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obamican

a republican who supports obama.

heard it used on cnn tonight

Political Psychiatry

In its simplest and most concise form, political psychiatry is the use, by the State, of psychiatry as a social control device.

It is usually used against people who are generally law abiding and cannot, therefore, be controlled by means of the criminal law. Such people are invariable opposed to the prevailing political and economic powers and sufficiently effective to constitute a threat to those powers.

The use of psychiatry has very effective debilitating effects upon the activist’s ability to function against the State:

a. the individual’s liberty is denied (without trial and without proof of wrong-doing);

b. the individual may be forcibly subjected to mind altering drugs that debilitate the individual’s mental functioning and even give the appearance of mental illness. (Such drugs are sometimes referred to as a chemical cosh or chemical straight jacket).

c. the person is intellectually discredited and hence anything they say is to be ignored;

d. others are discouraged from associating with a mental patient.

The seminal work criticising psychiatry is Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz. While there are many other works some that are noteworthy include:

Mass Murderers in White Coats: Psychiatric Genocide in Nazi Germany and the United States, by Lenny Lapon.

Loony Bin Trip, by Kate Millett.

Assault on Truth, by Jeffrey Masson. (This is the work that challenged Freud’s seduction theory and brought the reality of sexual abuse to the attention of the world in 1984).

Against Therapy, by Jeffery Masson.

Most such writings are classed under the generic heading: Anti-psychiatry. There are many, many others. So much so that there are books that devote themselves to the bibliography of anti-psychiatry writings.

Politically, for many years the west accused the Soviets of this practise while denying that they did any such thing themselves. Certainly Britain and American use political psychiatry but deny it profusely. It is likely that all but the very smallest countries use political psychiatry to suppress some members of their awkward squad.

If you buck the system you may become a victim of political psychiatry.

Just for J.

political fundamentalist

1) A person who exploits religion for political purposes. 2)A politician who uses religion solely as a means to further their political career.

America's founding fathers feared that a political fundamentalist would someday come along who would use religion as a means to undermine democracy in an attempt to establish a theocracy in America. Prudently they established the doctrine that seperation of church and state must be upheld to preserve democracy.

I know how to rile you using the word fundamentalist and tying it in with politics to boot. Ha!

terrorist voting

When a member of one political party intentionally votes in another party's primary in an attempt to nominate the candidate they feel will lose in an election, thus allowing the their true party-affiliation to win.

C-Money voted for Hillary in the primary, because he thinks there's no way she can beat McCain.

This is terrorist voting.

Seems the political discussions have died down on TBD since Super Tuesday. Why not go main page and throw some wood on the fire?

political spectrum

A chart used to define your political affiliation. Revolutionary and Liberal are on the left, conservative and reactionary on the right. Left and Right derive themselves from pre-Revolution France, where at royal functions, the king's officals, those who didn't want change, were on the right, while those who pushed for change were on the left. The Political Spectrum is something that must be done away with as soon as possible, because it causes incredible amounts of conflict over differences of opinion. If the spectrum was destroyed, along with the concepts of liberal and conservative, people would be forced to actually listen to the issues and form their own opinions, not just go with their group's stances.

pickleallen, when I feel at a loss (political) for words, I will contact you!

colossal foreign policy error

America's role in the world or

Foreign Policy Role

Hi justme. I had missed the stink on this one and I thought maybe others might have also.

Political Sock Puppet

Used to describe a person who has no original thoughts, opinions, or ideas of his/her own. Instead they regurgitate the "party-line" or talking points of others; usually of their particular political party.

Sock puppets can be seen on FauxNews and on Talk Radio. The GOP will put out its talking points and you can pick out the sock puppets because they will repeat the talking points; usually words for word.

Sock puppets can be seen among the Democrats and Left as well typically among young liberals who have adopted liberal bias without actually thinking. These specimens exist but are far more uncommon than amoung the Republicans, conservatives, christians and other right-wingers. Whose sock puppets cover the entire spectrum, as right-wingers are more likely to accept things on faith alone. Because if their leaders say its true, then it has to be true.

1. Get a clue! You're Dubya's sock puppet.

2. Limbaugh is a GOP sock puppet.

3. Look you sock puppet if I wanted to hear from you I'd turn on FauxNews.

Thanks for posting, Alice. Your contribution led me on a search today and I found this to add.

Crossing the floor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In politics, crossing the floor is to vote against party lines, especially where this is considered unusual or controversial. The term originates from the British House of Commons, which is configured with the Government and Opposition facing each other on rows of benches. Votes, or divisions, are taken by entering lobbies to the left and right of the chamber to have one's vote tallied; the "Aye Lobby" is on the Government side and the "No Lobby" on the Opposition side. If one wishes to vote against one's party, one must quite literally cross the floor to get to the other lobby. If an MP was to switch parties, they would also need to cross the floor: for instance Winston Churchill crossed the floor from the Conservatives to become a Liberal MP.

The term has passed into general use in other Westminster parliamentary democracies, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand or South Africa even though most of these countries have semicircular or horseshoe-shaped debating chambers and mechanisms for voting without members leaving their seats. It is most often used to describe members of the government party or parties who defect and vote with the Opposition against some piece of government-sponsored legislation.

It is also sometimes used to describe a member who leaves their party entirely and joins the opposite side of the House, such as leaving an opposition party to support the government (or vice versa), or even leaving one opposition party to join another. It involves the person leaving his parliamentary party and joining a new one. This usage exists not only in Westminster system parliaments, but also in legislatures in presidential systems. In Canada, the term "crossing the floor" is used to refer to switching parties which occurs occasionally at both the federal and provincial levels.