about the actual results of their actions strikes them as shockingly cruel. A mere rough joke, an outrageous remark, the least untoward language from a conservative—and they reel back, appalled by the display of pure meanness.

What can you do? A conservative must either walk on eggshells or tell the truth loud and proud. You choose."

The results don’t show up on liberal scorecards because scorecards are not allowed.

The entire project began and ended with the announced intentions. They literally detach from the actual doing, as they fish for the compliments of mission accomplished up front.

And if it goes wrong, it’s back to projecting (more like smearing) their own unacceptable (to them) negative performance onto others, deflecting all responsibility.

Victimizers spin themselves into victims. How dare we notice.