PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEFTIE "ANTI-WAR" CROWD: THEY'RE DEEP IN DENIAL

Dr. Sanity has a brilliant post up analyzing the basic "anti-Iraq War" position of most leftists. IT IS A MUST READ!

Excerpt:

Failure to appreciate the liberation of millions of men, women and children, who for the first time in generations have the potential to live their lives in freedom is an incredible denial of what the Left has always claimed to stand for (is "liberation of the oppressed" one of their memes?). The proponents of doom and gloom would maintain that it is Bush who is in denial (or people like me). How does one tell who is correct when both are claiming the other side is in denial?

I once saw a remarkable patient with arelatively rare neurological diagnosis. He had suffered a stroke and now did not acknowledge that the left side of his body was physically a part of him. It was an astonishing conversation our team had with him. "Is this your arm," the neurologist would ask him, pointing to the patient's left arm. "No, it's not mine," would be the reply. The neurologist would then take the man's arm and show him how it was connected with the rest of his body. The man would watch this, then shake his head and emphatically tell us, "No! I see that it is connected. Someone must have connected it when I wasn't looking. But it isn't my arm."

The evidence that it was his arm was before him. Because of physical damage to his brain, this gentleman was never able to be convinced that the arm on the left side of his body belonged to him. Likewise, in the case of psychological denial, the individual is also not swayed by repeated attempts to point out the obvious.

She then goes on to show the Left how the Iraq War is NOT at all what the Left claims - IN OTHER WORDS: how their arms are connected to their bodies!

I can only add this: LEFT-WING DENIAL AIN'T JUST ABOUT THE WAR:

As a former Lefty, I feel that the real reason most current Lefties are in DEEP denial is because their ENTIRE ideology has been UTTERLY discredited. They must put their finger in each and every hole in the dike, so-to-speak. And Iraq is just one little hole in the dike.

It's not only that - in spite of their RAVINGS and obvious mendacity - the Iraq War was and remains a just war, but that: welfare as we knew it was ended - successfully; the USSR fell; reaganism and Thatcherism produced growth and jobs and prosperity; free trade hasn't caused a giant sucking sound ANYWHERE; tax-cuts didn't bring on a great depression (contrary to the ravings of Krugman!); the population explosion did not cause mass starvation, etc. etc. etc. and so forth and so on.

For the Leftie holdouts, admitting they were wrong on ANY ONE of these issues threatens to bring down the ENTIRE obsolete edifice that is Leftism. And that's why I think their reactions are so wacky and extreme - as in BUSHITLER/ASHKKROFT/Blood for Oil, etc.

Their hysterical histrionics are so hyperbolic because they're not just defending one foreign policy position; they're defending their mistaken committment to Leftism.