Liberal Psycho Babble.

Tea Party Could ‘Potentially Become a Violent Movement'

Thursday, August 04, 2011
By Susan Jones (CNSNews.com) – Tea party conservatives are “pursing goals that can’t be achieved,” they are “delusional,” and they belong to “a very angry movement’ that “could, potentially become a violent movement.”
That’s according to a Stanton Peele, a psychologist and addiction expert interviewed by liberal MSNBC host Martin Bashir on Wednesday afternoon.
The Weekly Standard blogged about the interview, as did Newsbusters.
Among other eye-popping exchanges, Bashir asked the psychologist about the “effect giving people their way all of the time.” That’s a reference to tea party Republicans who stood on principle and demanded a deficit-reduction deal that included no tax hikes but offered real spending cuts.
In fact, tea party Republicans are not happy with the compromise deal that did exclude tax hikes, but did not include real spending reform.
Nevertheless, Bashir framed his question as though the tea party conservatives got their way in the debt negotiations: “How does it shape our thinking, behavior, if by being adamant and we get our way?” he asked.
Peele responded, “Well, the way I think about it is, they are pursuing goals that can't be achieved. It's sort of like a child who has some kind of fantasy, and they keep asking you to give them things to acquire that, but it's impossible to arrive at the goal that they want. The idyllic paths that they are pursuing probably never existed and certainly (are) not something we can reach right now.”
Bashir continued: “So you're saying that they are delusional about the past and adamant about the future?”
Peele: “They are adamant about achieving something that's unachievable, which reminds us of a couple of things: It reminds us of delusion and psychosis. It reminds us of addiction because addicts are seeking something that they can't have….”