Eugene Robinson's Knock Out Punch - Republican rhetoric over the top

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22. "Both sides" has been a lie since we adopted the meme from the French

I find it interesting that historically, psychology immediately after Freud started to make the discovery that "left" and "right" are different psychological processes, not different political positions. But when you have people like Adler studying power specifically, of course you will make the sort of discoveries that result in the entire field being suppressed and replaced for a decade by behaviorism and Taylorism, even though behaviorism never pretended to be any more science than intelligent design.

Then, after WWII, another set of researchers developed another successful set of practices, known collectively as humanist psychology, that was also, in a different way, discovering that authoritarianism isn't simply a political preference. The result of that was the suppression of that school by pharmaceutical psychiatry and the claim that anyone not wanting to be a McAmerican is simply defective and needs medication.

Now the neurobiologists are beginning to make the same damn discovery again. It will be interesting, in a sad, sick way, to see how their research gets suppressed.