{"id":420168,"date":"2010-03-12T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-4133763242120620596"},"modified":"2010-03-12T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:50:00","slug":"fired-up-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/420168","title":{"rendered":"Fired Up For the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447561279548441330\"<\/a>If you want to get yourself all fired up…maybe fulfill a few liberal fantasies by foaming and frothing…read this<\/a>. <\/p>\n

At first I couldn’t. I could only manage to skim. I bookmarked it and tried again a few times. <\/p>\n

The article is from Psychology Today and written by a San Francisco psychologist and psychoanalyst named Michael Bader, D.M.H. He basically says he “hates” Tea Party members and proceeds to compare attendees to his schizoid patients and mentally retarded people. <\/p>\n

“…I hate these folks but I also understand them. And, well, uh, I also empathize with them. They share the same psychology as the paranoid patients I treat every day. The only difference is that the paranoid beliefs of the tea-party movement are political while those in my consulting room are of a more personal nature.<\/p>\n

The causes and dynamics, however, are the same. And so just as I have empathy for my patients, I have come to have empathy for the tea-party’ers, even as I despise their influence and work hard to defeat their ideology. It’s crucial that progressives do likewise because if we don’t understand the ways that decent, god-fearing, and victimized people can come to espouse such a dangerous ideology, we won’t be able to fight them effectively…” (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

But, a picture really is worth a thousand words…because as soon as I saw his<\/a>, my anger diffused. He’s that guy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alright, so it didn’t dissipate all<\/span> my annoyance. This is a guy that casually refers to Republicans as a racist community and a self-avowed far left fringe guy, yet he’s given this big article in a mainstream publication giving him credibility, and national exposure. Sad. And annoying.<\/p>\n

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If you want to get yourself all fired up…maybe fulfill a few liberal fantasies by foaming and frothing…read this. At first I couldn’t. I could only manage to skim. I bookmarked it and tried again a few times. The article is from Psychology Today and written by a San Francisco psychologist and psychoanalyst named Michael […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}