What Is He Thinking?

Your blog opinion is so professional you have to use an f-bomb in your first sentence. Beyond that, have you even bothered to study in any detail what the majority of Tea Party participants are concerned about? Bailouts (or is moral hazard a concept beyond your professional grasp)? Huge deficits with more spending planned (I'm sure denial is in your college curriculum somewhere).

How about you cast your gaze on those displaying rampant pathologies in DC - they are the ones spending vast sums of money we don't have.

Hey where can I buy this guy's degree? It's obviously pretty cheap.

Does this explain the left-wing paranoia of Sarah Palin?

Bader obviously has spent very little or no time with people in the Tea Party movement. For all his musings, he demonstrates very little knowledge about what they are sayingand their motivations.

And PT ought to be ashamed for allowing such an uninformed column to occupy their cyberspace.

Libertarians have been against the Fed since 1913, when it was created.

You don't know what you are talking about. You are using the language of psychology to demonize your political opponents.Perhaps you are paranoid.

You don't know what you are talking about. You are using the language of psychology to demonize your political opponents.Perhaps you are paranoid.

Oh and this tripe spewer currently works for/with SEIU. All we need to know about his angle.

Here's the thing-- you give lip service to left- wing activists, but seriously, it's a problem for the right *and* the left. The thing is, it's a *party* problem. Both parties reinforce this paranoia because those leftist liberal elites *or* those dumbass conservative bumpkins are the ENEMY!

Sorry-- not even close to an exclusively right-wing problem.

Michael Bader is spewing utter nonsense. He doesn't know the first thing about the Tea Party movement or its members.

The Worst Generation (The Boomers) is leaving the USA with over 100 Trillion in Unfunded Obligations and over 14 Trillion in outright debt.

Dont have empathy with those of us who demand this insanity to end, but have some for the people who will inhereit a broken country in a barbaric world.

"For all his musings, he demonstrates very little knowledge about what they are sayingand their motivations." He plays the tired ol' guilt-by-association trip - paints the entire movement with a handful of fringe members. Pretty lame for a guy claiming to be a professional. But, then again, he apparently checked his objectivity at the door, given his stated politics. PT should be ashamed to have this tripe on its website.

...the Tea Party Patriots think the Federal Government blew up the World Trade towers. That's the fruit cakes on DailyKOS. Sorry, I said "fruit", and you're from San Fran and all.

"You don't know what you are talking about. You are using the language of psychology to demonize your political opponents." The Ghost of Lavrentii Beria is quite proud that old Soviet-era tricks are still used today in this country.

It is so typical of the liberal elitists, such as the author of this hit piece, to use the the tactic of questioning the sanity of the opposition in order to discredit them.

It seems to me that Dr. Bader feels threatened by the prospect of smaller government, lower taxes and adherence to the Constitution, which are the goals of the Tea Party Movement. Methinks it's the Dr. who's paranoid.

He's not thinking. He's emoting.

Like most progressives, no fact checking (or heck, fact gathering, for that matter) is required. No logic is required. Whatever the good "doctor" feels or wants to feel is good enough to slander a good portion of the population because they disagree with his precious worldview - one that cannot survive critical thinking.

No wonder the profession of psychology is right up there with politicians, and used car salesmen.

Smug, arrogant narcicism. Just like what occupies the White House.

"For example, someone I treat can't tolerate blame of any kind, can't take any responsibility for failures, and can't really be optimistic about the potential goodness in others. It's always someone else's fault."
I'm glad to hear Obama is seeking help!

I dunno, I sorta like stupid reactionary nitwits like Bader. Their idiocy provides me with a sense of at least limited superiority.

Although I must say, I miss the turgid, inane musings of Peter Kramer. That guy made me feel like a genius...

Paranoia and projection are clearly the hallmarks of Michael Bader's personal pathology. His paranoia is apparent when he sees people whom he opposes politically as "crazy f**kers" (He is gratuitously foul-mouthed as well. And using the word "f**ker" as a pejorative! Someone could write a doctoral thesis on this poor man's hatred/sexuality issues). Often, paranoids see themselves surrounded by those who are against them or trying to ruin their lives. Michael sees all those whom he personally opposes as both pathetically stupid and emotionally stunted, revealing his own clear narcissistic tendencies as well. Wow. Who is his therapist? Barack Obama?

Of course, finding patients for psychoanalysis in San Francisco is as easy as finding sand on a beach. When the market is so huge, one can expect to find plenty of bottomfeeders like Michael who slake their own psychological needs by projecting their illness onto others.

Having seen plenty of Tea Party media coverage, I have yet to view an event where the attendants were uniformly angry or bitter. They seldom resort to the F word as Michael does in his first sentence! In fact, most of the time these folks seem to be enjoying themselves often joking and laughing with each other.

This article reveals much more about the sad mental state of the writer than is does regarding Tea Partiers in general. Frankly, I would trust any one of them chosen at random to babysit my children over this apoplectically vituperative and self-consciously "progressive" stereotype, Michael Bader.

What is it about wanting smaller government and reduced taxes that incites "progressives" to rant and foam at the mouth? He must have a shattered ego... Is anything more of a joke than being a psychologist and psychoanalyst in San Francisco?

California... They want the entire nation to emulate them: broken budgets, runaway welfare, and diminishing public services while the "public servants" and their favorite unions get fatter every day. Just release some more prisoners and everything will be fine. It is a sick society.

"Physician, heal thyself".

"Having seen plenty of Tea Party media coverage, I have yet to view an event where the attendants were uniformly angry or bitter. They seldom resort to the F word as Michael does in his first sentence! In fact, most of the time these folks seem to be enjoying themselves often joking and laughing with each other."

You sir, have definitely been watching some alternative Tea Party meeting, or you are just completely ignorant. Your choice!

Reduce political opponents to victims of mental illness.

Bader comes across as a progressive propagandist and not a psychologist. Psychologists are medical professionals who are supposed to help their patients achieve wellness, not proselytize them to their political movement of choice.

The comments by those defending the tea party movement sort of prove the author's point: few actual counterarguments and a lot of angry name calling of the sort that people resort to when their version of reality is challenged.