SIMBERG/PJM TODAY:
Obama and Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy
Posted By Rand Simberg On June 22, 2009 @ 12:04 am In Money, Politics, US News | 106 Comments
There is a peculiar and rare form of mental illness called [1] Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy (MSBP). The afflicted is generally a parent, and in the vast majority of cases the biological mother.
But the person really afflicted is the child of the parent, because the syndrome causes the parent to make the child appear to be sick. In more extreme cases, the parent actually make the child sick by poison or other means, often to the point of killing it. (A famous example of it in popular culture is shown in the movie The Sixth Sense, in which a mother repeatedly gives poison to her child, who later provides video evidence of her slow murder from beyond the grave.)
Doctors are taught to watch for the syndrome in medical school. Among the signs are:
- Illness is multisystemic, prolonged, unusual, or rare.
- Symptoms are inappropriate or incongruent.
- Symptoms disappear when parent or caretaker is absent.
- Parent is overly attached to the patient.
- Patient has poor tolerance of treatment (e.g., frequent vomiting, rash, problems with intravenous lines).
- Parent encourages medical staff to perform numerous tests and studies.
- General health of the patient is inconsistent with results of laboratory tests.
- Parent shows inordinate concern for feelings of the medical staff.
Another key feature is that the fabricated symptoms are observed only by the mother. It remains unclear what motivates sufferers of MSBP to harm their children in this way, or what benefit they derive from it. Perhaps it’s a means of gaining attention.
But what should we think when we see the same phenomenon on a much grander scale — when instead of a mother fabulizing symptoms or poisoning her child, an entire political class in power spouts nonsense about the state of a great nation’s economy and the causes for it, and then treats it with long-failed nostrums almost guaranteed to make the situation worse by any rational economic analysis? What to think when the stock market rises when the president is out of the country (”the patient improves in the absence of the parent”)?
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\Saturday, February 14, 2009OBAMA AND THE LEFT SUFFER FROM A POLITICAL FORM OF MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY SYNDROME
OBAMA AND THE LEFT SUFFER FROM A POLITICAL FORM OF MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY SYNDROME
... Obama and the Democrat Party and the entire Left seem to me to be afflicted with a political variant of this disease.
Sure, we're in a recession, and that's bad. But this recession isn't as bad as the ones in 1974 or 1981. But Obama and his comrades in the MSM have many believe that it's the worst since the Depression, and they've helped make it worse than it might have been by scaring more people into spending less - which has a definite feedback effect; it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. (George Soros call this feredback effect - which can snowball - "reflexivity".)
The recession started in December of 2007 - just about when the presidential politicking began - and at first it was pretty mild, after all most of the Democrat candidates were focused on the Iraq War.
As the war improved - because of the Surge they all opposed - the Democrats and their allies in the MSM turned their negativity to the economy. And made it worse.
Essentially the Left - the Democrats and the MSM - were FABRICATING AND EXAGGERATING, key components of MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY! They were doing so to seek the approval of the electorate, (not doctors - as in the clinical disorder).
THEY DO THE SAME THING WITH WHAT'S COME TO BE KNOWN AS "CLIMATE CHANGE":
They've come up with an enormous amount of non-testable theories about global-warming and have plugged them into questionable projections using dubious data and YELLING that we're all gonna die UNLESS WE EMPOWER THEM AND DO WHAT THEY SAY!
Again, it's all about fabricating and exaggerating - AND EMPOWERING THEM!
Like Munchausen by Proxy.
... This might be the psychological syndrome which underlies the left's embrace of Cloward-Piven.
I think it explains them more than any other theory.
They need help.
QUICK: BEFORE THEY AND THEIR UNNECESSARY AND MORE HARMFUL "REMEDIES" KILL US!
Yes: unnecessary and more harmful: the bailout is a socialist disaster; carbon schemes/swaps/taxes an unnecessary burden on productivity and prosperity; relaxing our guard in the GWOT will leave us more vulnerable to another attack - and so on.
Right now, these MBP-afflicted leaders - Obama and the Democrat Party - are the biggest threat to our way of life.
We need to cure them.
Or throw them out of office at them next opportunity.
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