Jonathan M. Metzl: The Language of Addiction in the Bombast of the Right or Dismissed them on psychiatric grounds redux

Like potholes in springtime, the Democrat's agenda stalls and they lay Conservatives on a couch: Jonathan M. Metzl: The Language of Addiction in the Bombast of the Right. Recall my post Dismissed them on psychiatric grounds

Quoting E J Dionne,

The late Christopher Lasch, one of Hofstadter's students and an admiring critic, noted that by conducting "political criticism in psychiatric categories," Hofstadter and his intellectual allies excused themselves "from the difficult work of judgment and argumentation."

Lasch added archly: "Instead of arguing with opponents, they simply dismissed them on psychiatric grounds."

That's the great crack up many UU's headed for if they can't take on the task of judging and arguing what's worked, what hasn't during this past year. Can't fall back on Liberalism's old psuedo-psychiatric analysis of the right. That time is gone... Liberalism's gig's up. Obama's tried and the ACLU's morphing him as Bush. Time to figure out what Liberalism / Progressivism is all about today.

Forget Glenn Beck....