We here at CMM have been worrying that we might one day see striking workers and protesters rounded up, declared mentally ill and forcibly sedated en masse, but it seems that day has already arrived and psychiatrist Dr. Lyle Rossiter has gone much further than our worst nightmares. We thought it was actually a viral urban myth from The Onion when we first read it on several blogs and news websites, but no, former army psychiatrist and Chicago clinical practitioner Rossiter actually does have a book called The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness and his whacky writings really are being featured on Townhall.com, one of the biggest right wing media sites in the United States,  which also carries columns by extremist heavyweights like Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, Rich Tucker and George Will.

“The degree of modern liberalism’s irrationality far exceeds any misunderstanding that can be attributed to faulty fact gathering or logical error,” writes the self-evidently moronic Rossiter. “Indeed, under careful scrutiny, liberalism’s distortions of the normal ability to reason can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche.”

Yeah, it sounds laughable. But note our bolded word above, and beware.