The combination of redistricting; population-sorting; and media-viewing, listening, and reading habits has created ideological and partisan culs-de-sac and incestuous thinking that are causing astonishing miscalculations on hugely consequential matters.We've seen all this before, of course. Cook concludes that "[w]hen hatred turns into obsession, it spawns some pretty erratic and destructive behavior."
I consulted a psychiatrist and a psychologist on this question. Both said there is no formal term for the behavior some Republicans are exhibiting, but one described the groupthink as “hysterical delusional affirmation,” and the other named it “delusional synergy.” One said, “It entails suspension of logical intellectual processes with a selective consideration of only confirmatory input. Paranoid people typically experience ideas of influence and control where they believe that they see things that others cannot. This process is often propelled by delusions of grandeur, quite often messianic in nature.”
I couldn't agree more. As I wrote last week: "[T]he country is now witnessing what happens when a major political party lets hatred for the President drive its agenda." And the funny part about all this is that the more Obama wins, the more Republicans hate him and the more delusional they become.
This latest Democratic victory must have put the Baggers over the top as far as their hatred for Obama is concerned, given how thoroughly he crushed them. Can't wait to see how they respond.
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