Psychological Afflictions

We don't pay too much attention to Glenn Greenwald (the time we waste wasting time is precious to us) but once in a while, when he isn't using his law degree, he comes up w/ some good stuff.

This is exactly the psychological affliction that leads Wall Street plunderers and tycoons and billionaires to see themselves as the victims of the resentful lower-classes and the "radical egalitarians" who run the U.S. Government.  Even as they get richer and everyone else gets poorer, even as the very few remaining restraints on their political power are abolished, even as the disparities in wealth and power grow ever-larger, they become increasingly convinced that everything is stacked against them, that there is a grand conspiracy to deprive them of what is rightfully theirs.  All of this could be confined to a fascinating, abstract psychological study if not for the fact that the people who think this way exercise the most political power and continue to exercise more and more.

Uh-huh. As the failures of reactionary & conservative policies continue, essentially unacknowleged, we begin to realize there's more here than meets the eyes & ears, & it's not policies or politics.

When you see a party shifting between two mutually exclusive arguments for a policy, each of which fails spectacularly and repeatedly, you have to look for other reasons behind the policy other than the stated rationale.

Moral & mental illness. Personal problems, in other words. Why people in a supposedly civilized society allow these psychos to work out their "issues" on us is beyond this reporter. Stalin was right. Put them in the mental institutions, where they belong.

PLUS WHICH (1801PDT 27 March 2011): John Cole (the guy what runs Balloon Juice) has a nit to pick w/ Greenwald, & we're inclined to agree.