A liberal is....

A liberal is someone who thinks the Third World's problems can be fixed by killing enough brown babies and who calls people who object to that "racists."

A liberal is someone who applauds government distorting the free market and then, when things go wrong, blames the free market for the problems caused by the government distortion.

A liberal is one who advocates diversity yet demands conformity.

A liberal is someone who thinks tax increases on businesses are paid out of the secret stash of cash all businesses hide in their basements.

A liberal is someone who thinks prayer in school is obscene but who believes that schools should teach Nietzsche.

A liberal is someone who wants stricter gun control but has armed bodyguards.

A liberal is someone who wants guns out of honest citizens' hands but who also wants more lenient sentencing for criminals who use guns.

A liberal is someone who thinks that poverty excuses crime even though most poor people are honest.

A liberal is someone who believes that atheists should never have to hear a Christian speak but who demand that Christian businesses support gay weddings.

A liberal is someone who thinks that nuns who donate their entire lives to helping the poor should pay for abortions.

A liberal is someone who wants to be philanthropic with other people’s money.

A liberal is someone who thinks that the differences between men and women can be “fixed” with surgery.

A liberal is someone who is excited by our “low” unemployment rate even though the black unemployment rate is nearly twice as high.

A liberal is someone who thinks it's okay for liberal politicians to decide which laws to enforce but who condemns politicians who object to Supreme Court rulings.

A liberal is someone who thinks taxpayers should pay for promiscuous people's birth control and that death panels are a good way to save money.

A liberal is someone who condemns Nixon for erasing 18 minutes of a tape recording but thinks Hillary was smart to erase tens of thousands of e-mails.

A liberal is someone who has no children and spends all his money on himself who attacks big families whose children will fund the liberal’s Social Security payments.

A liberal is someone who thinks the economy is great because the stock market is up but who professes to hate the “rich.”

A liberal is someone who calls Christians who don't believe in evolution stupid because they reject science but who claims that the unborn aren't human.

A liberal is someone who is horrified that anyone would abort an unborn child because that child is gay but quite comfortable with aborting an unborn child who might be mentally challenged.

A liberal is someone who says marriage isn’t about kids but who decries the “feminization” of poverty.

A liberal is someone who attacks America for its “interventionism” and is silent about China’s claims to the South China Sea.

A liberal is someone who condemns Israel, which lets Arabs vote, and extols Hamas, which calls for genocide against Jews.

A liberal is someone who hates the Confederate flag but who has no problem with the hammer and sickle.

A liberal is someone who isn't bothered by Planned Parenthood selling baby parts so long as they don't make a profit.

A liberal is someone who supports power to the people but cheers when five rich unelected white lawyers overturn the votes of 50,000,000 Americans.

A liberal is someone who believes that the First Amendment protects pornography and flag-burning but not Rush Limbaugh.

A liberal is someone who makes jokes about Trig Palin but attacks people for being "insensitive" about Bruce Jenner.

A liberal is someone who says disagreeing with Obama is racist but feels that calling Judge Clarence Thomas "a clown in blackface" is witty.

A liberal is someone who applauds his own charitable nature because he votes for candidates who will tax other people.

A liberal is someone who knows that all white people are racist but who has no idea why a guy named Mohammad would kill a bunch of unarmed Marines.

A liberal is someone who thinks putting a crucifix in urine is art but says showing a cartoon of Mohammad is "offensive."

A liberal is someone who thinks Republicans are monsters but who is sure that the theocratic leadership of Iran is just misunderstood.

A liberal is someone who calls President Bush a war criminal but insists that people who sneak into the U.S. to live off welfare are "undocumented."

A liberal is someone who says diversity is wonderful but calls all conservative blacks "Oreos."

A liberal is someone who thinks that liberal white people can self-identify as minorities and benefit from programs set aside to help minorities.

A liberal is someone who thinks #BlackLivesMatter only if the killer is white and isn't an abortionist.

A liberal is someone who knows that words mean what you want them to mean.

A liberal is someone who thanks God for Planned Parenthood when the leading cause of death for black Americans is abortion.

A liberal is someone who wants guns out of honest citizens' hands but also wants more lenient sentencing for criminals who use guns.

A liberal is someone who thinks poverty excuses crime even though most poor people are honest.

A liberal is someone who hates h8rs but who applauds an adult gay man bullying high school students about their faith.

A liberal is someone who says big businesses are uncaring but thinks the government is caring.

A liberal is someone who demands that the minimum wage be raised but argues that we need "undocumented" workers to keep the price of arugula down.

A liberal is someone who is an old-money WASP Harvard graduate who deplores "white privilege."

A liberal is someone who thinks voter fraud doesn't occur in Chicago and that "undocumented" immigrants should be allowed to vote.

A liberal is someone who thinks it doesn't matter if Hillary lied about Benghazi but condemns Reagan for supposedly lying about Iran Contra.

A liberal is someone who called John McCain a "war criminal" for his role in Vietnam and condemns Donald Trump for attacking McCain.

A liberal is someone who applauds Pope Francis for condemning "climate change" but doesn't know that Pope Francis said you can't be green and support abortion.

A liberal is someone who flies on private jets and demands we use only green energy.

lifted from:

 http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/a_liberal_is.html

and

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/a_liberal_is_part_2.html 

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Excerpt from the book on this site: http://www.libertymind.com/

The Liberal Mind:

Like all other human beings, the modern liberal reveals his true character, including his madness, in what he values and devalues, in what he articulates with passion. Of special interest, however, are the many values about which the modern liberal mind is not passionate: his agenda does not insist that the individual is the ultimate economic, social and political unit; it does not idealize individual liberty and the structure of law and order essential to it; it does not defend the basic rights of property and contract; it does not aspire to ideals of authentic autonomy and mutuality; it does not preach an ethic of self-reliance and self-determination; it does not praise courage, forbearance or resilience; it does not celebrate the ethics of consent or the blessings of voluntary cooperation. It does not advocate moral rectitude or understand the critical role of morality in human relating. The liberal agenda does not comprehend an identity of competence, appreciate its importance, or analyze the developmental conditions and social institutions that promote its achievement. The liberal agenda does not understand or recognize personal sovereignty or impose strict limits on coercion by the state. It does not celebrate the genuine altruism of private charity. It does not learn history’s lessons on the evils of collectivism.

What the liberal mind is passionate about is a world filled with pity, sorrow, neediness, misfortune, poverty, suspicion, mistrust, anger, exploitation, discrimination, victimization, alienation and injustice. Those who occupy this world are “workers,” “minorities,” “the little guy,” “women,” and the “unemployed.” They are poor, weak, sick, wronged, cheated, oppressed, disenfranchised, exploited and victimized. They bear no responsibility for their problems. None of their agonies are attributable to faults or failings of their own: not to poor choices, bad habits, faulty judgment, wishful thinking, lack of ambition, low frustration tolerance, mental illness or defects in character. None of the victims’ plight is caused by failure to plan for the future or learn from experience. Instead, the “root causes” of all this pain lie in faulty social conditions: poverty, disease, war, ignorance, unemployment, racial prejudice, ethnic and gender discrimination, modern technology, capitalism, globalization and imperialism. In the radical liberal mind, this suffering is inflicted on the innocent by various predators and persecutors: “Big Business,” “Big Corporations,” “greedy capitalists,” U.S. Imperialists,” “the oppressors,” “the rich,” “the wealthy,” “the powerful” and “the selfish.”

The liberal cure for this endless malaise is a very large authoritarian government that regulates and manages society through a cradle to grave agenda of redistributive caretaking. It is a government everywhere doing everything for everyone. The liberal motto is “In Government We Trust.” To rescue the people from their troubled lives, the agenda recommends denial of personal responsibility, encourages self-pity and other-pity, fosters government dependency, promotes sexual indulgence, rationalizes violence, excuses financial obligation, justifies theft, ignores rudeness, prescribes complaining and blaming, denigrates marriage and the family, legalizes all abortion, defies religious and social tradition, declares inequality unjust, and rebels against the duties of citizenship. Through multiple entitlements to unearned goods, services and social status, the liberal politician promises to ensure everyone’s material welfare, provide for everyone’s healthcare, protect everyone’s self-esteem, correct everyone’s social and political disadvantage, educate every citizen, and eliminate all class distinctions. With liberal intellectuals sharing the glory, the liberal politician is the hero in this melodrama. He takes credit for providing his constituents with whatever they want or need even though he has not produced by his own effort any of the goods, services or status transferred to them but has instead taken them from others by force.

It should be apparent by now that these social policies and the passions that drive them contradict all that is rational in human relating, and they are therefore irrational in themselves. But the faulty conceptions that lie behind these passions cannot be viewed as mere cognitive slippage. The degree of modern liberalism’s irrationality far exceeds any misunderstanding that can be attributed to faulty fact gathering or logical error. Indeed, under careful scrutiny, liberalism’s distortions of the normal ability to reason can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche. The modern liberal mind, its distorted perceptions and its destructive agenda are the product of disturbed personalities.

As is the case in all personality disturbance, defects of this type represent serious failures in development processes. The nature of these failures is detailed below. Among their consequences are the liberal mind’s relentless efforts to misrepresent human nature and to deny certain indispensable requirements for human relating. In his efforts to construct a grand collectivist utopia—to live what Jacques Barzun has called “the unconditioned life” in which “everybody should be safe and at ease in a hundred ways”—the radical liberal attempts to actualize in the real world an idealized fiction that will mitigate all hardship and heal all wounds. (Barzun 2000). He acts out this fiction, essentially a Marxist morality play, in various theaters of human relatedness, most often on the world’s economic, social and political stages. But the play repeatedly folds. Over the course of the Twentieth Century, the radical liberal’s attempts to create a brave new socialist world have invariably failed. At the dawn of the Twenty-first Century his attempts continue to fail in the stagnant economies, moral decay and social turmoil now widespread in Europe. An increasingly bankrupt welfare society is putting the U.S. on track for the same fate if liberalism is not cured there. Because the liberal agenda’s principles violate the rules of ordered liberty, his most determined efforts to realize its visionary fantasies must inevitably fall short. Yet, despite all the evidence against it, the modern liberal mind believes his agenda is good social science. It is, in fact, bad science fiction. He persists in this agenda despite its madness.

Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD is the author of The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago and served for two years as a psychiatrist in the United States Army. He is currently in private practice in the Chicago area.