Bush a Victim of Domineering Parents, Says Psychologist

[OrdinaryTa]

Bush's early rebellions against his overachieving father and domineering mother led to self-destructiveness and alcoholism, feelings which still motivate him. Psychologist Oliver James says that after nearly killing himself and a passenger in a plane he was not qualified to fly, Bush experienced a personal crisis.

... Not long afterwards, staring at his vomit-spattered face in the mirror, this dangerously self-destructive man fell to his knees and implored God to help him and became a teetotalling, fundamentalist Christian ...

But the rejection of the values of his youth amplifies Bush's tendency to authoritarianism; it locks him into a rigidly black and white mind set. Bush is not happy.

... Authoritarian personalities are organised around rabid hostility to legitimate targets, often ones nominated by their parents' prejudices. Intensely moralistic, they direct it towards despised social groups. As people, they avoid introspection or loving displays, preferring toughness and cynicism. They regard others with suspicion, attributing ulterior motives to the most innocent behaviour. They are liable to be superstitious. All these traits have been described in Bush many times, by friends or colleagues ...

Intensely angry at his parents, Bush lashes out at the entire world. It's a displacement for which everyone, including Bush himself, pays the price:

... He hated his father for putting his whole life in the shade and for emotionally blackmailing him. He hated his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes. But the hatred also explains his radical transformation into an authoritarian fundamentalist ...

... his unconscious hatred for them was channelled into a fanatical moral crusade to rid the world of evil. As Frum put it: "Id-control is the basis of Bush's presidency but Bush is a man of fierce anger." That anger now rules the world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html

[JohnKleeb]

1. Did George feel like taking his rage out on people

because hes done it on...................the world.

[madrchsod]

2. i read this article this morning

since i`ve been around awhile i`ve ran into some people thru the years that fit this profile of bush.they`re the kind you really want nothing to do with and i personally have nothing to do with them because they cause nothing but misery..

[Booberdawg]

3. Wow great article

not a very flattering picture and it fits him

[Ohio Dem]

4. America, a victim of Bush's domineering parents,

says virtually everybody I know.

The Republican across the hall told me today he was switching parties. He's changing his registration. Not that you register as one or the other in this state. I didn't bring that up.

[Betty]

5. I find it incredible

That so many Americans don't have the slightest inkling of what a horrible destructive man he is. It's all out there for anyone to see, yet millions think he's great... maybe because he's a reflection of their own dysfunctioanl anger and black and white thinking. If you can call that rigid-ass mindset "thinking".

[Rose Siding]

6. Imagine how he feels when he reads Krugman

"But American policy in the first Bush Administration was wildly sensible and responsible compared to anything that’s been happening in the second Bush Administration."

http://www.liberaloasis.com/krugman.htm

ANY unfavorable comparison to 41 must just drive him around the bend. OK, *further* around the bend.

[Solly Mack]

7. Digs deep for a modicum of sympathy and understanding...comes up

EMPTY.



How incredibly cliche...displaced anger and everyone else pays for it.
A walking/talking text book example of a LOSER...that's Bush.