Wednesday, July 19, 2006

An interesting post

Classical Values has an interesting post on whether left psychobabble psuedoanalysis has captured the mind of John Dean who is attacking the GOP right and its authoritarian sensibilities.

Dean, who's reinvented himself too many times to count, has now come up with a very popular meme that echoes the conservatism-as-mental-illness idea, but with a new twist -- the word "authoritarian" doesn't distinguish between conservatism and mental illness! It's a Marxist term which conflates the political and the personal into one grand evil.

A marvelous label. And a very impressive one. A masterpiece, even. While there are definitions, they really don't matter. What matters is that if you disagree with someone who believes in this nonsense, you're subject to being called an authoritarian outright, or accused of having "authoritarian tendencies" if there's still hope for you.

Dean claims he is a "left of center" Goldwater conservative. Trust me John Dean is not a Goldwater conservative.

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